David Guralnick specializes in the use of technology to improve job performance, including simulations, 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 won numerous awards in the e-learning industry, and his work has produced significant savings--due to improved job performance--for his clients. One initiative he designed for a large U.S. retailer has saved his client company over $220 million, according to company estimates--and still counting!

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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Follow David's e-learning tweets on Twitter, at @dguralnick_IELA.

David will again chair the International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW) 2012, June 13-15, 2012 in  New York. David is the founder of ICELW.

An interview with David has been published in Thomson Online Benefits, an employee-reward company in the UK.

Learning and Media in Latin America, the leading online magazine, has published an interview [in Spanish] with David and other e-learning experts.

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

David Guralnick's e-learning "user experience design" course is now offered online. The next class will be offered from April 2nd-May 25th, 2012. Click here for more details!

David will chair a panel and run a workshop at the Training & Development for Financial Services conference, March 20-21, in New York.

David will speak at the International Conference on Collaborative Learning, September 26-28, 2012, in Villach, Austria.

"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.