Learning Café BUS18
Are you Missing Something? Getting Self-Directed Learning to Work
Does your organisation capitalise on what employees are already doing to grow their knowledge? Grounded in extensive research, this session will spark creative action to better use what’s there – and to offer more support.
Moderators
Clark Quinn
Executive Director, Quinnovation, USA
Clark Quinn, Ph.D., helps organizations work smarter: aligning technology with how we think, work, and learn. He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. After an early academic career, Dr. Quinn has served as an executive in online and elearning initiatives and has an international reputation as a speaker and scholar, with four books on learning technology and strategy as well as numerous articles and chapters. He works through Quinnovation.
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Laura Overton
Managing Director, Towards Maturity, UK
Laura Overton is the founder and CEO of Towards Maturity – a not for profit benchmark practice that provides independent research to help organisations deliver improved performance through learning innovation. Her work is based on 30 years of practical experience in implementing innovative learning strategies for business advantage and is backed by her independent research with 5000+ Learning leaders and 25,000 workers.
Laura is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD and a fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute. She is on the steering board of Online Educa Berlin, and the L&D advisory board of the CIPD. In February 2010, she was the first woman to be awarded the LPI’s prestigious Colin Corder Award for services to training and was the recipient of the inaugural elearning age Special Achievement award at the 2012 elearning awards. In 2016 she was voted number 1 in the Top Ten’ most influential people in the corporate e-learning in the UK (a position held since 2014) and was also voted 2nd most influential in Europe and 3rd in the Globe.
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http://www.towardsmaturity.orghttp://www.e-skills.com