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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As 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 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 MoreSEMT103 Masterful Blend: Meet Instilled LXP. You Can Have it All
Stage Program C
While working with some of the world’s largest organizations, we noticed a common problem. Companies need to create engaging, measurable learning experiences that delight learners AND deliver on a universal business goal: efficiency.
Read More302 Are They Learning? Using xAPI to Correlate Training Performance
Concurrent Session
Good courseware engages the user with multiple elements. From video to audio to the venerable drag-and-drop, you need to make sure your content is doing the job. But is your audience actually learning anything? More importantly, are they learning the lessons you need them to? And if they are, do you have the tools to prove that to your leadership?
Read MoreOnce upon a time, training was measured in seat time and the ISD community saw that this was bad. After great debates and much consternation, seat time was replaced with learning objectives and cognitive task analysis, and the ISD community pronounced that this was good. But is it? The result is that learning programs—in both education and training—are assessed on knowledge to be learned rather than what is needed on the first day on the job. As an example, people learning cybersecurity are tested on their knowledge but not on their ability to innovate and apply the knowledge, or on the "weaponized attitude" that they need to be successful.
Read MoreConcurrent Session
3:00 PM Wed, October 23
Track: Management and Strategy
The eLearning Guild’s director of research, Jane Bozarth, along with contributors to recent research, hosts a review of several recent Guild reports. We’ll look at the ever-expanding role of the instructional designer, be joined by Julie Dirksen for an overview of what research says about designing with AR and VR, and then hear from Megan Torrance about the current state of xAPI. The focus of this session is on what is really happening across our industry now, with an emphasis on what works, what factors support our success, what content lends itself best to particular approaches, and what would enhance our own professional development.
Read MoreVoice assistant devices like Alexa and Google Assistant, which are being adopted in homes and the workplace, are a disruptive game-changer in the learning and development space. Learning professionals need to begin considering adoption of this tech and integration into the learning ecosystem. Barriers include fear of the technology, understanding how to even start developing learning content in this new platform, and understanding how to gather valid learning metrics to measure learning impact and solution effectiveness.
Read MoreThe key differentiator when utilizing Experience API (xAPI) is that users have to make a long-term decision about how to manage the collected data. This decision, similarly to a decision of a learning management system choice, is driven by many factors including cost-per-user, accessibility, flexibility, security, and ultimately sustainability. The choice is undoubtedly connected with the question of what you want to do with your data, as xAPI enables activity data collection with high-resolution insights into specific learning activities of the solution.
Read MoreSEMT203 Headless Content: Wrapping Your Head and Hands Around Large Content Libraries
Stage Program C
Managing a large or growing library of learning content is an expensive and time-consuming exercise. The issue is compounded when the content creation or maintenance workflows contain many different stakeholders, the team’s timelines are at the mercy of upstream business units, and the learning material itself is delivered in different formats to different channels.
Read More502 Design for Outcome: Developing an xAPI Data Strategy
Concurrent Session
xAPI enables us to track a wide array of data but shareholders are interested in results, not the technology. Simply tracking everything is not a strategy and often creates noise that makes xAPI data more difficult to use. Instead, you need to step back to identify WHAT needs to be tracked with xAPI, and only afterward go through the process to design quality statements.
Read MoreAs xAPI has gained increased adoption across the industry, challenges have emerged as we have seen inconsistencies in both the expression and structure of xAPI data generated from a wide variety of tools and sources. While the xAPI profile specification was designed to define and standardize the data structure, more support and definition is needed on how to apply xAPI profiles for specific use cases. In practice, many organizations are developing their own unique approaches without any consistency in xAPI usage that can be re-purposed for a larger audience.
Read MoreCommonly used eLearning platforms typically offer only a limited amount of options when it comes to gamification. Similarly, traditional learning management systems can sometimes lag behind when it comes to observing learner usage. New technologies that solve these problems are certainly available, but how can you get started with them in a way that isn’t challenging and complicated to implement? This session aims to provide you with the solution; a guide to the tools that can help you overcome these challenges through an ecosystem approach.
Read MoreOne in five newly-graduated registered nurses quits within the first year of their first job, never to return to nursing. Exit interviews often reveal the same basic stories: nurses feel unsupported and overwhelmed by the transition from school to nursing practice. But what if hospitals had an early warning system to inform interventions that address a newly-graduated nurse's concerns before a nurse feels like they have to quit? And how could this early warning system be used in other situations, as well?
Read MoreWe want to improve our audience’s engagement and experience in the eLearning environment. They’ve expressed that they want eLearning experiences are personalized and dynamic, with content that adapts to their performance and choices. In addition to this added complexity, it’s also important that we have the ability to track and measure their completion, as well as the activity and pathways they took to get there. The solution? Leverage the benefits of traditional LMS/SCORM with the benefits of the evolving LRS/xAPI.
Read MoreWhen you're not a developer, installing frameworks using node, git, grunt and terminal can seem totally overwhelming. Type what? Where? Do what? How do I launch it? Oh, I give up! Then when you’ve finally bribed a developer to help you and you've got the framework working, what happens when it needs updating, or worse, stops working? The Adapt framework and builder have been somewhat confusing for many, and that's not to mention the lack of customization in the builder. What if there was an option out there that offered the Adapt Builder hosted in the cloud? Well there is, and it's fantastic.
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