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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Level Up Your Scenarios
Writing scenarios and incorporating them into courses can be intimidating, regardless of how far along you are in your instructional design journey. Perhaps you’re unsure how much story detail to include to make scenarios feel realistic enough to trigger the type of response you want. Maybe you struggle with how much character backstory you need to add to ensure that the character serves its purpose. Relax! There’s a strategy you can use to determine the right level of detail based on the goal of each scenario. In the session, you’ll learn three levels of scenario detail and character development. The…
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The Power of Story in the New Jungle of Work
Do you feel it? That palpable dis-ease that something is still not quite right with the world. We got the memo; there’s no rolling back to life before Covid. On our cosmic Titanic, holding our breath as we collectively mask our fear, we lean across the fragile helm of provisional normalcy, straining to spot a ray of hope amidst the storm clouds of a looming recession, a great resignation, and a lingering pandemic hangover. As L&D professionals, we told our organizations a story that helped them re-imagine what learning could be in a lockdown—and then we made it happen. We…
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xAPI Mastery: Top 2022 Priority for eLearning Practitioners
More authoring tools and learning platforms support the use of xAPI. Widespread adoption makes mastery of xAPI a top priority for eLearning practitioners.
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Industry Experts Share Learning Experience Design Advice
In this eBook industry experts offer practical tips on how you can effectively leverage and incorporate learning experience design into your practice.
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Engageli: A Comprehensive Solution for Learning & Development
The mismatch between average job tenure and learned skill half-lives means linear career paths and functional silos no longer meet company and worker needs.
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Creating Story for Learning Online Conference
Learn strategies and best practices for writing compelling stories for podcasts, video scripts, email campaigns, scenario-based learning—and more!
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Advertisers’ Secrets to Compelling Learning Videos
With the need to “break through the clutter,” how can your learning videos leave your audience remembering your message? Try looking to advertising, a field that does this well. If commercials can get people to purchase items they don’t need, how can you use these marketing secrets to influence learners (and do this without them feeling manipulated)? In this interactive, game-based session, you’ll learn what makes some ads so compelling they persuade you to buy. You’ll explore the strategic framework to use when creating a training video strategy, as well as the essential design considerations for video. In this session,…
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Tips to Improve Online Discussions With Remote Participants
Apply these tips to improve your online discussions.
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Iterate and Integrate: Designing the Modern Learning Experience
It started with a familiar request, “We need a large training program for one of our new product teams … and we need it in about 90 days. Can you create that?” At FIS, we started with a non-traditional solution. It worked but we saw the potential for greater transformation. Today, it’s still evolving as we integrate and iterate with various projects across the organization and innovate to create a learning culture that can stand the test of time. In this session, you will explore the ongoing thinking behind a program, as we are currently iterating using modern methodologies such…
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Process Mapping for Planning and Illustrating Learning Experiences
Most learning content is organized around the information that needs to be communicated, but learners are focused on the processes they need to know to get work done. Even when process mapping is used to organize the content, it still needs to be integrated into the flow of the learning experience for learners to be able to relate the content to their daily lives. In this session, participants will learn to conceptualize business processes as a visual structure. They will be introduced to a technique for diagramming those processes in a way that can be used for organizing the learning…