International Coaching Federation

International Coaching Federation

eLearning and the Human Element: Why Coaches are MORE Important in Digital Training Spaces

International Coaching Federation

In this session, Dr. Sarah Glova provided an overview of eLearning trends while focusing on hybrid digital training models—ones that match the cutting-edge advantages of eLearning with the human expertise of certified coaches. Topics included 1. What is elearning and what does it look like? 2. Where is elearning going and what trends do I need to be aware of? and 3. Why are coaches more important in the digital training space?

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Training session at the Economic Development Partnership of NC (EDPNC)

Training session at the Economic Development Partnership of NC (EDPNC)

Audience and Presentation Design presentation

Economic Development Partnership of NC (EDPNC) - Raleigh, NC

In this two-part workshop series, Dr. Sarah Glova and the team at Reify Media facilitated advanced workshop sessions about audience analysis, written and oral communication, presentation strategy with the team at EDPNC. The interactive, hands-on sessions invited the EDPNC team to consider new ways to adapt their messaging and presentation design to their target audience.

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All Things Open

All Things Open

You Don't Have to Moodle

All Things Open, Raleigh, NC

Dr. Sarah Glova discussed ways that organizations could leverage the power of WordPress for online courses. Typically Moodle is the preferred open-source tool, but WordPress is a technology that can also be applied to some educational-focused digital project spaces.

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Workplace Learning Conference, Association for Talent Development (ATD)

Workplace Learning Conference, Association for Talent Development (ATD)

WordPress Powered Learning Solutions for Training & Development

Workplace Learning Conference, Association for Talent Development (ATD) - Puget Sound, WA

WordPress can be a great solution to achieve learning and development goals and overcome deployment challenges in a user-friendly design. In this conference session, Dr. Sarah Glova facilitated a hands-on activity with the audience group that was followed by examples of how WordPress has been used to meet a client's learning goals. The group also explored how WordPress supports some of the most talked-about learning trends: mobile learning, just-in-time training and performance support systems, and learner-designed branching in online learning.

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Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) Faculty Development Workshop

Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) Faculty Development Workshop

Faculty Training Workshop

Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) - Doha, Qatar

Dr. Sarah Glova facilitated a workshop in-person at the Qatar campus of Texas A&M University. The workshop was designed and developed by Dr. Barbi Honeycutt, founder and CEO of Flip It Consulting. Dr. Glova added to the presentation, contributing research regarding the flipped class in engineering and a discussion of flipping introductory-level undergraduate courses. The session also included research regarding the flipped class across all disciplines and a discussion of student resistance to “the flip”.

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PechaKucha Night

PechaKucha Night

20 College Students: The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the Downright Ugly 

PechaKucha Night - Raleigh, NC

What kinds of students do you meet in a college classroom? Instructors Sarah Glova and Sarah Egan Warren share a lighthearted presentation about the 20 kinds of students they meet in college classrooms. Pecha Kucha is a short presentation composed of 20 images that are displayed for 20 seconds each. The result is 6 minutes and 40 seconds of a story at a fast but engaging pace. And because the slides are strictly images without any distracting text, the story takes center stage.

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