Title: Creating Lifelong Learners With Extreme Blending

 

Session Number: 729

 

Room: Coronado G

 

Day and Timeslot: Tuesday - 1:30pm to 2:30pm

 

Formats: Learning Story

 

Session Description: It's a major struggle to move from instructor-led training to a blended learning environment especially when no one defines "blended" the same way. How do you transition a global company from the "death by PowerPoint" approach to an individualized learner-centric solution? How do you solve for limited budgets, the need for localization and multiple groups of learners who are all at different levels of expertise? Let's discuss the failures, successes and visions for the future.

 

• Why blended learning is not just instructor-led training combined with e-Learning
• Why Extreme blending may be the magic key to unlock the desire within lifelong learners
• Avoid chasing the latest "shiny ball" and instead integrate new training approaches into a comprehensive solution

 

Led by: Shauna Shipley and Lisa Stark - Autodesk, Inc.

 

Lisa Stark is the Senior Manager of Worldwide Sales Readiness at Autodesk.  She is responsible for creating sales readiness content that enables Autodesk to have a scalable business, their channel partners to grow their business and their customers to have a profitable business around the world.  Lisa holds a degree in Criminal Law from San Diego State University.

 

Shauna Shipley is the Manager of Worldwide Sales Effectiveness at Autodesk. She drives both the professional skills development strategy and onboarding program for Autodesk's reseller channel and internal employees within the sales organization. Shauna has a BA in English from the University of Puget Sound and an MS in instructional systems technology from Indiana University. Prior to joining Autodesk, she worked for a leading insturctional design outsourcing company and specialized in creating engaging learning activities.

 

After the Session: Thank you everyone who attended this session. Lisa and I really appreciated your enthusiasm and interest - as well as your willingness to do a movement-oriented activity in a tight room.

 

Lisa is typing the notes from the session. I'll also attach the slide deck and add a few URLs relating to items that we discussed. One is a link to a learning game on change management from Indiana University. Since many people mentioned the need to influence others within your organizations to adopt new technology, this might be a fun exercise to try as well as good practice and an interesting example of a web-based game.

 

If you have any questions or comments, please add them. 

 

Link to Thiagi.com - the source for the "35" activity

 

Change Management Game (online guest version) 

 

Session_729.ppt

 

 

 

 

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