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Keynote Speaker
William Horton
President, William Horton Consulting, Inc.
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Horton has been designing technology-based training since
1971 when, as an undergraduate, he designed a network-based
course for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center
for Advanced Engineering Study.
William is an internationally sought-after speaker and instructor.
He has delivered presentations to the Distance Learning Conference
in Madison, the Human Resources Association National Congress
in São Paulo, the Information Technology Training Association
conference in Barcelona, the Knowledge Management Seminarium
in Stockholm, the Institute for Information Industry in Taipei,
and the Asian Development Bank in Manila and Tokyo.
He is a registered Professional Engineer, an MIT graduate,
and Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He
is a recipient of ACM's Rigo Award for contributions to software
documentation, IEEE's Alfred N. Goldsmith Award for contributions
to engineering communications, and the IF Award ( Germany
) for industrial design. He recently served on ASTD's eCC
(E-learning Courseware Certification) Committee, which drafted
quality standards for evaluating e-learning courses.
William Horton is a prolific author. His books include Designing
Web-Based Training, Designing
and Writing Online Documentation, Leading
E-learning, Evaluating
E-learning, Using
E-learning, and Secrets
of User-Seductive Documents. He is co-author of E-learning
Tools and Technologies (with his wife Kit), Getting
Started in Online Learning, and The
Web Page Design Cookbook.
William and his wife Kit, the other half of William Horton
Consulting, live in downtown Boulder, Colorado, just five
blocks east of the Rocky Mountains, in a hundred-year old
house they are lovingly restoring. The kitchen, which he and
Kit redesigned themselves, was featured in the April 1999
and September 2000 issues of Better Homes and Gardens.
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