STC Professional Development Workshop
Date: Saturday Oct 20, 2007
Location: SFU Harbour Centre, Room 2205, 515 W Hastings, Vancouver
Time: 9:30am to 4:30pm (lunch will be provided)
Cost:
STC Members - $150
Non-members - $175
Students - $125
E-Learning for Technical Communicators: Best Practices in Design, Development, and Delivery
Explore the exciting field of e-learning and examine best practices for designing, developing, and delivering e-learning presentations, seminars, and courses. Discover how adding e-learning to your product offerings increases client satisfaction and reduces support costs. Bring your business cases, e-learning projects, and ideas to the workshop to get practical feedback and advice.
What you’ll learn:
- What is e-learning? What does it look like?
- Why and when to choose e-learning over face to face learning
- The advantages and disadvantages of e-learning
- How people prefer to learn and how people actually learn
- What turns people off/on about e-learning
- How to identify what people need to learn
- What’s the best method for teaching (based on what people need to learn)
- How to assess what people have learned
- What are the best instructional design methods for e-learning
- What instructional design looks like in action
- What tools to use to develop learning materials and what specialized skills, if any, do you need to use those tools
- How facilitation and communication aid learning
- The challenges of online facilitation and what a facilitator can do to encourage learning
- What can you do to facilitate learning without a “teacher”
- How to integrate e-learning into your product offering
- How to judge ROI for e-learning
About Rowena Hart
The workshop will be facilitated be e-learning specialist Rowena Hart. She holds an MA in distributed learning and is a member of the Canadian Society for Training and Development. You may also recognize her as an instructor in the SFU Technical Communication Certificate Program.
As space is limited and this will be an extremely popular event, you must register and pay in advance for this workshop.