Century 21 & Verizon to Receive Pioneer Awards at TechLearn 2003; Both Companies to Be Recognized for the Development & Pursuit of Comprehensive e-Learning Strategies.Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers TechLearn 2003 WELLESLEY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 The MASIE Center today announced that Century 21 and Verizon will be the recipients of the 2003 TechLearn Pioneer Awards for their outstanding efforts in enterprise-wide learning. Accepting the awards will be George Selix, Chief Learning Officer of Century 21 Real Estate Corp. and Eli Munzer, Chief e-Learning Architect for Verizon. The awards will be presented at TechLearn 2003 to be held at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort Disney's Coronado Springs Resort is a resort hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort that opened on August 1, 1997. This resort reveals its Southwestern U.S.-Mexican theme in such as a tiled stucco lobby and a pyramid with water tumbling down it that appears to have created the Mayan in Orlando, FL, November 2-5. During the four-day event, speakers will address the full range of deploying learning technologies and training, including e-Learning, digital collaboration, learning management, instructional design Instructional design is the practice of arranging media (communication technology) and content to help learners and teachers transfer knowledge most effectively. The process consists broadly of determining the current state of learner understanding, defining the end goal of , new models of classroom training, and aligning learning with business drivers and outcomes. "As the world's largest residential real estate sales organization, Century 21 has developed one of the most comprehensive e-Learning strategies with their innovative program for training new agents," said Elliott Masie, president, The MASIE Center, and host of TechLearn. "We look forward to hearing from the executive leaders of Century 21 who will present an in-depth case study detailing the company's use of a Blended Learning Blended Learning is the combination of multiple approaches to learning. Blended learning can be accomplished through the use of 'blended' virtual and physical resources. A typical example of this would be a combination of technology-based materials and face-to-face sessions used Model -- leveraging live synchronous, self-study and referenced paper-based manuals for training new real estate agents." Century 21's Learning Strategy is targeted at training the more than 6,600 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices. Century 21 Real Estate Corporation has offices in more than 30 countries and territories worldwide. "Verizon has also succeed in implementing e-Learning to the benefit of management and their 40,000 employees, and we are thrilled to be presenting a Pioneer Award to this industry leader," added Masie. Immediately following the award presentation, executives from Verizon will present a case study detailing their use of e-Learning for contingency planning and readiness in dealing with the threat of union strikes. Verizon Wireless Cellco Partnership, doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, based on total wireless customers. is the nation's leading provider of wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. with the largest nationwide wireless voice and data network and 34.6 million customers. In addition to the presentations from Century 21 and Verizon, attendees at TechLearn will hear from a cross-section of thought-provoking speakers. This dynamic list of keynote speakers, who will provide insight from their own experiences, includes General Tommy Franks Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army, previously serving as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. (Ret.), who will discuss lessons learned about training, learning and readiness as they pertain to pertain to verb relate to, concern, refer to, regard, be part of, belong to, apply to, bear on, befit, be relevant to, be appropriate to, appertain to the environment of war. Inventor, physicist and entrepreneur Dean Kamen Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating. His father is Jack Kamen, an illustrator of Weird Science and other EC Comics. who has dedicated his life to developing technologies that help people lead better lives, and stress management consultant Loretta LaRoche star of six award-winning specials on PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, . The TechLearn 2003 conference will focus on the reality of what practitioners face every day as they implement learning and training in their organization. New features this year include thirty practical seminars, each 22 minutes long, which will be offered three times on Monday, November 3. This is a high energy, down-to-earth way to participate in the key conversations in the learning field. Titles will include: Managing Revision Mania in e-Learning Design; Story Telling -- Doing The Right Thing; Turning Poets Into Accountants; Salvaging e-Learning Content That Isn't Being Used; Managing Virtual Teams Across Cultures and Time Zones; mLearning: The Increasingly Mobile Workforce; e-Learning Strategies for the Smaller Organization; and Business Simulations: A Current Primer. The 2003 e-Learning World Congress at TechLearn will be led by Wayne Hodgins from Autodesk and will focus on "Personalized Learning: Transforming the Dream into Reality Through Constructive Destruction and Disruptive Innovation." The purpose of the e-Learning World Congress is to provide a forum to probe topics and provoke deep questions and discussions that would not likely happen within the regular sessions. Attendees will also have full access to the TechLearn 2003 Learning Showcase, where vendors will offer demonstrations and information about their products and services. Gold sponsors include: ACT, Centra, Click2Learn, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Learning Solutions, Knowledge Impact, KnowledgeNet, NETg, OnDemand, Saba, SAP, SkillSoft, TEDS -- A CBM CBM Commodore Business Machines CBM Coalbed Methane CBM Christoffel Blindenmission CBM Condition Based Maintenance CBM Confidence-Building Measures CBM Curriculum Based Measurement (education) CBM Cubic Meter Company, and THINQ Learning Solutions. The Learning Showcase will be open at various times throughout the three-day event three-day event a competition in the pleasure horse sport comprising usually one day each for dressage, cross country and show jumping. . For more information or to register to attend or exhibit visit www.techlearn.com or call 800-829-3400. About The MASIE Center The MASIE Center is an international e-lab and Think Tank located in Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs, resort and residential city (1990 pop. 25,001), Saratoga co., E N.Y.; inc. as a village 1826, as a city 1915. Skidmore College is the largest source of employment, but the city also has light manufacturing. , NY. The Center is dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and business. The MASIE Center hosts the e-Learning CONSORTIUM, a collaboration of Fortune 1000 organizations as they experiment and implement e-Learning and Digital Collaboration processes. The Center brings together senior executives from major corporations to share best practices and develop new models for workforce and customer education. Elliott Masie serves on the White House Advisory Panel on Expanding Training Opportunities and is the host of BizLearn '04 exploring the business and economics of learning and training. For more information on The Masie Center, visit www.masie.com. About Advanstar Communications TechLearn is produced and managed by the Advanstar Technology Group, a division of Advanstar Communications, Inc. Advanstar is a worldwide business information company serving specialized markets with high quality information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. and integrated marketing solutions. Advanstar has 100 business magazines and directories, 77 tradeshows and conferences, numerous Web sites, and a wide range of direct marketing, database and reference products and services. The company has over 1,200 employees and currently operates from multiple offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Latin America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit www.advanstar.com. |
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