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Sharon Vipond is a researcher and writer with core competencies in adult learning, courseware development, delivery, and certification; enterprise training software evaluation; large-scale project management, human capital management, and organizational development. She holds a PhD degree in organizational communication from the University of Minnesota.
Latest from Sharon Vipond
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How Is Instructional Design Changing For Today’s Practitioners?
This report includes The eLearning Guild’s most recent research into how the field of instructional design is changing and evolving for today’s practitioners.
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Research Spotlight: Is Instructional Design a Dying Art?
Instructional design has seen huge changes in the last 10 years. There is constant confusion about the end of the discipline and the profession. Is it dying?
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Is Instructional Design a Dying Art? Renewing the Conversation
This research report delves into the future of instructional design and the evolving role of instructional designers.
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Research Spotlight: Enhanced Realities for Learning: What You Need to Know
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality applications are poised to explode into the consumer market. That explosion will bring with it the mainstreaming of this technology that transforms how we look at content, opening new opportunities not only for how we entertain ourselves but also for how we connect, share, and learn. Are you ready? Let’s find out.
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Using Enhanced Realities for Learning: Are You Ready?
This white paper will build your knowledge of enhanced reality tools and technologies for learning and development and help you to succeed in this increasingly important area within our profession.
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Research Spotlight: Next Generation of Asynchronous Authoring Tools
In October 2013, The eLearning Guild published a comprehensive research report on asynchronous authoring tools. Now we present our 2017 report, which provides major updates on the impact of technologies not widely used back in 2013, as well as functional requirements for authoring tool selection and additional features essential in today’s asynchronous authoring environment.
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The Next Generation of Asynchronous Authoring Tools: What Practitioners Want in 2017
This research report details which features and functions are most desired by authoring tool practitioners, explores the characteristics of practitioners, and presents their input on the next generation of authoring tools.
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Research Spotlight: Creating Digital Awareness with Interactive Video
This case study describes how a cross-functional team at PwC, a global professional services network, used interactive video to support a learning and marketing program for digital transformation. PwC drives digital transformation through a framework that encourages learners to move from digital “awareness” to “fluency” and, ultimately, to “expertise.”
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Creating Digital Awareness with Interactive Video: PwC Digital Learning
This case study describes how a cross-functional digital learning team at PwC, a global professional services network, used interactive video to support a learning and marketing program for digital transformation.
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Research Spotlight: 2017 Salary Research: Advanced Degrees and Professional Certifications Matter
For more than a decade, the Guild’s salary and compensation reports have been recognized as the industry’s most trusted source of data on eLearning professionals’ salary and compensation. In this article, we take a deeper look at an important topic included in the just-published 2017 report: the relationship between salary, academic degrees, and professional certifications.