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.

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 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.

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.

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? 

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.

The title notwithstanding, this session isn’t about a cool Photoshop technique; it’s about tips and techniques that trainers can use to change negative attitudes into positive ones among learners. Many trainers struggle with how to encourage the reluctant learner to take interest in a mandatory session. In this session you will explore how to engage learners in content regardless of the subject. You will examine examples everyone has faced with less than stellar subject matter, such as annual regulatory compliance and mandatory training requirements. You will leave this session with tips and tricks for engaging learners in challenging subjects.

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, you’ll look at trends in mobile learning, examine how current development tools fall short, and discover how a new HTML5 tool fills the gaps in available tools. You’ll understand the quickly changing landscape of mobile design and development methodologies and tools, get tips for developing mobile learning that is engaging, interactive, and device-agnostic, and see a preview of leading edge HTML5 development technologies.

The consumer electronics industry loses $17 billion annually on product returns, yet only five percent is due to damage or defects. Global consulting firm Accenture cites “insufficient education of the customer” as a key contributor. In this session you will explore the role eLearning can play in the customer development process. You will examine examples of eLearning used for this purpose. You will discover the impact eLearning and mobile learning mLearning can have on customer engagement and long-term brand loyalty.

Recent studies show that companies with a highly engaged workforce outperform their peers by 147 percent in earnings per year. Currently, employee engagement is at an all-time low; 73 percent of companies report that their workforce is not highly engaged. If you can drive success by measuring and improving alignment, sentiment, and knowledge in real time, you can increase profitability and productivity as well as reduce turnover and absenteeism. Helping employees know and understand the goals of your company, while delivering a compelling learning experience helps them grow and contribute faster to the health of your company.

Personal learning environments (PLEs) enable the development of personal and social learning spaces to support learner-centered and personalized learning experiences, empowering learners to direct their own learning and develop self-regulated learning skills. They do so because they’re built from the bottom up, by the learners, starting with personal goals, information management, and individual knowledge construction, and progressing to socially mediated knowledge and networked learning. In this session you will explore the use of a three-level pedagogical framework that assists in scaffolding PLE development using social media technologies, in order to support self-regulated learning.  

CPL is proud to present Learner Mobile from SVI. Learner Mobile is an application that allows organizations to impact performance through mobile learning. Using Learner Mobile, organizations can create push notifications from previous learning experiences and/or inform learners of new ways to apply the learning in the workplace. The application helps employees improve on-the-job performance by delivering just-in-time information to meet daily demands. In this session you will learn best practices for using mobile applications of this type for developing your talent. You’ll see proven case studies that demonstrate how companies are taking advantage of this platform.