Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Mobile learning is rapidly becoming a must-have for organizations big and small. For most designers, getting started is a huge hurdle they have yet to overcome. Considering all the new technology, platforms, authoring tools, and skills required to make it all work can paralyze even the best learning pros.

In this session, you’ll learn how quick and easy it can be to build mobile learning with skills and tools that you already have. If you have PowerPoint (yes, PowerPoint), you have everything you need to create visually appealing, interactive, and dynamic mobile learning solutions. Additionally, you will learn how to create mobile-friendly videos and interactive eBooks.

In this session, you will learn:

• About several mobile-friendly learning content types that can be easily authored from PowerPoint
• How to quickly and easily create mobile-friendly videos
• How to create interactive eBooks
• About easy-to-use templates to jump-start your mobile learning projects

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
PowerPoint, portable document format (PDF), eBooks (EPUB), and mobile devices (smartphone, tablets, etc.).

Technology Required:
PowerPoint 2013 and Wi-Fi capability.

With version 16, Lectora is now fully ready for you to create responsive design lessons—those that will work equally well on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

In this session, you will learn step by step how to create a lesson in Lectora. You will learn about the specific features that will let you be productive and proud of the lessons you create. You will explore its powerful functionality, such as lesson viewing, object and text scaling, overriding, and the device rotation trigger. Lectora 16 offers the best of all worlds for users, from the novice developer to the more advanced. See just what you can do in your responsive design projects!

In this session, you will learn:

• To build up to five different views of your lesson, all in one lesson file
• To apply automatic object and text scaling
• To override default actions and reset the overrides
• About Lectora’s new device rotation trigger and its new CurrentView variable to help the learner

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Trivantis Lectora 16.

Technology Required:
Trivantis Lectora 16.

Most performance support systems assume an environment where Internet and a tablet or laptop are available. However, there are situations in which access to Internet devices is not possible, like in remote education or when sales agents work in remote areas. In such places, SMS is the only channel for delivering performance support.

In this session, you’ll learn how a performance support system using mobile SMS technology is implemented. For people working in performance support, the session will provide a perspective on how nontraditional SMS-based systems can be designed. It will also be of use to those seeking applicability of the same in their domain. This session will explain how an SMS channel allows for limited communication but, when designed properly, can be effectively used for performance support delivery for various business contexts, such as sales training.

In this session, you will learn:

• How SMS-based performance support systems work
• About use cases in business contexts like sales, financial services, and credit card selling
• About the complexity of such restricted systems and overcoming challenges
• About other situations in which SMS systems can be of use

Audience:
Novice to advanced project managers and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile SMS technology.

Including media in the training you create can be a fantastic way to make your content easier to understand and remember. But you don’t always have the time and budget to hire someone to create these design assets for you, and sometimes stock media just won’t cut it. There is another option, however: creating media yourself. And you likely already have two tools that can help you out—your smartphone and tablet. By knowing more about the apps and tools that can help you create some of the media needed, and by using a device you already own, you can be more efficient and keep project budgets down.

In this session, you’ll explore apps that can help you build animated videos in under an hour, create comics without needing to draw, quickly record your own podcasts, and make people who think they can’t draw look like competent artists. You’ll also learn about the physical tools that can push your mobile devices even further.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to recognize situations where media created in an app can work for a project
• About apps you can use to easily create images, videos, audio recordings, and more
• About basic media design skills you’ll want to develop to push these apps even further
• About physical tools, such as styluses and stand clips, that can help improve the content you create on mobile devices

Audience:
Novice designers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Voice, Tayasui Sketches, Comic Life, and Paper, as well as physical tools that can be used with these apps, such as the Jot Pro and the Pencil by FiftyThree.

While technology has transformed people’s lives, L&D has primarily stayed the same. Sure, the industry has evolved by utilizing technology to access and track content, but it is still focused on the traditional course mentality. Should you be going down the same path with mobile learning? What are the opportunities for mobile to help promote a fundamental change in how and when you provide education?

This session will begin by exploring benefits of anywhere/anytime vs. just in time. Learn how the unique affordances of mobile tech enable you to provide powerful bite-sized contextual learning opportunities at the moment of need, increase knowledge retention, and supply performance support in new ways. You’ll see a wide variety of examples and discuss how these new approaches have provided unique business value to the organization, as well as created a fundamental shift for education and performance support solutions.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the affordances that mobile technologies bring to the L&D table
• How to use microlearning to increase retention and application of critical content
• How augmented reality can be used to increase awareness of campaigns, provide real-world context, and deliver just-in-time performance support
• Why organizations are rethinking how and when to provide training through mobile technologies
• How wearables fit into the mobile learning equation

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
SMS/MMS in subscription models, augmented reality, various wearables, videos, and performance support in native and web apps.

When they go right, video projects can go incredibly right! But when they go wrong, they can go very, very wrong. The stakes are higher with eLearning in video form because of the costs, expectations, and limitations in making updates to content.

In this session, we’ll answer questions such who to solicit/accept feedback from, how to sidestep IT roadblocks, where to store those massive source files, what content should never be made into a video in the first place, and how to know when your project has gone off track. We’ll also examine the proven strategies and methodologies that will allow you to produce more videos faster, increase learning quality, and stay sane in the middle of crazy.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to spot train wrecks in the making
• How to plan to your available budget and timeline
• How to communicate appropriately with SMEs, management, legal, IT, etc.
• How to address fears and questions about managing video eLearning projects
• How to draft an action plan to hit the ground running immediately

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Video production tools, project tracking tools, and learning management systems.

When hiring entry-level employees who need to be able to start work immediately, you need to ensure they have the skills required to complete the job. It isn’t always practical to have a manager supervising them through each step of their job when working on a tight deadline. Using online video, the new hire can learn the processes of the organization while completing work.

In this session, you will learn how to create video lessons that allow the learner to work along with a video created by their supervisor to outline basic skills and requirements of their performance. See how managers can leverage video training for cost-efficient on-off situations. And finally, you will learn how to leverage your LMS to create video-based learning tracks.

In this session, you will learn:

• New ways to optimize new employees’ productivity
• How managers can teach one-off new hires throughout the year in a cost-effective manner using video
• How employees can begin working simultaneously with learning
• How to create learning tracks in an LMS with video learning

Audience:
Novice designers and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate 8, Adobe Premiere, Elements 10, iMovie, Canon Vixia HD, G20 Lavaliere microphones, Microsoft PowerPoint, IMC The Learning Suite, and Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series.

Educational video distribution is a moving target, and the options for distributing video can be daunting. Apple, Amazon, Google, and others all have separate ecosystems for video distribution. The ultimate solution for many is to have a presence in each ecosystem; however, learning exactly how to prepare videos, apps, and metadata content for each can be time-consuming and confusing.

This fast-paced session will focus on the video distribution landscape. You will hear about each of the major distribution options, with the advantages and drawbacks highlighted. For each of the major video ecosystems—including YouTube, Roku, Amazon TV and Apple TV—you will learn about back-end app development and ongoing maintenance requirements. The session will cover best practices for video distribution and common mistakes. You will leave with a better understanding of the various ecosystems used to distribute video content.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the options for video distribution
• How apps are developed and maintained on Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV
• To identify secondary video ecosystems
• Best practices for distributing learning content
• About the resources you will need to distribute video

Audience:
Novice and intermediate developers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Roku, Apple TV, YouTube, and Amazon Fire TV.

Video is all around us. But what does video actually do to the brain? And are there best practices to keep in mind when you use video for learning? A nice video is not always a good video for learning purposes.

In this session, you will learn how the human brain consumes, processes, and learns from video. Based on neurological insights, you will learn the differences in the brain when using an animation vs. a human presenter. You will learn what to do, and what not to do, when you want to make a brain-friendly learning video, one that communicates most effectively. Additionally, you will learn what you can do to keep your learners watching until the end of the video.

In this session, you will learn:

• How your brain processes images and videos
• Which parts of your brain are active when watching video
• How to optimize your videos to communicate more effectively to the brains of your viewers
• Techniques to make your “talking head” instruction videos more “human” and trustworthy
• About the different effects in the brain when using a cartoon or animation, compared to a human presenter

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
YouTube, interactive video, and live cameras (webcam, phone, or video cameras).

Incorporating video in a responsive performance support project can be daunting. Video done for vertical delivery comes with specific dos and don’ts. This session shows how to use vertical video, the new Adobe Animate CC, and Adobe Captivate to make cost-effective, rapid mobile performance support modules.

In this session, you will learn best practices for video and the development of vertical video. You will see how Adobe Animate CC and Adobe Captivate work together to showcase video content in a mobile performance support module. For those new to video, this will show a workflow that they can use to expand their existing skill set. For those with video experience, this will show how Animate and Captivate work together with video to create a useful performance support element.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use Adobe Animate to make animated content
• The basics of working with MP4 video in Captivate
• How to connect Animate content to a Captivate project
• About the workflow of a video-based performance support project
• Best practices for creating on-demand video learning content

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate and the new Adobe Animate CC.

Performance support, mLearning, and more are part of a bigger picture, a shift in the role of learning and development (L&D). The realization is that competitive pressures are requiring organizations to become more nimble, with an ability to adapt, but what role does performance support play in this bigger picture? Understanding the drivers and opportunities implied by increasing changes augurs a new and valuable way for L&D to contribute.

In this session, you will hear about performance support in a context that links eLearning, social media, mLearning, and more into a coherent whole. You will learn how to balance optimal execution as continual innovation places new demands on L&D and presents new opportunities. Explore how to support employees across their roles by leveraging technology in new ways. See how a successful approach requires an overarching framework within which to integrate the elements. Finally, the session will take a larger perspective on developing a performance ecosystem, which provides the mechanism to take performance support further and reposition L&D at the core of organizational success.

In this session, you will learn:

• Where performance supports the performance ecosystem
• About the organizational drivers requiring this shift
• About the other elements in a performance ecosystem
• About the strategic opportunities that exist

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Performance support, portals, and social media.

Teaching real-world skills and allowing learners to immediately apply those skills is challenging. Simulations can be effective, but expensive and time-consuming, especially when evaluating and giving feedback to help learners improve their practice.

In this session, you will discover how learners can use mobile devices to build real-world skills within their own schedules from anywhere in the world. Learn how instructors can easily create mobile- and video-based training exercises on their smartphones or tablets. Explore how voice control capabilities enable learners to seamlessly navigate through instructional video content while simultaneously practicing technical or soft skills.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to create effective mobile- and video-basedl training exercises
• How to build soft and technical skill training through a mobile device
• How learners can build and develop skills asynchronously within a social community
• How learners can use voice-controlled videos to practice technical skills

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
ApprenNet.

L&D personnel, from learning leaders to instructional designers to technology innovators, all face a common challenge: How to “sell” executives on the tools and resources necessary to create powerful learning experiences. In this hands-on, interactive session, you will learn to outline a personalized game plan to get the resources for your specific learning organization model or tool.

Whether you are creating an entirely new learning ecosystem or just gaining support for a new learning tool within an existing ecosystem, in this session you will learn the “know, sell, and measure” tactics that successful L&D personnel use to gain commitment for learning solutions. Using your computer for downloadable models and interactive PDFs, you will identify your own learning model using the nine components of a learning ecosystem; learn techniques for getting and giving information to gain executive commitment to necessary resources; and provide proof of success with measurement.

In this session, you will learn:

• “Know, sell, and measure” tactics that successful L&D personnel use to gain commitment for learning solutions
• Where your mobile learning fits into your learning model (hint: one can be performance support), using the nine components of a learning ecosystem
• Techniques for getting and giving information to gain executive commitment to necessary resources
• About a framework to place vendors in the exhibition
• About negotiables and how to make trade-offs with executives

Audience:
Novice to advanced project managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
N/A

Technology Required:
A computer with Internet access to download interactive PDFs and models.

Creating a mobile app for training can be hard. Tracking user progress and completion in your mobile app? Harder. There is a lot to consider when looking to create and leverage mobile applications for training purposes, but the tools and techniques are available.

In this session, you will learn how to use common (and free) HTML5 development tools, frameworks, and libraries to create a mobile training app. You will examine several HTML5 development tools, including their advantages and disadvantages, and learn how to convert your HTML5 course into a mobile application. Finally, you will learn how to track learner progress by adding xAPI support to your mobile app.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to leverage free HTML5 resources
• How to convert your HTML5 course into a mobile app
• How to add xAPI support to your mobile app
• How to develop and test your mobile app
• About some recommended development tools for HTML5

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
JavaScript, HTML5, the xAPI, PhoneGap, and mobile apps.

As organizations realize the value of mobile learning, an increased number are jumping at the opportunity to offer their employees mobile training opportunities. Currently, many mobile learning applications focus on delivering content. However, the most effective learning comes from applying information, especially with peers. How can you create mobile learning opportunities for learners to practice new concepts and receive real-time feedback from peers?

In this session, you will learn the value of providing learners with the opportunity to practice new information in a nonthreatening setting in order to advance professional skills. You’ll also see how cutting-edge organizations are successfully implementing these innovative methods. You’ll then look individually at scenario-based practices and peer feedback opportunities in mobile learning, using a video platform. What exactly are these methods, why are they important, and how can you effectively use them to create valuable trainings?

In this session, you will learn:

• How organizations are adopting more mobile training approaches to address training needs
• About the value of scenario-based practices and peer feedback opportunities in mobile learning programs
• To develop a plan to incorporate scenario-based practices and peer feedback opportunities in mobile learning programs
• To view mobile learning opportunities in a new way
• About real-life mobile practices to improve your professional skills

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile phones (Apple or Android).

JLG, a leading manufacturer of lift equipment for various industries, needed a way for site supervisors to verify whether an operator had the proper certifications to operate any given piece of equipment, down to the specific model. The company struggled with providing immediate compliance instructions.

This session will address the importance of accessible and mobile-friendly solutions on job sites, including immediate training options and checklists so operators can quickly be cleared for work or directed to compliance courses. You will learn strategies to use in almost all industries where timely confirmation of compliance is essential to productivity. You will also learn the specific solutions implemented to help JLG as well as explore how open source provided an essential level of flexibility, security, and customization for these solutions.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the importance of accessible and mobile-friendly solutions on job sites
• Why open source provides an essential level of flexibility, security, and customization for these solutions
• What it means to be “access ready” and how to implement that in your own business
• About the importance of design for the full digital learning environment, beyond the LMS

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile apps and Moodle.

The quickening pace of change and increasing learner expectations demand learning approaches that can be produced quickly, at lower cost, and are easily accessible and readily available. Removing employees from the workflow for classroom sessions is not always feasible, nor does it provide the necessary just-in-time support. At the same time, the knowledge and information learners must have to support customers has expanded. Finally, the workforce is more distributed, more virtual.

In this session, you will learn how State Farm successfully developed and deployed a new learning approach, video on demand, to address these challenges. You will explore the process for creating video on demand and how it is helping State Farm address just-in-time learning needs faster and at a lower cost while taking learners out of the workflow for shorter periods of time. This approach makes the learning solutions more sustainable, easier to maintain, and available to learners when and where they need them (email, website, learning management systems, collaborative communities, etc.).

In this session, you will learn:

• How video on demand is creating a new learning culture that enables learning in the workflow
• How video on demand allows L&D professionals, with little to no video production experience, to create short, relevant videos to address emergent learning and performance gaps
• How video on demand is reducing cost and time to production
• How people, technology, and processes were integrated to create a new learning approach
• About the software tools available for creating short, effective video content

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Camtasia Studio, Audacity, PowerPoint, and Skype for Business.

Video is beginning to dominate the focus of learning and development. The technology and techniques for creating effective video content are now reaching most people responsible for using this medium to improve organizational performance. With a plethora of approaches around animation, motion, and streaming, where is one to begin?

In this session, you will learn the steps of video production: from concept to pre-production (storyboarding), editing, reviews, using motion and animation, and finally, mastering delivery of your content with streaming options. You’ll learn about the tools, get some great templates and resources, and find out how you can use mobile apps and desktop apps to jump-start your next project.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to determine what’s best for your audience, from length to type of content
• How to prep for your video in pre-production
• How to create your assets for production
• How to improve your review process when working with video
• When to use each tool or application

Audience (Identify all that apply):
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Clip, Premiere, and After Effects; PowerPoint; and HTML5’s media tag.

People want and need video in eLearning for its value in demonstrations, emotional impact, and ability to engage auditory and visual learners. But there are barriers to video production: casting actors, finding appropriate settings and locations, purchasing quality video equipment, and finding and training skilled personnel. Animated video is one path around these barriers.

In this session, you will learn to recognize when animated video can be more appropriate than traditional live-action video. You will learn how animated video has advantages for meeting some instructional goals and how it can circumvent many barriers created by limited resources and time. Finally, you will gather a bag of tricks for audio capture and processing, tips for increasing the learning potential of your animations, and pointers for creating mobile versions of animated videos.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the business case for using animated video
• About the pedagogical case for using animated video
• How to capture quality audio on a budget
• Tips for audio post-production
• How to increase engagement and learning from animated video
• About considerations for using animated video on mobile platforms

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
GoAnimate, HTML5 video, Adobe Audition, Audacity, and microphones.

Video is not a new medium, but not every instructional designer or developer intuitively knows how to create video or what makes it good. It’s important to understand the qualities that make for great videos. Organizations need data to drive decisions, and research is available to do just that.

In this session, you’ll look at the research from survey data and identify what makes a great video. The data also includes a review of exemplary videos sent by survey participants. This session will break down the research results, including a few recent updates. In addition to looking at the data, it will provide practical information to help any participant create better, and more effective, video.

In this session, you will learn:

• Which attributes make video engaging, according to viewers
• Why viewers stop watching videos and how to reduce the number of viewers who stop watching
• How viewers tend to find videos and what creators can do to improve findability
• Tips, tricks, and ideas for improving performance of video, especially for learning environments
• Attributes of great example videos provided by participants in the research study

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Creating interactions and animations in HTML5 is very complex. It requires an in-depth knowledge of JavaScript. There are other tools for creating HTML5 interactions that are fairly easy to use; however, you often lose the flexibility that you have when writing code.

In this session, you will learn about Adobe’s new application called Animate. You will see how this tool gives designers and developers the ability to quickly create HTML5 animations and interactions. The new art tools also make drawing much more robust, so even people with limited design skills can draw amazing backgrounds and scenes. This session will focus on having you create some simple animations and interactions, and it will end by showing you how to render the project files into a variety of different formats.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to define a project
• How to insert clip art
• How to draw on the stage using a variety of brushes
• How to render the project to a video or to a mobile device
• How to render the project to an HTML5 web page

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Animate.

Technology Required:
A Mac or PC with Adobe Animate (trial version is okay).

There’s no question that video is trending upward and becoming more viable as a workplace learning and development (L&D) solution. Still, one significant barrier is focusing on the video itself—the videography and/or animation and editing that leads to the final product. Like all solutions from an L&D perspective, it still needs design. For video, that design document is a script, and it’s one of the most vital and most often ignored steps in the video production process. But how does someone with an L&D background learn to write better scripts?

In this session, you will learn the four key elements of a well-formatted script that will help you to better visualize the final video, while also exploring the specific characteristics of video and discussing why you need to take these into account when writing scripts. You will study several videos that offer insight into what engages viewers and why. You will also come to understand the elements of a well-written script and how to take optimal advantage of the video format. You will leave this session with simple, easy-to-implement tips and tricks to extend the useful lifetime of any video product.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to properly format a video script
• About characteristics of a well-written script
• How to write to take optimal advantage of the video format for mobile viewing
• How to increase engagement through conflict and contrast
• Ways to increase the lifetime of products by implementing a few simple tricks

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Smartphones, smartphone cameras (both photo and video), video cameras, and video editing software.

Performance is not just an end result but a continuous flow of interactions between the individual and the environment, leading to a defined goal. Organizations normally try to keep this process in line through periodic evaluations or other methods, but tracking performance at work on a continuous basis with a geographically dispersed workforce is a challenge. This can result in failed objectives or substandard outcomes.

Pervasive worlds are digital spaces that converge with the real world through distributed technology such as smartphones, wearables, and sensors, among others. By attending this session, you will learn about these worlds and how the different technologies can be used to gather key performance indicators from either individual or group processes. You will also experience, through a hands-on example, how the data obtained through different devices can be processed on the digital side, in order to visually show how performance is evolving through time and make the necessary adjustments.

In this session, you will learn:

• About performance as a continuous interaction between the individual and the environment
• About key performance indicators
• About the potential of pervasive worlds and distributed technology
• Gamification principles for designing pervasive experiences
• How to visualize performance data for immediate feedback and correction

Audience:
Novice to advanced developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Pervasive worlds and performance indicator dashboards (online), smartphones, and wearables.

All too often, embedded performance support (EPS) is seen as a technology or a software application to purchase. While both may come into play, EPS is a discipline that drives new skills in L&D as well as new methods and, potentially, new technology. History shows that being ready to pursue adoption of EPS is not the same as being in a state of readiness to sustain the adoption.

In this session, you will learn what adopting an EPS strategy implies for existing L&D design and development best practices. You will learn how to expand your efforts into workforce performance solutions that are holistic enough to cover all five of Conrad Gottfredson’s “Moments of Need.” You will learn how to “extend the blend” from the point of work into the formal learning experience consistent with the 70:20:10 framework. You will also learn how to assess readiness to create these holistic solutions and ensure sustained capability at the point of work. Learn how EPS shortens time to impact as well as time to competency.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the implications for existing L&D design and development best practices that come with adopting an EPS strategy
• How to “extend the blend” from the point of work into the formal learning experience consistent with the 70:20:10 framework
• How to leverage single-source documentation to dramatically reduce level of effort on multiple learning experiences
• How to expand your efforts into workforce performance solutions that are holistic enough to cover all five of Gottfredson’s “Moments of Need”
• How to assess readiness to create these holistic solutions and ensure sustained capability at the point of work

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
None.

Trends are easy to identify. They’re present, and there’s evidence to show how popular they are. Identifying which trends will fizzle and which ones will transform the future is a much more difficult task.

In this closing session, you will join four industry experts as they debate the current and future state of learning and technology. You will hear different and unique opinions and learn as each perspective is challenged and defended. The conflicting opinions shared will open your mind to the possibilities posed by the trends we need to focus on and help you build the context around what works and what doesn’t in your own organization.