Dan Lyons—journalist, satirist, comedy writer—had always wondered what it was like to work for a tech startup. So, at the age of 52, he took the plunge and came away two years later with a New York Times best-selling memoir, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble, a laugh-out-loud account of a job experience gone horribly awry. Dan’s talk blends self-deprecating humor with insight about a changing workplace and the enormous role that training and learning play in shaping and maintaining a strong, healthy, sustainable corporate culture.

Go from storyboarding to storytelling, all within the Adobe eLearning ecosystem. With Captivate Draft, eLearning prototyping on your iPad becomes a reality. Collaborate and get your work reviewed on the cloud in real time. With the newly updated Captivate 9, you can continue to explore infinite eLearning authoring possibilities. Create interactive videos from the comfort of your home or office using Presenter Video Express. Bring it all together in Captivate Prime, the new easy-breezy LMS from Adobe that now allows you to integrate your Salesforce account and other existing IT systems. Attend this stimulating session to understand how you can leverage Adobe eLearning solutions to keep moving ahead. Faster.

Most instructional designers have experience creating storyboards prior to developing eLearning solutions. The storyboarding process enables you to work through a concept and test various ways of structuring content. You also can use storyboards to communicate design concepts to eLearning developers when working in teams to build training solutions.

In this session, you will learn about differences and similarities in the design process for mobile. You will learn to apply a step-by-step approach to use Adobe Captivate Draft as part of your mobile learning development workflow. You may be able to incorporate this approach into some existing storyboard processes. Yet, you will likely change the way you view design for all forms of eLearning!

In this session, you will learn:

• About the differences between traditional eLearning design and a mobile design approach
• How to develop a simple mobile storyboard using Adobe Captivate Draft
• How to bring your storyboard from your tablet to Captivate for development
• How to collaborate with others using Adobe Captivate Draft’s sharing features

In this session, you’ll learn game design approaches that improve learner engagement and strategies for incorporating them into your curricula and platforms. The session will cover design fundamentals like goal-setting, feedback, and challenges, with examples from EdTech platforms and games.

Experience a live demonstration of what makes learning smart, simple, and self-service in Captivate Prime. This demonstration will include a deep dive into Captivate Prime, Adobe’s new easy-to-use LMS, showing how simple it is to implement, manage, and use. The session will cover easy setup, course creation, management, and the learner experience, showcasing features like modular course building, smart enroller, Adobe Connect and Salesforce.com integrations, and the Fluidic player—and how all this can help improve your learning culture.

It’s easy as a developer to get boxed into what is familiar and just use the features that you know well. This might not be a bad thing, but Adobe Captivate 9 has so many awesome features. It might be time to get outside your comfort zone and learn about the features that can help you create any kind of aesthetically attractive and instructionally sound eLearning.

During this hands-on session, you will learn simple ways to add interactivity to your eLearning courses using interactive objects, multi-state objects, drag-and-drops, effects, and actions in Adobe Captivate. You will also learn about best practices to quickly convert drab, boring content to vibrant, interactive eLearning.

You want stunning courses, but you don’t want to spend a lot of time developing them. Learn how to use the myriad assets available to you as part of your Captivate 9 subscription to make professional, eye-catching, interactive courses, customized to your organization’s branding needs, in a fraction of the time it used to take.

A learning culture can provide the foundation for a successful, innovative, and healthy training program. But creating such a culture can seem a bit like herding cats. This session will provide a logical road map and guiding principles that have proved to be effective in growing a healthy learning culture. The session will include a practical exploration of the factors that contribute to a learning culture in every organization. Learn how to use variety and self-determination to foster a sense of autonomy. Learn how skill mapping and communication lend a sense of purpose to training materials and guide more meaningful learning paths. And learn how to leverage gamification to validate and guide individual and group training paths.

Interactive video: It’s here, and it’s the next big thing in video-based training. How do you get started? How expensive is it to create? In this session, you’ll find out how inexpensive it is to create interactive video. Too many people think video is expensive and interactive video has to be more expensive! At the end of this session, you will know and understand how easy and inexpensive it can be to create all kinds of interactivity in your videos. You’ll also learn to begin thinking about how to implement interactive video for your next course.

This session will take you through some strategies and techniques on how to prepare a targeted mLearning module in less than 60 minutes. Some of the key takeaways will be: how to include geolocation to deliver location-aware content to learners; how to design your template to support rapid development; and how to select the right smart position of objects to maintain content and layout integrity across devices.

This session will look at the importance of planning evaluation items with solid objectives and clear outcomes in mind. You will explore the ways in which assessments can end up failing to measure what designers and organizations intend. You will leave this session with a set of tips for improving evaluation by building it into the design of a learning program and using evaluation to support organizational goals.

In this session, you will learn:

• The importance of linking objectives with outcomes
• How to create better assessments
• Tips for building evaluation into program design
• How to link evaluation with business goals and outcomes

“Get-it-now, do-it-now” learners demand shorter and instantly useful knowledge. Learning content must now be succinct, yet highly contextual, and easy and affordable to produce.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Find opportunities for big returns on microlearning
• Define the scope of microlearning and its variations
• Significantly reduce huge content into useful knowledge
• Make succinct and compact content that impacts results
• Build easy, affordable, and reusable microframes and templates

Demos and examples will be featured using Adobe Captivate and Captivate Prime.

Many designers and developers find that after using Captivate for a short time, they want to start doing more, to create more interesting learner experiences, but they often hit a wall because they lack a background in simple scripting. This hands-on workshop will provide you with a big step forward in learning the secrets that can unleash your creativity. You will learn how to apply simple and complex actions within your eLearning, and as a result, you will be able to confidently take on those tasks that seemed daunting before!

Almost all learning is delivered online now, and it is rapidly moving toward mobile devices. Did you know that Captivate can adapt your learning effortlessly? With learning on the web, you can now take advantage of HTML5 technology, and that opens a whole new world of possibilities. By adding just a little bit of JavaScript to your Captivate project, you can make it do things that are simply not possible with Captivate (or any other tool) alone. Therefore, in this workshop you’ll also learn how to create and call JavaScript functions that add new power and flexibility to your learning.

Bring your laptop with the latest version of Captivate, and be ready to feel the power! By the time you’re done, you’ll be able to:

• Create user variables and use both system and your own user variables
• Apply a simple action whenever needed
• Create and use advanced actions and learn how to share them
• Create and apply scripts in JavaScript to truly extend Captivate’s abilities

One of the best features of Captivate is that it is an Adobe product. Adobe is well known for providing nothing less than the best creative tools in the world! So, why not unleash your creativity and productivity by combining the power of Adobe Captivate with the power of Adobe Creative Cloud? This session will explore applications, online services, and mobile apps from Adobe, and you will discover how to integrate these tools into your Captivate workflow for enhanced creativity and productivity.

Mobile devices have become a ubiquitous part of, and an essential tool in, nearly everyone’s personal and business lives. Thankfully, Adobe continues to develop and deliver a wide array of tools and technologies that simplify and accelerate the ways mobile devices can enhance and extend the learning experience for workers, students, and consumers. In this session, you will explore diverse forms of learning that you can craft—from static documents to highly interactive courseware—with solutions optimized for novices and experts alike as “access via mobile” becomes a rallying cry for training teams across every industry.

One thing that keeps learning professionals awake at night is the ever-shrinking attention span of learners. But the same learners are highly engaged when they are playing games or interacting through social media channels. During this session, you will look at different ways to convert drab and boring content to engaging and interactive eLearning courses to help you hold the attention of learners and make learning an enjoyable experience for them!

Here’s your chance to get a glimpse of the future as Adobe experts lift the lid on their latest developments. Learn more about innovation in eLearning content creation, enrichment, collaboration, delivery, and management.