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Keynote debate
***NEWS: Brightwave's debate voted No.1 most appealing seminar in the 2011 Learning Technologies exit poll***
A road map to 2020: How can learning technologies support fast-changing business practice?
At last week's Learning Technologies conference a high-profile panel examined L&D's capability to support UK PLC's upturn strategy and the crucial role learning technologies can play.
Read the review and download the results here
The Question Time-style keynote debate allowed the packed audience the chance to express their views with live electronic voting.
The debate - voted the most valuable seminar session in the LT2011 exit poll - provided fascinating insights into the future of L&D at a very exciting time for learning professionals.
"I’d like to see a lot more liaison with stakeholders outside of L&D. If we’re not talking to people and asking what they need, we’re going to remain in the ghetto.” Donald H Taylor, debate chair
Issues covered in the debate included the role learning technologies should play over the next 10 years to help staff perform at their best, what technologies can help us step up and whether learning professionals have the right skills to provide the required level of support to business.
Voting
Results from the live audience voting included:
- 55% thought learning technologies had a critical role to play in improving workplace performance over the next 10 years
- 36% thought social media / collaborative tools would be the technology that would make the biggest impact by 2020
- 47% thought a positive learning culture was the most important thing to put in place other than technology
- 31% thought Google / the power of search would be the trend from our personal lives that would have the greatest influence on workplace learning
Panellists
- Chair - Donald H Taylor, Chairman, Learning and Skills Group & Learning Technologies
- Charles Gould, Managing Director, Brightwave
- Laura Overton, Managing Director, Towards Maturity
- Kenny Henderson, Head of Talent Development Operations, Sky
Read the review and download the results here
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