David Guralnick specializes in the use of technology to improve job performance, including simulations and other scenario-based e-learning techniques and online performance support systems. His first e-learning work was nearly twenty years ago, when he created the first learn-by-doing simulation for corporate use in 1991. Since that time, he has continued to play a variety of roles in the field, including strategist, designer, professor, keynote speaker, author, and conference founder and chair. He has also won numerous awards in the e-learning industry.

David's e-learning design philosophy is based around creating an effective, engaging learner experience, as he brings together concepts from instructional design, technology, and user experience research into each project. He has worked with companies both large and small, including Fortune 500 and multinational companies such as Target Corporation, IBM, Cemex, and General Electric, as well as a variety of non-profit organizations and universities. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where his work synthesized concepts from the fields of computer science, instructional design, and cognitive psychology.

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David will again chair the International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), in 2011 in  New York. David is the founder of ICELW.

Die Presse, the largest national Austrian newspaper, quotes David on the need for e-learning to focus on active learning-by-doing approaches.

David will give a keynote speech at the International Conference on Interactive and Computer-Aided Learning (ICL) from September 15-17, 2010, in Hasselt, Belgium.

David will give the opening keynote at Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Workplace on October 20, 2010, in Hasselt, Belgium.

"Educational Simulations: Learning from the Past and Ensuring Success in the Future," a book chapter by David Guralnick and Christine Levy, is now out! The chapter is in a book entitled Design and Implementation of Educational Games: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Diane Wilcox.