Preconference Workshops

Measuring ROI in E-Learning
Jack Phillips
This powerful workshop will teach learning and development managers how to show the impact of programs, projects, and initiatives. Using a proven methodology being used in over 2,000 organizations, this workshop will show participants how to measure the impact of programs including ROI, communicated data in a compelling way, and use data to drive improvement and build respect for programs.
Fee: Member $200/Nonmember $300

Virtual Survival School
Jennifer Hofmann
In this four-part online and onsite workshop, you will explore in online sessions how to learn online, create collaborative synchronous exercises, and ensure audience engagement. In the onsite segment you will learn how to deliver using the WebEx Training Center Virtual Classroom, prepare to teach and produce an online session, and practice teaching online.

Online sessions begin 1/31 culminating in the onsite 1-day portion.
Fee: Member $405/Nonmember $505

Engaging Learning: The Learning Simulation/Game Design Workshop
Clark Quinn
You know that simulations, properly supported, are powerful learning environments. You may not know that ramping up the experience to make it engaging, turning it into a game, makes it more powerful. Adding the emotional component to learning makes it more effective by bringing in motivation. But is it an art, or is there a systematic design process that will let us reliably design the learning experiences that will deliver the outcomes we need? In this hands-on session, the author of Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games takes you through the rationale why simulation games are the most effective practice environments, and a design process that will guide you to designing them as needed, reliably and repeatedly. You will develop a concept to meet an instructional need and then flesh out the dramatic elements to increase the engagement. By enhancing your existing design process (not adopting a new one), you can create learning that really works. Grounded in theory and honed in practice, this is the process that has yielded dozens of designs for scenarios that compellingly create meaningful learning experiences.
Fee: Member $405/Nonmember $505

Foundational ActionScript 3.0 With Flash CS3 for the Online Learning Developer
Thomas Toth
If you want to create dynamic online learning that will amaze your audience, then Flash is the way to go. However, to really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript, Flash's programming language, to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction and manipulate data. The current version of ActionScript is 3.0, and it is more powerful than ever. Almost every aspect of the language has been improved. Whether this is your first journey into ActionScript, or whether you've been doing a little programming in previous versions of ActionScript, this session is for you. The session will cover essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to apply these techniques to your Flash CS3 based online learning projects. Prerequisite: This is not a beginner's class. You will need to be familiar with the Flash interface, basic frame techniques and basic animation techniques. We won't start with an overview of the program, but will jump right into programming!
Fee: Member $405/Nonmember $505

How to Successfully Implement E-Learning: The Basics Never Change
Lance Dublin
Making your e-learning a success still requires more than just having the right content, great design and effective technology. This has not changed. Success requires a well thought out implementation strategy that ensures your learners and managers are motivated, and your organization is energized. Integrating proven techniques and approaches from change management and consumer marketing you can develop a truly effective e-learning implementation plan. Come and learn from Lance Dublin, co-author of the ASTD capstone book, “Implementing e-Learning”, what works and what doesn’t – and why. Share your successes and failures, and learn how you to apply a comprehensive framework for implementing e-learning in your organization. And, find out what you can do to become one of the stellar companies that truly maximize its return on its total e-learning investment.
Fee: Member $405/Nonmember $505

Learning in 3-D: Using the 3-D Web to Create Online Learning
Karl Kapp
This informative full-day workshop examines the 3D world of Second Life from the perspective of a learner in Second Life. You should have some familiarity with Second Life and have visited the application once or twice to gain some initial comfort with the environment. During the workshop, you will become an avatar within Second Life and experience building, manipulating objects and learning within the 3D space. The emphasis will be on applying specific learning archetypes to foster learning within the 3D space. You will learn how to create Guided Tours, Scavenger Hunts, Conceptual Orienteering environments, Operational Applications, Role Plays, Critical incidents and other forms of interactive 3D learning events. You will gain hands on experience creating a mini-lesson in a 3D space and then presenting that lesson to others.
Fee: Member $405/Nonmember $505

E-Learning 101 - SOLD OUT!
Scott Schaffer, Alexa Krezel, Robert Mosher
If you are new to e-learning and find the whole subject a bit daunting, come to this 1/2 day preconference workshop to find out what you need to know about each major area of e-learning. Segments of the workshop will be keyed to each of the five tracks: E-Learning Design, Emerging Technologies & Methods, Implementation and Management Strategies, Platforms and Authoring Tools, and Virtual Delivery & Facilitation. Members of the 2008 Planning Advisory Committee will lead this learning event. There is no additional charge for this workshop but you do need to register in advance.
Fee: Free