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The Online Events Archive provides access to hundreds of online sessions covering critical topics in learning and development. This is where you will learn from the learning industry’s leading thinkers and practitioners about best practices, tips and tricks, and proven strategies in the learning technologies space.
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How to Prioritize Ethical Use of Learning Data
The data collected through xAPI can be extremely powerful, and it’s important to consider ethical questions pertaining to how that power is being used. In this week’s session, we explore the critical guardrails that should be in place to ensure your learning data is being used in an ethical manner.
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How to Evaluate and Select an LRS
A Learning Record Store (LRS) can play a critical role in the ecosystem that supports xAPI. In this week’s session, we examine what an LRS is and the criteria you should be looking at to find the right one for your organization.
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LeaderChat with Chad Udell
Join Chad Udell for a conversation on emerging technologies and how to leverage them in our work as learning leaders.
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User Stories, Learner Journeys & Other Epic Tales: Decoding Agile & UX Techniques for LX design
Using story in learning extends beyond a narrative storytelling instructional approach. It’s also a way to ensure that the learning resources you create will fit into the personal and professional stories of end users. In this session, we will explore the use of story as an instructional design technique by applying the concept of a story to define needs, describe a solution, and create a master plan for your L&D team’s work over time. First we’ll explore “user stories,” a technique that software development teams use to identify and define areas of scope for their work. We’ll create user stories…
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Creative Innovations in Storytelling & Learning
This session will explore how to effectively blend multiple learning topics together into a single storyline. The issues employees encounter in the workplace rarely happen in isolated silos. Nor should learning. Employees who mishandle issues often create additional issues, and building these realities into our courses can raise awareness in a meaningful way. Blended storylines show learners how different issues intersect and build on one another both positively and negatively. They also provide an opportunity to develop relatable characters who address issues that learners are likely to encounter. This session will explore strategies for providing multi-topic learning through effective blended…
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Understand and Implement xAPI Profiles
xAPI Profiles provide the context that allows xAPI statements to be understood across different systems. In this week’s session, we explore these Profiles and the role they play in your xAPI strategy.
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Reframe Scenario-based Learning with Good Storytelling
Once there was an eLearning designer who was handed a course request and a pile of content from a SME. What happened next? S/he: In the end, which choice led to happily ever after for the designer, the SME, and the learners? Which made the content stick? Find out in this interactive workshop and learn to make your courses sticky, too.
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Visual Storytelling: Tell Compelling Stories Without Words
Storytelling has been a natural form of communication for as long as human history has been recorded. From early cave drawings to watching a video on YouTube, visual storytelling is a powerful way to inform, educate, instruct, and communicate shared ideas. As instructional designers, we are always looking for opportunities to tell better stories with our content, so let’s explore ways to tell compelling stories without words. Implementing visual storytelling allows instructional designers to construct narratives that attract and hold attention and increase retention by making topics easier to understand. Visual stories or visual narratives are primarily told using visual…
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Don’t Be a Boring Explainer: Add Strategic Storytelling to Your Training Toolkit
Brain research suggests that most people forget more than 40% of the information you tell them by the very next day. After a week, they will likely have forgotten nearly all of what you said. The good news is that your message is many times more memorable when delivered in a story. Think of the implications of this for learners! Strategic storytelling is an emotionally intelligent, results-oriented approach that can help you connect relevant storytelling to curriculum so learners see, feel, and retain what you’re trying to teach. This begins with identifying appropriate source materials, and extends through design and…
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Finding the Thread: How to Create Learning Podcasts with a Narrative
Stories have the power to truly reach people and inspire action. They allow a storyteller to forge a personal connection with their audience and create situations where learners are likely to be actively engaged with the content, leading to higher levels of long-term information retention. As more organizations embrace the work-from-anywhere movement, the ability to provide low-investment/high-impact learning solutions that can be accessed on-demand will be key. One design solution tailor-made for the current moment is the use of narrative podcasting, for fiction and non-fiction audio stories. In this session we will discuss some reasons your organization should consider embracing…