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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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More than Captions: The Journey to Accessible Learning
Accessible learning is inclusive learning but like many important improvements in learning and development, it’s rarely a simple path to creating accessible learning experiences that meet the needs of your learning population. There are questions you never thought to ask, research into unfamiliar topics, and trial and error. In this case study session, you’ll learn how RSM is working towards creating a sustainable model for accessible learning experiences in live, virtual, and eLearning environments. You’ll learn how the first steps towards improving accessibility can be sparked by curiosity, research, networking, and questions such as: “How do we do live closed…
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Storyboarding in an Agile World
You work hard to make sure that your lesson’s storyboard is a great blueprint for your new project. And then your SME reviews it and there is just one comment? “Looks great!” That’s it? Your SME clearly gave it a glancing review: and they probably have NO IDEA what this solution will look like in the end. Even worse, it means that all the effort you put into storyboarding was a waste of time. There’s a better way to storyboard—by being Agile-centric. In this session, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of commonly-used course development methodologies, compare those to Agile-centric…
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5 Fundamentals to Level Up Your Design Skills
As eLearning professionals, we are often challenged to wear multiple hats and do everything from project management to delivering a final course. With tight timeframes, lack of resources, and reducing budgets, we struggle for time to grow our skills. The design of our content is often rushed, skipped, or just thrown out there for a “good enough” delivery. In this session, you’ll learn how to level up our design skills and learn how using design fundamentals such as grids, typography, and font selection can spark your content design, ways to select imagery, media in preparation for a visual layout, the…
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LeaderChat: Proven Practices for Remote and Hybrid Teams
Forthis month’s LeaderChat we welcome members of the Choice Hotels L&D Team,Chris Longstreet, JT Gunter, David DuBois, & Christy Price for a discussionexamining the proven practices they have applied to remote and hybrid work,including areas like collaboration, working across time-zones, onboarding newpeople, and more.
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Monthly Meeting: Moving from Order Taker to Business Partner
Forthis month’s Monthly Meetup, we welcome Jess Almlie of WEX, who will share a5-step approach learning leaders can use to help shift their organization’sview on L&D from order taker to business partner.
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A Future Look at Visual Design Trends
The influence that visual design has on our emotions may be stronger than you think. Strategic design techniques grab our attention to buy this, watch that, click here, subscribe there, etc. Recognizing and adopting these visual design techniques into our eLearning and instructional designs can have a similar positive impact on our learners and the experiences we create for them. In this session, we’ll:
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LeaderChat: Open Forum on 2022 Learning Trends
Wekick off the new year with an open discussion on the trends that are shapinglearning in 2022. Bring your questions and learn from your peers as we explorethe 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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Monthly Meeting: Using Digital Escape Games for Training
For this month’s Monthly Meetup, Rachel Arpin of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center shares her team’s experience creating a digital escape room game for leadership training, as well as data on the effectiveness of using escape rooms for training and strategies for successful escape room training design.
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LeaderChat: Tim Tobin on Developing Peak Leadership Fitness
For this month’s LeaderChat we welcome Tim Tobin, author of Peak Leadership Fitness, for a discussion examing how L&D professionals can elevate their personal leadership game.
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Monthly Meeting: Archways to Opportunity (Panel Discussion)
During this month’s meetup we welcome Marianne Merola, Education Programs Manager at McDonald’s, who will lead a panel discussion on the “Archways to Opportunity” program and the ROI in employee education. The panel will explore how employee perspectives of learning and education are shifting, and describe the McDonald’s education and career pathways program. Through this discussion, you will learn how McDonald’s accomplishes key business goals, like keeping up with changing business and skills needs while increasing employee retention and helping their front-line workers establish economic security.