1008 - Learning in Africa, 200+ Learning Experiences Booklet, Curiosity Apps?

Elliott Masie’s Learning TRENDS - September 24, 2018.
#1,008 Updates on Learning, Business & Technology Since 1997.
57,989 Readers - www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2018 - Nov 4 to 7 -  Orlando - 1,257 Colleagues Already Registered. 

1. Learning in Africa - Hello from Kenya and Rwanda!
2. New: Booklet Released - 200+ Learning Experiences in November.
3. Curiosity Apps? 

1. Learning in Africa - Hello from Kenya and Rwanda!  I am honored to be in Africa this week, keynoting and participating at the eLearning Africa conference.  Over 1,000 educational and government leaders will be coming together to explore the future of learning in Africa.  I’ll do some video interviews with our colleagues from this region and will send a link in a few days to our Learning TRENDS readers. 

2. New: Booklet Released - 200+ Learning Experiences in November.  Wow!  We have just published an 8 page booklet detailing the over 200 Learning experiences - sessions, labs, discussions and engagements at Learning 2018 - to be held in Orlando from Nov 4 to 7.  Please download this colorful booklet and share with your colleagues.  We would love to have you join the several thousand participants focused on the Learning Changes.  Booklet Online: http://www.learning2018.com/booklet 

3. Curiosity Apps?  I have been passionately thinking about curiosity and how apps may evolve to respond to or extend learners’ curiosities.  For example, in the past few days in Kenya, we have seen some amazing animals and so many questions and curiosities have been triggered - from info questions to a wish for an instant graphic detailing the difference in the Sky in this part of the world.  There are so many cool apps.  What I wish for is a function that maps to our curiosities in undiscovered ways.  Ideas?  Send me a note to emasie@masie.com 

Yours in learning, 

Elliott Masie
Email: emasie@masie.com
Twitter: @emasie 

MASIE Center Seminars, Events and Services: 

- Learning 2018 - Nov 4 to 7 - Orlando  (Advance Registration Discounts Until October 31)
- Membership in The Learning CONSORTIUM 

Details and Online Registration: https://www.masie.com 

Learning TRENDS is produced by The MASIE Center.  95 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

ReTooling Instructional Designers into Learning Producers!

TO: Learning Colleagues
FROM: Elliott Masie, Host & Curator
RE: ReTooling Instructional Designers into Learning Producers!

The learning and learner of today and tomorrow require new and evolving skills from learning professionals. It is time for us to “Retool” our Instructional Designers into Learning Producers!

The skills of instructional design will continue to be important, but the Learning Producer has a wider set of competencies and capacities including:

• UserExperience
• Design Thinking
• Learning Data Analytics
• Curation Ecosystems
• Personalization Strategies
• Workflow and Performance Support
• Integration with Evolving AI & Machine Learning
• Understanding of Brain Science and Cognitive Behavior
• The “LEGO” Model of Content and Experience Development
• Globalization of Learning Resources
• And More…       

The Learning Producer will add many of these skills to their instructional design skills. As a Producer, much of the content that you will be assembling and distributing will be from Open or External Resources. As a Producer, you will facilitate a wider range of choices of the format, setting, intensity and framework of learning activities. And, as a Learning Producer your use of Data and Analytics will become a major force in design and personalization.

Learning Producer roles will be explored at Learning 2018. Click for Details!

Join us at Learning 2018, with keynote speakers including Former First Lady Laura Bush, Author Dan Pink, and Leslie Odom, Jr. (Star of Hamilton), plus over 150 sessions on Learning Changes. 

1007 - 150+ Learning Experiences Announced, Baseball Stories, Rosh Hoshana

Elliott Masie’s Learning TRENDS - September 10, 2018.
#1,007 Updates on Learning, Business & Technology Since 1997.
57,984 Readers - www.masie.com - The MASIE Center.
Host: Learning 2018 - Nov 4 to 7 -  Orlando - 1,012 Colleagues Already Registered. 

1. 150+ Learning Experiences, Activities & Sessions Announced.
2. Baseball Stories: 75 Years of Women in Baseball & New Show Emerges.
3. Jewish New Year: Rosh Hashanna Thoughts. 

1. 150+ Learning Experiences, Activities & Sessions Announced:  We are pleased to announce over 150 Learning Choices for the participants at Learning 2018.  http://www.learning2018.com/content 

Designing an immersive and experiential event for 2,000 learning colleagues is a year long process.  And, we are now at the last stage of shaping, editing, evolving and finalizing the choices.  Our team at The MASIE Center works with each of your colleagues facilitating a one hour session to collaborate on: 

* A Title That Has the Passion of the Experience.
* It’s Only an Hour - Shaping the Content to the Time.
* Engage and Participate - Learning Professionals Don’t Want Lectures.
* Focus on Today AND Tomorrow: Learning is Changing. 

We are pleased to release this list - and there will be many more in the weeks ahead.  Please check it out at http://www.learning2018.com/content 

2. Baseball Stories - 75 Years of Women in Baseball & New Show Emerges: This weekend we took a trip to Kansas City, Missouri and Baseball Stories were the theme. 

We went to the preview performance of a new musical that MASIE Productions may help to bring to New York in the coming years.  “Last Days of Summer” is a funny, moving and historically rich musical about teenage boys, baseball and World War II.  It was moving to see the actors and creative team develop this show at the KC Rep.  And, weaving together the stories of boys growing up with baseball, family and history was amazing.  If you are in the region, go see this show: http://kcrep.org/show/last-days-of-summer 

And, the added surprise was to discover that there was a reunion of the Women of Professional Baseball from World War II at the hotel.  They were celebrating their 75th anniversary and I got to meet Toni Palermo, who was a shortstop for the Springfield Sallies and Parichy Bloomer Girls.  She was inducted into the Cooperstown Hall of Fame in 1982.  What an inspiring athlete!

 3. Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanna Thoughts: For my Jewish colleagues and friends around the world, we are celebrating the start of a New Year. It is a time of reflection, consideration and preparation for a New Year.  

In these times of change, may we all find ways to reflect and strive for better understanding of the changes and challenges the world faces.  May we find in friends and family love, trust and compassion.  And, may we enjoy our tradition of “apples dipped in honey” - with the hope that we have a sweet year ahead.  Shanah Tovah! 

Yours in learning, 

Elliott Masie.
Email: emasie@masie.com .
Twitter: @emasie  . 

MASIE Center Seminars, Events and Services: 

- Learning 2018 - Nov 4 to 7 - Orlando  (Advance Registration Discounts Until October 31)
- Membership in The Learning CONSORTIUM 

Details and Online Registration: https://www.masie.com 

Learning TRENDS is produced by The MASIE Center.  95 Washington Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

Uptown Funk - Norkfolk Police Lip Sync Engagment

TO: Learning Colleagues
FROM: Elliott Masie, Host & Curator
RE: Uptown Funk: Norfolk Police Department Lip Sync Engagement

The Norfolk Police Department is coming to Learning 2018 to receive a Special Engagement Award for their Lip Sync performance of Bruno Mars’ Uptown Funk, which has over 50,000,000 views. Check it out:

“The officers and staff of the Norfolk Police Department are an amazing example of how music, creativity, team work, caring, humor, and risk taking can be a powerful tool for engagement. As they lip sync the words to Uptown Funk, you can see and feel the engagement of the wide diversity of the workforce – as well as feel the pride the community of Norfolk must have for its police force,” said Elliott Masie, Host of Learning 2018 and Broadway Producer (The Prom, Kinky Boots, and The Cher Show).

According to Norfolk spokesperson Cpl William Pickering, “We wanted to show the community our primary objective is to protect and serve the community, but we’re not robots. We share a lot of the same interests the community has.”

The leaders of the Norfolk Police Department UpTown Funk Lip Sync team will be featured at Learning 2018.  Details: http://www.learning2018.com/norfolk

Join us at Learning 2018, with keynotes including Former First Lady Laura Bush, Author Dan Pink, and Leslie Odom, Jr (Star of Hamilton) and over 140 sessions on Learning Changes.