Financial Services - Are you reaching your learning goals?

Please join the 2nd Annual Transatlantic Videoconference on Innovations in E-learning with a focus on the Financial Services Sector. SHARE Boston and the New England Learning Association (NELA) join together for a special mid day boxed lunch broadcast from both Switzerland and Cambridge.

Esteemed experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss successful award winning learning programs in the financial services sector.

What is the world of corporate finance?
How does it change in other parts of the world?
Are we teaching the right skills?
Are we teaching the right way?
Are we taking advantage of today's technology?

Join us for a spirited discussion. Bring lots' of great questions.

The speakers are the following:

In Zurich Switzerland

Elisabeth Farmer, Program Director, Swiss Banking Institute, University of Zurich

Ms. Farmer is the Program Director of Corporate Finance Executive Education at the Swiss Finance Institute, University of Zurich and responsible for strategic issues and marketing activities around E-Learning and Executive Education within the institute. Esteemed author of "Integration of Bachelor and Executive Education, History and Prospects of a Win-Win Education Model", in: Book of Abstracts to the 12th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning & Training, November 29 - December 1, 2006, Berlin.

Elisabeth Farmer will present the course "eCF - Get involved in Corporate Finance" which has been awarded with the Medida Prix 2006 (Europe's highest endowed media-award) is a well proven blended learning course offered by the Swiss Banking Institute under the guardian of Prof. Rudolf Volkart (University of Zurich).

There are four main elements to this program:

Self study by following a well structured learning guide,
Team work based case study solving,
A support system through online coaching,
Class room lectures given by the Professor.

Video stream or podcast has given the course a maximum level of flexibility. The constantly increasing number of participants and the positive feedback testifies the success of this new approach to teaching and studying.

At SHARE Boston

Jonathan D. Small,Assistant Dean/Manager of E-Learning Instructional Design, New England College of Finance (NECF).

Jonathan Small serves as the Assistant Dean/Manager of E-Learning Instructional Design at the New England College of Finance (NECF). In this position he is responsible for day-to-day management of NECFOnline including online faculty and student support, course design & development, and content development for the NECFOnline.org website.

Since he joined the eLearning team, NECFOnline has experienced significant growth and has surpassed the on-ground courses as the College's primary source of revenue.

(NECF was) Established in 1909 as a non-profit association of "bankers training bankers," although New England College of Finance ("NECF")NECF later became the first regionally accredited school of it's kind in 1985. Recently NECF has evolved into a private, for-profit institution, NECF is in the process of transforming to a more traditional college structure while at the same time maintaining its ties to the financial services industry through on-ground and, increasingly, online courses/curricula. Started as a member organization, its members have included State Street Bank, Bank North, JP Morgan, the Federal Reserve of Boston, Sovereign Bank and many others.

The "new" NECF has broadned its mission to include more traditional students who are interested in entering the world of banking and financial services.

Following the teleconference there will be a Networking luncheon at SHARE - Consulate of Switzerland, Cambridge.