Explore Distance Learning with FreePint at the SLA 2015 Conference
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By Catherine Dhanjal

Abstract

This year's SLA Conference in Boston (US) in June features a workshop session from FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf. The four-hour session provides practical help for information professionals responsible for developing effective distance learning options for users.

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FreePint's director of research, Robin Neidorf, is speaking at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Conference in June, this year held in Boston, America.

Teach Beyond Your Reach: Effective Distance Learning Options

Robin is running a pre-conference workshop on Saturday 13th June, from 8 AM to 12 noon: "Teach Beyond Your Reach: A Train-the-Trainer Workshop".

The workshop focuses on developing effective distance learning options for users.

Asking the right questions about audience, content, format and outcomes are essential to enable you to create and run practical distance learning programmes.

Robin will explore audience learning styles that will help develop new knowledge, and discuss format options for synchronous and asynchronous learning and the best learning outcomes, the right content scope and engagement level, and communication and measurement of outcomes.

She explains, "You and your trainers have subject-matter expertise, use this workshop to translate that expertise into distance learning modules that meet your objectives."

Key Takeaways

1. Understanding audience: why knowledge of your learning community is critical to the success of your distance learning initiative, and practical ways to understand that audience
   
   
2. Content development: how to "translate" subject-matter expertise into effective training modules and common pitfalls to avoid
   
   
3. Setting and measuring objectives: designing distance learning to achieve specific and measurable objectives.

Find Out More About the Conference

Information professionals from around the world will attend the SLA 2015 Annual Conference in Boston, America from 14th-16th June, with workshops on 13th. Find out more and register.

This Blog Item is part of the FreePint Topic Series "Best Practices in Information Skills Development".

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