Your company may have implemented a mobile BYOD solution, but that doesn’t mean you can automatically use those devices for mobile learning. In order to implement mobile learning on a large scale, you’re going to need to partner with your IT department.

In this session, you will learn from one organization’s experience partnering with IT on a BYOD mobile learning strategy. You will explore the struggles, successes, and what still needs to be done to implement mobile learning on a global scale. By attending this session, you will learn what to expect when partnering with IT, and you’ll walk away with tips that will prepare you to launch your next mobile learning project.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify the questions you need to ask your IT department
• How to determine what questions you need to answer for IT
• About a basic framework to begin your journey supporting mobile devices
• How to effectively interact with IT as a partner, not a customer

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile device management (MDM), BYOD environments, Adobe Captivate, and TechSmith Camtasia.

Producing videos can be a complex endeavor for learning professionals attempting to bring their courses to life. By incorporating appropriate project management principles, instructional designers can create a smooth process for video production and avoid having to reshoot critical footage they need for a course.

In this session, you will learn the questions you need to ask before creating a video production timeline. You will learn from examples of challenges that might come up that can affect production schedules or video quality. You will discover how to set up dependencies to create a time estimate for production. You will leave this session with tips and tricks for managing the review and editing process as well as implementing a QA schedule.

In this session, you will learn:

• About challenges that can affect production schedules or video quality
• How to set up dependencies to create a time estimate for production
• Some tips and tricks for managing the review and editing process
• How to implement a QA schedule
• About the people and types of technology needed to create quality video

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Project management platforms Wrike and Smartsheet, as well as other platforms that might be similar. Frame.io for preview and approval. Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, and Telestream ScreenFlow depending on production timelines.

It’s not unusual to find gamification elements in software applications across nearly every industry, but only a fraction of these platforms prove to have significant impact on performance. While individual gamification elements may increase engagement and enhance performance, they often are not designed with the user in mind, and there are not enough analytics integrated into the process to assess effectiveness.

In this case study session, you will explore the design process of an award-winning gamification product at Sears Holdings. You will discover how a team designed this project using continuous prototyping and constant engagement with its intended users. You will explore how the team continuously leveraged user-generated data to optimize the gamification experience. You will walk through the entire business case and understand the business problem that the gamification product was designed to solve, and the specific framework the team used in order to ensure the product would impact associate performance.

In this session, you will learn:

• About a prototyping framework to help you ensure gamification is properly implemented in your learning and performance management tools
• How to leverage user testing methods to ensure gamification is effective
• A better understanding of how gamification analytics is done at SHC
• Lessons from a real business case that leveraged gamification to solve a crucial business problem

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

Mobile devices are ubiquitous and now an essential tool in everyone’s pocket or purse. But are these devices truly helpful, or are they more of a hindrance to how people connect, communicate, and collaborate with peers, teams, and organizations?

In this session, you will learn about several proven approaches to introducing and managing mobile devices as a significant part of today’s modern blended learning environment. You’ll explore how best to use PDFs and EPUBs as support for learning on the go; the best approaches to surveying and using interactive whiteboards to promote greater collaborative learning; and how you can use both video and game mechanics to help spur increased mobile usage.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to leverage mobile for pre-work before a scheduled ILT class
• How to use digital documents (PDFs, EPUBs) to replace traditional support materials
• How to increase content consumption before, during, and after a blended curriculum
• How to incorporate video and game mechanics to drive mobile usage
• How launching surveys, polls, and interactive whiteboards can increase collaboration

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
PDFs, EPUBs, survey tools, and virtual whiteboards.

The mobile learning landscape is continually growing and shifting. As intimidating as those changes may be, organizations must be prepared to formulate and execute strategies to harness this growing technology. An understanding of the various devices, the appropriate content, the impact of mobile on traditional training and development, and how to make a business case for mobile in your organization are of key importance in navigating today’s mobile learning landscape.

In this session, you will explore the mobile learning landscape. You will discuss the various types of mobile devices and how these affect your training approach. Additionally, you will explore optimal content types for mobile learning, and the connected discussion around mobile design approaches and the differences from traditional instructional design. Finally, you will help build the business case for mobile in your organization—the “why” of mLearning today!

In this session, you will learn:

• About the various types of mobile devices and how the differences affect your training approach
• Which types of content are optimal for mobile deployment
• How to make the business case for mobile, and why you should incorporate mobile into your organization’s strategy
• Approaches to mobile design, and how it may differ from your typical design process
• Ideal approaches to mobile development using tools you likely already have
• Common examples of mobile deployment and security

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

Today’s learners want short, focused, and bite-sized chunks of content in easy-to-consume learning modules. While microlearning is not a new concept, it is better understood and implemented these days. Join this session for a closer look at microlearning and why it should be part of your eLearning strategy. The discussion will unpack what microlearning really means and what to look for in a microlearning platform. You’ll also learn why mobile plays such an important part in microlearning—and some dos and don’ts of mobile deployment. Discover the challenges facing today’s learners, and find out how microlearning can overcome them.

Workplace learning is a two-way relationship between a company’s desire to stay competitive and employees’ need for information to engage job functions. With the struggle for competitive advantage expected to only accelerate, it pays dividends to create a flexible and technology-enabled learning ecosystem that can foster the future generations in the workforce.

In this session, you will discuss the best practices that organizations need to consider in order to support today’s workforce and remain competitive. You will explore examples including the use of mobile technology, the adoption of social learning tools, increased alignment with corporate objectives, the use of adaptive learning principles, and the ability to measure effectiveness. You will also learn about short-term and long-term approaches to workplace learning, including virtual reality, gamification, serious games, and augmented reality for the workplace.

In this session, you will learn:

• About best practices to ensure a successful approach to corporate training and workplace learning
• How to ensure employees stay ahead of the curve with training
• About best practices to ensure that you are equipped to approach future learners and generations entering the workforce

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Leap Motion, Microsoft Kinect, Oculus Rift, Google Glass, Mozilla Open Badges, and Pokemon Go.

Games and gamification are new ideas to many organizations. Executives may perceive games for learning as child’s play, or may struggle to understand how they’re different from the scenario-based learning you already have. Furthermore, some see gamification as an artificial reward system that will have no long-term benefits.

Moving your organization forward with new approaches to learning and development can be challenging—especially when the new approaches involve nontraditional ideas or technologies. Join our panel of experts as they discuss how you can overcome the most common barriers to games and gamification and ramp up your organization’s performance.

There’s no doubt that augmented reality (AR) is a very popular technology right now. Most of the applications making headlines are focused on entertainment, such as games, video and movies, and other “time wasters.” What are organizations to make of the potential of AR for business in the face of growing consumer use and interest?

There are many considerations in using augmented reality for your business. When done well, the technology can be impactful, cost-effective, and groundbreaking. In this session, you will explore some of the strongest use cases for augmented reality in the workplace, and you’ll learn how to measure these experiences’ effectiveness for real-world business outcomes.

In this session, you will learn:

• When augmented reality will help you the most
• About the value of augmented reality in business
• How to maximize AR’s effect for your organization

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Augmented reality.

How do you implement virtual reality–based training in an organization without breaking the bank? This session will provide a practical guide to implementing virtual reality, mixed reality, and game-based training solutions, and will bust some common myths about hot new technologies like VR and AR. The session will demonstrate impactful, interactive, gamified learning simulations from around the world and show you how to integrate these tools into your training in a cost-effective, practical, and powerful manner.

Many organizations are eager to utilize mobile learning to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce who may not have access to desktops yet all have mobile devices. However, stringent corporate policy concerning mobile phones often makes this tricky. The more organizations understand the dynamics of legal, corporate, and security-based issues, the more equipped they will be to make a compelling business case for mobile learning.

In this session, you will examine how to launch a mobile strategy that works within your organization’s phone policy constraints. You will explore mobile phone statistics and trends in the workplace. You will learn about the common legal and policy constraints for non-exempt employees and explore security concerns for conducting work-related business on a personal mobile device. You will leave this session able to conduct a mobile learning risk assessment to help you diagnose the level of risk you will face when making a business case for mobile learning.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the legal and security constraints that often inform corporate mobile phone usage policies
• How to assess the risk for mobile learning use cases for your organization
• About best practices for implementing mobile learning based on your organization’s risk profile
• About future trends that will shape mobile phone policy
• About success stories from other organizations that have navigated these issues

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile phone carrier plans, apps, mobile-optimized websites, and messaging.

Induction and onboarding has become one of the key business challenges of the moment. How do you successfully recruit and induct staff to become high-performing and fully integrated, at a speed that matches the speed of change in business? The answer may rest in the power of the mobile devices that are already in everyone’s hands.

In this session, you will explore how mobile can play many critical but different roles in an effective program design. You will examine a tried-and-tested strategic induction and onboarding design methodology, and explore where and why mobile has an important part to play. You will explore different approaches such as tools, games, and knowledge and learning apps, and you’ll see real examples of mobile in induction and onboarding programs delivering learning, recruitment, support, brand awareness, and many other important aspects of best-practice delivery.

In this session, you will learn:

• About a best-practice onboarding methodology
• About the role of mobile in induction programs
• From examples of different mobile programs that are part of best-practice induction
• About innovative approaches to induction delivery

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile apps, tools, games, and learning.

Encouraging experts to create useful content for others in the workplace is a practical and effective way to extend knowledge in an organization. Video is rapidly becoming the medium for sharing demonstrations, quick tips, and longer-form overviews. But how do you fit user-generated videos into your overall learning strategy? What are the best ways to launch and support them as well as measure their use overall?

In this session, you will explore how to add user-generated videos and screencasts to your learning strategy, using best practices and guidelines for getting the most out of this learning modality. You will learn the best tips to launch screencasts and other user-generated video assets and discover the best platforms to host and distribute access.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to add user-generated videos to your learning strategy
• How to provide people access to the videos and reporting (platform considerations)
• How to get started and set users up for success
• About tools and tricks to successfully launch user-generated videos and screencasts

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

Mobile, games, and video are all meaningful endeavors offering unique value propositions, but how do they fit together? Each can be linked, but has unique properties as well. How do you make sense of the opportunities?

In this session, you’ll explore the properties of each of the elements from a cognitive perspective, which includes social, engagement, and more, and place them in the context of organizational needs. You’ll look at the full suite of ways in which organizations learn and work, and characterize how these activities can be facilitated. Then you’ll look at the role mobile, games, and video play in these activities. With this contextual framework, you’ll be better equipped to address these elements strategically, not just tactically.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the full suite of performance ecosystem opportunities
• How technology can facilitate a broad range of opportunities
• Where mobile, games, and video fit in the larger picture
• How to develop a strategy around technology for organizational success

Audience:
Intermediate to advanced managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile, games, video, portals, authoring tools, learning management systems, social media platforms, content systems, and xAPI.

The digital world is entering your learners’ world in a big way. Augmented reality is reshaping the way they interact with systems and websites, entertainment, and of course, education, and this change is ultimately coming to your organization!

In this session, you’ll explore the connections between some of the most popular AR experiences out there today and your corporate learning strategy. The session will cut through the hype and draw correlations between them and their success, relating how you can use their design patterns and sticky user experiences to create valuable, easy-to-use mixed-reality experiences that produce results and happy learners!

In this session, you will learn:

• How popular trends in AR can apply to learning strategy
• How to analyze AR products and identify common design patterns
• How to plan for user experiences and expectations in order to align user acceptance with organizational goals

Audience:
Intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Augmented reality, design patterns, usability, and user acceptance.

The innovative use of mobile learning products in education has significantly increased in recent years. Mobile applications are meant to be engaging and reach beyond the walls of a classroom. Instructors and educators can use these mobile apps to increase student learning. However, the value of integrating them into the overall training is unclear. Are there added values if the organization invests in mobile apps?

In this session, you will learn about a return on investment (ROI) evaluation case study, which determined the value of the mobile applications to the organization. You will explore each level of the ROI evaluation and learn strategies to overcome challenges associated with determining the value of the mobile apps. You will learn about the strategies that were implemented and the unanticipated values gained by integrating mobile apps into the organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to develop an action plan to overcome challenges of integrating mobile applications into the classroom
• About options for determining the impact that mobile apps and interactive multimedia instruction (IMI) products have on student learning and performance
• How to effectively collaborate with instructors and subject matter experts to develop a mobile app and/or IMI products
• About the unanticipated benefits of integrating mobile apps and IMI products into the training environment

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

New hires feel excitement, uncertainty, enthusiasm, and discomfort. It can be a roller coaster ride! Line manager engagement has a significantly beneficial impact on new hires’ learning curve and sense of belonging; however, managers are often stretched with multiple responsibilities, and new starters’ needs are relegated. This session will outline a project that utilized mobile device features to shift the new-hire experience from one of passive consumption to active participation while simultaneously making the managers’ role more time-efficient and impactful. The solution delivered better performance, earlier, while reducing attrition.

You got the message about the value of games in helping people learn—and you buy in! Perhaps you’ve even built some games or selected a gamified learning platform. Having a good game or a well-designed gamified initiative is only half of the equation you need for success. The other half is a comprehensive, well-thought-out implementation strategy. Without it, your likelihood of deriving business value or learning results is low.

This session will focus on maximizing the value of your game-based or gamified learning initiatives. You’ll explore the factors to consider and the components to include when formulating a strategy. You will explore the common risks in gamification and learning game implementation, and how to minimize and mitigate them.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify where you are trying to fit on the gamification continuum, from execution of a single gamified initiative to a gamified learning ecosystem
• How to distinguish between a great game-based learning solution and a great strategy for implementing a game-based or gamified learning solution
• How to recognize common risks of failure in gamification or learning game implementation, and how to minimize risk
• What information you need to gather in order to formulate a strategy and use a template to guide strategy development

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

Smartphones are well regarded as the “go-to gadget” for knowledge workers in the modern workplace, and learners increasingly rely on them to interact with learning communities and access developmental resources. But what technologies lie beyond the smartphone that can accelerate learning and engage your audience?

According to industry analysts, the growth of the “wearables” market—spanning wristwear, headwear, eyewear, footwear, and more—will dwarf the learning market over the next five years, as intelligent devices of all sizes and purposes appear as logical endpoints in a hyper-connected world. Many of these devices have already arrived and are starting to reshape how employees interact and engage with co-workers, managers, organizations, and customers. Join this session to see how progressive teams are applying wearables to learning in intuitive and innovative ways.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the emerging wearables market and how these connected devices are changing the ways people communicate and connect
• About the myriad challenges surrounding the introduction and use of wearables for learning, including access, security, integration, and user adoption
• How to assess your own organization’s readiness to introduce wearables into your learning programs
• About practical use cases that leverage the power and convenience of wearables to deliver learning in the moment of need

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Smartphones, smartwatches, Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality/virtual reality, and machine learning.

The mobile learning landscape is continually growing and shifting. As intimidating as those changes may be, organizations must be prepared to formulate and execute strategies to harness this growing technology. An understanding of the various devices, the appropriate content, the impact of mobile on traditional training and development, and how to make a business case for mobile in your organization are of key importance in navigating today’s mobile learning landscape.

In this session, you will explore the mobile learning landscape. You will build basic mobile skills through hands-on activities. You will leave with a stronger understanding of the processes and tools, as well as with guidance to begin designing and developing your own mobile projects by immediately applying the concepts covered.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the various types of mobile devices and how they affect your training approach
• About the various content types that are optimal for mobile deployment
• How to make the business case for mobile and why you should incorporate mobile into your organization’s strategy
• About approaches to mobile design, and how it may differ from your typical design process
• About ideal approaches to mobile development, using tools you likely already have
• From common examples of mobile deployment and security

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

New for FocusOn this year! This is a popular session being offered twice. It's also available as session 904.

In the past, the self-paced content created by L&D often took the form of eLearning courses. But there’s a growing recognition that more learning takes place outside an organization’s LMS than in it. As a result, learning content—and the time and effort that goes into it—needs to be more flexible in order to be effective as it performs the critical role of supporting both formal and informal learning.

In this session, you’ll focus on how to design and create content for use on any device, no matter where your audience is. This approach allows you to provide content in the manner your audience needs it most—whether they need formal learning, such as courses in your LMS, or informal learning opportunities like performance support, job aids, or knowledge bases. You’ll review instructional design processes to guide you through planning for single-source, multipurpose content, as well as development strategies to ensure that people can find and use this content no matter what device they use.

In this session, you will learn:

• About strategies that can help you evaluate what your audience really needs in order to carry out their roles
• About instructional design approaches to help you plan for single-source, multipurpose content to meet these needs
• Strategies to develop and deliver this content
• How to kick-start a learning and development process in your organization that supports single-source, multipurpose content creation

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Numerous mobile devices.

Years of momentum have resulted in numerous use cases for teams seeking to leverage xAPI to better track, measure, and manage their mobile learning efforts. It’s clear that xAPI can improve the ways you create and deliver mobile content, track interactions, and measure performance. Armed with knowledge and the proverbial “Swiss Army knife” of xAPI functions, you can begin to “slice, saw, tweeze, and pick” your way through mobile training challenges.

In this session, you’ll discuss what xAPI really is, how statements are structured, and how it’s already being used to power mobile initiatives. You’ll explore how teams use xAPI and cmi5 to improve learning, streamline tracking, automate tasks, and drive engagement via modern authoring tools and an LRS—as well as how LMSs are undergoing transformations to support these trends. You’ll also look at the basic challenges teams face in implementing xAPI. Finally, you’ll learn how authoring tools, LMS platforms, mobile apps, and IoT endpoints are being connected to leverage the power of xAPI.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the basic structural and design tenets of an xAPI-based solution and the best-practice approach to implementing those solutions
• About new use cases that can show how to apply tracking to non-traditional learning assignments and interactions
• What technical challenges you’ll need to overcome with LMS integration, security, mobile (when offline), and more
• How to determine the best authoring tools and learning platforms to take advantage of xAPI
• The importance of cmi5 and its future impact on learning

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Experience API (xAPI), content authoring tools, integrated and remote learning record stores (LRSs), and mobile technology.

Professional development generally means taking time away from your work to go and learn a concept, then return to your team, who may have a “What are you going to make us do now?” attitude. Take a moment to think “what if.” What if professional development were delivered where and when it was important to you? What if you did not have to leave your team to participate in behavior-based professional development? What if your professional development created greater cohesion within your team? What if your professional development were focused directly on issues and content that were meaningful to you and your team?

This session will explore methods of creating mobile professional development that produces greater team cohesion, changes behavior, and allows participants to engage in the development process while they remain on the job with their team. You’ll learn how mobile learning gives participants the unprecedented ability to gain new perspectives and connect with their team in a meaningful way while engaged in the professional development process. Finally, you’ll learn the findings from a recent study and real-time implementation of these strategies.

In this session, you will learn:

• About mobile professional development strategies to create greater team cohesion
• About learning strategies that have the greatest effect with mobile professional development
• How to determine the right amount of content to deliver for the greatest effect on a mobile device

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Flipgrid, HapYak, the Adobe suite, and Google Drive.

Gamification is not just a trend. It works—when done well. Unfortunately, many organizations get caught up in the “let’s gamify everything” hype and fail to properly align game mechanics to meaningful objectives. L&D professionals continue to face stakeholder and employee objections when attempting to introduce game-based concepts. They also run into conflicting priorities when multiple game ideas are implemented without a holistic vision for employee engagement.

In this session, you’ll explore real-world examples of how reputable organizations are effectively applying gamification and realizing measurable business impact. You’ll dig into a variety of game mechanics and explore how you can best use them to drive employee engagement. You’ll discuss common objections to game-based concepts and share both talking points and data to help L&D professionals overcome these challenges. You’ll examine simple ways to prove the potential of gamification in your organization before making a considerable investment. And you’ll learn a set of best principles to help you drive gamification impact over the long term.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why much of the existing gamification research fails to reflect real-world potential
• How to leverage the right game mechanics to achieve your learning objectives
• How casual gameplay can facilitate user engagement during learning experiences
• How to sell your stakeholders and employees on the concept of gamification

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Axonify, Confluence, Duolingo, Gamify, and Swarm.

As technology continues to evolve, it creates new opportunities to let people play, explore, and learn from games that include video, animation, and biometric data, and from one another. How can these new technologies support immersive learning and enable you to re-create “real” experiences in learning games?

In this session, you will explore a future vision of workplace learning, from onboarding to leadership development, from job skill training to coaching and mentoring. Come experience “a day in the life” of learning at work in the not-so-distant future, and consider how you think about game-based learning today and tomorrow.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the various applications of new technologies that can be used in games to solve current and future workplace problems
• How learning and development can change today to better prepare for the future of workplace learning
• How data, curation, immersive technology, biometrics, personalization, ubiquity, and social learning intersect in the future

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

Suggesting a mobile learning program can still raise some eyebrows in even the most progressive organizations. Concerns about security, cost, device type, and use are just a few of the barriers that can stall your efforts.

If you’re struggling now or anticipating resistance to mLearning, join our panel of experts as they tackle the big questions, and find out how you can overcome the most common barriers to mobile learning in your organization.

Virtual reality has exploded over the last year, extending to conversations in the mobile, gaming, and video landscape. There’s a rapidly rising interest in how to use this new technology for learning and performance. With “VR” now one of the hottest buzzwords, how much is hype and how much is substance?

In this session, you will explore the current state of virtual reality in 2017. You will see examples of virtual reality in practice in both the consumer and enterprise markets. You will examine what’s working—and what’s not—and how you can apply those lessons to learning and development.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the critical components of a virtual reality experience
• How early adopters are using VR for L&D
• About common mistakes to avoid
• What questions to ask to determine whether VR is right for your organization
• How consumer-led VR is shaping VR’s use in training

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate 360

New for FocusOn this year! This is a popular session being offered twice. It's also available as session 714.

In the past, the self-paced content created by L&D often took the form of eLearning courses. But there’s a growing recognition that more learning takes place outside an organization’s LMS than in it. As a result, learning content—and the time and effort that goes into it—needs to be more flexible in order to be effective as it performs the critical role of supporting both formal and informal learning.

In this session, you’ll focus on how to design and create content for use on any device, no matter where your audience is. This approach allows you to provide content in the manner your audience needs it most—whether they need formal learning, such as courses in your LMS, or informal learning opportunities like performance support, job aids, or knowledge bases. You’ll review instructional design processes to guide you through planning for single-source, multipurpose content, as well as development strategies to ensure that people can find and use this content no matter what device they use.

In this session, you will learn:

• About strategies that can help you evaluate what your audience really needs in order to carry out their roles
• About instructional design approaches to help you plan for single-source, multipurpose content to meet these needs
• Strategies to develop and deliver this content
• How to kick-start a learning and development process in your organization that supports single-source, multipurpose content creation

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Numerous mobile devices.

Mobile, video, gamification; these three trending industry technologies can increase learner engagement and drive business results (while hopefully adding some fun to the workday). Despite the sustained attention these technologies have received from learning leaders across organizations, many are still struggling to apply best practices when implementing them, or are finding subpar outcomes. A solution? Embrace outside-the-box thinking!

In this session, you will look at straightforward, immediate applications of mobile, video, and gamification technologies. You’ll analyze where and why they can be more effective than traditional eLearning. You’ll then discuss nontraditional, “abstract” applications of these technologies and why this mindset shift is powerful. The session will conclude with case studies of successful mobile, video, and gamification learning programs that embraced outside-the-box thinking to delight learners and exceed business goals.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the three biggest current trends in technology
• Techniques for applying these technologies effectively to training
• How to think outside the box to exceed business goals
• About abstract thinking that actually worked!

Audience:
Novice to advanced managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile, gamification, and video technologies, platforms, and devices.

Video is trending in L&D for good reasons. When video-based learning projects go right, they can resonate well with their audience and make a huge impact. However, when they go wrong, they can go very, very wrong. Why? Because there’s a substantial amount of financial, legal, branding, security, and relationship risk introduced when incorporating video into your learning strategy. So how can you safely create a more video-centric culture? And what processes and protocols need to be in place before you move forward?

In this session, you’ll learn how to better assess the risks and rewards of video-based learning within your organization. You’ll look at how to overcome common hurdles when getting the business on board with using video. You’ll even role-play conversations with key leadership in legal, marketing, IT, etc., and determine how to sidestep the roadblocks, mitigate the dangers, and maximize the opportunities for partnership. You’ll leave this session with resources that can help you start conversations and work to deliver successful video learning projects and initiatives.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to have empowering exploratory conversations with partners in your organization
• How to avoid common business problems and surprises when launching a video-based approach
• How to turn your video issues into assets for the business
• Where to look for additional resources within your organization

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Video production software and project management tools.

Videos in learning isn't new, but the video medium is seeing rapid expansion in use, from microlearning to interactivity. Before you can move forward, you need buy-in, and that can be challenging. Barriers to approval can range from bandwidth and hosting to skill sets and equipment costs.

Join our panel of experts as they explore how you can overcome the most common barriers to video use for organizational learning. You’ll learn how to help move your organization forward with dynamic approaches to learning and development.