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The Millennial generation learners are rapidly growing in numbers and forcing significant organizational change. They are impatient, unimpressed with hierarchy, and want to be heard. They have grown up with Google, and are accustomed to “instant gratification.” Consequently, it is critical to evolve our learning platforms to meet their learning needs as they become an increasingly important part of our workforce. Are you really ready for them? Are your learning platforms designed to serve them? This session will outline:

• The essential expectations of this new generation of learners
• How we must evolve our training approach to address this change
• What learning functionality addresses their needs and expectation
• How phrases like data analytics, contextual information, and adaptive outreach become just as important to the learning community as they've become to marketing and sales
• How business performance is redefined and learning's role is re-evaluated

Presenter: Ara Ohanian

The way we work has changed. With jobs and skills changing so quickly, we don’t always have the time to create structured formal training programs to support and develop our employees.

Technology tools and network connections enable us to find and access information and resources with the tap of a few keys—provided the useful resources and information are there. Today’s learning professionals need to have a mind to creating an environment in which resources, support and performance tools can be available IN the workflow as people need them.

At the same time, the learning programs we do create need to be more agile and sustained over time to truly support behavior change. With a mind to continuous learning, let’s start thinking about creating learning campaigns instead of training events.

Let’s explore these concepts, get you caught up on the terminology, and take a look at what other organizations are doing to implement collaborative tools, create learning campaigns and embed support where it’s needed.

Did you know that within the first 48 hours of your employees attending a traditional training or learning event, their knowledge retention drops to 33 percent? Did you also know that research now shows that nearly 80 percent of learning in the workplace takes place informally? So why are training departments still spending the vast majority of their budgets on formal training efforts? Informal Learning has become all the rage over the past 5 years in the Learning and Development industry. As we’ve taken a closer look at this powerful discipline we’ve learned that Informal learning can actually be “formalized”, tracked, measured, and implemented through Performance Support. This session will address the methodologies behind designing, implementing, and maintaining effective Performance Support (learning while doing), and how it is now, more than ever, all around us!

Flipped learning—courseware and recorded content serving as the initial element of a learning experience, with live virtual sessions and social and collaborative tools supplementing and enhancing the learning experience—has the potential to increase learning effectiveness, lower operational costs, and get better retention and more effective application of the learning. The model has created tremendous buzz in the education community, but is it viable for business learning? We believe that effective use of the flipped learning model can transform business learning, improve learning outcomes, and reduce operational costs. Participants in this session will examine the flipped classroom model, learn how to build one, and hear case studies of businesses that are now delivering in this new model.

Gamification is one of the hottest trends in learning and development. Is it just a buzzword or a trend as one leading expert argues, or does it offer richer, more interactive, and more effective ways to develop people? Decide for yourself after attending this session. Dr. Robert Becker will cover the why, when and how of gamification, focusing on the transformation of traditional or legacy courseware into more engaging game-based learning. You will not learn how to design video games in this session, but you will learn how to gamify your instructional design if the gamification of training is right for you.