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December 11, 2008
Press Release on My Speech @ Learning Technologies
I'll be speaking at the 2009 Learning Technologies Conference in London next month. Here's an excerpt from the recent press release on it below from TrainingPressReleases.com (check them out!).
After the hype around Second Life and stories of abandoned ghost towns empty of avatars, virtual worlds have continued to grow in use in organisational learning, with hundreds of organisations now delivering learning programmes through them. At the Learning Technologies Conference Marco Tippmer and Ron Edwards will answer what these organisations are doing right (and wrong), and how is learning now being delivered effectively in virtual worlds?Ron Edwards, CEO, Ambient Performance, said: 'Virtual worlds are being used intensively for learning and development right now and the scope for future use is immense. Virtual worlds are excellent places for simulation and classroom training - offering potentially considerable savings for L&D organisations - and as performance support environments where users practice tasks before carrying them out in the real world.'
'We are now seeing virtual worlds being integrated with other collaborative learning technologies such as standards compliant e-learning, whiteboards, presentation tools, application sharing, etc, and are now seeing them extending to mobile with video, audio and messaging support. I expect this trend to continue as the L&D community searches for new and better ways to deliver training, including getting more value out of their existing learning assets as well as reducing reliance on classroom training that can be costly and less efficient.'
Register for Learning Technologies at http://www.learningtechologies.co.uk.
The Conference blog is here.
Posted by Ron Edwards at December 11, 2008 12:08 AM
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