Six officers from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) at UCF are assisting at the Learning 2011 Conference. Former President Bill Clinton is the keynote speaker at the event, which attracts human resources and training attendees and speakers from business and industry. The conference is hosted by Elliott Masie, founder of The MASIE Center, an international think tank dedicated to exploring the intersection of learning and technology.
The students’ role is to highlight the skills that the younger generation (millennials) add to the workplace. They will showcase their natural generational strengths by providing the conference attendees with technical support for the custom Learning 2011 App (a multi-platform app for the event), which will run on iPhones, iPads, Androids, BlackBerrys or a web browser. The app will include social networking, content updating and note taking functions.
The six students are: