Elearning Design

ELearning design builds upon instructional design, adding the context of the tools and technologies used to build and consume elearning experiences.





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  • Strategic Pauses: 4 Event Boundaries That Protect What Learners Just Learned

    Strategic Pauses: 4 Event Boundaries That Protect What Learners Just Learned

    Without event boundaries, nothing tells working memory to consolidate what it just processed

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  • The Modern eLearning Designer’s Toolkit: What’s New in Captivate 13.1

    The Modern eLearning Designer’s Toolkit: What’s New in Captivate 13.1

    Modern eLearning designers need more than just an authoring tool. They need a complete toolkit for creating engaging, responsive, and scalable learning experiences. Join us for an in-depth look at Adobe Captivate 13.1 and discover how its latest innovations help you build courses faster, reuse existing content, and create richer learner interactions. In this webinar, you will learn how to:

  • Build Your L&D Edge with Skills, Strategies, and Connections That Matter 

    Build Your L&D Edge with Skills, Strategies, and Connections That Matter 

    For L&D practitioners, the strongest professional development combines learning expertise, business knowledge, technology, and influence. Your goal should be to become not just someone who creates training, but someone who can identify performance problems and help the organization solve them.  Here are some ideas on how to get there:  Go beyond course creation  Learning professionals need to become comfortable with needs analysis, setting learning objectives, deciding when learning isn’t the solution, and understanding and integrating adult learning principles into training. These are the skills that will help learning professionals adapt their role for the future.  How can the Learning Guild…

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  • How SMBs Can Offer AI-Personalized Learning Paths

    How SMBs Can Offer AI-Personalized Learning Paths

    SMBs can deliver—and benefit from—personalized training. By aligning each AI initiative with business goals, training leaders can boost employee skills, enhance performance, and ensure every learning investment counts.

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  • Leveraging GenAI to Support Cognitive Development

    Leveraging GenAI to Support Cognitive Development

    Human‑factors research shows that automation can make simple tasks easier while exacerbating difficulty in complex tasks, underscoring the need for deliberate task allocation between humans and GenAI.

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  • Creating Learning That Works: A Conversation with Melissa Milloway

    Creating Learning That Works: A Conversation with Melissa Milloway

    Melissa Milloway, Senior Learning Experience Designer at Microsoft, has become one of the learning industry’s most recognizable voices by sharing practical ideas that help instructional designers create better learning experiences. But long before building an online following or becoming known for her expertise with tools like Articulate Storyline and Rise, she found herself drawn to a field that combined technology, creativity, and a passion for helping people learn.  Ahead of DevLearn 2026, we caught up with Melissa to talk about her path into learning and development, why she believes sharing your work makes the entire community stronger, what attendees can expect from the new Storyline & Rise…

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  • Designing Learning for a Time‑Starved Workplace

    Designing Learning for a Time‑Starved Workplace

    Designing learning around real work patterns is not about lowering expectations. It’s about acknowledging reality and designing within it.

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  • Meet the Learning Guild’s 2026 Thirty Under 30 (Part Two) 

    Meet the Learning Guild’s 2026 Thirty Under 30 (Part Two) 

    We’re back to announce the second half of the Learning Guild’s 2026 Thirty Under 30! Together, these innovators, strategists, designers, and leaders represent the depth and diversity of the next generation shaping the learning field. This November the Learning Guild community will recognize all 30 of these emerging professionals and celebrate their contributions to the future of learning at DevLearn 2026.  Meet the second half of this year’s Thirty Under 30 cohort.  Patrick McMorrow  Constructive Disruptor in Learning and Leadership  Patrick challenges assumptions to create stronger learning experiences. Through leadership development, facilitation, and learner advocacy, he pushes organizations beyond the status quo in pursuit of meaningful results.  Kelyn Melendez-Ruiz  Guiding People Through Transformation  Kelyn…

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  • How Leading Learning Designers Are Partnering with AI

    How Leading Learning Designers Are Partnering with AI

    The biggest opportunity for using AI in learning design isn’t handing your work over to it. It’s discovering how to work with it.  When used strategically, AI can act like a trusted design partner: helping you generate meaningful scenarios, identify course gaps, and diagnose root causes, while leaving the critical thinking, empathy, and business context to you. These four tips from our AI & Learning Design Online Conference speakers will help you partner with AI throughout the course creation process.  Want to hear more expert advice on partnering with AI? Join us August 26 & 27, 2026 at the AI…

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  • What Makes a Video Truly ‘Engaging’?

    What Makes a Video Truly ‘Engaging’?

    By treating your audience as active participants rather than passive observers, you ensure your video does not just fill a screen but fills a need.

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