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Presenter

Elliott Masie is an internationally recognized futurist, analyst, researcher and organizer on the critical topics of workforce learning, business collaboration and emerging technologies. He is the editor of Learning TRENDS by Elliott Masie, an Internet newsletter read by over 52,000 business executives worldwide, and a regular columnist in professional publications.  He is the author of a dozen books, and is the convener of Learning 2010.

He heads The MASIE Center, a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. He leads the Learning CONSORTIUM, a coalition of 240 global organizations cooperating on the evolution of learning strategies, including Allstate, Merck, The Kellogg Company, Bank of America, Emirates Airlines and the U.S. Departments of Defense and Labor.

Elliott's professional focus has been in the fields of corporate learning, organizational performance and emerging technology. He has developed models for accelerating the spread of knowledge, learning and collaboration throughout organizations. Elliott is acknowledged as the first analyst to use the term e-Learning and has advocated for a sane deployment of learning and collaboration technology as a means of supporting the effectiveness and profitability of enterprises.

Elliott serves as an advisor to a wide range of government, education and non-profit groups. He serves on the Board of Trustee of Skidmore College and as a Board member of FIRST Robotics.   He has served as a pro-bono advisor to the Department of Defense and on the White House Advisory Council on Expanding Learning Opportunities.

Elliott is known as a highly approachable speaker and trainer, blending humor, applicable stories of best practice and high levels of audience involvement. Over the past thirty years, he has presented programs, courses and speeches to over 1,700,000 professionals around the world. He lives in Saratoga Springs, owns a few race horses, and travels extensively each year. 

Abstract

• Changing Learners and Changing Learning Expectations
• New Micro Markets for Content and Learning Resources
• Designing for Learning Sustainability - Through Dynamic Content, Context and Economics
• Technology Affordances - Beyond the Hype and Gadgets to Authentic Capabilities
• Learning Innovation is Like Wine ---- Give It a Chance to Mature and Breathe
• Global Perspectives - Learning from Extreme Models 
   

Facilitator

Helen Beetham

Helen is a Consultant to JISC, in which role she supports JISC work on learning literacies for a digital age, curriculum design and Open Educational Resources, as well as other aspects of e-Learning development and strategy. She is widely published and a regular speaker at conferences in the UK and abroad. Rethinking Learning for the Digital Age (Routledge 2010) and Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age Routledge 2007), co-edited with Dr Rhona Sharpe, are rapidly becoming benchmark texts in the field of e-Learning.