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Enspire's Director of Production Planning Julia Preston will speak at this month's ASTD Austin meeting.

"Are Games the Same? Update the Blueprint of Your E-learning Process to Leverage Game Development"
Friday, March 12. 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

E-learning professionals such as you have figured out that games are useful tools for training people on a wide variety of topics. The problem is that many development teams are trying to use the same development process for new e-learning games as they used to create courseware with a linear experience. How many project timelines have fallen through? How many game projects have gone over budget? Sometimes, the final product doesn't even meet the original need. E-learning development teams need to customize their processes to address the specific needs of creating games. In our session, we will explore the problems and pitfalls of applying normal e-learning processes to game development through an interactive discussion. After discussing the best practices of the game industry and how these should be applied to learning games, we will facilitate a process design game. This game will allow participants to develop their skills by applying the development process to a case study game project.

Attendees should come prepared to participate – and to have fun!

For location and pricing information, visit ASTD Austin online.