2012 ICELW Keynote Speakers
ICELW is pleased to have two fantastic keynote speakers for ICELW 2012: renowned keynote speaker and evidence-based training pioneer Dr. Ruth Clark, and workplace learning and communication expert Dr. Saul Carliner. More about our keynote speakers is below; talk titles and abstracts will be posted as it gets closer to the conference.
About Ruth Clark
For over 30 years, Ruth Clark has helped workforce learning practitioners apply evidence-based training guidelines to design and development of classroom and e-learning instruction. Ruth has written 7 books that translate important research programs into practical training guidance including e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, Developing Technical Training, Efficiency in Learning, Graphics for Learning and Evidence-based Training Methods. Her most recent book, The Essentials of Scenario-based e-Learning is currently in press.
A science undergraduate, Ruth completed her doctorate in Instructional Psychology/Educational Technology in 1988 at the University of Southern California. Ruth is a Past President of the International Society of Performance Improvement and a member of the American Educational Research Association. Ruth was honored with the 2006 Thomas F. Gilbert Distinguished Professional Achievement Award by the International Society for Performance Improvement and was a Training Legend Speaker at the ASTD 2007 International Conference. Ruth is currently a dual resident of Southwest Colorado and Phoenix, Arizona and divides her professional time among speaking, teaching, and writing.
Program Director, PhD in Education
Associate Professor of Education
Concordia University, Canada
About Saul Carliner
Saul Carliner has both academic and professional careers in workplace learning and communciation. He is currently Director of the Education Doctoral Program and an associate professor of educational technology at Concordia University in Montreal. Also an industry consultant, Carliner offers strategic planning for departments, projects, and technology, and offers related facilitation for clients such as AT&T, Chubb Insurance, Cossette Communications, Georgia Tech, IBM, Lowe's, Microsoft Corporation, Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, ST Microelectronics, UPS, and several Canadian and US government agencies. His research interests include emerging forms of online communication and training for the workplace; management of groups that prepare these materials; informal learning; and transferring research results to practice. He has received funding from several major government agencies. He has also published over 100 articles and 8 books, including the in-press Informal Learning Basics, award-winning e-Learning Handbook (with Patti Shank), and best-selling Training Design Basics and Designing e-Learning. Carliner is a Certified Training and Development Professional (CTDP), editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, board member and chair of the Certification Steering Committee of the Canadian Society for Training and Development, a past Research Fellow of the American Society for Training and Development, and a Fellow and past international president of the Society for Technical Communication. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, University of Minnesota, and Georgia State University.
ICELW 2012 will be held from June 13-15, 2012 on the campus of Columbia University in New York.
Our 2012 program will feature keynotes from evidence-based training pioneer Dr. Ruth Clark and from workplace learning and communication expert Dr. Saul Carliner.