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Presenters: John D. Smith and Beverly Trayner
Recording Date: February 18, 2009
Duration: 58 min

Business professionals face a steep curve to be comfortable with the array of available e-learning tools and the burgeoning increase in reference materials. Learning professionals are shifting their attention from doing the training to recommending on-line learning. What guidance can learning and development departments offer to ensure e-learning is building competencies that improve job performance? How does talent move from "learning to know" to "learning to do" and knowing how to find out? This webcast will cover critical aspects of e-learning such as competencies to access e-learning tools, communities of practice to share applied learning, and what you can do as a learning professional to shift your organization to leverage e-learning for business results. You'll discover how your organization can leverage e-learning in the web 2.0 world, as learning on the job becomes inseparable with delivering performance.

Don't miss these webcast take aways:

• Creating a shared context for learning and performance
• Organizational impact of shifting responsibilities for learning
• Imagination, improvisation and technical competencies for e-learning
• Re-negotiating support from IT
• Examples of effective global communities of practice

About the Presenters:

John D. Smith
Principal Consultant, Learning Alliances
John is a technology steward, coach, community leader, and evaluator for communities of practice. He helps communities, their leaders, and their sponsors with the design and production of community events, with community self-assessment, and with the selection, configuration, and use of technologies. He is the community steward for CPsquare, an international community of practice on communities of practice. He's writing a book with Etienne Wenger and Nancy White entitled "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology communities." In collaboration with Etienne Wenger and Bronwyn Stuckey, he has offered the "Foundations of Communities of Practice" online workshop over the last ten years and recently introduced a new online workshop titled "Connected Futures." He is trained in dialog, evaluation, and data analysis. He worked at the University of Colorado as a planner, institutional researcher, administrator, and technologist. He received a Bachelor's degree from St. John's College and a master's degree in planning and architecture from the University of New Mexico. He was born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

Beverly Trayner
Beverly is a learning consultant for organisations and communities of practice. She supports communities and organisations in the design, launch and support of communities of practice and social learning systems, through from the learning architecture to the activities and technology. She carries out her own work in international distributed teams as well as supporting multi-lingual and cross-cultural teams and communities working together across time-zones and geographic locations. She has published chapters and articles about learning in internationally distributed communities and is also the creative director of an Open Source code for a platform for networked communities. She was brought up in Kenya, lived in UK for some years, and has been living in Portugal for eighteen. She has a Bachelor's degree in Business and a Master's in Development Studies. Her doctoral research is about designing for learning in international communities
of practice.


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