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We believe that keynote speakers should rock your world. They should push you out of your comfort zone by offering you new perspectives, making you think out-of-the-box, and giving you the "40,000 foot view" of things. This is, after all, why we go to hear them. Like all eLearning Guild keynotes, these are going to be amazing presentations!
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Director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research, Seattle Pacific University
Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 8:30a
The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every designer, developer, and manager should know. How do we learn? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Dr. John Medina, author of the popular and revolutionary book, Brain Rules, will take us on a fascinating tour of our brains. You’ll discover what neuroscientists are learning about learning, and what we might do about it to ensure the e-Learning we create is truly engaging and effective! More...
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Author of slide:ology and resonate
Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:30a
Teachable moments begin with transforming a learner, and a learner will only change if your message or content resonates with them. You’re tasked with putting learners through training programs so they change for the better and help their organization succeed. A learner uses the information to acquire a new skill and then applies it—which is persuasion at its finest. Pioneering presentation innovator Nancy Duarte will demonstrate how to apply the groundbreaking methods in her book resonate: Presenting Visual Stories That Transform Audiences, to build meaningful connections with your learners that compel them to action. More...
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Michael Wesch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and 2010 NITLE Fellow
Friday, March 25, 2011, 11:00a
New media create new types of conversation, exchange, and collaboration. But the promise of such developments is not without disruption and peril. Familiar long-standing institutions, organizations, and traditions disappear or transform beyond recognition. And while new media bring with them new possibilities for openness, transparency, engagement, and participation, they also bring new possibilities for surveillance, manipulations, distraction, and control. This presentation will explore what is at stake, what is possible, and how we need to create new learning environments that allow us to move beyond simply being knowledgeable to being knowledge-able (able to find, sort, analyze, criticize, create, and collaborate) in new media environments. See Michael's viral video, with over 4,000,000 views on YouTube. More...
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We tasked six powerful voices from the learning community to share their best ideas with you in this engaging general session. Each speaker brings their special idea, a unique perspective, and a thought-provoking presentation style that’s sure to inform and delight you. This is a must-see mix of learning leaders who have been given one assignment: Deliver your BEST idea for learning!
Join host Brent Schlenker and our panelists for this enlightening ideafest.
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