We hope you enjoyed your time at the Totara User Conference. Thank you to all of our attendees and speakers for sharing your stories with us. The presentations are available to download below.
Please feel free to provide feedback and talk to other users from the conference here.
Diagrama de temas
- General
General
- Opening remarks: Lars Hyland
Enterprise Open Source - Open source technology already powers a growing proportion of all enterprise infrastructure. It lies at the heart of most of the technology tools you use and take for granted today. Why? The pace of innovation today, and the demands of doing business are such that it is increasingly costly and time-consuming to unilaterally build and maintain proprietary technology. It is simply unsustainable given the rapid change and uncertainty that most of us deal with on a daily basis. This session discusses the results of a recent survey of organisations existing and planned use of open source technology and how this relates to our adoption of learning technology.
- KEYNOTE: Lori Niles-Hofmann
The Learner Social Contract – The pressure on employees to learn, unlearn, and be agile in today's market is immense. Knowledge and skills are no longer just the tools of business outcomes and profitability. They can be the difference between employability or redundancy.
As learning practitioners, we have a moral responsibility to contingent workers so they can stay relevant. This means examining the ways we impact our audiences and building new frameworks for content development and strategy.
This session addresses the top ten key barriers to workplace learners and provides practical guidance on the actions you can take to harness and adapt the tools, people and processes around you.
- Product update: André Yamin
Totara Learn Director of Product Management, André Yamin, provides highly anticipated insight into the strategic direction of our product ecosystem.
In this session you can find out more about the recent UX and feature enhancements released in Totara Learn 12, and get an overview of what's due for release in version 13 - including multi-tenancy and enhanced reporting capabilities.
We then guide you through our plans to evolve the Totara platform beyond being a flexible learning management system, into something altogether more 'next-generation'.
- AG Barr & Learning Pool: James Marshall
Soft drink manufacturer A.G. Barr struggled to engage users in their initial LMS implementation leaving employees somewhat resistant to digital learning.
James shares how they responded to this challenge to successfully re-engage and win over employees with a first class user experience.
This project was awarded the Learning Technologies Award for the best UK learning platform implementation 2018. The judges said it was ‘one of the most user-friendly Totara implementations we have seen – significant measured value through cost savings, more sales and fewer health & safety incidents.’
- Totara Community: Rachel Griffith-Boyes
Learn how you can make the most of your Totara Community membership including access to a wealth of learning resources in the Totara Academy.
We showcase our plans for new sector spaces designed to foster collaboration and sharing with others working in our own areas of interest.
- Totara Perform: Michael Ball
Product Manager Michael Ball takes a quick look at Appraisals and the concept of performance cycles, before taking you through some of the new suite of performance features coming your way with Totara Perform.
Highlights include new Competencies, Check-in, and 360° feedback features, with insight into the direction we've taken plus a first-look at how they'll look to your learners.
- Future trends: Atish Gonsalves
This session covers future trends in L&D, including gamification, immersive learning (VR, AR) and AI-in-Ed (chatbots) and how the Humanitarian Leadership Academy is integrating these with its open humanitarian learning platform, Kaya.
The session discusses examples of innovative learning for individuals and organisations working in disaster preparedness and humanitarian response, and highlights feedback and challenges from early pilots and user testing.
Attendees leave the session with:
- Low-cost, low-tech tools to increase learning scalability and engagement
- New ideas to embed gamification immersive learning and chatbots in their training offer
- Practical links, resources and toolkits
- Thermo Fisher: Rolf van den Heuvel
Session 1: The importance of flexibility: migrating from SAP to Totara to promote self-directed learning
Thermo Fisher migrated from SAP to Totara in early 2018. Lessons were learned in the transition towards a "skills gap oriented" learning platform, which will enable Field Service Engineers to identify and close those gaps.
- Deutsche Bahn AG: Mario Perilli
Session 2: Using Totara Learn as a central platform in a decentralised organisationNew Learning Solutions is the in-house e-learning service provider and consultancy within DB Training that supports the whole Deutsche Bahn group, including international entities. New Learning Solutions design, develop and deliver digital content and supporting merchandising for “DB Lernwelt” (the central learning platform at DB based on Totara Learn). Mario shares his experiences of using Totara Learn as the central solution for the DB group. He shares quick wins and challenges in meeting the needs of the DB Training academy service, exploring how Totara Learn functionality has been used including working within limitations to meet the needs of wider group business structures. Also covered are the next steps and future expectations for using Totara Learn across DB Group, including increased use of mobile learning and managing platform performance.
- Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Daniel Bond
Session 3: You're in controlIn a world which increasingly demands personalisation and individual control, how can Totara Learn help? Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust currently use Totara to host eLearning, Face-to- Face Seminars and Appraisals, and this talk they look at how users can be empowered to manage their own learning and the learning of staff they manage.
- Mitchells & Butlers: Charlie Eades
Session 4: Getting social with MableMitchells & Butlers have built a mobile first, platform that encourages progression through structural gamification, peer to peer learning and social feedback and is personified as an older gym instructor named Mable (Mitchells and Butlers Learning Environment). Mable, herself was crucial to the fresh, comic marketing campaign that drummed up engagement and excitement across the estate for the cultural change ahead. This digital transformation delivered an ROI of 400% and significantly impacted key business metrics evidencing that team members are actively using what they have learned day to day. Mable transformed learning across the Mitchells & Butlers and Charlie is keen to share the critical success factors and challenges she and her team faced along the way. The story of how Mable transformed the digital learning culture at Mitchells & Butlers has plenty of successes and challenges and Charlie is keen to share her learnings on both.
- UNICEF: Abel Henry
Session 5: Agora: building UNICEF´s Global Hub for Learning with Totara LearnThe United Nations Children´s Fund (UNICEF) ambitions to provide a unique portal support a great diversity of learning needs, located all over the world and with a decentralised learning team. This project is a continuous improvement journey taking advantage of the strength of the Totara software and the possibilities offered by its open source nature. Three years, and more than 250,000 course completions after the launch of the platform, UNICEF share an overview of the project scope and history, before briefly presenting two original developments: a custom development plan interface building on Totara's core features, and an original set of solutions to build learning paths (a.k.a programs). The platform can be publicly accessed at: https://agora.unicef.org
- EULAR: Geneviève Schärer
Session 6: A seamless, responsive learning solution: EULAR's School of RheumatologyEULAR, the European League Against Rheumatism, wanted to create a motivating and intuitive digital learning experience for their academy, including over 40.000 users. Get insights on how EULAR approached the project, the solution design and the impact it had on learners.
- Totara Awards
Join us in recognising some of the outstanding Totara solutions of the year in use across key industry sectors.