Panel Talk BUS25
Making Peer to Peer Learning a Workplace Reality
Step away from silos and isolated knowledge. How can technologies capture and enhance collective intelligence? What are practical approaches that your team can use to connect what is there and learn more, easier? Come contribute!
Bryan Hopkins
Director, Design for Learning Ltd, UK
Bryan is a consultant with extensive experience in needs assessment, training strategy development, evaluation and programme design. For several years he worked as the Senior Learning Solutions Officer at the UNHCR training centre in Budapest.
He works primarily with international organisations in the humanitarian and development sectors, and has completed projects for many United Nations agencies, as well as several international development NGOs and various United Kingdom governmental departments and private sector organisations.
He has written three books on training and HR, the most recent being Cultural Differences and Improving Performance (2009), which covers cross-cultural issues in the TNA process.
He has a particular interest in using systems thinking techniques to improve the design and evaluation of training programmes, and is currently writing a book looking at how to use systems thinking to carry out TNAs and evaluation. This will be published during 2016.
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Benjamin Barron
Senior Training Consultant, Zurich Insurance, USA
Ben is a seasoned training and performace consultant with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. Ben has been with Zurich for the last 15 years and currently is a part of Zurich's International Programs Operations team.
Ben is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and a Masters of Science degree in Education with a specialization in Instructional Design.
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Janine van Zoest
Learning Management Consultant, Dutch Healthcare Cooperation Profportaal Zorg, The Netherlands
Learning and development consulant for the Dutch Healthcare Cooperation Profportaal Zorg.
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Moderator
Rob Hubbard
Founder and Creative Lead, LearningAge Solutions, UK
Rob is a designer through and through who is fascinated by how we learn, what we remember and why. He is a great enthusiast of all that technology can offer to enhance learning and has completed a huge variety of projects in his 15 year career.
In 2005, Rob founded LAS, which has grown to become a multi award-winning digital learning company. He served on the Board of the eLearning Network for four years including two as the elected Chair. A regular conference speaker he is also the editor and co-author of the 'Really Useful eLearning Instruction Manual' published by Wiley and featuring contributions from the brightest and best elearning minds on both sides of the Atlantic.