ATD Rocky Mountain Chapter
Partner Event
Join the Denver Metro E-Learning Developers (DMELD) on November 9, 2017 from 7:00-8:30 pm with Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D. presenting "Next-gen Simulations, Games and Virtual and Augmented Reality Learning."
How do you develop the next generation of learners who have spent more time with video games than in school? How do you bring immersion, engagement, and presence to new levels? And how do you leverage the new generation of virtual and augmented reality. Packed with demos and case studies, this session will cover trends that will reshape learning:
- Micro-learning and performance support developed on Apple ARKit and Google ARCore.
- Sales and cyber security games that level up to increasingly more difficult tasks to keep players focused and engaged.
- Online video dramatizations with powerful plots and colorful characters who face adversity, which transform cultures.
- Virtual reality simulations with headsets and positional tracking so you can physically walk around and interact with hand-held controllers to practice any technical task that’s too dangerous, expensive, or inconvenient to do in real life.
Watch demos of executive sales skills taught in Mission-Possible-themed games, cyber-security skills taught in a Tower Defense-style game, and customer empathy taught in a virtual reality simulation with room-scale and hand-controllers. Learn to shift your classroom mindset to a consumer-app mindset. Integrate your learning into employees’ lives with programs that are relevant, immersive, and memorable.
This session will demonstrate how serious games, simulations, virtual and mixed reality are poised to forever change the way people learn and organizations teach.
Meeting Details:
- Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017
- Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
- Cost: Free and open to the public
- Location: Home Advisor, 14023 Denver West Parkway, Golden CO 80401, about 3-5 minutes from 1-70 at Denver West Parkway (exit 263)
Seating is limited. Register online at https://dmeld-november2017.eventbrite.com/
By popular demand, west metro DMELD members have this rare opportunity to conveniently meet, greet, and learn in person. No remote access is planned for this program. You must attend in person.
About the Presenter:
Anders Gronstedt, Ph.D. – President of The Gronstedt Group, is an author, public speaker and entrepreneur. He is an advocate of using Next-Gen Learning tools to advance real-world skills through virtual reality training, transmedia storytelling and game-based learning. The Gronstedt Group has been instrumental in helping global companies like Google, Intuit, GE United Healthcare, Dell, Microsoft, DaVita, Kimberly-Clark and government clients like the U.S. Department of Transportation and the City of New York improve performance with innovative learning approaches. Anders holds a PhD and is a former faculty member of the University of Colorado–Boulder School of Journalism. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review.
About the Denver Metro e-Learning Developers (DMELD):
Now in our eigh year, DMELD evolved from the Denver Metro Authorware Users Group. Today approximately 600 group members develop e-learning and multimedia using a wide variety of tools. Featured tools now include many from Adobe (Captivate, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash), along with the Articulate family, Moodle, many other authoring applications, plus various development environments. Group members write, code, and produce cross-platform programs deployed on disc, or deployed online and accessible through all types of computers and mobile devices.
Please patronize the DMELD sponsors, Peachpit (http://www.peachpit.com) and O'Reilly (http://www.oreilly.com), publishers of technology books and training. We also thank HomeAdvisor (http://www.homeadvisor.com) for providing the meeting space and refreshments.
Visit DMELD online at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dmeld
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