Bill Bruck TOPICS: Ecommerce Technology Future Internet Change Business FEE CATEGORY:* 5.0k to 10.0k TRAVELS FROM: Virginia Profile Program Outlines Request This Speaker

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Blended Learning: What Does It Take?
Industry analysts say the question is no longer whether to do blended learning, but how it will be done. And the promise is clear: Blended learning programs can combine the best aspects of instructor-led and Web-based training with online coaching, performance support and guided on-the-job practice, providing learners with a rich experience that affects the bottom line in critical areas of the business.

The reality is often different. Initiative owners sometimes find themselves with a consultant's one-off solution that doesn't scale, features from content or LMS vendors that don't translate to learning programs, and expenses that would fund small aircraft carriers.

Audience
Chief learning officers, senior human resource managers and business owners with a learning portfolio.

Creating the Learning Organization
In a global knowledge economy, companies must constantly increase the rate at which they improve their products and services to keep pace with the tempo of markets worldwide. If they hope to prosper in a rapidly changing environment, a company must learn quickly and make smart decisions consistently.

To achieve these goals, organizations must leverage not only their corporate data and information assets but also, and especially, the collective knowledge of employees around the world. Organizations must sharpen their ability to enhance, shape and focus corporate intelligence.

Audience
Managers, senior managers and corporate executives

Putting the People Back Into e-Learning
Although the technology of e-Learning gets most of the media attention, it can no more create a successful learning experience than a brand new school building can guarantee a great class.

For knowledge workers to acquire critical-thinking skills, such as analysis, integration and problem solving, and learn to apply them to real-life business situations, the instructional design and technological tools must mirror best practices of face-to-face education: presentation of concepts followed by Q&A; interaction with peers; structured exercises, cases and simulations with expert feedback, and mentored on-the-job practice.

To achieve business goals, leading organizations are moving toward blended learning solutions that put the people back into e-Learning.

Audience
Senior human resource and line-of-business managers who are not learning professionals

Blended Learning: What Does It Take?
Industry analysts say the question is no longer whether to do blended learning, but how it will be done. And the promise is clear: Blended learning programs can combine the best aspects of instructor-led and Web-based training with online coaching, performance support and guided on-the-job practice, providing learners with a rich experience that affects the bottom line in critical areas of the business.

The reality is often different. Initiative owners sometimes find themselves with a consultant's one-off solution that doesn't scale, features from content or LMS vendors that don't translate to learning programs, and expenses that would fund small aircraft carriers.

Audience
Chief learning officers, senior human resource managers and business owners with a learning portfolio

Blended Learning Instructional Design
"The medium is the message," said Marshall McCluhan. Nowhere is this truer than in designing high impact blended learning programs. Blended learning is all about weaving together a variety of media: face-to-face and online, same-time and any-time, electronic and paper-based.

Blended learning isn't just about combining instructor-led and Web-based training or tacking a chat room or Web meeting onto an existing training program.

Instructional designers must deeply understand the capabilities of various media and their implications for thinking differently about the learning enterprise. They must build a new skill set — onto their existing knowledge of instructional design — that can manifest itself in seamless learning experiences that transfer knowledge to on-the-job capabilities and performance improvement.

Audience
Training professionals such as instructional designers, training managers and others who wish to learn how to design blended learning programs

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