Any organization’s operating culture—including the learning function—is constructed through conversation and action, supported by relationships and trusted networks. Open behaviors that encourage people to surface their experiences, ideas, and opportunities across normal boundaries are a catalyst for employee engagement. Information and insights scale through integrated platforms, systemic leadership traits, and iterative approaches. It’s time for both leaders and employees (including everyone in the learning function) to become collaborative. When the organization becomes collaborative, the use and deployment of informal and social learning become that much easier. It’s time for new and open leadership. It’s time for a flat army.

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an insider’s view into what makes Adobe eLearning solutions stand out and help you take charge of your eLearning environment. With Adobe Captivate Draft, mobile authoring becomes a reality, giving you a canvas to express your ideas anytime, anywhere. With Adobe Captivate 9, you can explore infinite possibilities all within one tool, and with the all-new Adobe Captivate Prime, the shiny new LMS from Adobe, you will experience a modern LMS where power meets ease. Attend this stimulating session that will set the tone for your day and help you make better breakout session choices.

Adobe Captivate allows you to create highly interactive and engaging eLearning content. But just how quickly can you create that content? Actually, the development process is faster and easier than you might believe. In fact, during this session you will create an interactive simulation in a single hour. Not convinced? Attend this hands-on session and find out for yourself just how easy it is, and leave with a working eLearning lesson you can share (or show off) with your boss and colleagues.

In this session, you will explore how, using Adobe Captivate and HTML5, you can design and customize mobile learning content based on where your learner is located. You will learn what works and how to get started, and explore samples, tips, and recommendations for implementation with best practices. You will also check out a tutorial and sample file you can experiment with both at the conference and when you get back to your office.

There’s no need to memorize a programming language to push your Captivate skills to a higher level. The point-and-click technique of Advanced and Shared Actions makes it easy to create more engaging courses.

In this session, geared towards intermediate and advanced Captivate users, you will learn:

• The terms used in Actions
• How to choose between Advanced and Shared Actions
• The crucial preparation steps for Actions
• How to create, use, and test both Standard and Conditional Actions
• How to reuse Actions within a project or between projects
• How to create and manage a script library to use in all your projects

In this session, you will explore the components of visual design and how to use these elements to create exciting visual themes or styles. You will look at visual design trends, breaking down a number of different styles and discussing the characteristics of each. You will analyze the underlying message that the style communicates.

The visual theme you select should meet the needs of your audience, your content, and your instructional and messaging goals. Whether you create the graphics yourself, work with a graphic designer, or manage a team, it pays to have a visual style as your framework. You don’t need any graphic skills to gain new insights and benefit from this session.

Regardless of your industry or job focus, learning management systems remain the central focus for corporate learning and the foundation upon which most types of traditional, informal, social, and mobile learning is built, deployed, and tracked. With numerous industry analysts announcing the death of the LMS, you can't afford to miss this critical update for today’s learning leaders, business decision makers, LMS administrators, and learners of all types.

This session, jointly presented by The eLearning Guild and Adobe Systems, will focus on research findings on the current state of learning management system usage and the future role of learning management systems for corporate training over the next three years, including the most important features needed to meet the needs of the business.  You will explore topics including:

• What challenges organizations face with learning management systems today
• The number of LMS providers typically in use within corporations
• Typical implementation and set-up timeframe
• LMS satisfaction in organizations, and what drives satisfaction
• Future purchase plans for LMS products
• Required future LMS capabilities for mobile learning, gamification, and learner engagement
• The need for content authoring and LMS integration
• Desired LMS features and functionality over the next three years

In this session, we will take dull, boring software simulations and lay the foundation for creating a memorable student experience. Through the use of pacing, video, immersive scenarios, and student practice you will walk away with detailed development strategies for building award-winning software simulations in Adobe Captivate.

You may well know the benefits of creating detailed design documents before developing eLearning and mobile learning solutions. Yet it can be frustrating to spend time designing your eLearning in a document or PowerPoint only to recreate it in Adobe Captivate during your development phase. Similarly, if you are creating mobile solutions, you may be wishing for a more hands-on approach to prototyping. What if you could storyboard (or prototype) your project, then leverage that work in your project development? In this session, you will explore an exciting new Adobe tool that will help you design and develop projects more efficiently and benefit from a more fully integrated workflow!

Sometimes you just want to cook with a little extra seasoning. Why not dig around in the cupboard and explore the real potential of the latest version of Adobe Captivate? This session will provide a guided tour of some of Adobe Captivate’s coolest new features and functions. We’ll look at how to create amazing animations using Bézier curve motion paths and state-swapping. Explore the hidden potential of these new features, and learn how to use them in conjunction with Advanced Actions.

Micro-learning—learning in small bites, snippets, and trickles—has suddenly become the next big thing. It produces dramatic results—reduces cost, improves learning, and accelerates performance. However, many leaders and learning specialists are short sighted. They think of small content instead of micro-processes that impact business profits and efficiencies. In this session, you will gain insights into three case studies: micro-content development, problem solving for operations, and enterprise expertise transfer initiative. You will leave this session with a template on micro-lesson development.

It is said that culture is the foundation of future innovations—and learning culture is clearly the most important aspect of any organization’s culture. In this session, you will explore ways in which an organization can build a culture of learning among its employees. With a focus on eLearning, you will learn theories of motivation and collaboration and examine examples of best practices from the real world. This session will give you both the templates and the tools with which to develop your own unique learning culture.

Learn how to maximize the potential of the asset library available within Adobe Captivate and create courses that are interactive and inspiring! In this session you will focus on how to build interactive content in Captivate for desktop and mobile courses. In this session, you will learn:

• Walk through the types of assets available in Captivate
• See examples of interactive content created with these assets
• Get ideas around what you can do to make your content more engaging
• Learn how interactive content is created in Captivate
• Explore current eLearning assets and what the future holds

Before the release of Captivate 8 no other authoring tool was able to create truly mobile learning (mLearning) without coding. The reality is, all eLearning developers need to take responsive authoring into consideration. Responsive authoring allows you to adapt content in size and position depending on the learner’s device size.

In this session, you will learn:

• Drivers and challenges with mLearning
• How to efficiently and effectively develop mLearning using Adobe Captivate
• How to insert and position assets so that they reflow for any size device
• Best practices for responsive projects

The best way to beat the boredom in eLearning courses is to make them engaging and interactive. But adding learner interactivity in courses can be time consuming and, to some extent, challenging as well.

During this hands-on session, you will learn simple ways to add interactivity in your eLearning courses using interactive objects, multi-state objects, drag and drops, effects, and actions in Adobe Captivate. You will also learn about the best practices to quickly convert drab, boring content to vibrant interactive eLearning.

As we adapt and adopt the best of agile project management techniques from the software development industry, we need to be cognizant of the unique characteristics and needs of an instructional design and development team. Our relationships with the content, the SMEs, the learners (users), and the business are somewhat different from those of the software world.

In this session, you will tune up your existing agile project management techniques or prepare to implement them for the first time by applying the best tools and practices from the LLAMA (lot like agile approach) methodology.

In this session, you will be among the first to be introduced to Adobe Captivate Prime, an all-new learning management system from Adobe. Learn what differentiates Captivate Prime from other LMSs and see it in action. Learn how Adobe Captivate Prime integrates with other tools, including Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter. You will explore  the state of Prime today, and even gain insights into where it may be headed in the future.

Interactive video is starting to come of age. And it’s easier to make than ever with Adobe solutions. The tools are already there! In this session, we’ll show you how to easily make the video you’re using into an interactive one that will enthrall and engage your learning audience.

Hacks, tips, tricks, or just good old knowledge bits: Whatever you want to call these, they can make the difference between creating mobile learning with ease and tearing your hair out! Find out why Adobe Captivate is the most powerful tool for creating the best mobile learning on the planet. Here are just a few of the tips that you will learn in this class:

• When you should create a responsive design project ... and when you shouldn’t
• Five different ways of treating images in responsive design projects
• Ensure your text will be readable and won’t require lots of rework
• Video tricks to ensure mobile users will be happy
• And much more!

Unleash your creativity and productivity by combining the power of Adobe Captivate with the best creative tools in the world. In this session, you will learn how to:

• Import, use, and modify a Photoshop file in your Captivate project
• Leverage the power of Adobe Audition to enhance your audio narration
• Import and edit Adobe Illustrator vector graphics in Adobe Captivate
• Import an Adobe Edge Animate composition in Adobe Captivate
• Use the proper application to edit any asset present in the Captivate Library

Ever wondered how to create video of yourself with the backdrop of a newsroom, or a beach, or the Golden Gate Bridge? In this session, you will learn how to do that without having to move your gear or battle the elements. You will learn how you can easily create these videos right from your desktop using a webcam, a microphone, and Adobe Presenter Video Express.

How do we really know whether the training we develop is having a significant impact on the success of the organizations that we support? Is it possible to build and maintain a learning culture? Can we sponsor engaging learning that is convenient, easy-to-use, and powerful enough to provide meaningful insight for leadership? The answers to these questions might surprise you. Learn all about an all-new LMS from Adobe during this fun-filled exploration of Adobe’s latest eLearning solution.

During this moderated panel discussion, participants will have an opportunity to pose their questions to the Adobe experts. This is an opportunity to get a sneak peek into what is forthcoming and get a better understanding of innovation in eLearning content creation, enrichment, collaboration, delivery, and management.