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19 December 2012
A guide to coaching for performance at January’s Learning Technologies Conference
Learning Technologies has invited Michael Bungay Stanier from Box of Crayons to reinvigorate L&D’s participation in coaching, an often overlooked but essential skill for L&D professionals.

18 December 2012
Learning for the YouTube generation
Martin Addison, CEO of Video Arts, will present to the Learning and Skills Group community this week on using video in learning, at a time when learners are more familiar than ever before with accessing video online.

18 December 2012
From cost-centre to 'must-have': making L&D matter
L&D is often seen as a cost centre, yet with the challenges business faces, organisations badly need strong L&D functions that execute business strategy: at the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference Robert O Brinkerhoff will demonstrate the attributes of effective L&D leaders.

17 December 2012
What does life-long learning look like now?
At Learning Technologies in January, Professor Stephen Heppell, Chair in New Media Environments at Bournemouth University, will speak at the conference on how, with a new economic landscape, our view of life-long learning is evolving.

16 December 2012
Nigel Paine on learning innovation: changing your approach - at Learning Technologies
Nigel Paine, the BBC’s former chief learning officer, believes that many organisations must change their approach to learning and returns to the Learning Technologies Conference this January to help the L&D community to understand why and how.

13 December 2012
Future learning environments - Steve Wheeler at Learning Technologies
January’s Learning Technologies Conference will take a look at the combination of social and mobile technologies with intelligent systems and the mind-boggling possibilities for learning, through the eyes of Plymouth University’s Steve Wheeler.

12 December 2012
Tony Buzan on creativity and learning at Learning Technologies
At the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping, will lead a specially designed one-hour workshop on creativity.

06 December 2012
Itiel Dror on learning and the mind
At the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference, cognitive neuroscientist, Itiel Dror will draw attention to how our understanding of the mind, and specifically how the mind learns, is improving workplace performance.

04 December 2012
Lord David Puttnam: “The future of learning is distant, instant and very different”
The film producer and arts and education leader, Lord David Puttnam, is back at Learning Technologies in January 2013 with a vision of what accessible expertise might look like in the not-too-far-off future.

29 November 2012
Allison Rossett on learning design at Learning Technologies
At the upcoming Learning Technologies Conference, Allison Rossett, of San Diego State University, will call on the L&D community to think again about the importance of instructional design, arguing that business needs it more than ever.