Pre-Conference Workshop A4
More Than Blended Learning: Designing Effective Workplace Learning
Date Wednesday, Nov 30 Time – RoomTiergarten Price: 160.00 € Status: places available
Workshop leader
Clive Shepherd
Founding Director, The More Than Blended Learning Company, UK
Clive is a learning and development consultant, with a long-standing fascination for the applications of media and technology to learning at work. In a career spanning more than 35 years, Clive has headed up a corporate training function, co-founded a leading multimedia development business and operated as an independent consultant operating worldwide. In recent years, Clive has devoted his attention to design of next generation workplace learning solutions. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, has been recognised with two lifetime achievement awards, has written five books and more than 200 articles, and nearly 1000 posts to his blog, Clive on Learning. For four years he was Chair of the eLearning Network. His most recent book, More Than Blended Learning, was launched in January 2015. He now provides his consulting services through The More Than Blended Learning Company
Links
http://morethanblended.com/http://www.fastrak-consulting.co.uk
Content
Blended learning is right now the strategy of choice for most major employers and for many educational institutions, whether or not they describe their approach as ‘blended learning’. The blended learning of today is broad in scope, extending well beyond formal courses to include all sorts of online business communications, from webinars to videos, as well as social and collaborative learning, the use of performance support materials and providing opportunities for accelerated on-job learning.
Employers recognise that learning at work takes place continuously, whether or not it is formally planned. They understand that courses are not enough to change behaviour and increase performance. As a result, they increasingly expect more far-reaching solutions that go well beyond the presentation of information and half-hearted attempts at providing opportunities for practice. They want learning solutions that deliver and that places fresh demands on the designers of those solutions.
This workshop provides you with an opportunity to explore a new approach to the design of learning interventions that goes well beyond conventional views on blended learning. This approach stresses the need for end-to-end solutions that blur the boundaries between formal and informal learning.
Agenda
- Defining blended learning
- Determining the underlying need
- Analysing the situation in terms of the Learning, the Learners and the Logistics (the three Ls)
- Structuring blended solutions using the Preparation, Input, Application, Follow-up model (PIAF)
- Selecting methods to maximise effectiveness
- Selecting media to maximise efficiencies (cost, time, accessibility, scalability, flexibility)
Target audience
The workshop is aimed at anyone who designs learning interventions for adults and who wants to deliver greater value to the organisations that they serve.
Prerequisite knowledge
None
Outcomes
Everyone will take something different from the workshop, depending on their previous experience and their interests. However, you should expect to become more capable at:
- analysing and responding to requirements
- determining genuine priorities
- structuring blended solutions
- selecting appropriate learning and teaching methods to maximise the effectiveness of the solution
- selecting appropriate media to maximise the efficiency of the solution