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What is e-Learning? Why do it and how to be successful.  An interactive seminar with expert speakers to help you plan what could work for your organisation.
e-LEARNING - ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION
Thursday 21 October 2010
Royal College of Pathologists, 2 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF
Chair: Oliver Jones, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
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Many publishers are investing in a portfolio of e-Learning products in order to provide interactive learning solutions to supplement textbooks, journals, courses and seminars. This interactive seminar will look at the reasons why businesses can benefit from e‑Learning solutions and why e-Learning is so popular in providing high quality, accessible learning.
 
The seminar will demonstrate what e-Learning must include to be successful.  Case studies will show how a business needs to evolve in order to successfully publish and implement e-Learning solutions. 
 
Who should attend?
Small to medium publishers and societies who see the potential of e-Learning, yet don’t know where to start.
Editorial teams
 involved in the instructional design of content to be published on the web
Course and events leaders
involved in transforming components of a course into an e-Learning or blended learning package
Publications managers
requiring advice on the processes involved in e-Learning publication
Educationalists
who are new to e-Learning
Project managers
who have experience of product development but who are new to the publication of e-Learning
Commissioning editors responsible for ensuring publications are innovative yet educationally robust
 
PROGRAMME
 
09.30  Registration & Coffee
 
10.00  Introduction & Overview from the Chair
Oliver Jones, Education Projects Manager, RCOG
 
10.10  Achieving a successful educational experience using educational technology
how people’s behaviour differs to that in more traditional learning environment.’
Anne Adams,  Educational psychologist (Open University)
 
11.00  What e-Learning can include and how to design it
Stephen Van-Vloten, Independent E-learning Specialist
 
11.45  Coffee
 
12.00  Where to start, what the team requirements are and what you need to know.
Karen Edwards, Independent Instructional Designer
 
12.45  A small publisher’s perspective – the evolution of e-Learning from 2004-2010 at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Oliver Jones, Education Projects Manager, RCOG
 
13.15  Lunch
14.00  Blended learning solutions and partnerships
Jo Wiles, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Elsevier
 
14.45 How to successfully develop and implement e-Learning to support postgraduate/further/higher education and continuing professional development
Chris Mason, Independent E-learning Specialist
 
15.30  Tea/Coffee
 
15.45 Blended e-Learning and virtual reality simulation, the immersive way to learn
Majid Al Kader, Skills 2 Learn
 
16.45  Close & wine reception
 
Further information:
For further details and online booking, please see the website or contact me 
Lesley Ogg
Senior Coordinator, Events & Information Systems
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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