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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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
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
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
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 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)
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
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’?
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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Secrets of Gamification Revealed
Join us as we retell the misadventures of building “Ethical Pursuit,” an ethics compliance course inspired by Trivial Pursuit. This session shares the decision-making process behind choosing gamification, along with the challenges we faced while designing and building the experience. We’ll start with the big picture of what makes gamification effective before peeling back the layers of how the course was built in Articulate Storyline. Through stories, humor, and lessons learned, you’ll get a practical look at the design and development of a gamified training experience In this session you will learn:
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Escape From the Moon: Creating an eLearning Escape Room
eLearning escape rooms can create engaging and interactive training experiences, but they can also present challenges during design and development. In this session, we’ll share a case study of building an escape room where participants escape from an office on the moon with help from a robot named Lumi while learning to use a generative AI chatbot You’ll learn practical approaches for designing the experience—from establishing the premise and planning puzzles to collaborating with SMEs and leveraging Adobe software with Articulate Storyline. The session will also explore how different difficulty modes can support varying levels of learner engagement. In this…