Presentation Panel
Sprinting into Learning Experience Design
Date Friday, Nov 25 Time – Room: Charlottenburg I
Over the past few years, the term “learning experience design” has crept into the instructional design lexicon. But what is it really? These experts will explain how tools and approaches 'borrowed' from the marketing industry and the innovation literature can be applied to instructional design. Get ready to become excited and make your hands dirty with personas, use cases, jobs to be done and empathy maps!
Saul Carliner
Professor, Concordia University, Canada
Saul Carliner is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Education at Concordia University in Montreal, where his research focuses on the design of instructional and informational materials for the workplace, the management of groups that produce them, and related issues of policy.
Also an industry consultant, Carliner has provided strategic advice, and conducted workshops and evaluations for organisations like Alltel Wireless, Boston Scientific, PwC, ST Microelectronics, and several government agencies. He is the author of the best-selling Training Design Basics, award-winning Informal Learning Basics, and co-author of Career Anxiety: Guidance Through Tough Times, The e-Learning Handbook, and An Overview of Training and Development.
He is past President of the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, a Fellow of the Institute for Performance and Learning, past editor of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and a Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication.
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Ger Driesen
Learning Innovation Leader, aNewSpring, Netherlands
Think of someone connecting people, ideas and inspiration in the global L&D community and you've just created a good description of Ger Driesen. He is the Learning Innovation Leader at aNewSpring, the provider of a learning experience platform. In this role, he focusses on sharing the latest insights with L&D professionals to inspire them to design, developed and deliver learning the best way.
During his career, he has had a variety of L&D roles, from L&D consultant, trainer and facilitator, to L&D manager and entrepreneur. He's known as 'the Dutch L&D trendcatcher' based on his articles, blogs and tweets on L&D trends and he is a regular speaker at international conferences. Ger's crazy about coffee especially cappuccino’s - most likely because he likes all things smooth. He can be reached via @email or @GerDriesen
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Moderator
Carol Damm
Head of Digital Education, Constructor University, Germany
Carol Damm leads the learning design team at Boston College and facilitates online program design for the wider Boston College community. She has more than 10 years experience in learning design in higher education and in online training. Carol has also taught online courses for instructional design and learning experience design programs at Boston College, UMASS Boston, and Brandeis.
Carol holds a MA in French, and MEd in Instructional Design & Technology, and is currently completing a PhD in Human Development and Learning at Lesley University. Her research interests focus on emotion science and identity formation as they relate to learning.