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From Content Delivery to Learner Readiness: Designing Role-Aligned Learning Paths
Using a practical framework and real-world examples, Jason will walk through what it looks like when learning is designed around roles, skills, and progression — not just access and completion. You’ll learn how to shift the focus from tracking activity to demonstrating readiness, and how to build learning programs that give employees a clearer path forward while giving leaders the evidence they need to see L&D as a business driver. In this session, Jason Gildner, Principal Product Specialist at Instructure, will explore how organizations can move beyond content delivery to create learning experiences that connect to real career growth. What…
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Beyond Points & Badges: Gamification for Proficiency & Skill Transfer
Gamification is often reduced to points and badges layered onto passive learning experiences. While these approaches can increase short-term engagement, they don’t always support long-term retention or real-world application. In this session, you’ll explore how to design gamified experiences that focus on skill development and application. By combining structured questions with AI-evaluated freeform responses, this approach creates opportunities for learners to test their understanding and receive immediate feedback. You’ll also examine how to balance cognitive load and scale these strategies across different audience sizes without increasing development complexity. In this session, you will learn to:
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Secrets of Gamification Revealed
Join us as we retell the misadventures of building “Ethical Pursuit,” an ethics compliance course inspired by Trivial Pursuit. This session shares the decision-making process behind choosing gamification, along with the challenges we faced while designing and building the experience. We’ll start with the big picture of what makes gamification effective before peeling back the layers of how the course was built in Articulate Storyline. Through stories, humor, and lessons learned, you’ll get a practical look at the design and development of a gamified training experience In this session you will learn:
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Escape From the Moon: Creating an eLearning Escape Room
eLearning escape rooms can create engaging and interactive training experiences, but they can also present challenges during design and development. In this session, we’ll share a case study of building an escape room where participants escape from an office on the moon with help from a robot named Lumi while learning to use a generative AI chatbot You’ll learn practical approaches for designing the experience—from establishing the premise and planning puzzles to collaborating with SMEs and leveraging Adobe software with Articulate Storyline. The session will also explore how different difficulty modes can support varying levels of learner engagement. In this…
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Winning Strategies for Gamification in Blended Learning
Just like a championship team needs a strong game plan, a successful gamification strategy requires the right tools, players, and execution. In blended learning environments, gamification can easily become fragmented if tools, modalities, and learner experiences aren’t carefully aligned. In this session, we’ll break down the Xs and Os of gamification in blended learning. You’ll explore strategies for connecting multiple learning tools into a cohesive experience while avoiding common pitfalls like scalability issues, awkward workflows, and disengaged learners. Walk away with practical tactics for ensuring your gamified learning experience enhances engagement and supports meaningful learning outcomes. In this session, you…
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How Immersion Transforms Learning From Knowing to Doing
In many learning experiences, learners acquire knowledge but rarely get the chance to use it in ways that feel real. The session explores immersion as the missing link between knowing and doing and shows how ethnographic research can help instructional designers close that gap. By grounding learning in the lived experiences, decisions, and challenges of real people, you can move beyond abstract content and create environments where learners actively engage, experiment, and apply new skills. Drawing on applied anthropology, experiential learning research, and practical design examples (including game-inspired approaches), we’ll examine why immersion drives engagement and performance and what it…
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Kick Off Panel: Where We Get Game-Based Learning Right & Wrong
This expert panel brings together experienced practitioners to examine where game-based learning succeeds and where it falls short in real-world instructional design. Our panelists will explore the underlying factors that make game elements engaging and effective, as well as common missteps that can limit impact or create barriers for learners. Through candid discussion and practical examples, you’ll gain a clearer understanding of how to thoughtfully integrate game mechanics, design for accessibility and inclusion, and make informed decisions about when (and when not) to use game-based approaches in your learning solutions.
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Fortifying the Foundation: A Guide to Secure Open Source Hosting
Modern applications are 90% open source and 10% proprietary code—yet we spend 90% of our budget securing the 10%. It’s time to flip the script. This session provides a practical roadmap for hosting and managing open-source dependencies securely. We cover the “Three Pillars of OSS Security”: Supply Chain Transparency (SBOMs), Isolated Infrastructure (Containers), and Proactive Maintenance. Learn how to foster innovation without the “maintenance tax” or the security debt that keeps IT leaders awake at night.
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What Your Training Misses: The Signals That Actually Drive Performance
Join us as we will discuss how and why traditional training misses the signals that impact real-world performance, and where gaps show up in conversations. We will identify the nonverbal and behavioral signals (tone, timing, facial expression, response patterns) that separate knowledge from readiness. Explore how practice-based learning makes these signals visible and measurable. In this session, you will learn how to move beyond completion rates and quiz scores to measure what matters: behavior change, competency, and readiness.
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Operational AI for L&D
Join us to see how a training management system uses operational A.I. to solve scheduling, reporting, and process automation for complex L&D tasks. Operational A.I. is artificial intelligence that uses a set, deterministic input to give you the same outputs with the same inputs – every time. No hallucinations or confidently wrong answers. This is great for solving complex problems that go beyond content generation. We will demo: Scheduler, a tool that solves hundreds of live training events in minutes; Automator: a tool anyone can use to build custom automations & integrations; and Insights, a powerful AI-powered reporting engine.
