Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. . eMarketingTechniques.com January 28-29, 2009 College and University Performance Conference , sponsored by the American Strategic Management. ://www.webist.org/cfp.htm March 23-26, 2009 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2009), Lisboa, Portugal. http. . ncahigherlearningcommission. org/ April 17-22, 2009 International Performance Improvement Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.

an internationally known consultant, author, andspeaker delivers eLearning solutions including games, mobile learning,performance support, and organizational strategy through Quinnovation ,and blogs at learnlets.com. . The real goal here should be to allow learners to demonstrate mastery of new skills. So instead of pre-tests, I suggest the following steps: Document that there are people who. performance level. Design your content to meet the learning objective, by aligning the learning to ensure learners will pass the assessment. . In short, whats important is not that learners can do more than they could before, but that they can now do what they need to do. This is criterion-referenced performance.

It means using the best delivery methodologies available for a specific objective, including online, classroom-based instruction, electronic performance support. -the-job performance assessment of the skill they learned and practiced, which required them to again use the worksheet, and which required them to document how they applied their learning.