DevLearn 2019 Sessions
DevLearn 2019 has the largest, most comprehensive, most cutting-edge learning technologies program in the world. The event features over 200 world-class sessions covering key topics that will help you advance your skills and expertise in the management, design, and development of technology-based learning.
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SELR101 Industry Leader Panel: The Future of eLearning Development
eLearning Rockstars
The eLearning industry is changing quickly, and it can be hard to keep up. Put that on top of ever-evolving tools, mobile vs. desktop development, xAPI integration, and other feature requests, and it’s enough to make you want to throw your computer out the window. But what if you knew what the tool developers had planned for the near future?
Read MoreSXAPI101 The Crawl, Walk, Run Methodology for Adopting Learning Analytics
xAPI Central Showcase
xAPI, big data, and analytics for learning and development have been revolutionizing the way training professionals build and evaluate their development programs. Implementing learning analytics for the first time can be a big task—especially where there are many business systems from which you need to collect data. Having a clear process to implement can help accelerate the outcome L&D has been waiting for: tying learning activities to quantifiable business outcomes.
Read More106 Investigating Performance: Using Your Data Effectively
Concurrent Session
Access to learning-related data has grown dramatically over recent years. But just because you have a large volume of data doesn’t mean it necessarily provides value. While tools like xAPI make it increasingly easy to acquire data about learners’ activities, this information provides little benefit if you don’t know how to design to acquire meaningful data, interpret that data, or improve your learning design based on what you’ve discovered.
Read MoreSXAPI102 Identifying Competency Gaps with xAPI Analytics and Dashboards
xAPI Central Showcase
A high-consequence pipeline operator in the US delivers a large number of safety and operations–focused training using test scores to document compliance and understanding. With pure SCORM content, their insight into the performance of users at an objective level was limited. Even though students passed the test on a topic, some objectives were failed regularly, identifying issues in content, test design, and training processes.
Read MoreYou’re charged with a high-stakes, high-visibility learning challenge. Perhaps you need to prepare an entire hospital staff to work effectively on day one of a move to a new hospital building, or you need to get a salesforce ready to sell a new product line. How do you do it? There’s no quick fix, no single method that will get full impact. You need to create an integrated learning strategy.
Read MoreYou’ve heard that VR training experiences have a proven higher retention rate, with retention gains reaching 75 percent in comparison to standard video, eLearning, or textbook training. What you need to know is how to create and deploy VR training quickly and cost-effectively with the systems you have today.
Read MoreDig-It! Games had a maintenance headache with a dated Cold Fusion data collection system and some data reporting into various applications in the cloud. The data was siloed and lacked any form of normalization to make it interoperable for aggregation and analysis. It was time to change old practices for new, and after a requirements gathering exercise, the team decided to prototype with xAPI. Existing xAPI profiles provided a solid baseline of verbs and activity types, etc., but xAPI contextual data lacked any form of structure. Most industries have a common vocabulary and standards, but xAPI profiles do not address context.
Read MoreSXAPI104 Beyond the LMS: Using xAPI to Measure Help Platform Usage
xAPI Central Showcase
The learning experience (LX) team at LLamasoft meets the learning needs of customers as they use the company’s software to solve problems. Prior to this project, they had limited insight into how internal and external users navigated the help system, and they were unable to analyze whether, and when, users watched the videos the team produced. Without this information, they could not measure the utilization and reach of their tutorials. They wanted to know whether this was a worthwhile investment of time, and whether users found the videos useful. Upon further evaluating the help platform, they realized that this lack of visibility extended to search terms and page views.
Read MoreSTRS104 Frictionless Learning Ecosystems: What Are They, and How Do You Create One?
Strategic Solutions
Companies spend billions of dollars trying to understand consumer behavior, but the L&D groups in these same organizations may not be leveraging those insights and strategies to reach their learners. If you look at your learning solutions as a product that you want your learners to consume, where are you creating friction that discourages those learning consumers? And what can you do about it?
Read MoreAs adoption of xAPI begins to take hold, it allows for more robust and interesting tracking of the learning process. As actual performance and results data are integrated with learning metrics, designers will have the necessary data to tailor the learning process to individual needs at the same time that they can draw more useful conclusions about learning as a whole across a wider population.
Read MoreLMS, move over. LRS, you are so last year. LXPs, or learning experience platforms, are the new kids on the block. This session will highlight an emerging category of digital learning tools, the learning experience platforms, and help you to draw your own conclusions about what an LXP really is and how it could be useful in your context.
Read MoreLearning happens all around us and in all different forms. You want to reach your target audience in as many ways and as simply as possible. You also face budget limitations, internal IT roadblocks, and enterprises architecture or purchasing challenges.
Read MoreSXAPI106 Closing the Loop: When Learning Experience Meets Work Experience
xAPI Central Showcase
Halliburton is one of the leading global oil and gas services companies. It has more than 50,000 employees and 14 product service lines, which means any improvement in efficiency is a major win. Its oil and gas exploration clients and internal Halliburton employees use Landmark software to identify drilling locations and make technical decisions on how to drill, an activity that can take up to 40 percent of their work time. That’s why it’s so important to help these users learn how to best use this software: so they can not only find the best locations for drilling and make the best technical decisions, but also identify them more quickly by leveraging everything the software has to offer. In order to develop resources to help these users, it’s important to be connected to the field and to understand how people are working and learning. The better you understand the process as applied in reality, the better you can evaluate the data and see if you are missing anything.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreSXAPI201 Creating a Data-Driven L&D Team—an xAPI Case Study
xAPI Central Showcase
From an organization-wide executive directive to become more data-driven, a retail corporate L&D team took an internal look at their own data practices. Realizing that they had an overwhelming lack of transparency into their learning initiatives and a great amount of data that had gone unused, the team developed a transformation vision to create a single system of record for learning to enable observability, granularity, and accountability for all team members. The team was committed to the vision of xAPI; however, the data and information they needed in order to make actionable change for their learners was locked away in non-interoperable formats, and they recognized the need to develop a data strategy and implementation plan.
Read MoreThe world is gripped by accelerated change, and the need to learn and adapt is taking center stage; yet ironically, L&D professionals continue to struggle for relevance and impact. Instead of being sought-after business partners, practitioners are often marginalized as order-takers for narrow training solutions. The challenge is one of urgent relevance as L&D must quickly learn and adapt to better enable the future of work.
Read More406 Using xAPI to Personalize and Adapt Learning Content to the Learner
Concurrent Session
For so long, learning has been one-sided. Everyone gets the same course and same content, no matter what they have already learned or experienced. xAPI gives you greater details and insights into what the learner does, but where do you go from there? How do you adjust and change content based on learners’ xAPI history?
Read MoreA hospital system had an instructor-led course that they needed to move online, but wanted to keep aspects of the learner-to-learner communication that was possible in the instructor-led course. The organization asked the SmartBuilder team to replicate this functionality in an online course by allowing learners to see live statistics showing how other learners answered the same questions. xAPI allowed the team to provide an innovative solution to this challenge.
Read MoreSometimes you have to get creative to gather the data you need for your digital learning project. xAPI opens up the ability to track all sorts of activity that happens outside the LMS, but sometimes the “how” of getting that data calls for a bit of creativity.
Read MoreSXAPI204 Case Study: Tracking and Analyzing US Army Training with xAPI
xAPI Central Showcase
This US Army Basic Rifle Marksmanship case study began in 2013 with a white paper discussing training challenges. There was no uniform mechanism for collecting the available data from the various proprietary live ranges, and data was often abstracted to the unit level. They wanted to find better ways to provide meaningful feedback and training at the individual level and have the ability to securely aggregate data sets for analysis. If data from live fire exercises could be captured, correlated at the individual level, and made easily available for data mining, then the US Army could benefit from a wide array of analysis focused on live fire training. In addition, trainees could receive relevant and timely feedback: not only detailed training records, but also automated feedback or remediation based on their results delivered on-demand.
Read MoreThe whole industry seems excited about xAPI. It’s a spectacular option for gaining deep insights into learner actions—or opening up the learning environment entirely. Exciting stuff indeed. Getting excited is easy; getting started is another story. How do you get started with xAPI? How can you use the rapid authoring tools you’re already familiar with to tap into the reporting potential of xAPI?
Read MorexAPI holds enormous promise for bringing data-driven decision-making to the practitioner’s level—if you can make it happen in your organization. Countless sessions attempt to address how xAPI data can assist with ROI, but few outline an actual implementation of xAPI from the ground up. So what does a real xAPI implementation story look like, and what lessons can you learn from it to inform your own use of xAPI?
Read MoreKraft Heinz is the world’s fifth-largest food and beverage company, with over 200 brands in nearly 200 countries. The company needed a way to effectively disseminate information and train its workforce regarding its products, while also ensuring that the solution could dynamically change due to the short shelf life of the content.
Read MoreWhile many companies are experimenting with AR in the L&D space, there are a number of businesses harnessing the power of AR for enhancing operational performance outside of the training department. How do these experiences differ, and how can you renew your department’s focus on performance by taking on more advanced AR solutions in your efforts?
Read MoreYou have a conceptual understanding of xAPI but don’t know how to graduate from playing with xAPI to using it for serious business. How do you handle security? Can you be confident that systems work together in a trustworthy fashion? What is a profile, and how does it allow for consistent meaning-making? This session will provide a 201 for xAPI so you can kick off your first project with confidence.
Read MoreMore and more eLearning developers are using JavaScript to create advanced learner interactions not available through traditional authoring software. JavaScript provides a level of flexibility, power, and interactivity that has empowered eLearning developers to create more dynamic and more maintainable learning. JavaScript is the engine—the secret sauce—behind all of digital learning. Learning to hand code can be empowering and even career-changing.
Read MoreUser data can be difficult to manage and track when using different platforms and delivery methods for your content. Data reporting across numerous sources can be disjointed, hard to centralize, and overwhelming to analyze in a meaningful way. Different LMSs don’t always provide user data in the same manner or use the same metrics; the same user taking the same course on different LMSs could create completely different user reporting.
Read More809 Powering Next-Gen Learning with VR and xAPI
Concurrent Session
Virtual reality technologies have long been the promise of the future but just out of reach for the mainstream. Recent VR innovations, though, have allowed instructional designers and learning engineers to create and distribute custom VR content in ways that make VR a transformative part of training and learning programs across industries. When combined with xAPI, these futuristic technologies allow you to gain never-before-captured insights from next-gen digital experiences.
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