Content and Focus:

The Learning & Government Briefing and Roundtable will be a high-energy and intensive one-day program. Elliott Masie will facilitate briefings and roundtables addressing these key topics, issues and questions:
  • Learning Changes in and for Government: Updates on evolving approaches to providing learning to employees, contractors and citizen/customers:
    • Video for Learning: Trends in Video Stories and YouTube-Style Segments
    • Social & Collaborative Learning: Leveraging Internal Social Networks in Learning and Development
    • Virtual Leadership: Building Skills for Leading Distributed Teams
    • Video Conferencing Expands
    • Teleworking Readiness: Ready for the Next Snow Storm?
    • Compliance and Learning
    • User Content and Context
    • Content ReUse: Realities and Challenges
    • Collaboration: The Wisdom of Crowds
    • Rapid Learning Development
    • Shifting Roles for Learning Systems (LMS and LCMS)
    • Mobile and Portable Devices: What Does the iPad Mean for Learning?
    • Performance Support Systems
    • Leveraging Coaches and Remote Expertise
    • Learning with Restricted Travel and Budgets
  • Changing Learning Landscape: How has learning evolved in the first sixteen months of the Obama Administration? What is changing with training and development of the federal workforce? How is learning being deployed as part of new initiatives and programs?
    • Learning and New Initiatives
    • Learning Leadership in the Federal Sector
    • Learning in Legislation (From Education, to Labor, to Commerce)
    • ReSkilling, Job Training and Partnerships
    • Leveraging Retiring Workforce for Learning
  • Learning and Talent in Government: What new leadership skills are required in government and how do we develop our employees to those requirements? What shifts are needed to prepare for an impending retirement bubble and economically delayed retirements?
    • Leadership Competencies for UnCertain and Changing Times
    • New Models of Leadership Development in Government
    • Chief Learning Officers and the Chief Human Capital Officer 
    • Retirement Challenges: Knowledge Capture and Learning for Succession
    • Public/Private Partnerships for Talent Development

  • Government vs. Corporate Learning – Compare & Contrast: We will dive into several distinct models for enterprise learning in the government sector and compare/contrast them with practices in the corporate sector.
    • Learning Strategies: Public vs. Private Sector
    • Learning Governance Models in Government: Shared Service and Corporate Universities?
    • Metrics for Accountability: Learning Metrics and Avoiding Silly Numbers
    • Educating Policy Makers about Learning
    • Public/Private Partnerships for Talent Development 
    • Evolving Learning Careers

  • Changes in the Learning Marketplace:  How is the marketplace and procurement for learning services and products in the government sector changing?  We’ll explore shifts in providers, procurement and the role of open source assets.
    • Marketplace for Learning Resources is Changing!
    • Procurement and Contracting Models for Learning are Shifting
    • Roles for Higher Education, Retired Employees and Unconventional Suppliers
    • Open Source: White House Project Around Open Source
    • Costs of Learning Resources in Current Marketplace
    • Contracting Across Agencies for Shared Use or Reuse of Learning Programs
    • Learning Beyond Employees: Citizens, States, Contractors and More
    • Learning Resources for Social Learning and User Content
    • Leveraging Collaborative and Knowledge Systems for Learning