Upcoming Presentations through the End of the Year

Hosting
The Canadian Society for Training and Development's Second Research-to-Practice

Keynote
Staying relevant. 2010 Canadian Society for Training and Development Conference. Toronto, ON. November 19, 2010.

Workshops
Upcoming: Advanced Design for e-Learning Certificate Program. TRAINING 2011, San Diego, CA, February 5-6, 2011.

Currently ongoing: Technical Communication Manager Certificate Program. Society for Technical Communication. Presented online, October 14 through November 28, 2010.

Presentations to Professional Organizations

• Certification for Training and Development Professionals.  Quebec chapter of the Canadian Society for Training and Development. December 7, 2010.
• Informal learning: 10 issues to consider. Ottawa chapter of the Canadian Society for Training and Development. Date November 8, 2010.
• Following form: Eleven real world insights into template-based writing. Monteal chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Montreal, QC, November 4, 2010.
• Lessons for information architecture from museum exhibits. San Fernando Valley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. October 28, 2010.

Presentations at Conferences

• With Ann-Louise Davidson. A proposed theoretical framework for researching and interpreting ubiquitous learning technologies. Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference 10. Common Ground Publishing. Vancouver, BC, December 10-11, 2010.
• With Ann-Louise Davidson. A proposed research methodology for researching ubiquitous learning technologies. Ubiquitous Learning: An International Conference 10. Common Ground Publishing. Vancouver, BC, December 10-11, 2010.
• Lessons for structuring asynchronous tutorials from the design of museum exhibits. 2010 Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Conference. Anaheim, CA. October 27-30, 2010.
• (with Ann-Louise Davidson.) Theory versus reality: Redesigning the introductory course on Instructional Design - Human Performance Technology to address student shortcomings. Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Conference. Anaheim, CA. October 27-30, 2010
• So what do they think? Results of a qualitative study of the perceptions of training. Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Conference. Anaheim, CA. October 27-30, 2010.

Even Hotter off the Presses

The peer-reviewed version of the analysis of trends on spending in training was just published in Performance Improvement Quarterly.

As noted in the article, after adjusting for inflation, total spending has only grown 1.5 %, even though the US workforce grew by more than 30%.  

Here's the full citation, in case you want to track down the article:

Carliner, S. & Bakir, I. Trends in spending on training: An analysis of the 1982 through 2008 Training Annual Industry Reports. Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2 3 ( 3 ),  77–105.

Hot Off the Presses

The blog has been quiet the past month because I'm back from my sabbatical and spending most of my time preparing for classes (that I insisted on major revisions to one course and finishing the majority of my class preparations before the end of September only added to the workload), working on my research, and actually writing.  

Here's a couple of new publications:

• Qualitative Research in Technical Communication, edited by my friends and colleagues, Jamie Conklin and George Hayhoe, was just published. The book contains a mix of methodology and actual studies. One of the studies featured is my study of the design of museum exhibits. To order a copy, visit http://www.amazon.com/Qualitative-Research-Technical-Communication-Conklin/dp/0415876362
• Developing the Business Case for a Major e-Learning Courseware or Infrastructure Project, was just published in the e-learning Guild's Learning Solutions magazine. It includes a template for creating a business case. To read the article, visit http://lnkd.in/Z9GdsH