Instructional Design
Applying learning theory and design strategies to meet specific performance goals through the creation of instructional materials and formal learning experiences.
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Make Better Criterion Tests With xAPI and Item Analysis
How can you know whether a learning experience (a course) teaches what it was intended to teach? Here is an overview of how to find out.
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Change Learning Culture to Lift Performance. Book Review: Learning Habits
Why are habits important, how do they support learning, and how can organizations build habits and learning at every level?
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Unite, Innovate, & Explore: Welcome to the Learning & HR Tech Solutions Conference and Expo
We proudly announce the evolution of the beloved Learning Solutions Conference & Expo into a comprehensive hub for Learning and Human Resources Technology — the all-new Learning & HR Tech Solutions Conference and Expo.
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LeaderChat with April Petrey
April Petrey, a seasoned leader in strategy for start-ups, joins us for this month’s LeaderChat. She is here to share why she founded her consulting firm Allonsy Innovation, and takes us on a deep dive into the blind spots she experienced from both the L&D industry, as well as start-up leaders.
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Be an eLearning Storyteller With Style and Confidence
The Pip Decks Storyteller Tactics contains a carefully designed and organized set of ideas on cards that IDs can use to create compelling content.
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Book Review: Collaborative Learning, by Nick Hernandez
Collaborative Learning: How to Upskill From Within and Turn L&D Into Your Competitive Advantage is an ideal introduction to collaborative learning.
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Translation is Not Enough. Localize Your eLearning!
Translating eLearning to make it useful to learners in other countries is not enough. Getting the message across in different countries requires localization.
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Case Study: Driving Behavior Change with Marketing Techniques
The ultimate goal of learning is to drive a behavior change. After all—if engaging in learning changes nothing about ones actions, what was the point? In this context, all learning has an element of change management, and as you’ll learn in this case study session, all change management involves good marketing. You’ll learn how Bluewater, a consulting and services firm, drove overwhelming adoption of 1000+ requests in year one by leveraging marketing techniques such as promoting the benefits of the change early and often, personalizing of messaging, and creating learning content at different levels to meet users where they were.…
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Cohort Learning Challenges: Meeting the Engagement Needs of Hybrid Workers
In today’s world of hybrid work where many employees are working remotely, feeling disconnected from their colleagues and facing a variety of distractions, it is becoming increasingly important to find innovative ways to engage them in learning. To address this challenge, instructional designers are turning to successful techniques from outside the traditional learning and development (L&D) space. This session will showcase how a small group of learning professionals collaborated to develop a unique solution called the Cohort Challenge. It combines the group interaction of online learning platforms like Udemy and Coursera with the quick and highly engaging “challenge” concept that…
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The Power of Learner Personas to Create Outstanding Learning Experiences
In times of overloaded schedules, smartphones, and on-demand resources everywhere, it is getting more and more difficult to get through to our learners. L&D programs need to be ruthlessly relevant to our learners so we can see some real behavior change and positive performance outcomes. One way to achieve this is through learner personas. Marketers have been using personas for decades to draw a picture of an ideal buyer in order to push the right content at the right time. In recent years, L&D adopted this approach to help create outstanding learning experiences. Join me in this interactive and collaborative…