Online Educa conference, Berlin, 30th November 2006

Katherine Laux, Head of Design, gave an overview of how maximise return on investment and learner engagement by Epic's Learner-Centred Design approach.

Dr Leo Plugge from SURF (Netherlands) came to the session. Dr Plugge is well-known internationally for his educational research. He cited Epic's approach in his keynote address to the Education plenary.

In answering the issue 'How we can increase the effect of educational research' he named Epic's approach first in a list of key thinkers from leading Universities, CETL and the Worldbank.

Download a media copy of Katherine's presentation, Learner-Centred Design: Engagement and ROI.

For those of you who were unable to attend Online Educa, Katherine Laux will be giving her talk at the Learning Technologies event in London in January.
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To hear more about this topic, or request Katherine's white paper, please email us marketing@epic.co.uk.

"Many failed training projects can be traced back to poor learner or stakeholder engagement at the initial stages.

Learner-centred design creates an ongoing dialogue with the end-users. Any problem with the learning product or service is thoroughly researched and tested in its environment. It gives visibility and feedback to the project team of any issues that could result in significant and expensive failure costs at launch.

This is good news for organisations; the approach invests in quality up front, provides a better learning experience for learners and is a more secure route to return on investment. It also ensures that your implementation phase is easier to deliver.

Can you afford not to find out more?"

Katherine thanks Chris Bulman and Ailsa Donovan of Rentokil Initial and David Prescod of the National Learning Network for the interviews they have given to inform this talk and white paper.

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