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You’ll want to clone yourself as you choose from over 100 dynamic sessions covering eLearning best practices, how-tos, case studies, and emerging trends. Jump into the topics that best fit your needs, and gain the tools and knowledge to create more effective learning experiences.
Curated Paths
We’ve curated a number of specialized sessions designed to explore different facets of the industry in more detail. This year, these collections of sessions include an exploration of organization-wide approaches,unique perspectives from around the world, insights from key industries, an expanded focus on instructional design, and expert-led hands-on activities.
Learning & Performance Ecosystems sessions explore organization-wide approaches such as performance support, knowledge management, social technologies, and the interconnections of these technical and human systems that impact performance.
Get to know your neighbors from around the world! International Perspectives sessions offer a variety of approaches used around the globe and feature international speakers and organizations, often with clients from outside North America.
The Industry Insights sessions will curate L&D voices and case studies from different industries.
Are you an instructional design newbie or looking for the newest ideas in the field? We have a Curated Path on Intro to Instructional Design just for you! These sessions are the nuts and bolts to provide you the latest foundations in eLearning instructional design.
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) sessions and workshops provide you with in-depth, hands-on training with step-by-step instruction.
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How can you create HTML5 content and animations without knowing how to program or code? Use user-friendly tools without a steep learning curve to create engaging, interactive content that exports directly to HTML5. Integrate the work once and publish to all PCs and mobile devices.
Read MoreJoin this session for an in-depth look at the tools, designs, and technologies you should be focused on in learning today and what’s just around the corner. The session will dissect what technology will be enhancing learning, and what you should get excited about and start planning to integrate into your solutions.
Read MoreWith the advancements of machine learning, multiple data points now reveal previously hidden connections between what your employees know and the results your business will achieve. This revolutionary technology now allows you to reach Kirkpatrick’s Level 4—organizations can measure behavior change and predict future business outcomes based on learning data. These learning insights provide the opportunity for businesses to take strategic action before a predicted negative outcome becomes reality.
Read MoreWhen training courses don’t feel relevant to your learners’ work, the learners are less likely to meaningfully engage. You can capture their attention by turning dull, text-filled slides into a relatable scenario. This type of interaction gives learners an opportunity to apply new skills and explore outcomes in a low-pressure environment.
Read MoreYou already know the value of tying your people development activities back to the “holy grail” question: “Did anybody even use the thing?” But, at times, that can be a daunting task fraught with pitfalls and challenges that often make people resort to a “happy sheet” or “tick in the box.” There must be a better way!
Read MoreVirtual learning sessions can be engaging ways to reach a wide and dispersed audience, but the skills you need to successfully plan and produce them are distinctly different from those you need for in-class sessions or other learning experiences. When planning to adopt virtual classroom platforms for learning sessions, successful organizations need a clear idea of what management, design, delivery, and technical issues to consider.
Read MoreMelissa is a rising star at your company. She’s been promoted five times in as many years, and she is on track to join your leadership bench program. Unfortunately, she just gave her two weeks’ notice.
Read MoreProvide learners with an engaging learning experience on any device—without spending countless hours tweaking content for various screen sizes. With Rise, the responsive course authoring app in Articulate 360, all you need is a web browser to quickly create beautiful courses that are automatically optimized for every device.
Read MoreSMM103 Language, Culture, and eLearning: How to Make Your Multilingual Learning Project Successful
Management & Measurement
Too often, eLearning developers and instructional designers create projects for a multilingual audience using only English as the framework language. They have it translated to their target languages, then scratch their heads over why global learners aren’t progressing as quickly as those in the United States.
Read MoreShrinking budgets and constrained resources have made it more important than ever to make the most of the resources you have when designing learning experiences. Thankfully, the increasing availability of cloud-based applications and other free tools makes it easier than ever to create and develop learning experiences that don’t have to cost a bundle.
Read MoreSMM104 Define the Learning Problem Before Determining the Solution
Management & Measurement
You’re looking for a learning solution; that’s why we’re all here. But first, let’s take a step back and look at the learning problem—how do you define it? How do you measure it? When the challenge is well-defined, the learning solution becomes clearer. So let’s try defining the problem from a new perspective—the learner’s. The learner is the first key stakeholder in education, so why don’t we put ourselves in their shoes to properly identify the problem and the solution?
Read MoreImagine no longer sitting at your desk to complete the latest product training module, and instead accessing it on your tablet in your van—or accessing performance support on your phone from a casino floor! Learn what the Aristocrat Technologies team had to learn to make these experiences better for learners.
Read MoreSMM105 The Learning Revolution: 6 Trends That Will Change Behaviors
Management & Measurement
The holy grail of learning is undoubtedly behavior change. It’s said that learning can only be proved when behaviors are affected and one can see an evidenced change in practice. But how realistic is genuine behavior change in a learning program?
Read MoreThe fourth industrial revolution is leading to the creation of jobs requiring new skill sets and, in many cases, the creation of new jobs themselves. This calls for continuous training and upskilling. Traditional formats, like learning in classroom and instructor-led formats or learning in formal education settings, no longer work; they are neither cost-efficient nor time-efficient.
Read MoreDesigning great user experiences for your learners is critical to the success of how they engage; how they utilize content, tools, and apps; and how they focus on the task at hand. This session will break down what’s important in designing great experiences, and provide you with resources to get you started and inspired from mobile to desktop and beyond.
Read MoreAll too often, learning technologies are disconnected and used in isolation. For example, you may use one set of solutions to author content, which is then deployed in another solution to be consumed and managed. To then connect those learning opportunities to performance measures requires still another solution. It’s hard to identify the most important connection: where it all fits with your day-to-day, on-the-job experiences.
Read MoreSMM106 Knowing Your Business: Using Context to Improve Success
Management & Measurement
You want a seat at the table, but you have a difficult time engaging with the right stakeholders. You want your team to be recognized as performance consultants, but do you understand how the business operates?
Read MoreeLearning technologies, conventions, and trends are progressing daily, and the path they’re on is not so different from that of the web. Web design reached “high design” status long ago, while eLearning design is much more often left to grassroots methods and simply “what we’ve done before.” This session seeks to bridge the gap by exposing what eLearning design can learn from web design.
Read MoreDo your learning solutions end when your learners depart? Do you struggle to know what content to include in your limited time? How are you shaping the 70 percent and the 20 percent of the 70:20:10 mix? There is a lot of talk today about informal or workflow learning, but what are you doing to design it? What if there was a proven way to design for the 70 and 20?
Read MoreSMM107 Putting Data to Work: Insights for Business and ID
Management & Measurement
Thanks to xAPI, L&D professionals have an ever-growing pool of data; but, in order for that data to give you more value than the traditional LMS-based data sets, you need to rethink what measures and analyses you want to employ.
Read MoreEffective onboarding can be pivotal for retaining new hires. Employees who don’t feel engaged often leave during the first year, costing the company up to five times their annual salary. At Fidelity, a percentage of employees were voluntarily leaving within 18 months of hire, many to pursue other opportunities. The onboarding experience needed a radical overhaul on a lean budget, both financially and in terms of organizational capital.
Read MoreHow can you create HTML5 content and animations without knowing how to program or code? Use user-friendly tools without a steep learning curve to create engaging, interactive content that exports directly to HTML5. Integrate the work once and publish to all PCs and mobile devices.
Read MoreTools & Platforms
In the modern age, how do you keep your learners engaged? Join this session to listen in on some best practices for HTML5 in eLearning, including how to chunk content, add interactivity, and create non-linear presentations.
Read MoreSMM201 Gamification and Microlearning: Measuring Real-Time Results to Adapt Learning, Automatically
Management & Measurement
In this session, you will learn why gamification is an almost perfect vehicle to deliver microlearning.
Read MoreAre you looking for amazing ways to use your mobile device to create content?
Read MoreSTP202 Ready, Set, Animate! Content Animation Options for Any Budget
Tools & Platforms
You have learning content that you want to translate into an animation. You’re short on time and budget. Whether you are creating the animation in house or subcontracting, how do you leverage your expertise in instructional design to help optimize the storyboarding and development process?
Read MoreSDD202 Usability Testing: Answering the Design Questions You Never Knew You Had
Design & Development
When designing eLearning, you may be so familiar with the content and delivery systems that you are blind to the problems your actual users encounter. When reviewing learner evaluations, you may get vague comments such as “there were glitches,” but how can you address such issues without understanding the root of the problem or knowing how much of that is under your actual control?
Read MoreSMM202 An Agile Approach to Learning Development
Management & Measurement
Business needs and technology are constantly evolving through cycles of change. Traditional approaches to learning development have had trouble quickly translating a business requirement into an appropriate learning solution available at the moment of need. This delay causes dissatisfaction for the audience for several reasons; most notably, it increases time to competency because learners don’t have the proper learning resources to complete the job. So how can you get faster at designing and developing the learning experiences your audiences need?
Read MoreSDD203 How Global Organizations Create and Deliver eLearning at Scale
Design & Development
For global organizations, time is of the essence. Getting eLearning content about new products or services into learners’ hands instantly can be a game-changer, giving them a vital competitive edge.
Read MoreArticulate knows that eLearning developers face big challenges. You’re asked to create engaging courses for any device, develop gorgeous eLearning on a budget, work with stakeholders, and develop your skills.
Read MoreDo you want to learn how to onboard Millennial employees to set them up for long-term success?
Read MoreWhat does a development team do when they discover that multiple programs require new courses in order to ensure graduates in every state can receive teaching licenses? This is the challenge Western Governors University faced. State endorsement changes meant creating 17 new courses in less than three months. How did this challenge become a growth opportunity for the team to create a rapid development process?
Read MoreSMM204 A Proven Checklist Tool for Objective Program Evaluation
Management & Measurement
Consistent program evaluation can be a challenge. Organizations must invest time and manpower wisely in order to generate feedback that will improve training outcomes and produce a positive ROI. Asking a department to judge its own work compromises objectivity, whereas hiring outside consultants generates tension. So what’s a better option? A substantive rubric aligned with a standards-based evaluative tool. This approach can help you achieve results that a mere survey, or departmental self-evaluation, cannot.
Read MoreSDD204 Converting Existing Training Materials into Meaningful Learning Programs
Design & Development
You have instructor-led courses, recorded webinars, product training, onboarding videos, documentation, and more. You believe you can somehow turn all of this into a great learning program, but how? How do you make sense of all of your materials and determine what’s necessary for a great learning experience? Is eLearning the right solution? And if it is, in what format and with what kinds of features?
Read MoreMany organizations purchase an LMS to help with a few challenges, but fail to fully understand and utilize the full functionality of the technology.
Read MoreSDD205 Creating Virtual Reality Training Using Interactive 360-Degree Videos and Images
Design & Development
You may have heard that virtual reality (VR) training experiences have a proven higher retention rate, with retention gains reaching 75 percent in comparison to standard video, eLearning, or textbook training. What you need to know is how to create and deploy VR training quickly and cost-effectively, with the systems you have today.
Read MoreSomething many organization face when implementing blended learning solutions is the lack of integration between the instructor-led training (ILT) component and the LMS. Integrating ILT or VILT sessions into an eLearning environment can be frustrating for both the trainer and the learner.
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