With the constant changing and evolution of technology, we need to understand what is possible and how to determine what is a fit for your audience. Join us for this in-depth look at what tools, design, and technologies we should focus on in learning today, and what’s just around the corner. We’ll dissect what technology will be enhancing learning, and what we need to get excited about and start planning how to integrate into our solutions. What can we learn from the buzz and new tools appearing in the consumer and corporate environments and how can we take advantage of them to help our audiences succeed? This fun session will give you dozens of ideas and reboot your brain with fresh perspectives on how to enhance your learning today.

Wait, before you issue that LxP RFP! All organizations need better tools to enable self-directed learning, optimize content discovery, and improve the overall learning experience. The rapidly-growing learning experience platform (LxP) category has emerged to achieve these aims by delivering functionality that learning management systems (LMSs) have long neglected. But with more and more shiny new products with bewildering feature sets entering the market by the day, buyers have been left asking “what exactly is an LxP?”

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.

Many of us would say that measuring the success of L&D is the hardest part of our job. And with new advances in learning technology, more data is available to us than ever before. But once you have this data, what do you do with it? How do you make sure what you're measuring is useful? How do you interpret it and present it so your audience cares? There is a whole new set of skills for your team to develop to be able to do this well. By spending time improving the data skills within your L&D team, you will become better partners to the business, make more informed decisions about your work, and open up high-impact, high-value conversations across your team.

The typical learning experience requires accessing content from disparate sources—leading to a frustrating learner journey and potentially negatively impacting learners’ success. Additionally, users typically have questions during the learning experience and might need to engage with other learners, SMEs, or instructors at the time of content consumption.  

Immersive strategies such as virtual reality offer promise for teaching and learning, engaging learners in a realistic and 360-degree environment. However, while the instructional possibilities are extraordinary, there have been two major challenges facing most classrooms; technology cost and instructional relevance. During this session, attendees will explore innovative immersive assignments for online and in-person courses and discover how to create effective and engaging immersive assignments on a public institution budget.

In 2003, the Columbia Space Shuttle tragically disintegrated during earth entry after 16 days in space. Aside from the technological causes, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board concluded in their assessment that "cultural traits and organizational practices detrimental to safety were allowed to develop," citing "reliance on past success as a substitute for sound engineering practices" and "organizational barriers and behaviors that prevented effective communication of critical safety information" among the problems found.

Most of us just use a couple of apps on our mobile devices and we don’t take full advantage of what is possible. Are you looking for amazing ways to use your mobile device to create content? In this session, you will learn how to use your phone or tablet to brainstorm, sketch, take notes, collaborate, create audio and video-based media, and animate using several mind-blowing apps.You'll leave the session feeling inspired and have the practical information to apply one or more apps when you get back to your device.

Most digital learning professionals know that data science and artificial intelligence (AI) can make their everyday processes more efficient and help them reach business goals faster. However, many still have questions around the real-life applications of data science and AI within digital learning, including:

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.

You know what you're doing and you do it well. You know your process works. But despite using the same methods and templates you've used before, you and your SME are not seeing eye-to-eye. You need just a little something more, or maybe something different, to close the gap and be on the same page. Have you ever had that situation? I have. My trusty workbooks and templates for course design worked well until I got to this one project and then they just weren't quite working. They weren't flexible enough. I knew I had to try a different approach.   That's when I accidentally learned how a tool that's typically used as a collaboration tool for remote teams can be leveraged to help visual people better understand the plan for eLearning design and development.

LXP, LMS, LRS, bots and more … the complexity of next generation learning technology is growing. Learning Pool is here to make life simple. This session will present a simple architecture into which you can categorize learning technology and present a seamless, simple way to bring all of the elements of a “next generation” learning ecosystem to life.