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10 Practical Online Training Skills

Date: Wednesday, September 8


Time: 11:00am PDT/ 2:00pm EDT


Research shows that trainers who can turn passive participants into active participants significantly improve learner retention rates. 

Join Roger Courville, online training expert and author of The Virtual Presenter's Handbook, to get practical presentation tips for engaging learners in a live online training session.
 Attend this live, interactive Webinar to learn:


• How to avoid the worst-ever online training mistakes
• Practical tips you can immediately use in your online trainings
• What to do if you suspect your audience is multi-tasking
• How to use online training features effectively

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How to Optimize HR Business Processes with Social Networking

Date: Wednesday, September 22

Time: 11:00am PDT/ 2:00pm EDT

Most companies have wrung most of the obvious options for productivity improvement out of their operations. The next big step in productivity rests largely in HR's hands: the development of a more collaborative culture and new ways of working.

Attend this webinar for advice from best-selling author and organizational expert Tammy Erickson on how HR executives can drive the next wave of productivity with social networking.

You will learn:

• Processes to target, when and why; Executive Communications; Employee Management; New Information /Knowledge Capture & Communication; Corporate Policy Communication
• How to ensure employee engagement
• What to avoid and why Metrics for measuring the successes

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Tapping the Power of Collaborative Content Authoring for Creating E-learning

Date: Thursday, September 30

Time: 11:00am PDT/ 2:00pm EDT

Collaborative authoring systems allow organizations to respond with greater agility to training development projects of any size while reducing costs and significantly improving project turnaround. In addition, collaborative authoring environments provide centralized storage and management of training course content, as well as the media assets that the courses contain. As a result, source files are never misplaced or lost and course content can quickly be updated by all contributors.
Join Janet Clarey, Elearning! Editor and Mike Alcock, Product Specialist for Kaplan IT Learning's Atlantic Link, as they share best practices and real world examples of how to use collaborative authoring to create eLearning training content easily and cost effectively.
In this complimentary web seminar, you will learn:

• How to place eLearning development capabilities within the hands of SMEs and other contributors so as to reduce the cost of using external resources
• How British Telecom used collaborative authoring and centralized content management to easily create the variety of training needed within each business unit, regardless of the unit location
• How to easily enhance exiting training materials, such as documents and PowerPoint's, with interactivity, assessments and branching learning scenarios.

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Reinventing Learning at Essilor: The World's Largest  Network of Ophthalmic Labs
On-demand

Learn how Essilor leveraged world class e-learning and complementary instructor-led materials to launch APEX-Optics' performance improvement initiative to improve customer satisfaction, lab productivity, lab profitability and employee capability. During this session, Fred Dierksmeier, Program Manager, Essilor of America, will share how seasoned employees gained new technical skills and knowledge about APEX-Optics Labs. From employee, to lab manager, to senior vice presidents - comments such as "fantastic materials and program", "helps employees believe in themselves" and "will bring tremendous value" are commonplace. Hosted by Scott Colehour, Co-Founder & Solutions Architect, Allen Interactions, Scott will share the learning strategy and tactics deployed to reinvent Essilor's learning initiatives.

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Understanding and Motivating Your Trainees from a Distance

On-demand 

For some trainers, the biggest obstacle for moving training programs online is understanding if trainees are engaged, motivated and learning. But not being able to physically see trainees does not mean you cannot communicate and facilitate effective online learning programs. Join Roger Courville, author of “The Virtual Presenter” and Jerry Roche, Elearning! Media Group, and learn the techniques and strategy to engage learners from any distance.

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Best Practices: Launching Global Blended Learning Curriculum

On-demand

Learn how Xerox re-engineered their learning and development function, moving from traditional classroom based training to global blended learning. Led by Joann Halle, Vice President of L&D at Xerox, these speakers will address all three phases of strategy development, technology evaluation and deployment and training implementation. See how Xerox managed the global rollout of its blended learning curriculum.

Attend this session to learn how Xerox is managing the global rollout of its blended learning curriculum and how the company was able to:

• Reduce travel and administrative costs for large-scale training sessions by hundreds of thousands of dollars annually- which is critical in the current economic environment,
• Improve access to training by enabling sales and service professionals to attend trainings throughout the year, without having to leave their offices,
• Support the delivery of 450 sessions in the first half of 2009,
• Address a variety of stakeholder requirements through ease of use and flexibility. In Europe for instance, the virtual sessions are used in 14 countries with 12 languages, whiles users worldwide require little or no training to participate in the online L&D courses.

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Social Learning 101

On-demand

Join this 90 minute session and see how companies are implementing social learning across their enterprises. David Mallon, Bersin & Associate's senior analyst, will review the  technologies available; what Telus and The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are doing at a tactical level with live examples; and invite users to share their experiences. Walk through the evaluation, launch and measurement phases of a social learning launch. Then, ask David and his panelists of technologists and power users questions to jump start your social learning initiative.

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Ask the Experts  Panel Discussion

On-demand
 

Ask these e-Learning experts advice, tactics or strategies, led by Lance Dublin, Learning Architect with Dublin Consulting.
Wonder what the ROI (return on investment) or ROE (return on expectations) is for e-learning? What tools should you use? How can you develop quality e-learning on a budget? What's critically important in addition to great content and effective design? This is your opportunity to ask these and other questions directly to a panel of e-learning practitioners and consultants and listen in as they share their experience and knowledge.

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