Open Source? Keep an Open Mind

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DevLearn 2017 Conference & Expo - October 25, 2017

Jim Farrell

Director, Learning Design and Development
SAS Institute

Candace Marles

Manager of Digital Learning
SAS Institute

There are amazing software tools out there, but L&D departments are typically the first to be cut and the last to receive funding. How can you deliver world-class training on a shoestring budget?

In this session, you will learn how a large corporation used open-source tools to deliver a data scientist certification program, training for customers, and enablement for employees within the company. You will learn how open-source tools allow companies to go green by replacing printed materials with annotatable PDFs. And you will learn how collecting detailed analytics with an open-source LRS is shaping the direction of the entire education division.

In this session, you will learn:

What “open source” means
What open-source options are available
Different ways to deliver on an open-source platform
How you can utilize an open-source LRS
How plug-ins allow for the ability to expand to a larger ecosystem
How to extend a training program globally

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).

Technology discussed in this session:
Moodle, Learning Locker, TechSmith Camtasia, GoAnimate, and Amazon Web Services.

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