Kick-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of the conference. 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—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of the conference. 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—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of the conference. 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—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of the conference. 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—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of the conference. 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.

Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the US game show Jeopardy! But in 2011, he played a challenge match against supercomputer Watson—and lost. While that moment resides in game show lore, it is also representative of a fundamental shift in how we treat and interact with information; we now live in a world where we have instant access to almost any type of information using a device that fits into our pockets. In this funny and inspiring opening keynote, Jennings shares how it felt to have a computer literally beat him at his own game, what that might mean to the future of information, and where human knowledge may fit in this new learning paradigm.

Building a template for a mobile course is easier than ever using Articulate Storyline 2. Watch a demonstration of how quickly and easily you can customize your project size, incorporate multimedia, and publish your project for a mobile device. Along the way you’ll learn practical tips for designing a great-looking mobile course.

Designing a great user experience for learners is critical to their success and how they engage and utilize your content. This session will break down what's important in designing great user interfaces and experiences. We'll discuss design strategies, what works and what doesn’t, and how to plan and prototype. You’ll see demonstrations of several great samples and get a list of resources for taking your designs to the next level, build up your inspiration, and get your team to the next stage.

Every minute, approximately 25 hours of video are added to YouTube, more than 1,500 blog posts are created, and 98,000 tweets are published to the web. As educational content continues to be created and developed, being able to track and filter the content on the web becomes increasingly difficult, and searching with keywords alone does not always render the best results.

In this session you will discuss strategies that museums use to curate their inventory and how these methods can be applied to curating for the mobile environment. Using readily available technology, you will discover how mobile users can gather, sift, and select content based on their preferences and needs. You will explore how users can put assets into the proper context so it can be located, inventoried, and accessed appropriately, on time, and on the go. You will leave this session with new knowledge about curating media for mobile and how it can benefit their organization

In this session, you will learn:

• The definition of curation
• Different curating methods used by museums
• How top apply curating methods to your learning course
• About resources to assist with curation

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Curating software (commercial and custom).

The process of getting online learning from planning to posting can be arduous, time- and resource-consuming, and require hundreds of hand-offs between team members. Every measure must be taken to expedite each step along the way in order to make online learning relevant and timely to learners and therefore provide organizational benefits equal to costs. Adding mobile deployment to this equation only further complicates it.

In this session you will learn how leveraging built-in capacities of PowerPoint for storyboard review, animation, and a certain amount of production can expedite time to media posting. You will explore how integrating WebEx recordings of expert presentations is a fast and easy way to add credibility and interest to online and mobile learning. The combination of PowerPoint and WebEx and their ubiquity renders them outstanding tools to expedite the deployment of online learning programs.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to optimize PowerPoint for storyboarding and review process
• How to produce raw MP4 files from PowerPoint
• How to extract audio and video from WebEx
• How to finalize media for mobile using Adobe Creative Cloud

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

Technology discussed in this session:
WebEx, PowerPoint, Handbreak, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

Grainger was seeking a way to get a safety message to customers via our sales force without the training impacting face time. This created the challenge to train 3,000+ salespeople to enhance their selling approach and deliver this new message to thousands of customers in a consistent fashion, in a compressed time frame, and with limited time away from selling. To accomplish this, we needed to deploy a next generation blended learning program delivered just-in-time to an on-the-go workforce.

In this session you will learn how Grainger implemented an enterprise mobile learning platform for the sales force while concurrently developing content to teach them key new messaging to increase their sales. You will explore both the learning professional and business partner perspectives on how the overall program was planned, implemented, and supported in the age of myriad mobile challenges like security, authentication, integration, and private app stores.

In this session, you will learn:

• A blended approach using mobile, and you will address the roadblocks to such a large undertaking
• A beginning-to-end perspective on working with business partners and the learning area to create a blended approach
• Insights on how we engaged leaders at all levels to make the program a success
• About the tools used to make the content mobile and what tools were provided to the managers to support the program

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft Office Professional, GoMoLearning’s GoMo2 authoring platform, Articulate Storyline, OnPoint Digital’s CellCast Solution, and Apple iOS devices.

The idea of shooting video for training seems daunting to many learning professionals. Video is frequently seen as (and often is) an expensive solution in the enterprise. At the same time, video capture, creation, and editing capability is more affordable and readily available than ever. High definition videocameras, with very good optics, have become inexpensive. And as the quality of smartphone cameras continues to improve, good video capture devices are literally in the palm of our hands.

In this engaging session, participants will dissect the video production process into three simple steps. You’ll explore how video production is ultimately about the sequencing of assets in an interesting way, and how photos and short video segments captured with your smartphone can be used to produce surprisingly good products. You will examine a number of great tips for how we can use our smartphones to capture photos or video either planned or when inspiration strikes unexpectedly. You will leave this session ready to start creating micro-learning video, to go.

In this session, you will learn:

• The three phases of video production, and how the assets that go into production are important
• How to use your smartphone to capture high quality photo and video assets for video products
• The types of video products that are best when using handy mobile devices to capture key assets
• How to produce micro-learning video at little to no cost
• The key attributes of video that need to be considered when capturing assets for products

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Smartphone, smartphone camera, video editing software, Gorillapod, GorillaCam, OSnap! and other timelapse apps, and YouTube Capture and other video capture/editing apps.

Recent studies in the neuroscience of emotions reveal that there are connections between cognitive and emotional functions. In other words, training programs are more successful when they take into consideration the relationship between learning and emotions. Effective training and development changes the brain, and mobile training content needs to be inclusive of what is actually required for this change to occur. Mobile learning programs will be more effective, efficient, and successful when engaging, experiential brain-based activities are included.

In this session you will explore information and resources about the incorporation of brain-based approaches to developing mobile learning content. You will discover how this information will enhance the development and implementation of mLearning to create more effective, efficient successful training and learning activities. You will leave this session with tips and tools to begin your transition to a brain-based approach to mobile learning.

In this session, you will learn:

• The importance of moving from a content/information-driven approach to a learner-centered, brain-based approach to mLearning.
• Positive implications for developing content with the brain in mind
• Suggestions for a whole-brain approach to developing content
• Tips and tools for beginning the transition to a brain-based approach
• Ways to create content that excites and stimulates curiosity about information being learned

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

Technology discussed in this session:
A variety of tools and examples.

So you’ve started your journey into building learning experiences, no matter the screen size. You’ve already built and feel confident about your eLearning, large-screen digital learning, and learning objects. However, your brand is critically important, so how do you create a consistent look, feel, and experience for learners across your entire learning ecosystem?

In this session, you will learn to consider all aspects of learning design and to follow the best practices and guidelines of the experts to achieve a unified instructional brand and theme across all learning experiences, no matter the screen size or intent. You will learn how and when to balance different design systems against different contexts. You will leave this session as a polymath, or a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning, and apply these systems of design for learning.

In this session, you will learn:

• To identify the systems of design necessary for a consistent learning theme
• To integrate elements of various systems of design to form a consistent learning theme
• To determine when one system of design outweighs another
• The limits to which you should apply a given design system

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and managers with a basic knowledge of graphic, instructional, and user-related design.

Technology discussed in this session:
Micro-video, wiki, blogs, online self-paced courseware, mobile assessment, various mobile applications.

The SCORM specification is now over 10 years old and is showing its age. The need for mobile training content, distributed e-learning, and flexible data tracking are just some of the elements missing from SCORM. The Experience API (xAPI) has laid the foundation for a new generation of SCORM. Now that ADL has adopted the CMI-5 specification, it is clear that CMI-5 is the solution to many of SCORM's problems. 

In this session, you will learn why CMI-5 provides a solution to may of the limitations and challenges associated with SCORM. You will explore this powerful new specification. You will examine the history of the LMS to content communication, identify several problems in SCORM and show how CMI-5 resolves many long-standing issues for content developers and LMS users.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify the problems and limits of SCORM
• How to identify the benefits of CMI-5 over SCORM
• How to define use cases where CMI-5 is preferable to SCORM
• A brief history of content to LMS communication standards

Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
The xAPI, SCORM, and CMI-5.

While the popularity of mLearning has been growing, supports are needed to help trainers and educators discover apps and seamlessly integrate them into their curriculum and LMSs. At the same time, developers might find it problematic to use technologies like the xAPI due to the overhead required to adopt it in their apps and LMS systems.

In this session you will explore the challenges associated with the adoption of xAPI-ready mobile apps. You will examine key limitations to mobile app discovery in app stores. You will discuss how the above problems can be addressed by adapting xAPI solutions designed to support app discovery and overcome the technological challenges of integrating apps into the curriculum delivery. You will address issues that are vital for further development of the xAPI ecosystem as well as the integration of mobile learning apps using the xAPI.

In this session, you will learn:

• To evaluate the xAPI as a new standard for mLearning
• To explore technical and logistical challenges in the integration of mobile apps in the curriculum delivery and LMS platforms
• To identify the benefits and limitations of the proposed xAPI solution from the educator’s point of view
• To extend the xAPI to support mobile app integration
• The components required to integrate mobile apps into an LMS

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Proof-of-concept platform supporting app listing, discovery, and integration with LRS through key exchange protocol; Android and iOS sample apps that implement the xAPI and seamlessly integrate with an LRS.

For most organizations, starting to explore adding mobile to an organizational learning strategy can be confusing. Some organizations see mobile learning as nothing more than HTML5. Some instructional designers think mobile learning is a concern only for developers. Still other organizations think mobile is nothing more than a different publishing option from an authoring tool. It’s only when you start walking down the path that you realize just how wrong those assumptions, and countless others, truly are.

In this session, you will immerse yourself in the world of mobile learning. You will explore the key components that are needed for an effective mobile learning solution. You will learn the terminology of mobile learning so that you can effectively participate in strategic discussions. You will leave this session understanding the key strategic considerations that must be explored before taking your first step.

In this session, you will learn:

• What mobile learning is and what it isn’t
• Mobile learning terminology and buzzwords
• Considerations to explore as you build your strategy
• Design and development principles, practices, and tools
• Important points related to implementation and security

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Various mobile technologies.

Building a native HTML5 mobile game can take very complex code to build. This is especially challenging if you want to add elements like flex and responsive layouts, natural motion that interacts with user actions and the device’s accelerometer, take user input, and more. While you may wish to build this type of interactive learning experience, you may not always have the resources, development team, or knowledge to build these types of games.

In this hands-on session you will learn to build interactive games and animations without having to know any code. You will explore a tool called Tumult Hype Pro that enables you to build responsive layouts that flex and change for any screen size to take advantage of any device. You will learn how to build games that use natural motion without using any keyframes or code that can interact with learner actions such as using the accelerometer to control motion of objects.

In this session, you will learn:

• Tumult Hype Basics
• How to create reusable parts that behave independently
• How to create responsive layouts that can flex and change to any screen size
• How to create games using natural motion and interact with user environment

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mac OSX and Tumult Hype Pro.

Participant technology requirements:
Tumult Hype.

Responsive and adaptive designs are extremely popular in the world of mobile learning, but they are also very commonly misunderstood concepts. Today’s mobile learning professionals need to understand what responsive and adaptive designs really are in order to plan and implement them effectively with HTML5-based solutions.

In this hands-on session you will explore what responsive and adaptive designs are, how to use them, and more importantly, when to use them. You will discuss several real-world examples and examine practical tips that you can use to implement on your next project. You will also explore typical challenges encountered with both types of design and how to maneuver around them.

In this session, you will learn:

• What is adaptive vs. responsive design, and when to use each
• How to choose and implement the best free frameworks to jump start your development
• Strategies and questions to ask when analyzing content and planning a project
• How to test your concepts and how to measure time requirements for planning and implementation

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Responsive and adaptive frameworks for HTML5; testing tools from virtual machines to BrowserStack.com.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop.

In this session you will explore the reality that mobile devices are more likely to be lost or stolen, and how that complicates every organization’s security requirements. This is especially true as everyone starts to deliver proprietary information, courseware, and business intelligence via the mobile methods. As such, organizations are now demanding that mobile devices be just as secure as the desktop or classroom training experiences. You will explore the best practices of organizations large and small that are sure their mobile devices can actually be more secure than their traditional online learning securitization efforts.

Last year Fedora Education identified several people teaching online who had grossed over a million dollars in online sales. Mark Lassoff was one of them. His company has sold over 600,000 seats in online courses and reached countless others with free informal education efforts. The strategy Mark used to grow his company is known as atomization. In this session you will explore the strategy of content atomization and learn how it can be used to reach thousands with educational messaging. You will discover how atomization can spread content through mobile and other channels. You will leave this session with ideas on how you can apply atomization to your own work.

The future of cloud-based content authoring and delivery is changing. Gone are the days of clunky desktop tools and a rusty LMS—the gomo learning suite brings Brandon Hall-winning multi-device cloud authoring together with seamless hosting, distribution, and analytics. In this session you will see a complete responsive and adaptive HTML5 course built in less than 15 minutes, tested across desktops, tablets, and smartphones, then distributed in seconds through gomo’s cloud-based hosting suite. Then gomo’s analytics will show you course usage statistics instantly—all without downloading or installing any software.

The development of workplace skills happens primarily beyond the traditional eLearning course through on-the-job experience and coaching by managers. Mobile technologies, the Experience API (Tin Can), and badges have made it practical to implement on-the-job learning. You’ll see how an on-the-job learning path was deployed on employees’ smartphones to increase speed to proficiency. They accessed video modeling and performance support at the moment of need. They used their phone’s sensors (camera, audio, video, and GPS) to capture evidence of work and submit it to coaches for feedback and guidance. The Experience API enabled tracking, learning analytics, and the awarding of badges.

The Experience API (xAPI) has been in production for more than a year now, and it is becoming more important for training and development teams to learn the ABCs of this important new set of technologies and the approaches to learning tracking and reporting they provide. Heed the call of that morning school bell, and come ready to learn your ABCs.

In this session you will explore the ABCs of the xAPI. You will learn that A is for the attributes, as you discuss what the xAPI really is, how statements are generally structured, and the how it is being put into practice. You will examine why B is for benefits, as you explore how the xAPI is being leveraged by progressive organizations to improve the learning experience, streamline tracking, perform common tasks, and drive engagement. Finally you will discuss how C is for challenges, as you explore barriers organizations encounter, such as not having the right platforms, tools, practices, or mindset to take advantage of all the features and benefits the xAPI has to offer.

In this session, you will learn:

• The basic structure and tools that comprise the xAPI approach, including statement syntax, construction, and management
• Which platforms and tools are xAPI-ready and how they can be used in an existing learning environment
• When to use the xAPI over SCORM and whether they are mutually exclusive
• New use cases to apply tracking to non-traditional learning assignments and interactions
• New technical challenges to overcome with LMS integration, security, and mobile access

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

Technology discussed in this session:
The Experience API.

Most of the discussions around mobile learning are about how to develop for mobile. In the rush to go mobile, we’re skipping a step—deciding if we even should go mobile. So much mobile training is developed that isn’t needed in the first place, or that won’t solve a business need or fill a performance gap.

In this session you will explore a simple, guided process for identifying if training is really needed. You will examine the alternatives and other possible solutions to consider when mobile training isn’t the best option. You will discuss how to evaluate employee performance, how to identify the expected performance, and how to compare the two.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify actual employee performance
• How to identify expected employee performance
• How to compare performances to identify performance gap
• How to identify if training is the solution

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

Technology discussed in this session:
N/A.

For instructional designers who need to create interactive content that can be consumed across a variety of devices, especially mobile, the availability of suitable technologies proves problematic. Many educational technologies have a tendency to be overly simplistic and lack the robustness found in their commercial counterparts. But despite the simplicity of these tools, faculty often tends to revert to novice status when interacting with technology. 

In this session you will explore a case study in which the American Public University System developed an enterprise-level solution that allowed faculty and designers to create high-impact, interactive course apps through a process with a very low learning curve. You will learn methods for leveraging an institutional CMS, in conjunction with the digital publishing suite, to create high-quality, aesthetically rich course applications, with fully integrated analytics. You will discuss technical specifications, design considerations, deployment strategies, and analytics integration. 

In this session, you will learn:

• How to deliver rich mobile experience at scale
• How enterprise workflows facilitate large-scale mobile content development
• From use cases around content authoring for mobile learning content
• The value of post-hoc learning analytics integration into mobile applications 

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

Technology discussed in this session:
iOS and Android mobile devices, desktop rendering of applications, Adobe Experience Manager, Digital Publishing Suite, Site Catalyst Analytics.

Attacks against enterprises and their technology vendors are facilitated by the current rapid adoption of embedded systems, cloud solutions, and web-based platforms. These attacks often undermine the very monetization, scalability, and user experience goals for which these systems were designed and deployed. As malicious hackers advance their techniques at a staggering pace, often rendering current defense tactics obsolete, so too must security practitioners obsess over deploying progressive techniques.

In this session participants will extract lessons from these attack anatomies to provide a framework to account for these modern attackers, articulate industry context, and form key takeaways, including immediately actionable guidance. You will explore case studies to highlight decision-points, such as the deployment of a third party technology, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of various decisions on the impact of system security.

In this session, you will learn:

• About discipline division: security separated from functionality
• Why perspective matters: white box vs. black box
• About defense priorities: secure assets, not just perimeters
• About timing security: build it in, not bolt it on
• About procedural duration: security as an ongoing process.

Audience:
Intermediate managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Embedded systems, cloud solutions, and web-based platforms.

Next generation visualization devices like Oculus Rift and Google Glass are changing the ways people learn. They will also change the ways we train in the eLearning industry with an emphasis on using mobile gamification, augmented reality, and electronic procedures across all mobile platforms.

In this session participants will explore how state-of-the-art experiential 3-D media and software will change the face of mobile learning and training. You will explore examples and case studies from some of the biggest companies in the oil and gas and technology industries. You will discuss obstacles related to augmented reality-based mobile learning. You will leave this session understanding where augmented reality fits into the future of mobile learning.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to intelligently develop for training that integrates into operations simulations
• How gamification facilitates retention and learning application
• How to overcome obstacles specific to interactive AR mobile learning
• Where the future of augmented reality lies and its place in eLearning and mLearning

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Augmented reality, virtual reality, mobile apps for tablets, smartphones, and touch screens, and wearables.

Many people today view mobile phones as more important than their toothbrush or deodorant. Some statistics estimate that people reach for their phones more than 150 times per day. This new world order requires massive changes from both enterprises and the learning organizations that support them.

In this session you will examine the explosive growth of mobile technologies in the past several years and how learning can be integrated into the workflow of increasingly mobile users. You will explore how mobile shifts the workflow of learning, both from the expectations of organizations and of the learners themselves. You will leave this session with a clear picture of how mobile is changing the world and the priorities that shape the new workforce and responsibilities in the workplace.

In this session, you will learn:

• The dominant trends in mobile-first thinking
• The impact of this mobile world view on modern enterprises
• The impact of this mobile world view in workflow
• The impact of this mobile world view in learning expectations

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Rich media learning, technical training delivered on mobile devices, offline mobile players, social learning, collaboration platform, virtual reality learning, and gamification.

Now that mobile learning development is becoming more accessible to enterprise learning professionals, use cases are more common. Learning and development departments are deploying mLearning at an increasingly greater rate so they can reach their audiences with “just-in-time, just enough, and just for me” training deliverables. With the new wave of mobile learning, another issue has surfaced that really is not so new: Because mLearning introduces many unique aspects of context, usability, and design, there are now many instances of poor user experience (UX).

In this session participants will explore the practices that result in good mLearning user experience. You will analyze many of the factors that influence UX, and strengthen your understanding of how to leverage these factors. You will discuss usability, learner context, user interface (UI) design, mobile device affordances, user collaboration, and accessibility. You will experience a practical look at UX design and implementation in the enterprise, exploring real world use cases.

In this session, you will learn:

• The different influences on mobile learning user experience
• The role of interface design in good UX
• How context plays a major part in user experience
• How to leverage the unique affordances of mobile devices such as geolocation
• How social collaboration plays a role in successful user experience

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

Technology discussed in this session:
N/A.

No training is more important than for those with the lives of others in their hands. Increasingly, continuing education courses are being offered to medical professionals and others in mission-critical roles online and through mobile devices. The convenience of mobile instruction is undeniable, but are learners retaining information as readily as they would through a desktop browser or in-person?

In this session you will learn about two case studies exploring the effectiveness of mobile devices for learning. You will examine the effectiveness of a custom learning management system originally deployed to veterinary surgeons in 2010, and how it has been refined and repurposed in a number of mission-critical industries in recent years. You will discuss the technological methodology employed by the platform and two approaches used in the instructional design of each project.

In this session, you will learn:

• From two case studies on the use of mobile learning for medical and engineering occupations
• Two separate approaches for curriculum development
• How to use xAPI for professional certification
• Best practices for mobile-responsive design

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

Technology discussed in this session:
SightWorks LMS.

You’re all excited about the promise of an Experience API-enabled world, but you’ve still got a learning management system (LMS) and a whole host of SCORM-based courses. Now what? In most cases, you’ll need to manage the transition—read: republish your library for the Experience API (xAPI)—over the months and years to come. But what if you could get the most out of both an LMS and a learning record store (LRS) at the same time as you move to your next-generation learning-and-performance infrastructure?

In this session, you will learn what to do with xAPI statements. You’ll discover how an LRS is different from—and similar to—the LMS you already have. You’ll review your options when it comes to LRSs and how LRSs can work (and can’t work) with your LMS. You’ll also learn the considerations to keep in mind when looking for an LRS, get a list of key questions to ask when selecting an LRS for your environment, and gain insights into both the learning and infrastructure aspects of xAPI from early adopters.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to identify the benefits of an LRS, both in contrast to and in combination with your LMS
• How to choose from among three types of LRS options
• About potential options for your next-generation learning-and-performance infrastructure
• What key questions to ask potential LRS vendors to narrow your search

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced managers, directors, and VPs with a basic knowledge of xAPI and LMS capabilities. 

Technology discussed in this session:
Various mobile technologies.

Instructional designers tend to define what is possible by the limitations of our chosen authoring tools. We remove ideas like responsive courses from consideration because our authoring tool does not support the capability. Sometimes common modern web practices don’t always transfer over to eLearning authoring tools until it is too late. Why not take control over what you can do in your eLearning authoring by building it yourself?

In this hands-on session you will explore how jQuery Mobile allows you to build responsive custom mobile applications that not only take advantage of modern web technology, but simplify development without the requirement of heavy amounts of coding. You will learn how this tool removes many of the constraints placed by authoring tools and how to build custom, mobile-first HTML5 quickly and easily. You will examine how to integrate the xAPI into HTML5 to allow you to track progress within your LMS or LRS.

In this session, you will learn:

• jQuery Mobile basics
• How to build a player in jQuery Mobile
• How to make your jQuery xAPI compliant
• How to develop a custom HTML5 course

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers, developers, and project managers who know basic HTML5 formatting.

Technology discussed in this session:
HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript.

Participant technology requirements:
HTML Editor.

You’ve just created a terrific training video for a mobile eLearning experience. The video is wonderful, the soundtrack is stellar, but the feedback you’re getting isn’t the greatest. Many members of your learning audience are telling you they’re having a hard time understanding what they’re seeing and hearing. After you’ve done a little research, you found out that a majority of the learners watching and interacting with your training content are viewing it on a tablet and listening through headphones or earbuds. You listened to the video through your own earbuds and are having a hard time hearing everything yourself! Why?

In this hands-on session, you will discover why a soundtrack designed for earbuds is different than a soundtrack designed for speakers. You will examine the differences in creating a voiceover, music, and sound effects soundtrack for listening through earbuds. You will explore how to tailor your soundtracks for earbud listening so that your learning audience can better understand what they’re hearing. You will experiment with different kinds of software for encoding your audio that can enhance your learners’ comprehension and understanding.

In this session, you will learn:

• The differences in listening devices and what part of our audience uses different hearing devices
• The auditory differences between sounds outside your ear and inside your ear
• What software is best for forming your soundtrack for earbuds
• Best practices for evaluating audio and how to use the tools in your software to make your audio better

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Creative Cloud.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop with Adobe Creative Cloud or at least Adobe Audition installed. Other audio software such as Sound Forge or Audacity will work as well.

Video is a fast-growing medium in the world of learning. At the same time, video is shrinking in the context of length: Smaller is better. While video has historically been daunting to create, today’s technologies are making it easy and accessible to all organizations. In this session you will explore how to use a free online tool, Animoto, to create engaging 30-second mobile videos in about 30 minutes. You will examine how-to, marketing, and performance support examples, as well as others. You will discover how you can create videos quickly and send them directly to your mobile devices. During this session you will create a video and make it accessible live.

Timely access to relevant information in a manner specific to the task at hand is a growing need of people in their professional lives and for companies to ensure work is accomplished correctly. Leveraging location technologies on mobile platforms provides quick and easy access of information required to complete a job at hand more efficiently or simply to enhance a learning and performance support process.

Learning is moving away from proprietary systems to low cost platforms, bring your own device (BYOD) environments, user developed content, creative commons licenses, and open source systems. LinkedIn’s purchase of Lynda.com is the latest evidence of re-engineering of the learning market. Companies like Coursera, Udemy, and now LinkedIn, promise to deliver learning that is less expensive, more on-demand, platform independent, and easier to access. How should you be thinking about mLearning? How do you experiment more and do more with less? What does this mean for the way you invest, the skills you need, and the way you think about learning? 

So you are building your first mobile learning project in your organization—where do you start and what steps do you need to take to be successful? Just because you are experienced in managing an eLearning project doesn’t mean you are ready to project manage a mobile learning project. There are many differences, and plenty of new landmines to watch for.

In this session you will look at the project management steps of developing a mobile learning project, using a real case study as an example of what to do and what not to do. You will receive and examine a template and sample mobile learning project management plan that includes front-end analysis, specifications documents, budgets, change management plan, development plan, implementation plan, and project evaluation. You will leave this session with a new appreciation and preparedness for mobile learning project management.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to frame and pitch a mobile-app business strategy
• Elements and requirements of a successful mobile business case
• Project management considerations for a successful mobile-app development project
• How to identify key stakeholders
• Best practices for a successful mobile-app implementation plan
• How to transition the project to a delivery and deployment team

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Development software, project management software, and mobile devices (phones and tablets).

Micro-learning is the creation of video-based content under one minute in length that is primarily consumed on mobile devices. The rise of user-generated content in the micro format has required the use of rapid story-boarding and predefined video content structures. As the length for the video decreases so does the optimal format of the video.

In this session you will learn the process for implementing micro-learning in your organization including governance, micro-video formats, content creation applications, and implementation. You will explore the need to put in place a workflow for the creation of micro-content in the learning and performance organization. Participants will leave this session with a cohesive workflow for a micro-content ecosystem and steps for implementation.

In this session, you will learn:

• What the micro-video format is
• The structure of a micro format
• Applications for micro-video creation
• How to establish governance and workflow
• How to deliver micro-content in your organization

Audience:
Novice and intermediate managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Micro-video.

Building learning programs can be a complex endeavor, especially in a multi-device environment. Simply porting eLearning and traditional face-to-face experiences to mobile often isn’t a viable solution. There are other ways to effectively facilitate mobile learning. 

In this session you will explore many of the best practices for utilizing mobile technologies being used by academic institutions. You will learn about the sea of change affecting academia regarding learning technologies and how those changes apply to the corporate world. You will explore examples of mobile learning in practice, including flipped, genius hour, differentiated instruction, project-based learning, and visual thinking. While these examples are presented in an academic environment, the lessons shared can be applied to adult learning as well.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to create mLearning activities using low-cost iOS apps
• How to design social learning activities into your mLearning
• How to engage with educators in other disciplines in an effective model for mobile development
• Visual thinking strategies in mLearning assessment

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Various iOS mobile apps.

“There’s an app for that.” We hear this all too often and there’s definitely some truth in this statement. So how does this impact learning as a whole? We have to go beyond responsive design and develop learning that matches the way the learner uses their device, whether that’s at a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. Developing responsive content can be time-consuming and expensive.

In this session, you will explore common challenges in designing and developing responsive learning. You will examine the soon-to-be released open-source Adapt authoring tool. You will discuss tips and insights for developing responsive courses that meet learner needs and explore use cases of this design in practice, and you will leave this session understanding how to get the most out of responsive technology.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the multi-device learning revolution
• About the Adapt authoring tool and new features
• Tips and insights for designing and developing for multiple devices
• Use cases of responsive design in practice

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Adapt authoring tool, HTML5, and CSS.

Mobile learning is a popular topic, but one that has a lot of confusion swirling around it. For organizations looking to get started with mobile learning, it can be incredibly challenging to separate the fact from the fiction and the proven methodologies from the many claims of best practice.

In this session you will learn the key areas to be aware of that can lead to the success or failure of mobile learning projects. You will explore the core value propositions for mobile learning and how to communicate those to stakeholders. You will examine the unique affordances mobile devices provide and the new opportunities they open for learning. You will discuss the latest design and development trends related to multi-device content. You will leave this session understanding what is needed for a learning professional to truly master mobile learning.

In this session, you will learn:

• The key business rationale for mobile learning and how to share that with management
• Discover the key technological affordances of mobile learning
• Explore current design and development trends
• Forecast what’s next for mobile learning

Audience:
Novice designers, developers, and project managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile device affordances.

Current studies show that more than five billion people will be using mobile devices by 2017, making smartphones and tablets more prevalent and accessible than desktop or laptop computers. Mobile learning has the ability to be a truly global solution for education delivery. Many companies who embraced the eLearning movement years ago are now facing new challenges in reaching mobile learners. 

In this session, you will examine a case study of an organzation that needed to make over its approaches to eLearning in the face of mobile. You will discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly that this organization endured over the last two years to transform its enterprise learning site into a modern, touch-friendly, sustainable solution with a focus on smarter connections of people to knowledge. You will leave this session with tools to help transform your organization’s eLearning programs into a modern, sustainable, educational solution. 

In this session, you will learn:

• To recognize the key functional differences between desktop and mobile browsers
• To dissect your existing site into the individual elements requiring makeovers
• To identify opportunities that elevate a site to mLearning and not just touch-friendly eLearning
• To consider long-term needs for a sustainable design 

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Android operating systems, iOS, Windows 8, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

From the first desktop PCs to today’s cutting-edge smartphones, technology has a history of fundamentally changing the expectations of learning and development programs. We are now on the cusp of another technological advance, one that will once again change some of our definitions and how we address performance issues: wearable technology. This technology will come in various forms, but the one that many expect to serve as a quantum leap forward is Apple Watch. 

In this session, you will learn about Apple Watch from an early adopter that is viewing the device through the lens of learning and performance. You will learn what Apple Watch is, how it works, and what the experience of using it is like. You will explore the many different ways that Apple Watch can be used for learning and performance improvement. In this session, you will discover the possibilities that are being opened by this new and exciting technology, and how those possibilities are once again redefining the expectations of learning and performance programs. 

In this session, you will learn:

• What Apple Watch is, what it isn’t, and what it can do
• What the Apple Watch experience is like for the user
• How people react to Apple Watch
• What doors Apple Watch opens up for learning and performance
• How people are already using Apple Watch for learning and performance support today 

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Apple Watch, mobile phones.

One of the most powerful catalysts to engagement is involving employees in the decision process when solving your organization’s most pressing challenges. By opening up these important conversations, employees feel as if they are an important part of the business and have contributed to the achievement of meaningful results. Mobile technology provides us with an excellent portal for engaging learners and having them co-create learning content.

In this session you will explore real-world examples that provide you with tips and techniques to power your co-creation initiatives. You will learn how to facilitate breakthrough thinking, lead significant improvements in employee engagement and leadership support, and launch and manage company innovation efforts using intranet and other internal technologies. You will leave this session understanding how to leverage mobile and other technologies to accomplish higher levels of enterprise-wide engagement and decision making relative to your organizational strategy.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to facilitate breakthrough thinking
• How to lead significant improvements in employee engagement and leadership support
• To involve your employees in defining a new enterprise narrative
• To launch and manage company innovation efforts using intranet and other internal technologies
• How to drive co-creation efforts within your company to engage employees at all levels

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Yammer, Jive, Chatter, Confluence , Genius Forum, World Café, and Mobi-Mindlab.

When organizations make the move to mobile, one of the first barriers they encounter is how to handle all of their existing content. Many organizations have large amounts of legacy content that needs to be accessible on mobile devices. Just republishing for mobile without redesigning the content does not make an effective mobile learning experience.

In this hands-on session, you will learn how to use Articulate Storyline 2 to effectively transfer existing traditional content to content tailored for mobile devices. You will learn how to convert existing content for mobile, and how to redesign content to be more mobile-friendly. You will explore changes that should be made to players so they are more compatible with mobile devices. You will also explore the types of interactivity that work best in mobile environments.

In this session, you will learn:

• To develop a plan for converting eLearning content to mobile
• To use Storyline 2 to redesign slides to be mobile friendly
• To change player functions to those that are supported by mobile devices
• To design interactive elements that work best in mobile devices

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced designers and developers with knowledge of and competence with the basic building blocks of Storyline.

Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline 2.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop (PC or MAC running Windows), with Articulate Storyline 2 (installed and operating) and a USB port for transferring assets.

Learning interactions in Adobe Captivate help eLearning authors easily add interactive elements to their courses. Authors can also build custom interactions using various Captivate interactive objects. For responsive and mobile learning courses, eLearning authors need to follow some best practices to make their designs work and look right on the mobile devices.

In this hands-on session you will learn how to add learning interactions and create custom interactions in responsive Captivate projects. You will learn best practices for how to set the size and position of these interactions so that they look and function correctly in your responsive courses. You will leave this session understanding many of the dos and don’ts for creating interactive responsive eLearning courses with Adobe Captivate.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to add a learning interaction in responsive courses
• How to create a custom click- and drag-based interaction in responsive courses
• How to set the size and position of the interaction
• Best practices for creating responsive eLearning courses

Audience:
Novice designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate 8, iDevices, Android devices, and laptops.

Participant technology requirements:
Adobe Captivate 8

In recent years, employee engagement has gone beyond just polls and surveys emailed out. Current technology is utilized, and everything with a game-like atmosphere is repurposed, causing employee engagement worries to become a thing of the past.  In this session you will see and interact with different engagement tools in a fun, game-show-like atmosphere. You will learn how games are being used for engagement. You will explore the technologies that are being used to increase employee engagement and add gaming elements to learning programs.

Unlike content silos, a networked ePub3 ecosystem supports the collection of experiential learning data from individuals and learning cohorts. This data enable production of performance metrics with return-on-learning investments benchmarks for individuals, groups, and organizations. In this session you will explore the IEEE Actionable Data Book project, which is leading the adoption and standardization of a personalized mobile learning, leveraging the full power of mobile computing hardware and next-generation eReaders. You will learn how the technical foundation for the ADBook project provides the modern framework for the structuring, packaging, and mobile delivery of accessible HTML5 content and scriptable components (widgets.) You will discuss how the ADBook project’s use of the Experience API (xAPI) enables mobile learning activities to communicate in real-time with other systems or devices.

Instructional designers and developers usually lack a basic understanding of copyright law and fair use, but are expected to be experts. Copyright training, if available, is often boring and functionally useless. Equally critical, the ID community doesn’t know how to find and use photos, video, and music properly. The continuing struggle to quickly develop content may lead us to infringe upon someone else’s work, expose our work to unpleasant legal action, and miss out on using free media to enhance our projects.

In this session you will learn copyright essentials through an entertaining snapshot of the law and recent cases. You will explore how to apply legal concepts such as the fair use doctrine to everyday scenarios. You will become more confident finding sites that offer public domain, Creative Commons, and open access-licensed works. You will leave this session with a better understanding of copyright law and how to find media you can use that will help you become more productive and focused as you maximize your financial and creative resources.

In this session, you will learn:

• The important issues surrounding copyright law and fair use of images, video, and music downloaded from the Internet
• To apply copyright law, and fair use in particular, in the context of digital media
• How to find websites that offer public domain and open access media
• About Creative Commons licensing and which licenses are most accommodating

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

Technology discussed in this session:
API for Creative Commons licenses; plugins for proper attribution of work.

Today, the concept of mobile is not reserved for a specific technology or for a select group of people. Mobility is now the norm for our work and our lives. In our business, mobile is much more than training on the go. But what role does mobile performance support play in the overall picture?

In this session you will explore where mobile learning and, more importantly, mobile performance support fit as part of a comprehensive learning and performance ecosystem. You will discuss our need to think bigger than courseware—classroom or online, bigger than performance support tools or social media, and bigger than even the training department. You will examine the new view of mobility in our field and explore how it will change us. You will leave this session with better understanding of where mobile performance support fits in the context of your overall learning and performance strategy.

In this session, you will learn:

• What mobile performance support is and what it isn’t
• Why mobile technology lends itself well to performance support
• The role mobile performance support plays in a learning and performance ecosystem
• How mobile technologies have changed the way we live and work.

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile technology, performance support applications.

Any time you’re in a meeting, class, or at a conference and look around the room you’re likely to see a number of people seemingly paying more attention to their mobile phones than to the topic at hand. These devices are not going away. The challenge we now face is keeping our face-to-face audiences engaged while competing with the myriad of mobile devices. The solution to this challenge is to leverage the devices themselves.

In this hands-on session participants will learn a number of different ways that mobile devices can be used to enhance face-to-face learning experiences. You will explore the many ways that gamification, social media, and more can be used to keep learners engaged in face-to-face learning. You will discuss and share a number of different activities that enhance learning using the devices learners are bringing into the workshops anyway.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to focus participant’s attention on your materials using their mobile devices
• How to incorporate participant’s mobile devices into your events
• How to create activities that enhance your events while engaging your participants with their mobile devices
• How to evaluate the effectiveness of using mobile devices in your activities

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

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

Participant technology requirements:
Smartphone or tablet.

We know that the workforce today is increasingly remote. Yet with all the support and dramatic early adoption for mobile learning, what we don’t yet know is how to either assess or measure mobile effectively, especially since it’s not as simple as applying the same success metrics from a traditional LMS to mobile. If you are considering a mobile learning strategy, how will you know if it’s working? And if you’re already deploying one, what triggers tell you if you need to change course?

In this session you will identify proven best practices for assessing your current programs as well as success measures for future projects. You will explore the business measures that point to performance improvements. You will examine relevant feedback channels beyond survey results and test scores, including dynamic, real-time feedback technology. At the end of this session, you will leave with a clear sense of how to assess existing mobile learning programs.

In this session, you will learn:

• What proven best practices exist against which you can assess your mLearning program
• What viable performance metrics can be applied to mLearning
• How to achieve best-in-class results with your mLearning program
• Specific dos and don’ts from other major companies when it comes to mLearning

Audience:
Novice managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Tablets and smartphones.

Sales coaching is receiving a lot of attention these days, because research indicates that it can greatly increase revenue and reduce inefficiencies in the sales process. But sales coaching is about a lot more than just providing support and guidance to sales reps. There are strategies and frameworks required to achieve real success, and there is mobile technology available to help make it happen. All of this might seem overwhelming, but it does not have to be.

In this session you will explore how to build a sales coaching strategy and implement it effectively in a mobile world. You will walk through the key components of sales coaching and learn specific tactics you can use to help take sales reps through the development process, greatly increasing their chances for success. You will examine actionable information you can use to increase your sales coaching effectiveness and learn how to do it within the context of a mobile environment.

In this session, you will learn:

• The coaching process for developing sales reps in a mobile world
• Applicable frameworks for facilitating coaching
• The key features and requirements for building a mobile coaching environment
• How to build a business case for mobile coaching within your organization

Audience:
Novice to advanced managers and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Tablets and smartphones.

Location-based learning is not new. It aims to involve people with their local community as a primary resource for learning, and benefits them by focusing on problem-solving abilities and higher-level thinking skills. With the widespread availability of smartphones and tablets, location-based learning is massively extended by the integration of mobile technologies.

In this session you will explore how mobile technologies provide a new and exciting way of integrating storytelling and augmented reality with location-interaction to deliver learning in an authentic, meaningful, and personal context. You will discover how the addition of gaming techniques encourage players using their mobile device to explore, discover, and ultimately learn more. You will examine the factors that strategically influence the quality of mobile learning design.

In this session, you will learn:

• What location-based mobile learning is
• How location-based mobile adventures can provide authentic, meaningful, and personal ways to learn
• How location-based mobile adventures can deliver new stories about people, local history, and the natural environment
• How location-based mobile learning can transform learning into experiential practices

Audience:
Educators, learning and training coordinators, and novice and intermediate designers, developers, managers, and tourism specialists.

Technology discussed in this session:
Web-based game-maker platform, Mobile Learning Academy, and several mobile learning tours and games from an iPad.

What is the business case for deploying content to mobile devices? Everyone knows that mobile learning can be used to deliver content no matter where learners are, enabling a far wider reach and greater access to learning than ever before. But time is just as important as place when it comes to offering content on smartphones and tablets. Integrating mobile into your learning strategy really can help learners reach competency faster, but what works best, and how do you make the case?

In this session you will learn how to make the business case for deploying mobile, drawing on research into how people learn. You will explore case studies from organizations that are successfully using mobile strategies to enhance their learning programs. You will leave this session with the ammunition needed to build your own mobile business case for your organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• How successful organizations are using mobile as part of a blended approach
• How other organizations are deploying and updating mobile content
• How mobile deployment can help reduce time to competence
• How to build a business case for mobile strategy

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Mobile learning and performance support apps, tablets, smartphones, native apps, and DHTML5 web apps.

Are you searching for ways to build upon your instructional design skills to design effectively for mobile? There are significant differences between designing for mLearning and for eLearning, but many instructional designers are unaware of what those differences are, let alone how to approach design for mobile devices. 

In this session, you will experiment with online tools that can help you practice better mobile design. Using a simple rapid design approach, you will explore different tools for mapping and designing your mobile interaction. You will also build a tappable mobile prototype. You will leave this session with the skills to begin the process of creating your own mobile solutions. 

In this session, you will learn:

• To explore a simple rapid design approach for mobile
• To practice mapping your mobile content
• To create a wireframe for your mobile projects
• How to build a basic mobile prototype 

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers and developers. 

Technology discussed in this session:
Mindmeister, POP App. 

For many organizations, getting started with mLearning is a daunting challenge overloaded with decisions around which learning management system (LMS) to choose, how to author content, and what devices to support. To get started, it’s often helpful to have those who have already walked this path share what they’ve learned.

In this session you will break down the different decisions that need to be made when venturing down the mLearning path. You will organize these decisions into clear and concise categories, which will enable your organization to build a simple plan for getting started. You will learn how this plan can evolve over time as your organization’s experience, confidence, and success with mLearning grows. You will leave this session with an actionable plan for how you can start to implement mLearning within your organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• About different types of LMS solutions
• Different methods of content authoring
• How to support different end-user devices
• How to succeed with mLearning

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

Technology discussed in this session:
Learning management systems, content authoring tools, and mobile device management systems.