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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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Evidence-Centered Design for Virtual Reality Training
Designing virtual reality (VR) training can be intimidating in many ways. The perception of unlimited possibilities can often pose challenges for learning designers. It may be difficult to know where to begin or how to select the most impactful ideas. What if there were a method of designing VR experiences that ensures you’re fulfilling the intended learning goals and promotes the behavior changes you wish to see? This session will help you design and measure learning within your VR solutions and help you embed assessments directly within the experience using an Evidence-Centered Design for Assessment (ECD). In the ECD framework,…
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Spaced Learning: A Design and Technology Primer
Spaced learning is an approach that can help your learners build and apply knowledge over time, leading to increased confidence and competence. There is a lot of excitement around systems that can “automagically” deliver content and resources over time to help training “stick”. Unfortunately, like most things in workforce development, buying the technology to support spaced learning is only a small piece of what it takes to do it well. We will look at spaced learning from two perspectives: How to design for it, and the technology needed to deliver and measure it. You will learn how to approach an…
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Make Videos That Work: Best Practice Round-Up
There is a lot of advice about video out on the internet. A lot of it’s really good, some of it is garbage, and a lot is in-between. Some of it doesn’t apply because it’s specific to a genre of video that will be hosted on YouTube. Because information is all over the place and not always focused on creating good instruction/learning content, it can sometimes get individuals focused on the wrong concepts or ideas. Put the search term ‘Instructional Video’ into Google, and you’ll get over 110,000,000 pages worth of information. That’s a lot of potential information to sort…
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Learning Myths and Popular Promises
In this session The Learning Guild’s director of research Jane Bozarth separates fact from fiction around three popular topics: learning styles, personality types, and “generations”. We’ll take a look at what the research really says and examine ways of applying this information to our practice—even though that may mean making plans for what to do instead. We’ll also talk about why these ideas are so appealing, and how we can leverage that information in conversation with stakeholders.
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LeaderChat: Justin Welk on the Power of Peer Coaching
In this month’s LeaderChat we welcome Justin Welk from ICF for a discussionexamining the value of peer coaching and how learning leaders use it in theirwork, and in their own development.
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Monthly Meetup: Open Fourm
Learn from your peersas we explore topics that are top of mind for learning leaders in 2022, and thestrategies that can help us deal with these challenges
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Leveling Up Your Leadership Skills
As the Learning Leaders Online Forum draws to a close, we shift our focus to the future and the skills that learning leaders need to grow and thrive. This requires figuring out how we can continue to develop our leadership skills in the fast-moving world of everyday work. In the closing panel session, our panel of experts will share strategies for integrating leadership skills development into our everyday work. We’ll examine the obstacles that often prevent prioritizing professional development, and how to overcome them. We’ll also share specific ideas that you can apply in your own work that will help…
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Leadership Insights Drawn from Learning Guild Research
In this session The Learning Guild’s Director of Research, Jane Bozarth, offers some research-based ideas for answering the question: What behaviors, skills, and characteristics do learning leaders appear to share, and how can these be built and enhanced? Information will be drawn from recent Guild research reports and will cover such material as skills important for managing through crisis, lessons learned through everyday practice, tips for aspiring leaders, and ideas for developing self and others.
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The Changing Face of Learning Leadership
Several factors are changing how work gets done: the pandemic, the move to remote-first work, social injustice, and generational shifts. Our role as learning leaders must change in response—broadening to include everything from teaching leaders empathy to redefining company values. It’s all about Agile design: learning leaders need to shift into a more human-centered consultative role that delivers quick results. This interactive session consists of a series of questions to spark discussion among attendees. We’ll use research and case studies to explore the questions. You will leave this session with new commitments on how you, as a learning leader, can…
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Embrace Outsourcing While Enabling Your L&D Team to Thrive
Many organizations struggle to produce all the learning content needed for employee or customer training. Outsourcing companies promise to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The challenge is finding the balance of retaining talented developers while meeting business demands to do more with less. Integrating outsourcing can improve efficiency, accelerate development projects, and increase the value of the existing team. In this session, you will learn how to integrate outsourcing to better meet organizational requirements and customer demand. We will explore the pros and cons of various outsourcing models including considerations of budget, IT policies, locations, collaboration tools, and aligning processes.…