5 May 2009

Halls joins national committee

Jonathan Halls has been invited onto the national education committee that plans the ASTD TechKnowledge conference. 

ASTD is the American Society for Training and Development.  TechKnowledge is the society’s  annual conference that showcases the latest developments in e-learning.

ASTD is the largest association of workplace learning professionals in the world.  Their conferences attract thousands of attendees from around the globe.  Each conference has a an educational committee that provides input and professional advice to help the organizers plan the educational sessions.

Jonathan will bring his expertise in adult learning and communication to the group.  As a media specialist who has worked at the cutting edge of some of the latest developments, he will review the track on emerging technologies and support the committee’s goal of keeping the conference at the leading edge of the learning profession.

The committee is chaired by Jim Javenkovski PhD, from Chicago, who has long been an evangelist for using technology to create quality learning experiences that lead to improvements in performance.

Jonathan Halls was a speaker at the last two TechKnowledge conferences.  He received knockout reviews from attendees who rated him highly as an “excellent speaker”. 

Audiences responded to his ability to make complex topics easy to understand while motivating the audience to build new skills. 

Jonathan has also served on ASTD's planning committee for the International Conference and Expo.  He reviewed the leadership tracks for the conference in 2006 and 2007.  Jonathan is actively engaged in the ASTD.  He was founding president of ASTD's Global Network in the UK.