Grab this opportunity to learn some great tips and also get a sneak preview of what it will be like to join us at Training's Online Learning Conference in New Orleans.  Each speaker will present a 15-minute condensed sample of their OLC content.  Listen fast and you'll learn plenty of useful tips even during this brief preview!
 
This preview focuses on the Social Media Tools for Performance Improvement track.  Click here for more OLC preview tracks.


Part 1: How IBM Turned its Online Course Dropout Problem into a Success Story
Speaker:  David Leaser, Senior Program Executive, Innovation and Growth Initiatives, IBM Training & Skills
Preview Description:  
IBM faced a real problem with its online Big Data University. The content was excellent, but the dropout rate was high. After implementing an Open Badge program, every metric, from new attendees to course completions to the average number of courses taken, increased well beyond expectations. Join this session to see how IBM increased enrollments and turned dropouts into repeat customers. You’ll get an insider’s view of the “before and after” statistics behind this wildly successful program. 


Part 2: Organizational Network Analysis for Developing and Retaining Talent
Speaker:  Stephen Garcia, Managing Director, Contemporary Leadership Advisors 
Preview Description:  
As organizations implement matrix structures, establish virtual teams, and outsource functions, they are putting greater faith in informal networks to get work done. Unfortunately, leaders have less visibility into these informal networks.  As a result, they can make decisions with blinders on.  Organizational network analysis, ONA, provides a way to x-ray an organization, to illuminate and analyze the patterns of informal relationships that employees use to make decisions, solve problems and share information. Steve will introduce you to ONA and discuss how it can be used to identify emerging leaders, improve collaboration and innovation, develop talent, and increase retention.


Part 3: A Tour of Social Media Tools for eLearning
Speaker:  Jane Bozarth, Author, Social Media for Trainers
Preview Description:  
Sometimes the biggest challenge with using social tools for learning is just figuring out how to start.  Jane Bozarth will take you on a quick tour of ideas for using social tools and approaches to share information, invite conversation, support transfer of learning, and build curiosity for learning more—regardless of the tools you use. 

 

A decade ago Jane Bozarth moved from the world of traditional instruction to designing and facilitating both asynchronous and synchronous training. Now that technology—and learner access to it—has finally caught up with possibilities, her interests have expanded to the world of social media tools to support and extend the work of the workplace training practitioner. She has an M.Ed. in Training & Development/Technology in Training and a doctorate in Adult Education. (Her dissertation, on workplace social learning/communities of practice, is available free via a Google search).+ You can find her "live" most anytime on Twitter @janebozarth and almost always on Thursday evenings as one of the moderators of the popular #lrnchat sessions. Her Twitter profile describes her as a feral learner, positive deviant, and World's Oldest Millennial. She also drives too fast.