Garin Hess
November 10 3:00PM
'Rapid eLearning' is usually associated with PowerPoint conversions. While using PowerPoint allows you to build content quickly, you may still run into these problems:
• Lengthy development cycles because each PowerPoint slide may be designed differently
• Inconsistent design across courses
• Ineffective design on pages designed by people who don't understand instructional content
• Design or functionality errors because each page is built individually
"Accelerated rapid e-learning" will help you:
• Develop courses faster
• Develop with fewer errors
• Develop with a more consistent and effective design across all of your courses
In this session you'll learn to use Rapid Intake tools to combine PowerPoint content with the accelerated rapid e-learning development model.
November 11 9:30AM
eLearning development is a collaborative process whether you have tools that facilitate collaboration or not. Building a course often involves instructional designers, SMEs, graphic artists, project managers, quality assurance testers, and often many more. With Rapid Intake, team members can build, review, and maintain courses and content together from anywhere.
One large pharmaceutical company that uses Rapid Intake saw a 60% faster course creation rate. You'll see first-hand how you can instantly gain in productivity.
In this hands-on session you'll learn to build courses collaboratively using Rapid Intake Unison, the award-winning web-based rapid e-learning studio.
Learn to:
• Create a new project
• Assign people to the project
• Collaborate using the centralized media asset manager
• Work with multiple people on the same project at the same time
• Convert PowerPoint presentations and add interactive activities, quizzes, games, and simulations
• Collect and manage feedback with the integrated course review management system
• Use built-in communication tools to centralize project communication and build an audit-trail that documents issue resolution
You'll also learn about some supporting tools you can use with Unison to enhance the e-learning development process.
November 11 7:30PM
Mobile Learning and the Smartphone Wars: How to Avoid Getting Caught in the Crossfire
The battle between Apple, Google, RIM, and Microsoft for the smartphone pie is heating up! The unprecedented smartphone and tablet computer adoption rate means that soon, almost everyone will have a fully functioning handheld computer. This rapid adoption is leading a revolution in learning consumption from mobile devices. As an e-learning professional, you want to stay up to date and prepare for the future, but as the rhetoric bullets fly and each new mobile operating system bomb is dropped, how can you avoid getting caught in the crossfire and choose a mobile learning strategy that will ensure success no matter who wins the smartphone war?
In this keynote session, months of research in the mobile learning space are boiled down into bite-size pieces to help you take it all in so you can make informed strategic decisions about where to take your mobile learning program. Come and see original market research data shared for the first time. And let's don't forget about the whole point: helping people learn and increase productivity. You'll get the answer to the question: is mobile learning really helping learners learn better or faster? Don't miss this session, and make sure to bring your own cell phone, because at BYOL eLearning 2010, everything is collaborative and hands-on, and this keynote is no exception.
November 10 1:30PM
Within the last few years, a new kind of authoring tool has been introduced into the world of e-learning: the rapid development tool. These tools enable authors to create slick, professional looking e-learning much faster than was ever imaginable. However, with this rapid development, a new problem has developed. Courses are being cranked out at such a high speed that instructional design fundamentals have been left by the wayside. This session introduces instructional design techniques that can be easily implemented into rapid e-learning development. These techniques are based on some of the most popular adult learning theories and can be applied to any type of e-learning course, without disrupting development time.