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Julie Dirksen
Learning Strategist, Usable Learning
Julie Dirksen, a learning strategist with Usable Learning, is a consultant and instructional designer with more than 15 years’ experience creating highly interactive eLearning experiences for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to technology startups to grant-funded research initiatives. She’s interested in using neuroscience, change management, and persuasive technology to promote sustainable long-term learning and behavior change. Her MS degree in instructional systems technology is from Indiana University, and she’s been an adjunct faculty member at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is the author of Design For How People Learn.
Latest from Julie Dirksen
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Motivation and Behavior Change
We can create the best learning experiences in the world but it won’t matter if learners aren’t motivated to learn—and to take action on that learning. So how can we influence that motivation in our work in learning and development? A number of research-based models of human motivation exist. In this session you’ll learn which […]
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LLA Monthly Meetup: Taking a Systems Approach to Learning Design
All learning leaders know that training is not always theanswer. Learning strategist Julie Dirksen of Usable Learning joins us for thismonth’s Meetup to talk about using systems thinking to better understand theproblems you are trying to solve. In this interactive session, learn howsystems thinking can help you analyze underlying issues, persuade stakeholdersto try different solutions, […]
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Taking a Systems Approach: Designing Comprehensive Solutions
Every learning and development person has gotten that request. The one where you immediately want to ask: “Are you sure that’s a training problem?” But you can’t always make that case to stakeholders who have come to you with a training solution already in mind. There are a number of different ways to address this […]
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The Pillars of Learning Leadership: 5 Perspectives
What makes a good learning leader? In this fast-paced and thought-provoking opening session youwill hear from five different industry leaders, each of whom will provide ashort, TED-like talk exploring a single pillar of leadership. You will explorewhat the pillar is, why it’s so important, and most significantly, how to incorporatethe pillar into your own leadership. […]
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VR Training Ideal for Dangerous or Impossible Experiences
VR pioneer Jeremy Bailenson says VR training is a natural application of the technology; it shows promise for changing behavior and deepening empathy.
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Augmented and Virtual Reality for Behavior Change
This research report by Julie Dirksen, Dustin DiTommaso, and Cindy Plunkett explores how AR and VR are a great resource for behavior change.
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Research Spotlight: Women in eLearning: Continuing the Conversation
The eLearning Guild’s latest white paper delivers the most recent research on women in eLearning and provides a framework for launching additional Guild-sponsored conversations on this topic during 2017. It also provides a snapshot of 2017 salary survey data that helps us better understand what we know about women in the field, and an updated assessment of “where we are now.”
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Women in eLearning: Continuing the Conversation
This white paper, Women in eLearning: Continuing the Conversation, explores the important topic of women in eLearning and discusses what we can do to help eliminate gender bias in eLearning.
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Women in eLearning: A Retrospective
From January to December, 2015, Learning Solutions Magazine ran a series of 12 articles looking at persistent gender issues in today’s workforce and in eLearning. In this closing article, Julie Dirksen, who managed the series, looks back at some lessons learned.
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Women in the eLearning Field: Beginning a Conversation
How does gender bias affect women in the eLearning professions, and what can we do about it? This is the first in a series of articles by and about women and their experiences in our field that will explore these questions. We hope that readers will participate in the conversation.