Serious games have the potential to engage and motivate your learners. But what about driving long-term retention of business critical knowledge? In this session, we will share how several organizations have put theory into practice and implemented games as part of their training programs. Then, we will unveil the brand-new Knowledge Guru “Quest” game, an expansion of its game-based learning platform that uses spaced repetition, feedback loops, and immersive game elements to help employees acquire critical knowledge and apply new skills on the job.

The development management system (DMS) is the missing piece to the toolset used by L&D. For many years, talent management systems and learning management systems have helped you plan and deliver solutions. However, there has never been a tool to support your development operations. The DMS is the missing link between the planning processes and solution delivery. In this session, you will learn how a DMS facilitates the development process and automates the day-to-day operations across the entire enterprise.

Are you a performance-driven company or a training-driven one? Your answer is crucial, because today’s consumer-minded learner has high expectations about engagement and accessibility. How will you respond? Can you connect the dots from learning to performance? Content strategy plays a critical role in managing and measuring content effectiveness once we break it down into small chunks. In this session you’ll learn about the future of learning technology and how it fits into your plans to deliver learning that not only delights, but drives performance. If you are planning your learning architecture for the future, don’t miss this.

It’s getting more difficult to filter the best and most relevant content that employees need to do their jobs effectively. In this session you will explore a next-generation content feed that aggregates information into one place. Learn about how the Office Graph surfaces signals from email, IM, SharePoint, Yammer, and soon line-of-business applications (i.e., LMS) and organizes it using into a coherent, relevant stream using Delve. It’s like building contextual performance support based on the activity that your learners are already doing today.

Emerging technologies are always fun and exciting. But what happens after the shine is long gone? We implement the tools and are disappointed. After 20+ years experiencing so many amazing emerging technological advancements, I’ve seen the eLearning industry struggle. While the rapid growth of the eLearning marketplace is undeniable, as practitioners, we find ourselves struggling to stay relevant. Let’s talk about how we can get better at providing business value: Let’s become better partners within the business units. Let’s integrate our systems/processes to better support the changing needs of the business. Let’s talk about how.

Emotion is a powerful learning tool, forging strong memories and associations. Most games for learning focus on cognition and knowledge, but a new class of games and immersive experiences are focusing on training our emotional and physiological responses. Biometrics can now be used to shape your learning experiences based on your body’s response to a situation or decision. Come join the discussion and learn how the key to future learning may be in your own mind!

Prototyping is an increasingly important need in eLearning. In this session you will learn how to design new courses and apps to gather feedback before starting development; about paper prototyping to tools that help simplify sharing concepts and testing ideas; to create fully interactive previews for desktop and mobile delivery; and which tools you can use as soon as you get back to your office.

This session provides an overview and demo of Capella’s LEAP solution, which supports companies in developing first-time leaders using a 70/20/10 model of development. Research has shown that the most effective way to develop new leaders is to provide support for learning new ideas (10 percent), learning from others (20 percent) and learning from practice (70 percent). LEAP, which stands for learn, evaluate, apply, and perform, enables Capella’s learning partners to use web-based technology to enable deep leadership learning and transformation. Capella utilizes a robust competency-based leadership model based on leading workplace models, strong content and processes for implementing learning in action, and assessments for measuring behavior change on-the-job.

Storyline 2 has arrived, and it brings a whole new world of possibilities to eLearning development. With new triggers, relative motion paths, controls, dockable panels, and many other features, Storyline 2 is the easiest, quickest way to build anything you can imagine! In this session, you’ll learn how Storyline 2 gives you more ways to bring content to life, more ways to create the right look and feel, and more ways to be more productive.

Video has long been respected as a great tool for training, but has often been dismissed due to costs. That is changing, and a dramatic drop in production costs and a wide array of YouTube-framework solutions has accelerated the role of video in corporate training. The challenge for eLearning developers is to move beyond traditional linear experiences and incorporate engaging interactions on top of traditional video. In this session you will explore how to use HTML5 interactive-video frameworks to add to your learners’ experience. You will review the planning process, including the available interaction types and how to leverage existing content delivery networks.

Native apps, web apps, mobile portals, online/offline … mobile learning is becoming a pervasive feature of today’s learning landscape, and is continuing to evolve. Learn how Seertech Solutions’ award-winning learning management solution, iLearning PLUS, delivers four different mobile deployment models across four different customers. We will explore the advantages of each deployment option via customer case study and look at their future plans. From working on jet engines to manufacturing medical devices to making gourmet burgers and cocktails, iLearningPLUS serves up mobile solutions.

Articulate has released Articulate Storyline 2, the first major upgrade to its award-winning rapid eLearning authoring tool. In this session, you’ll explore more than 20 new features and enhancements you’ll find in Articulate Storyline 2. You’ll see how many of the new features work and have the opportunity to ask your most burning questions.

The use of mobile technologies for learning is on the rise. Learners want just-in-time training and performance support, and they want it on their mobile devices. But do your development tools let you meet your learners’ needs? In this session, we’ll look at trends in mobile learning, take a critical look at how current development tools fall short, and see how a new HTML5 tool fills the gaps in available tools.