Judy, Mike, and Rose will share their insights and best practices when it comes to using virtual reality (VR) to reach new underserved audiences.

The shortage in skilled workers requires those of us who are training professionals to rethink how we design and deliver our programs. The possibilities are endless. 6.5 million have cognitive challenges - Down's Syndrome or are on the Autism spectrum.  1 in 3 have an arrest record (not conviction) that disrupted their education. The opportunity to learn the trades is not available to many. 

Join us as Judy, Mike, and Rose both describe the need for new approaches and offer innovative yet reasonable solutions.  

Judith Hale, Ph.D., CPT, CFT, AIM, and ibstpi Fellow is a regular speaker at Training’s conferences.  She has worked in the public and private sectors across all industries specializing in performance improvement, certification, and assessment for more than 45 years.  She is also one of the more prolific writers and well-known consultants in the field.  Her books include her newest The Performance Improvement Facilitator Playbook, the award-winning Performance-Based Certification, 2nd ED and The School Improvement Specialist Field Guide, as well as the popular Performance Consultant’s Fieldbook 2nd ED, Performance-Based Evaluation, Performance-Based Management, and Outsourcing Training and Development.
    
She guides clients on how to be good stewards in the use of AI when leveraging it to develop training, instructional tactics, tests, and performance support tools.  She offers certificates in testing, data gathering, psychometrics, and school improvement.  To learn more about the Certified Performance Improvement Facilitator, visit www.TIFPI.org

Mike Christian is the founder and CEO of From the Future, a leader in immersive technologies focused on improving the human condition through enhanced learning, therapy, and rehabilitation. Utilizing degrees in Economics and Computer Science, he spent the last twenty-plus years creating virtual worlds and artificial intelligence for Atari, THQ, and From the Future. His latest book is titled, How Virtual Reality Will Revolutionize Training and Education.

Rose Baker, PhD., PMP is an Associate Professor at University of North Texas, and ISPI Board Member. Baker brings nearly 30 years of project management, business supervision and management, instructional design, and teaching experience to her position at UNT. Baker teaches courses on principles of training and development, foundations of workplace learning, project management in applied technology and performance improvement, evaluation and accountability, and research processes with secondary data.

She has explored game design requirements and functionality for players with visual impairments and how personal creativity and innovation accommodates for lack of visual acuity. She has worked as a project manager, instructional designer, and instructor with organizations including General Motors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Pennsylvania State University, Huntingdon County Career and Technology Center, and the Pennsylvania Public School System. Her research includes open learning, management techniques and statistical applications for operations and performance improvement, survey and evaluation design, theory development, and game design. She can be reached at rose.baker@unt.edu