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The MASIE Center Announces a 'Learning Innovations New Year’s Retreat'

Saratoga Springs, NYLearning NewsMASIE Productions

'Learning Innovations New Year’s Retreat' to be held at Elliott Masie’s Learning LAB in Saratoga Springs; an intensive lab experience exploring existing, changing and radically new learning models and technologies.

Learning Innovations
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Elliott Masie has announced a special "Learning Innovations New Year’s Retreat" to be held at The MASIE Center in Saratoga Springs, NY from January 7-9, 2015. Masie will host a small group of learning colleagues in a 2 ½ day intensive exploration and lab experience at the 10,000 square foot MASIE Learning LAB in Saratoga Springs.

“We want to start off 2015 with a deep dive on emerging, changing and evolving Learning Innovations,” says Masie. “The start of a New Year is a great opportunity to S-T-R-E-T-C-H our boundaries as learning professionals and innovators. I am deeply excited to bring together a small group of learning colleagues from around the world – with all levels of experience – to collectively explore existing, changing and radically new learning models and technologies. This is a LAB where we will experiment collaboratively.”

Lab topics will include:

  • Learning Personalization
  • Mobile Learning Models – Mobility & Performance
  • Video: Fast, Targeted, User-Created, Open, Digital Studios
  • Wearables: From Glasses to Bands to Watches
  • Performance Support Technologies
  • Learning Systems Refreshed
  • ReDesigning Webinars
  • MOOCs: Massive and Open Content Models
  • Collaborative & Social Learning Technology
  • Curation: Harvesting & Sorting Content
  • Drones, 3D Printing and the “Maker Model”
  • Hackathon for Learning Technologies
  • Badges and Micro-Credentials
  • The Connected Classroom – ReModeled
  • Switching Authoring Systems & Approaches
  • Engagement for Learners
  • Learning Tools, Apps & Resources
  • And More

Elliott Masie will facilitate a LAB experience for the participants in this vendor-neutral program that will mix:

  • Hands-On Work and Exploration with Learning Technologies
  • Models and Hurdles for Leveraging Technologies
  • Video Visits with Working Examples in Action
  • Experiments and Assignments to Experience and Apply
  • “Take Home” Resources and Assets to Share with Colleagues

Registration is open and Group Discounts are now available. Content and online registration available at http://www.masie.com/Learning-Innovations/learning-innovations-invite.html.