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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Get Emotional: Create Effective Solutions Through Greater Engagement
If learning experience design is the elegant integration of learning science and engagement, we need good bases for both. We have an increasing number of resources on the science side, but what about engagement? What’s known? Do we have research on engagement? Can we get scientific about emotions? The short answer is an emphatic ‘yes’! In this session we’ll go through what’s known about emotion, how learning ’sticks’ better if we’ve got emotional engagement, and what the implications are for our designs. You’ll see how curiosity and surprise can play a role, as well as consequences and What’s In It…
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Don’t Lose Your Learner: How to Create a Learning Journey Map to Guide Outcomes
As learning professionals we know solutions must go beyond ‘let’s just make a training course.’ Learning happens everywhere in an organization and the needs are increasingly complex, especially in distributed and remote work environments. This is where we need to steal a powerful tactic from the marketing department: journey mapping. Understanding the learning journey, critical junctures, and personalizing the experience allows you to meet learner where they are to guide them through the process and create a powerful experience that supports long-term retention. In this session you’ll learn what the learning journey is, how to pragmatically begin constructing from your…
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Leveraging Personas to Craft Authentic and Compelling Scenarios
Scenario-based learning is a powerful method of learning experience design delivery, however it’s often difficult to know where to start. With a focus on ensuring we fit in all required learning content, it’s easy to find ourselves writing dry, predictable, or stilted scenarios that are noticeably unrealistic to the learners. This is where personas can help bring our narrative scenarios to life. In this session you will learn about the various components of learner personas while dissecting several examples. You’ll learn how you can strategically use learner personas in the creation of branched narrative scenarios to create learning experiences that…
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Building Prototypes with Collaborative Tools
Before you put learning tools and content into code, it takes a diligent team to define, present, and get buy-in on new ideas. Dedicating an early phase of your projects to rapid prototyping can help you develop your ideas, propose better learning experiences, and validate or pivot on your concepts based on how they test with your audience. Now, we can get to better solutions—and fewer unwelcome surprises—thanks to Miro and Figma: collaborative web-based tools where we can work on prototypes together with our stakeholders or teammates. In this session, learn the foundations of rapid prototyping and how it helps…
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Is Your Microlearning Learner Centered? (And Why It Needs To Be!)
Everyone wants to go micro and many of us have already done so. But going micro is more than just delivering bite-sized content. It’s about focusing on the learner and their needs. There are many different use cases and formats for microlearning, and they meet learner needs in different ways. This creates a tremendous challenge for us to identify the best design practices, delivery approaches, and implementation methods. When we understand HOW we are going micro and HOW we are meeting the learner’s needs, we deliver microlearning that has value for the learner. In this session you’ll identify how to…
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Moving from Content-centric to Learner-centric Design
In today’s ever-disruptive world and dizzying array of training requests, meeting deadlines and delighting stakeholders seem to be top priority! Authoring tools and technologies are proliferating rapidly and so is the increasing demand for sizzle and wowing training deliverables, developed with minimal budgets and time constraints. Learning programs are most often ‘one and done’ or ‘one size fits all’ solutions and learning impact is often unclear or doesn’t tie back to the learner’s performance. As L&D professionals, how can we shift our design strategies and start creating unique experiences with the learner at the focal point? How can we ensure…
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LeaderChat: Clark Quinn on Transformational Learning Design
For this month’s LeaderChat, we welcome ClarkQuinn, author of the new book Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design FromInstructional to Transformational, for a discussion of his book and anexploration of how L&D leaders can redefine how they look at and approachlearning design.
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Designed with Every Learning Leader in Mind
This article breaks down the elements that make Learning 2022 the premier event for learning leaders. Read more to learn about what you can expect this fall!
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Instructional Design Begins With Needs Assessment
Training is expensive, so it makes sense to apply a systematic process to its design rather than immediately beginning with course creation.
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Listen Up: Six Different Types of Audio in eLearning
Take a look at the most common types of audio in eLearning so you can understand when and how to properly utilize it.