Eighty-one percent of learners use search for workplace learning, but 58 percent don’t engage with enterprise learning content because they can’t find it when they need it. The learning ecosystem must deliver the right content to the right people at the right time. But what if it doesn’t? What role does your content play in building and growing an effective learning ecosystem? What delivery strategies work? Xyleme and customer Baker Hughes will discuss flexible and scalable content and simple integration strategies that connect content to people.

This session will reveal a measurable, repeatable, and scalable performance support process by which you can efficiently amplify the knowledge of your company’s experts and confidently shorten time to qualification for all your new performers. We will show how the method links to theory, present research data to underscore the need, demonstrate the process, provide examples of the system in use, and run a short workshop to extract new value from your learning ecosystem. Four case studies will also be discussed, showing the method in use with the US Coast Guard, Circuit City, AVAD, and Invaluable.

With challenges of app store approval, connectivity, tracking, and course updates, delivering learning content directly to devices has never been easy. Remote working has never been as popular as it is today, and teams are increasingly spread across offices worldwide. Join gomo to discuss the challenges of delivering content for consumption by learners around the world.

In this session, you will learn how to help your organization understand what the journey toward adoption of the performance support discipline will require. You will learn how the shift entails moving beyond the traditional training paradigm and adopting an intentional focus on performance. You will learn what it means to treat your organization or enterprise like a dynamic learning and performance ecosystem, and how looking through a performance lens changes the rules of engagement when it comes down to an ultimate goal of sustaining workforce performance solutions.

The need to demonstrate that your learning content is effective is nothing new. Industry experts in content are asked all the time, “Is my content good? How do I know?” With years of experience in helping customers’ content be the best it can be, two content strategists from Inkling will walk you through the five key elements that make up effective content. This session will provide you with the guiding principles that will help you take your content from not to hot.

In this session, you will learn how one company used limited resources to assess the needs of an ever-changing workforce, breaking down existing content and creating on-the-job solutions. You will see examples of how performance support materials were developed as an extension of training and identified during the planning process for future needs, and how mobile solutions were put in place. You will explore strategies including case studies, checklists, annotated forms, decision trees, and screen casts/videos that can be created as bite-size resources to support point-in-time practices.

In today’s DIY (do-it-yourself) world, you often hear that being a great instructional designer isn’t enough. You need to also be a graphic designer, writer, coder, video producer, editor, and special effects guru. But is that fair? Is it even remotely possible? This session will explore when to do it yourself and when it’s time to call in the experts.

Inkling is thrilled to sponsor FocusOn Learning, and we hope you’ll join us at the Expo Reception! We’ve organized giant lawn games, like tic-tac-toe and cornhole, to give you the chance to win drink tickets and other great prizes. See you there!

Most companies have invested heavily in training infrastructure and content, including face-to-face events, PowerPoints, PDFs, and video. Typically, video is thought of as problematic and overly time-consuming. It’s not. The real question is how to deliver training that is consistent, engaging, relevant, and—above all—lasting. In this session, you will see how the use of video can facilitate behavioral change and create measurable, positive learning outcomes. It will include the value of practice, role-playing, reinforcement, and collaboration, using the medium of secure, recorded, and interactive video.

The expansion of video assets in corporate learning ecosystems has created a tremendous opportunity for self-directed learning. Preparing a video asset with classifications and rich metadata is critical for finding and sharing great content. In this session, we’ll review the definitions of taxonomy and metadata for video asset management and the steps for injecting metadata into each video. In addition, we’ll examine how video analytics can be used for reporting.

Digital interactivity has become a core facet of life. Consumers expect to be able to touch, swipe, and tap to make choices—a trend that has only accelerated with the growth of mobile and “anytime, anywhere” content. Due to the increasing consumer desire for interactive video, new technologies are entering the market offering solutions, but what sets them apart? This session will explore how different interactive video technologies define and deliver personalized, relevant content as a way to drive deeper learning, engagement, data, and insights. You will leave understanding the potential of the different interactive video technologies out there that can be realized in your organization.

Microlearning, ironically, is no small task. With so many different types of learning content and objectives, not all mobile-based learning experiences are created equal. Find out how to design a cohesive learning strategy—considering style, method, and content—when your canvas is limited to 160 characters.

Delivering mobile learning presents a challenge to any organization, given the smaller form factor and the fact that learners don’t want to stare at their screens for extended periods of time. This session will explain why microlearning (i.e., breaking information into bite-sized chunks) is the ideal partner for mobile.