Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Kick-start your day with Morning Buzz, the ever-popular “Early Bird” discussions. This is your chance to grab a cup of coffee and meet other conference attendees in a relaxed, casual environment, so you can share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.

Autodesk’s learning ecosystem is vast, extending far beyond the walls of the corporation to help customers use its tools most effectively. It’s no surprise, then, that driving this change internally at a company-wide scale has been a complex undertaking. There are lots of silos to bridge in order to serve customers well, holistically, and seamlessly.

In this session, you’ll learn from the frameworks and principles Autodesk has used to connect, improve, and envision the future of its customer learning and community ecosystem. You’ll explore concrete examples of project successes, obstacles, and failures along the way so far. You’ll also look in detail at the research-based design process Autodesk used to understand its customers, their problems, and how Autodesk could help them. Through exploring this journey, you’ll discover how to stitch together a learning ecosystem that improves customer experiences, strengthens your communities, and drives customer success.

In this session, you will learn:

• About new frameworks to describe learning ecosystems
• How a big company can undergo massive change to orient around customers
• Why it’s important to anchor what you create to customer needs and dynamics
• How content and community strategy interplay to help make customers successful
• How technology architecture and governance models can support this kind of change

Audience:
Intermediate managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).

Technology discussed in this session:
Microservice architecture, APIs (including xAPI), community platforms, content management platforms, and engineering software.

Traditional training requires an event mindset and often stays in the learners’ brains just as long as the event. Hilti needed to find ways to transfer knowledge that builds skills, and then to retain that knowledge until the point of application.

This session will explore how a conservative company journeyed into the technology wilderness and came out with a new mindset. You will see how Hilti embraced the social age, committed to changing its own behaviors, and aimed to ensure the success of the organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• About collaborative learning technology theory
• About collaborative learning technology in action
• How to create action plans for defining appropriate projects to target
• How to create a learning technology stakeholder map for decision-makers

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and managers. Participants should have knowledge or experience with responsive development tools accessible via app or PC.

Technology discussed in this session:
Collaborative learning technology.

In nature, an ecosystem refers to the combination of a community of living things, the non-living elements that make up their environment, and the many ways in which those individual elements interact. In order for an ecosystem to thrive, the individual components must connect and support one another, balancing each other so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Ecosystems exist in the workplace as well. Understanding the structure and dependencies of an organizational ecosystem can help you build a better learning and performance strategy.

In this session, you will examine the expanded scope of a learning and performance ecosystem, examining the numerous components that contribute to learning and performance improvement. You will also explore how these individual components can be combined into a single cohesive strategy in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the relationships that exist between your workers and their environment
• The numerous components of a learning and performance ecosystem
• How the environment contributes to performance improvement
• How to build connections between individual components to form a single organizational strategy

Audience:
Managers, directors, and learning executives.

Technology discussed in this session:
Various technologies.

It’s estimated that 50 to 90 percent of training is “scrap learning”—content that is delivered but never actually applied back on the job. Scrap learning serves no practical purpose and is essentially a waste of everyone’s time. L&D professionals can’t help but be uncomfortable with those figures, but nothing in their traditional training bag of tricks has proven capable of eliminating that waste. It’s time to alter the training paradigm.

In this session, you’ll examine the heart of the scrap learning problem and experience its most effective antidote. Instead of trying to get workers to internalize all of the relevant knowledge before they need it (an impossible task), L&D professionals should instead capture the knowledge and tools the workers need and disperse that guidance into the workplace, where they can quickly assess and apply it directly to the work they are doing. This session will demonstrate how to assemble such mini-performance support to help you significantly “cut the scrap” in the training you deliver.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why so much of training becomes scrap learning
• How just-in-time guidance ensures effective application of the training on the job
• What models you can use for assembling effective mini-performance support to provide guidance at the point of performance
• How integrating performance support into your training can make the course itself more effective, more efficient, and considerably more engaging

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).

Technology discussed in this session:
The session will demonstrate several web-based models (viewable on all standard devices) that attendees can follow to augment and expand their training into the workplace.

Training professionals typically fall along a continuum with varying levels of access to their target audience. That amount of access often influences, consciously or not, the techniques they use to analyze their audience. Without adequate awareness of this continuum and where they fall on it, designers risk depending on their own assumptions about their target audience and may end up overlooking more effective analysis strategies that can improve training.

In this session, you’ll discover where you fall along this continuum, identifying your own level of access to your target audience, and find out how unexamined assumptions about your audience may be impacting your training design. Based on that information, you’ll explore tips, tricks, and techniques drawn from case studies for how you can reach your audience more effectively. In this knowledge-sharing session, you’ll also uncover how techniques used by other L&D professionals can have a bearing on your design decisions, allowing you to better serve your audience.

In this session, you will learn:

• Where you fall along a continuum, identifying your level of access to your target audience
• How unexamined assumptions about your audience may be impacting your training design
• Tips, tricks, and techniques for how you can reach your audience more effectively
• How techniques used by other L&D professionals can uncover previously missed opportunities to better serve your learners

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.

Agile design processes are beginning to change the ways that people create training content. While agile design appeared in the L&D space only in the last few years, they took hold in the software industry much earlier, starting in the mid-1990s. Clearly there is overlap between L&D and the software industry, and if agile design works in both worlds, what other practices used by software development teams could help L&D create better training and work more effectively?

In this session, you’ll take a closer look at software development best practices and identify the opportunities for L&D professionals to learn from that industry. In particular, you’ll discuss pain points that training teams encounter and find out how software development practices have been built to address similar pain points. Finally, you’ll take specific software practices (such as version control, code libraries, and “commenting your code”) and adapt them to training development with examples from Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline projects.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the similarities between your existing processes and software development best practices
• About areas where your processes could be improved using techniques from the software development field
• How to improve consistency and quality when multiple developers work on separate, but related, content
• How to avoid common issues when multiple developers need to work on the same files

Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers, developers, project managers, and managers

Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft SharePoint, Basecamp, open-source or free tools, Adobe Captivate, and Articulate Storyline.

Serious games and simulations have the potential to bridge abstract concepts and real-world applications. But too often, simulations limit themselves to lower-level skills like memorization, resulting in glorified quizzes that are expensive to produce but feel disconnected from real decision-making. And when serious games try to engage higher-order skills, they often do so ineffectively. The decisions that are rewarded may be subjective and arbitrary, leaving learners frustrated and disempowered.

Through case studies and group work, in this session you’ll uncover ways to use techniques such as badging, challenge scenarios, and working with imperfect information to accelerate past rote learning while providing a more interesting and fun learning experience. You’ll also learn how to apply critical thinking models in these experiences to help your audience identify assumptions, analyze arguments, and make better decisions. By learning techniques for measuring and improving critical-thinking skills in the context of serious games and gamification, you’ll open new pathways to building people’s skills in more meaningful and effective ways.

In this session, you will learn:

• How you can identify and model the higher-order thinking skills that can be improved by using serious games and simulations
• How to turn flat, quiz-like experiences into sophisticated, thought-provoking applications
• How to use game design mechanics to improve learner engagement while addressing higher-order skills
• What best practices you should use to create effective serious games and simulations

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, and managers.

The Experience API (xAPI) can improve the ways you create and deliver content, track interactions, and measure performance—and not just in theory. Years of momentum have resulted in numerous use cases for teams seeking to leverage xAPI to better track, measure, and manage their learning efforts. The challenge now is not whether xAPI can be used in your learning environment, but which ways you will choose to use it out of the multitude of options available to you.

This session will discuss what xAPI really is and how it’s being put into use today. You’ll explore how progressive teams are leveraging xAPI to improve learning, streamline tracking, automate tasks, and drive engagement via modern authoring tools and an LRS. You’ll also look at how LMSs are undergoing transformations to support these trends as well. Throughout this talk, you’ll uncover how authoring tools, LMS platforms, mobile apps, and IoT endpoints are being connected to leverage the power of xAPI. You’ll even take a closer look at the basic challenges teams face in implementing xAPI. Armed with knowledge and the proverbial Swiss Army knife of xAPI functions, this session will help you begin to “slice, saw, tweeze, and pick” your way through any training obstacles you face.

In this session, you will learn:

• Which authoring tools and learning platforms best take advantage of xAPI and cmi5
• What the basic structural and design tenets of an xAPI-based solution are, and the best-practice approach to implementing them
• About new use cases to apply tracking to nontraditional learning assignments and interactions
• About technical challenges you’ll need to overcome with LMS integration, security, mobile, and more
• About the importance of cmi5 and its future impact on learning

Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Examples of how xAPI is used within a variety of content authoring tools, how statements are collected using both integrated and remote learning record stores (LRSs), and how xAPI statements can be applied to traditional training and informal learning interactions.

How many times have you had to redo a project because you thought you understood the challenge, goals, or requirements but the final product didn’t work as expected or fully solve the issue? As we start to build more complex interactions and applications, we need to improve our process to allow us to test a concept, measure its results, and iterate over and over until it meets the needs of our audience. Thankfully, software development already has a fantastic process for doing this that we can borrow from that field: prototyping.

Whether you’re creating a new course, designing an activity, planning an app, or creating your next ecosystem, you can noticibly improve your development using the latest strategies in prototyping your ideas. In this session you’ll explore the techniques and processes you’ll need to begin prototyping as soon as you get back to your desk. You’ll learn how to communicate concepts beginning with low-fidelity prototypes, gather user feedback, and translate all that into high-fidelity prototypes before you start development. You’ll also find out about dozens of prototyping tools and resources that will help you get started. By the end of this session, you’ll know how to adopt and utilize these prototyping concepts in your very next project.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to get started with applying prototyping to your process
• Techniques for paper-, web-, and app-based prototyping
• What new web-based apps can help you to accelerate the process
• How to collect feedback, review it, and prioritize your next steps
• What mobile-based apps and tools can help you with quick prototyping

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
PowerPoint/Keynote for wireframing a concept, Marvel Web and Mobile App for prototyping, CRAFT Plug-in for content generation, and Proto.io for advanced interactions.

Virtual reality (VR) is a hot topic in technology that offers potential for increased immersion, interactivity, and engagement for your learners.

In this session, you will learn what VR is (and what it isn’t), how it can enhance learning for your audience, and how you can develop and implement VR on a limited (or no) budget. In addition to a deeper dive into the world of VR for learning and development, you will take a look at one of the most popular solutions, Google Cardboard.

In this session, you will learn:

• What VR is
• How to develop and implement VR on the cheap
• How VR can enhance learning
• About VR options on little to no budget
• About Google Cardboard

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, and project managers. Attendees should: be aware of social media, such as Facebook and YouTube; know how to install apps on their mobile devices from Google Play or the iOS App Store; and be able to discuss VR, AR, 360-degree video, and how they compare and contrast.

Technology discussed in this session:
Virtual reality (VR), HTML5, Unity3D, iOS, Android, Android SDK/Studio (IDE), 360-degree video, Facebook 360, YouTube 360, and Google Cardboard SDK.

Do you have a difficult time estimating how long a project should take? Do you typically go over your project time estimates, or have some projects that take a lot less time than you thought they would? Would you like to hold your team accountable to realistic time estimates, but don’t have the data to support it? If so, you need a new time-tracking approach so you can more accurately determine your time estimates for training projects.

This session will help you become stronger at creating precise and realistic time estimates for your projects. You’ll look at how to break down the time tracking requirements for your team. You’ll then see how using an Excel-based time tracking system can help you analyze your past projects to better understand the real time tasks take and more accurately create bottom-up time estimates. These skills will help you provide clear time estimates to your team and stakeholders for each training project and prevent you from committing to project timelines you actually can’t deliver on.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to break down your time tracking requirements for your team
• How an Excel-based time tracking system can help you create accurate project times
• How to analyze past data to determine comparative and bottom-up time estimates
• How this process can help you provide more precise project time estimates to your team and stakeholders

Audience:
Novice to intermediate project managers and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft Office.

Microlearning videos under one minute in length require rapid storyboarding and predefined video content structures. As the length of the video decreases, so does the optimal format of the video. Leaving out too many details will have a negative effect on your learning strategy. Every second counts for your learner!

In this session, you will learn the process for creating microvideo, including video length considerations, optimal short video structures, emotional push/pull events, and instructional media strategies. Explore the steps for creating microcontent and tricks for using video analytics to select the best content for a microvideo. You will leave with specific formulas for creating short-form video-based content.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the various structures for microvideo
• When to use microvideo for learning
• Formulas for opening and closing a microvideo
• About the importance of emotional pull and push techniques
• Effective instructional microvideo techniques

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Video content management systems, video playback, and storyboarding tools.

Technology required:
A computer with a video editing tool loaded.

It can be difficult to motivate employees to learn. Often, they either don’t think the materials apply to them or they believe they don’t need to know anything more to succeed.

This session will demonstrate a program developed to encourage and track employee learning. With a focus on continuous improvement, it rewards employees for all learning that pertains to their job, including reading articles and books, watching videos, and attending conferences. You will learn how, in a self-paced environment, employees are able to choose when and what they learn and tailor their learning to their specific job needs. This allows them to excel at their current job and prepare for their next step.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to encourage employee learning
• How to track all employee learning
• How to reward learning
• About systems that are available to accomplish tracking
• About the benefits of recognizing all types of learning

Audience:
Novice to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).

Technology discussed in this session:
Absorb LMS, Degreed, PC, and mobile.

Global. Digital. Mobile. Agile. Disruption. The business landscape is changing rapidly. New technology, new industries, new entrants, new customers, and an evolving workforce are sparking new expectations for every company. How do you respond? Can you advance human performance through innovative design?

In this session, you’ll discover how BMO Financial Group is addressing this changing landscape by building a leading, end-to-end learning and experience design ecosystem. The BMO team’s approach uses design thinking, nimble processes, and the right combination of engagement, design, social, learning, and communication levers to meet business needs. You’ll explore BMO’s journey to make this strategy come to life, what has changed, and its early proof points of success.

In this session, you will learn:

• What the role of the designer is in advancing human performance
• How to break down the silos between learning, design, and communication to create new employee-focused solutions
• How to bring design thinking to life, to prototype, and to hack with curious experimentation
• How to use a design community of practice to drive new capabilities and spark innovation

Audience:
Novice to intermediate managers, directors, and senior leaders (VP, CLO, executive, etc.).

Technology discussed in this session:
This session will focus on new design approaches and channels vs. specific technology platforms.

Are you overwhelming new hires with thousands of policies, procedures, and fact sheets in your knowledge base? New hires rarely even know what they’re looking for, much less how to find it. This frustration prevents them from gaining confidence and delays achieving mastery in the job. And let’s face it—even experienced employees can struggle from time to time finding the right piece of information in the knowledge base.

In this session, you’ll learn how to create knowledge maps (specifically, structure and application maps) based on the schemata of experts and top performers. You’ll see how your maps can help new hires build a visual representation or mental model of their job and what it takes to be successful. Then, see how to leverage your maps to explain the organization of your new-hire curricula. Finally, see how your maps can be used to organize your knowledge base, providing logical access to tools that new hires need in training and on the job, including microlearning modules.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to create a knowledge structure map
• How to create a knowledge application map
• How to use knowledge maps in your new-hire training
• How to leverage knowledge maps to create curated pages in your knowledge base or knowledge management system

Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Knowledge management systems, mind-mapping software, and Adobe Dreamweaver.

Responsive eLearning design is becoming less of a nice-to-have feature and more of an absolute must for many organizations. As a result, the most popular authoring tools, like Captivate, Storyline, and Lectora, have been adding more features for integrating responsive design, while some newer tools have been designed right from the start to accommodate the needs of this design concept. That said, these tools each take a different approach to making content responsive, so you’ll want to make sure you’re using the right one for your needs.

In this session, you’ll take a closer look at the similarities and differences in the ways that commonly used eLearning tools approach responsive design. You’ll see the finished output and the under-the-hood mechanics, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each option. You’ll also investigate how these tools compare to other platforms that are designed more specifically for responsive courses, such as Gomo, Rise, and Adapt.

In this session, you will learn:

• Different approaches to responsive design
• The relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach
• How popular eLearning tools accommodate responsive design
• What criteria will help you decide which approach is best for you

Audience:
Novice and intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Captivate, Storyline, Lectora, Gomo, Rise, and Adapt.

You’re faced with volumes of complicated content that you must translate into effective training. Your SMEs are pushing for delivering it through hours and hours of web-based training, which you know your audience will dread. You’ve heard of the benefits of using a micro format, but how can you possibly use it to cover all of that content?

In this session, you’ll learn how to slim down your content and use formats such as email campaigns, modular mini-courses, and microlearning videos to help your learners understand and use challenging content. You’ll discover how to break down the issues related to simplifying difficult content and translate these issues into key goals. You’ll then dive into examples of real micro solutions to find out more about the content analysis techniques and instructional design approaches that made these projects a success. By the end of this session, you’ll be able to use microlearning to create solutions that respect your audience’s time while also ensuring your SMEs feel you’ve covered the material thoroughly.

In this session, you will learn:

• Tips and tricks for crafting microlearning content
• How to employ content analysis techniques for simplified learning in micro formats
• How to design simplified instruction for micro formats
• How to apply the tips and tricks in the session to change how you deliver content in your own workplace

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and managers.

While human narration can add warmth and help connect the learner to your eLearning course, hiring a professional can be costly and time-consuming. Recording yourself can be a more budget-friendly option; but have you tried to record yourself only to find that you sound more robotic than the text-to-speech software? Great voice-over work takes strong delivery and assistance from recording software—and thankfully, it’s actually quite easy to learn the basics of both.

In this session, you’ll explore simple ways to improve your voice-over recordings. You’ll learn breathing techniques to make you a more effective speaker, scriptwriting tips to make a better product for reading, how to mark a script to help you read it more accurately in the recording session, and the secrets of delivering your text in a professional and impactful way. You’ll also discover the basics of the Audacity recording software, a free and powerful tool that’s perfect for low-cost recording.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to write a script that works for narration
• The confidence to be your own voice-over actor
• How to use effects in Audacity to improve your recordings
• How to deliver text to an audience in an impactful way

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Audacity.

When you say the word “game,” you might think of first-person shooters, slaying dragons, racing cars, and fighting battles—all of the things that your manager does not want to hear. If you are uncertain of how to plan, design, and develop a serious (business) game, then this is the right session for you. Making a “serious game” acceptable to management and fun for the player is the goal.

In this session, you will first learn about the components of gaming, how to identify and incorporate your business goals, the mechanics of the game, motivators, storytelling tips, engagement techniques, game themes, rewards, challenges, and most importantly, the incorporation of learning. You will then be introduced to a process map that illustrates the components of the game, how they are sequenced, how training can be associated with challenges, and how motivators are used throughout to keep the learners engaged. Finally, you will learn how to measure the users’ pre-game and post-game knowledge of the desired learning topic.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the sequencing of elements within a game
• How to use a process map designed specifically for gaming
• About game mechanics
• About the importance of preparing an integrated action plan

Audience:
Intermediate to advanced designers, developers, project managers, managers, and directors with a mid-senior level of instructional design experience.

Technology discussed in this session:
Social media and the Carii game platform, which will incorporate chat, posts, video, metrics, etc.

Status update. Touch base. Weekly meetings. Scope creep. Project plans. Tasks. Milestones. Deliverables. All these things can overwhelm you when managing projects—but they don’t have to! It turns out there are ways to juggle and advance your numerous projects while at the same time maintaining a semblance of serenity.

In this session, you’ll find out more about the project planning techniques and tools that can help you manage and streamline your course development and projects. You’ll examine how both planning and communication contribute to project management, how dashboards and timelines work to bring order to chaos, and what real examples of these plans look like in easy-to-learn software like Smartsheet and Google Docs. You’ll walk away with tools and approaches to streamline your project planning, preserve your sanity, and take charge of your projects.

In this session, you will learn:

• Strategies for planning and communication when working on collaborative content development projects
• How to create a project status dashboard to keep stakeholders up-to-date
• How to create a high-level project timeline for your SME partners so they stay on track without getting overwhelmed by details
• How to create a project plan with milestone deadlines and tasks that align with a course development process

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, project managers, managers, and directors.

Technology discussed in this session:
Smartsheet and Google Docs.

You use online video, but do you know how it works and why videos uploaded to YouTube may behave differently than those uploaded directly into an LMS? Online video use is growing for training and learning, but many people don’t know what happens and what’s possible after a video is uploaded.

This session will walk you through the upload to playback and user reporting experience for online video. You will leave the session knowing why the playback experience is different depending on a user’s device and connection speed, how data about users is captured in relation to that video, and what you need to ask your technical teams so that you can optimize your learner’s experience.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the differences between major video sites and how they process video
• What encoding does
• What a CDN is
• How user data is captured with audio/video players
• Why there are differences in playback and security depending on where you host

Audience:
Novice designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Online video.

Rapid eLearning development tools are incredibly helpful, but they may leave you scratching your head, wondering “How am I going to do that?” You know there has to be a way to make the idea you have in your head work in this tool, but you’re just not quite sure how. That’s when it’s time to shift your creativity into high gear and find a crafty solution for things that aren’t default processes.

In this session, you’ll discover seven successful hacks that will not only save you production time but also help you rethink what’s possible for your eLearning production. These hacks will focus on addressing common challenges that eLearning producers face, whether those issues lie in the tool being used or the approach you’re taking. From interactions to audio to images, you’ll find new ways to use the tools you already know.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to work around for time interactions
• About elegant solutions for quick-loading video
• How to build and reuse themes
• How to record, edit, and sync audio
• How to use shortcuts
• How to roundtrip images
• How to communicate with team members

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers and developers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Media Encoder, and Adobe Audition.

It’s a common problem: You’ve been handed the same old content, but you just can’t bear the idea of creating the same old learning experience with it. But even if you’re limited in the changes you can make to the content, you do have two great tools for enhancing it: storytelling and visuals. By applying powerful storytelling and graphic design techniques, you can transform that tired content into engaging eLearning and leave your audience amazed at how much more entertaining and useful their learning experience has become.

In this session, you’ll learn key storytelling and graphic design techniques and explore how this pairing can be used to transform stale content into an engaging eLearning experience. Easy to grasp even for people without a design or writing background, the tips you discuss in this session will be immediately transferable to your own work.

In this session, you will learn:

• Key foundational graphic design principles and how to implement them effectively
• A simple method of creating stories for your learning projects that is engaging and cohesive
• How to craft visuals for your story based on graphic design principles
• Tips for bringing your story to life using eLearning authoring tools

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers.

Technology discussed in this session:
eLearning authoring tool (Articulate), mind mapping software (SmartDraw), and image editors (Adobe Photoshop, TechSmith Snagit, MS PowerPoint).

Most eLearning tools out of the box publish to xAPI, but you still have to package up the course and upload it to your LMS, not really taking advantage of xAPI’s true potential of tracking learning no matter where the learning content may be.

This session will cover the basics of an xAPI statement: how to create a statement and how to trigger and send statements from Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate. With this integration, you can upload your Storyline and Captivate courses to any location and get a greater level of tracking through xAPI.

In this session, you will learn:

• About the basics of xAPI statements
• How to generate statements
• How to trigger custom statements within Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate

Audience:
Novice to intermediate designers, developers, project managers, and managers.

Technology discussed in this session:
Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and the xAPI specification.

Participant technology requirements:
Laptop running Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate.

Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to learning. People learn more when they are open to all possibilities, yet too often they are constrained by the limits of their existing perspectives. This challenge also applies to learning professionals’ approach to their own work. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs—or a scout, spurred by curiosity? In this closing keynote, Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way you interpret information. You will explore the questions that people need to examine when confronted with information that goes against their existing opinions. This closing session will give you tips and inspire you to take what you’ve learned at Learning Solutions 2017 and put it into action.