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| World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends
and developments in collaborative online learning. Presenters will address: |
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Key trends and developments in e-learning, blended
learning and learning communities |
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Case examples that provide illustrations of best practices |
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Models and tools that can be readily applied in a variety
of learning contexts |
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Resources to help identify and select the best technologies
and processes for your own organization |
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Peter Bartlett, eLearning Manager, Management
& Executive Development
As Manager of eLearning for enterprise-wide Management and Executive Development,
Peter Bartlett leads all eLearning efforts related to the development of over
14,000 leaders within HP. Prior to his current assignment, Peter served as the
e Community Organizer for collaboration in HP and was Community Organizer for
the Rules of the Garage Team, which was created to help provide leadership in
the Reinvention of HP with specific focus on HP’s cultural change during
its reinvention.
Prior to this and for the past eight years, Peter has been a consultant for HP’s
Product Processes Organization’s Strategic Change Service focused on Strategic
Development and Organizational Alignment. Peter has lived in Europe and consulted
to businesses throughout the world. Peter specific area of expertise has been
working with Global virtual teams working from cultures cutting across HP businesses
and geographies. Peter’s undergraduate degree is from San Francisco State
University in Urban Studies- Community Organization and Leadership with a graduate
degree from Pepperdine University. |
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Doug Bedinger, Manager, Lucent Learning Organization
As a member of the Lucent Learning Organization's Quality and Customer Satisfaction
team, Doug helps create and drive Blended Learning development and delivery processes,
standards, and supporting technologies within Lucent and among the company's customers
and business partners.
Throughout his 21-year career at GE, PG&E, Ascend Communications, and now
Lucent Technologies, Doug has led and supported a variety of business, professional
development and organizational change initiatives using traditional and technology-enabled
learning methodologies.
Tapping into an engineering and organization development background, Doug maintains
a strong process and people-oriented perspective, with a focus on helping individuals
and organizations become more effective, more efficient, and more human in their
pursuits. |
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Marcia Conner, Co-founder, Learnativity
Marcia Conner has been a leader in the learning revolution for 15 years, currently
authoring two books (Learn More Now, Wiley 2003 and Creating a Learning Culture,
Cambridge University Press 2003), serving as coach and mentor to rising executives,
and consulting with organizations on corporate university development. In 1997
she co-founded Learnativity (www.learnativity.com),
with Wayne Hodgins, to look at opportunities and issues that arise at the intersection
of learning, productivity, creativity, and activity.
She serves as Editor-in-Chief
of Learning in the New Economy Magazine (www.linezine.com),
is a trustee and owning member of the Chaordic Commons (www.chaordic.org),
and is Batten Institute Fellow for the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
(www.darden.edu).
Ms. Conner was Vice President of Education Services for PeopleSoft
managing all customer, business partner, employee education, elearning, and performance
management programs worldwide. She also envisioned and launched PeopleSoft University,
the company's corporate university, widely considered one of the most innovative
and sought-after corporate universities in the world.
Before joining PeopleSoft, Ms. Conner helped take a company public in 1995, and
was Senior Manager of Worldwide Training at Microsoft, growing the Product Support
division from 40 people to 4000 in less than a year and developing, from the ground
up, the company's first formal new-hire program.
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Jay Cross, Founder & CEO
Jay Cross has been passionate about harnessing technology to improve adult learning
since the sixties. Jay founded Internet Time Group in early 1998 to help organizations
learn. His five-year scenario plan, the Internet Time Machine, presented at TechLearn
98, was one of the earliest descriptions of eLearning. He delivered the inaugural
keynote on web marketing to the first meeting of the Online Banking Association.
He has spoken at eLearning Forum, Training, Online Educa, Image World, Instructional
Systems Association, Training Directors Forum, Online Learning, ASTD, and many
other conferences. He is the author of numerous articles and white papers on eLearning
and business effectivness. He is co-founder and fellow of the Meta-Learning Lab.
Jay advised CBT Systems during its transition to SmartForce, the eLearning Company,
writing newsletters, presentations, and white papers. He helped Cisco e-Learning
Partners plan, implement, and market their initial web-based certification programs.
He designed the e-commerce website that took ClickAction from bricks to clicks.
He co-authored (with Wayne Hodgins) the vision paper that kicked off the ASTD/National
Governors Association Committee on Technology and Adult Learning. He contributed
a chapter to the recent book Implementing E-Learning Solutions. He assisted Institute
for the Future in building scenarios for global corporate learning circa 2008.
His articles have appeared in LINEZine, Learning Circuits, Training and Development,
Technology for Learning, and American Banker. |
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Greg Davis, Director, eEngagement
Greg chose the American Express Company to tap into his life's passion: learning.
For the past 8 years he has been advocating collaborative learning in a virtual
environment for American Express globally. Acting as consultant from inside his
own organization, Greg successfully assembled and led a team to design, develop
and deploy technology-enabled learning methodologies including web-based training,
satellite broadcast, webcast and virtual classrooms. In 2000, he helped to focus
business partners and their learning groups for future technologies by driving
blended solutions using both high and low tech solutions.
Currently, Greg is involved in the implementation of an enterprise-wide Learning
Management System due to launch by year-end. He is excited to experiment with
this environment specifically around collaboration and action learning capabilities.
Having "cut his teeth" as a designer, Greg's passion is about content
and engagement, understanding that technology is simply a vehicle. Greg has been
with American Express for 20 years and has been instrumental in leading the company
towards an e-learning environment. |
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Cliff Figallo, Founder
Cliff was named Director of one of the groundbreaking manifestations of virtual
community - The WELL - in 1986, and for six years he managed its grassroots experimentation
with group creativity and conversation. As a business, he brought The WELL to
a steady break-even state, no small feat in those days.
For the past 8 years, Cliff has alternated consulting with titled positions, guiding
companies such as America Online, Genentech, Andersen Consulting, Salon.com and
Cisco Systems in new directions of many-to-many interaction and collaboration.
His more recent work has focused on relationship-building between organizations
and their constituents and between businesses and their customers. In 1998 he
wrote Hosting Web Communities, a book that is widely referenced by online community
managers, academic instructors and those investigating the possibilities of the
community approach. |
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Cheryl Fisher, E-Learning Manager, National
Institutes of Health & Instructor, University of Phoenix Online
A registered nurse, Cheryl Fisher is the Informatics/E-learning manager for the
Nursing Department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With over 20 years
experience at NIH, including positions with the National Heart Lung and Blood
Institute, she works closely with nurse educators developing and delivering online
educational offerings and managing the NIH Nursing Internet and Intranet websites.
Cheryl also teaches Informatics for the University of Maryland and Nursing Theory
and Nursing Research for the University of Phoenix Online. She holds a Masters
Degree from George Mason University and two post-masters certificates, including
degrees in Nursing Education and Nursing Informatics. With a sub specialization
in distance learning, Cheryl is currently a doctoral student in Instructional
Technology at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. |
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Jennifer Hofmann, President
Jennifer Hofmann is training consultant who specializes in the design and delivery
of synchronous learning. After eight years of managing technology-based training
and development initiatives, Jennifer now owns and manages her own firm, InSync
Training Synergy. Jennifer regularly contributes to the ASTD online publication
Learning Circuitsand Online Learning News, published weekly by VNU Business Media.
She is a regular speaker on synchronous learning at national industry events and
has taughtthe Certified Online Instructor Program at Walden University. Her most
recent project was authoring The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide. Contact
Jennifer by sending an email message to jennifer@insynctraining.com. |
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Soren Kaplan, Co-Founder & Managing Director
Soren provides overall leadership for iCohere's business development, marketing
and client services activities. Prior to founding iCohere, Soren held numerous
positions at Hewlett-Packard Company. Most recently, he served as Manager of Business
Strategy Consulting where he led an internal consulting group that assisted management
teams across the company with strategic planning and organizational development.
Before joining HP, Soren was a consultant with Cambridge, MA based IdeaScope Associates
and consulted to global 500 companies, including Kodak, Siemens, Nestle, Avery
Dennison, and 3M. He helped cross-functional teams collaborate to achieve new
product and service innovations. Soren has also consulted independently, working
with both large and small organizations including Bank of America, AT&T, and
the City and County of San Francisco.
Soren holds Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior and has presented
at institutions and universities, including the Creative Education Foundation
and the Harvard Business School, and has published a number of articles. His most
recent article, Building Communities – Strategies for Collaborative Learning,
appeared in the American Society of Training and Development’s online journal,
Learning Circuits, in August 2002. |
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Cynthia Loubier, Ph.D., Founder & Director,
Andragogics; Instructor, University of Phoenix
Since founding Andragogics Learning in 2000, Cynthia serves as Executive Director
providing vision and leadership. She has extensive background in business management
and consulting. Prior to founding Andragogics Learning, she served within Hewlett-Packard
as an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant and eventually as the eLearning
Initiative Manager authoring HP’s first eLearning white paper. Cynthia has
taught undergraduate and graduate courses (Onground, Online and Combined) in management,
organization design and strategy, business communication, and organizational behavior
for 8 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies, a Master’s in Organizational
Development and a Bachelor’s in Management. She is a member of Academy of
Management and other professional associations. |
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Nancy Rhine, Founder
Nancy has been a pioneer community builder, online and off, for the past 25 years.
In the last 12 years she founded five major Internet community ventures. Most
recently she served as VP, Online Communities, for PlanetRx.com (an online pharmacy),
where she designed and launched dozens of condition-focused communities serving
1.4 million members.
In 1992, Nancy cofounded Women.com, the first commercial online network specifically
targeting the women's market. In 1995, America Online recruited her to design
and launch the company's first official "Women's Channel". Based on
her successful proof of concept work, it was leveraged later by AOL as part of
a sale of women-based properties to Oxygen Media.
As Business Development Director, Nancy went on to create and lead community for
AOL's "Digital City", a regionally-focused web City now in 60 US markets.
Nancy's online career began in 1989 as part of the management team at The WELL.
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Janet Salmons, Capella School of Business
& President, Salmons & Associates
Janet is on the faculty of the Capella University School of Business, where she
develops and teaches courses in E-Business, leadership, management, and topics
such as virtual teams and virtual communities. Since 1993, Capella University
has redefined adult education by removing "old school" barriers by focusing
on delivering the highest quality bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
programs through innovative forms of distance learning. Janet practices what she
teaches through Salmons & Associates, consulting in organizational and leadership
development online and off.
Janet possesses extensive experience in developing and leading workshops, seminars,
national training institutes, Board retreats and videoconferences for companies,
universities and non-profit organizations. She has also developed extensive educational
and training materials, manuals and videotapes, and made contributions to textbooks
and journals, including Leadership on E-Time E-Workbook that is now online at
www.booklocker.com. |
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Phil Smith, Founder & CEO
As CEO of Replay Rich Media, Phil manages sales and operations for the company.
Phil is an experienced business professional and dedicated community leader who
possesses over 15 years of manufacturing, start-up, and operations management
experience. Prior to founding Replay Rich Media, Inc. in 1999, Phil founded, managed
and orchestrated the successful sale of two technology/manufacturing companies
during the 1990’s. Phil was a founding member of the annual Children's Hospital
Race of Champions (CHROC). In its first four years, the CHROC raised approximately
$350,000 for the oncology unit at The Children's Hospital in Denver. Phil graduated
Summa Cum Laude from Regis University in Denver with a BS in Business Administration.
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Eliane Vidil, Consulting Manager
Eliane joined in the development of Andragogics Learning because of her passion
for accelerated learning and her interest in how people of different cultures
learn. She has extensive experience working across European business cultures.
Before joining Andragogics, Eliane spent 11 years working within Hewlett-Packard
as a Corporate Education Consultant and Human Resource Generalist. In addition
to her work with Hewlett-Packard, she served as a Human Resource Consultant with
clients in the consumer market, aerospace and steel industries. Eliane’s
background is European and she is multi-lingual (French, English and Italian).
Eliane holds a Masters degree in Industrial Psychology and she is a certified
Trainer of Action Learning Facilitation. She is a member of ASTD, ISPI and other
professional organizations. |
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Nancy White, Founder & President
Nancy is the founder and president of Full Circle Associates, a communications
consulting firm, helping non-profits and businesses connect through online and
offline strategies. Nancy is a skilled online host and facilitator who actively
hones her craft on both social conversational sites and focused, work-related
online communities. She is an dedicated chronicler and collector of online facilitation
resources, constantly seeking to understand "what works and why" in
this evolving world of online communities. She also hosts the Online Facilitation
list serv. |
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