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.
Hands-On Learning BYOD Sessions
Hands-On Learning BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) takes learning to the next level. In these sessions you will bring your mobile device or laptop, with the software being discussed installed, and have the unique opportunity to learn hands-on, following along with an instructor step-by-step.
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Each day we are exposed to multitudes of user interfaces (UI) in media, marketing, and design, all geared to grab our attention. Specific techniques are used to draw us to the next item, scroll down, click here/there, make that purchase, watch that video, or look at that picture. Adopting these techniques and implementing them into our eLearning designs can have a similar engaging impact on learners.
Read MoreAs adoption of xAPI takes hold, it allows for more robust and interesting tracking of the learning process. As actual performance and results data are integrated with learning metrics, we will have the data we need to tailor the learning process to individual needs, and can draw more useful conclusions about the learning as a whole across a wider population. This leaves instructional designers with a set of critical questions: How does this impact my work? What tools do I need? What data should I track? What infrastructure does my organization need to be able to take advantage of this?
Read MoreShooting video according to the script is one thing, but what about when you can’t call "cut" and start over again? When there’s no fixing it in post? Or when participants are live online, as well as live in an ILT situation? How can we best leverage interactions cross-format? What technology and resources are needed to pull off livestream?
Read More104 Hype or Home Run? Microlearning Demystified for Learning Leaders
Concurrent Session
Learning leaders are feeling pressure to embrace microlearning, both from operational leaders and from the employees they train. Learning leaders want to offer more shorter-form and on-demand content, but often they don't know where to start. They don't know the formats to use, the pros and cons of different mediums, and the relative cost of different approaches. Even more importantly, they don't know where microlearning can fit into their learning ecosystems or how to introduce it into their organizations.
Read More105 Prototype to Evaluation: Building Organizational Buy-in for xAPI
Concurrent Session
You've heard about xAPI, but wonder what comes next. Getting from this initial position of interest to having wide-spread organizational buy-in can be a huge challenge. It was for us! How do you justify taking resources away from creating and curating learning experiences to build something new and unproven? It can be a challenge to identify the first steps needed to start convincing stakeholders that the investment is worth it. Since xAPI is a complex solution, there is no road map that an organization can follow. We are all looking for the best ways to use project management strategies to leverage the resources that we have access to, so we can go beyond those first "wins" in the process of implementing xAPI.
Read MoreIt's been more than five years since we first heard about xAPI. As the specification is gaining momentum, so is the learning record store (LRS) that accompanies the xAPI. Since we finally have a clear understanding of what actor-verb-object can mean for our profession, it's essential to find the right LRS to give us clear insights. But what platforms are out there, and what are the pros and cons of those systems?
Read MoreResearch shows that sales training positively impacts productivity, quality, and financial results. Still, sales enablement through training can be difficult. Every minute a salesperson is away from selling costs the company money. You need fast, effective, and impactful models to develop sales training that works.
Read MoreThe virtual reality landscape is shifting rapidly as the main barriers to implementation—cost and content—are lowered. Investing in VR for learning is on the verge of being very affordable, but do you need it? The answer to that question depends on what you're trying to teach, and an evaluation of your alternatives. Convincing your leadership to invest in virtual reality can be challenging unless you can speak to its impact on organizational outcomes. How do you know you're getting your learning bang for the buck?
Read MoreLearning & development departments are at a crossroads. Staffs are stretched to the limit creating, vetting, evaluating, and maintaining content, programs, and curriculum, while looking forward to the future and trying out new things. No consistent or repeatable frameworks exist to test and review emerging technologies such as augmented reality, blockchain, IoT or voice, or AI.
Read MoreLet's face it, auto generated online certification has no real credibility, as you cannot guarantee if the owner of the certificate is the actual person who passed the course. Also, certificates can easily be reproduced by anyone with some Photoshop skills who has access to the template or a sample. Currently, facial recognition is the most popular biometric technology on the market. It combines high accuracy and high speed of operation. Biometrics is the only form of identification that truly identifies a person. Also called 1:1 comparison, authentication answers questions like: Are you the person you pretend to be? Are you in our database? And do you have the right credentials? In contrast to passwords, PINs, cards, and other forms of identifiers, biometric ID can't be lost, forgotten, or stolen.
Read MoreeLearning has a satisfactory set of options if your goal is information delivery or procedural training, but what about creating meaningful eLearning for complex skill development or for the not-so-procedural kinds of problems that show up more and more in the workplace? What about creating learning for those situations where your SME can't tell you what good performance looks like except to say, "Well, you know it when you see it.”
Read More112 Transforming Instructional Design on a Shoestring
Concurrent Session
We are exposed to polished and professional content that we only wish we could recreate in a small- to medium-sized company. Hiring outside vendors to create videos, situational learning, and multimedia presentations is beyond the budget for many of us, and yet we recognize and understand the benefits of increasing employee and customer engagement through the leveraging of technology to supplement our online learning. If only we could find a way to do it ourselves…
Read MoreScenarios are wonderful tools for encouraging changes in performance. Once we see ourselves in a story and are invited to take on a challenge familiar to us, we become more open to evaluating our own behavior. But bringing a scenario to life takes more than simply describing a situation and slapping a name on the protagonist. Transforming seemingly mundane tasks into powerful stories is something with which even the most prolific and celebrated writers struggle. Writing scenarios for elearning is challenging because it requires communication and storytelling abilities that instructional design programs and certification programs do not teach. IDs are left to their own devices when creating immersive stories for learners that keep them engaged, and simultaneously addresses the performance we want to change.
Read MoreStoryboarding and prototyping are more important than ever, but too often we're making do with substandard tools or skipping the process altogether because the tools don't make it easy. If only there were tools that would help! Have you heard of Adobe's free tool, XD? It's part of the Creative Cloud but you can download and use it for free, even if you don't subscribe.
Read MoreAugmented reality (AR) is an amazing new technology for us as consumers and as learning developers. Our ability to access AR from our mobile devices makes the barrier of entry low, however as developers, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Understanding when to use AR, how to design quality AR experiences, and generating organizational buy-in are difficult hurdles to adoption. Getting started with this technology is easier than ever before; the challenge is doing it in a way that makes it a valuable and sustainable part of your learning and development world.
Read MoreMany eLearning designers and developers need to teach systems. It can be quite labor and time intensive to teach face-to-face. Hiring a vendor to build system simulations is another option, but with its own challenges. Vendors have to learn your internal processes, your organization may not have a secure way of giving a non-employee access, and changes to your systems may lead to additional costs to have the vendor-built simulation content updated.
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