There are 250 Learning Sessions & Choices at Learning 2010!

Our design team is working with Senior Learning Leaders at global organizations to refine a diverse set of sessions that focus on telling non-commercial stories of learning success, learning challenges and even a few learning failures.  Over the next 16 weeks, we will post the learning choices that you and your team will have at Learning 2010.  Here is a starting sample of this year's sessions:

General Sessions - (Format: Highly interactive interviews and presentations by Thought Leader Keynoters to the entire Learning 2010 Community)

  • Apolo Ohno: "Extreme Learning & Training: Mastering the Olympics and Dancing with the Stars"
  • Marshall Goldsmith: "Putting the Mojo in Learning and Leaders" \
  • Diane Hessan: "How to Design & Leverage Communities of Knowledge & Collaboration?"
  • Roger Nierenber: "Orchestrating Greatness: The Musical Paradigm!"
  • Jonathan Kopp: “Harnesssing Word of Mouth and Video for Learning”
  • Betsy Myers: "Leadership Development in 2011 - Changes & Opportunities"
  • Elliott Masie: “Learning Changes and Learning Challenges in 2010”  

Spotlights on Learning - (Format: We place the Learning Spotlight on 4 organizations with innovative and effective learning approaches.  Drill down with their learning leaders.)

  • CNN/Turner Broadcasting
  • JCPenny
  • Yum Brands
  • U.S. Peace Corps/Senegal

Learning Stories - (Format: 60 minute sessions with implementers on key learning stories and learning challenges)

Our Themes in 2010 Include:

- Changing Learning : Agile, Social, Targeted, Mobile & Global
- Changing Content, Context, Delivery, Systems and Assumptions
- Distributed Work : Distributed Leadership and Distributed Learning
- Learning Leadership : Creating & Implementing Strategic Learning Projects
- Learning Modes : Video for Learning, Collaborative Learning, Coaching & Performance Support
- Learning & Talent : Changing Role of Learning in Retention & Development of Talent
- New Learning Roles : Evolving & ReSkilling the Learning Function & Roles

Sample of 2010 Learning Stories (Working Titles) - Updated August 18th, 2010

The following sessions will be presented by Learning Leaders from: Accenture, ADL Co-Lab, Allstate Insurance Company, American Express, Ameriprise Financial Services, Arkema, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Autodesk, AvalonBay Communities, Avon, Bank of America, Bloomberg, Bridgepoint Education, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Center for Workforce and Economic Development at American Association of Community Colleges, CIA University, CIGNA, Cisco, Citrix Online, Comcast, Communispace, ConAgra Foods, CUNA Mutual Group, Defense Intelligence Agency, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Department of Veterans Affairs, Farmers Insurance, Florida Virtual School, Foreign Service Institute; U.S. Dept. of State, GE Energy, General Mills, Grant Thornton, Herrmann International, Hewlett Packard, i4cp, Intel, Intuit, JCPenney, JetBlue Airways University, Kelly Services, Ketchum Digital, KPMG, LDS Church, Lockheed Martin, Luxottica, Microsoft, MTV Networks, NetDimensions, Novell, Oregon Health & Science University, Pepperdine University, Progressive Insurance, ReachLocal, Rollins, Shine Centre of Learning, Sprint Nextel, The University of Michigan, The Walt Disney Company, Turner Broadcasting, United States Distance Learning Association, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin - Extension, US Peace Corps/Senegal, Wells Fargo, Wendy's, YUM! Brands and others!

- 10 Steps to Successful Social Networking for Business
- A New CLO in Learning Land (Avoiding the Rabbit Hole)
- A Roadmap for Managers for Successful Onboarding: Getting From Day 1 to 180, Five Minutes at a Time
- Advisory Boards for Corporate Universities
- Agile Development: The Race Against Time
- An Integrated Performance Solution: From Evolution to Evaluation
- Applying Instructional Design to a Learning Management System - Yes we Can!
- Approaching Retirement: How can we Best Utilize Employees During their Last Year of Work?
- Beyond Engagement: Creating Authentic Learning Experiences That Blur the Liine Between the Learning and Doing
- Beyond the LMS: Content Anytime, Anywhere & on Any Device
- Blitz Learning: Training Around the World with Less than 24 Hours Notice
- Blogging for Business Impact: 30 Day Challenge
- Brain Research Update
- Building Global Know-How (Cheaper) with Virtual Classrooms: A Top-Down Enterprise Strategy
- Centralized vs. Decentralized: Pros, Cons and Best Practices
- Changing Roles: Transforming Instructor-Led Trainers into Rapid Online Developers
- Chargeback & Cost Recovery in 2010
- Classrooms: The Next Generation
- Coaching for Online Success: A Winning Model for Literacy That is Applicable to Students of Any Age
- Coaching to Build Team Partnerships
- Collaboration Sites for a More Effective Learning Team
- Community Colleges: Fueling the Workforce
- Counterintuitive Leadership
- Cutting Costs & Raising a Plant's Run Rate: Proven ROI of a Leadership Development Program
- Decision Making Using Evidence Based Learning Data
- Deloitte University: Going Physical in a Virtual Age
- Designing for Rich, Engaging Virtual Learning
- Developing a Learning Leader Competency Model: We are the Champions!
- Developing Leaders at Yum! Brands: An Integrated, Experience-Based Approach
- Developing Leaders for "The Era of And"
- Effective Solutions for Special Needs Employees: Challenges & Practical Approaches
- e-Learning Innovation Roundtable
- Emerging Leader Development: Are We There Yet?
- Employee Service for Leadership Development
- Engaging The Workforce: Building a Learner Centric Customer Service Center
- eReaders for Learning
- Evidence-Based Guidelines to Increase Learning Efficiency
- Expanding Our Reach: Informing and Inspiring Global Audiences
- Filling the Bench: A Leadership Development (LEAD) Case Study from the Veterans Health Administration
- Free or Nearly Free Web 2.0 Solutions Behind the Firewall
- From Help Desk to Self-Help Without Getting Lost in the Jungle
- From One & Done to Continuous Learning
- Getting Ready for the 2020 Workplace
- Going Global with External Partners: Successes and Challenges
- Going Virtual? Going BIG!
- High Def (Not High Dollar) Homemade Video for Sales Training
- How to Design & Leverage Communities of Knowledge & Collaboration
- How-To Video Snippets for Self-Help Training
- Improving Performance When No One Speaks the Same Language: Peace Corps/Senegal's Approach to - Multi-Cultural Learning
- Increasing Call Center Efficiency & Effectiveness Through a New Hire Learning Portal
- Increasing Retention & Engagement Through Upskilling & Enrichment
- Innovation Strategy: Lessons from the Fringe
- Integrating Avatars With Learning: Faster? Cheaper? Better?
- JCPenney Corporate University: Personalized, Peer Rated & Integrated
- Keeping up with the Joneses: Preparing for Change in the Learning Industry
- Knowledge at Your Fingertips: Strategies, Templates & Shared Content Sites
- Leveraging Learning Systems for Retail
- Live Virtual Classrooms & Global Participants: Beyond the Cultural Aspects
- LMS Implementation Lessons Learned & Performance Management Pilots
- Maintaining Global Learning Systems for Retail
- Measurement & Assessement
- Micro-Credentialing: Beyond Formal Education
- Mission-Critical Learning: Growing a Learning Platform
- Mobile Learning: 15 Lessons Learned from 15 Organizations
- Mobile Support: The Other Mobile Learning
- Talent in their 20s
- MyPURSUIT: Oh Weight! It's YOUR Life
- Navigating Leadership at Allstate: An On-boarding Program for new Leaders
- New Manager Training: Creating a Consistent, Effective, Global Strategy
- Next Learning, Unwrapped: Lessons From 38 Organizations Making Technology-based Learning Work!
- On-boarding Program at  Avalon Bay
- Optimizing Performance Support for 17,000 Worldwide Customer Service Employees
- Painless Compliance Training - Finally!
- Paperless Learning: Designing a 100% eBook Approach to Learning
- Partnering with the Field & Business
- Performance Support 101: Learning at the Moment of Apply
- Performance Support without Electricity (or Running Water): Learning Lessons from Peace Corps/Senegal
- Plugging the Boomer Brain Drain with Simple Processes and Tools
- Preparing Instructors for a Multi-Modal, Collaborative Learning Future
- Presentation Transformation: Visual Storytelling for Maximum Impact
- Presenting Strategy to & Seeking Buy-In from Senior Leaders
- Presidential Leadership: Extreme Challenges, Extreme Learning
- Putting the Mojo in Learning and Leaders
- Quality Leadership Development on a Shoestring Budget
- Rapid Overview of Rapid Authoring Tools
- Redesigning Instructional Design: Adapting to a Learning 2.0 World
- Redesigning Orientation
- Redesigning our Approach to Managing Vendors
- Reskilling Trainers & Faculty
- Reskinning the LMS: Collaboration Platform for User Interface
- Retooling our Society Through Higher Education
- Road Map for Training 2.0
- Saving $1.5 Million Through Rapid Development
- Sephora & JCPenney: A Business Partnership Learning Curve
- Simulation Learning at VHA: Nurturing Innovation and Sharing Best Practices
- So Much Video, So Many IT Blocks
- Social Media in a Regulated Environment
- State-of-the-Art HR in High Performing Organizations
- Storytelling: Affordances, Approaches & How-To-Tips
- Super-Charging World-wide Learning Through a Shared Environment
- Teaching Creativity
- TeleClassrooms: Extending the Reach of Deloitte University
- Temporary and Contingent Staff: Extended WorkForce Learning and Information Management
- Ten Ways to Excite Employees About Learning
- Ten Ways to Increase Transfer After a Learning Event
- Ten Ways to Market Training Internally
- Ten Ways to Mentor/Coach Learners
- Ten Ways to Prove Learning's Value to the Business
- Ten Ways to Reward and Retain SMEs
- Ten Ways to Spice Up Truly Boring Compliance Content
- The Art of Analysis: A Model to Drive Change and Business Impact
- The Distracted Learner: Coping with Multi-tasking, BlackBerries & ADD
- The Journey to Social Learning at Bank of America
- The Next Generation of Corporate Universities
- The Power of Video Stories & Social Media in Corporations
- The Pursuit of Organizational Learning Agility
- The ROI of Empowering Workers on the Floor: Raising Employee Engagement & Customer Satisfaction
- Tiddalac: A Learning Facility to Empower Legal Learners
- Tracking Training: What's Necessary & What's Risky?
- Transforming an Organizational Operating Model
- Truth & Dare! Applying Video Lessons Learned from Higher Education
- Using Strategic Business Needs to Drive Learning Simulation Design
- Utilizing Offshore Resources for Learning Development
- Video in Learning: Q&A with CNN
- Video Stories: A Culture Shift
- Virtual Leadership Training through Simulated Scenarios
- Virtual Learning Success through IT Partnership
- Virtual Sessions Gone Bad: Tips for Troubleshooting
- We are Not the Content Police: Intel's Social Computing Model
- Wellness and Learning:  No We Don't Serve Doughnuts at Classes & Other
- What to Do if You're Bored with Your Learning Job?
- When Online Learning Doesn't Work: Why, What & Who for Plan B
- Women & Leadership
- Working From Home: The Great Curse OR The Great Idea

We will be posting additional sessions every few weeks, as the Design Team and Implementers collaborate on the key stories and discussions that will create the ideal learning choices for you at Learning 2010!