Management & Strategy
The strategic approaches used to shape the direction of the learning function and to support the design and development of learning solutions.
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Expand your L&D Solutions with AR Learning Experiences
Augmented reality (AR) is continuing to emerge. Nearly everyone’s mobile device now supports AR content. AR enhances the end users’ view with additional content and experiences. How can this be useful for learning? How can we build learning content within the learner’s real-world view, or guide and support the learner’s performance via AR? What does it take to get started? In this session you will learn how AR can enhance and support learning. We will cover what you need to know when you start designing and developing AR learning experiences, and explore tools and resources you can use to quickly…
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Failure is an Option: Using Lean to Course Correct Your Course Development
Instructional designers are tireless optimists; we design through a combination of learning theory, practical expertise, big dreams, and oodles of pilot testing for the glory of continuous improvement. But sometimes the process doesn’t work for where you work; deadlines are tight, SMEs are MIA, pivots are required, scope changes like Mercury in retrograde. This session will explore how Lean Six Sigma methodologies and techniques help us mitigate project let-downs and stressors, improving the way we work while holding true to the ID best practices we all know and love. You’ll see how Lean Six Sigma techniques help us mitigate project…
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Using Agile to Deliver eLearning
Many L&D teams today are being asked for more visibility into the development process and project management of learning products. They are being asked to account for their development time and to display ROI on the learning products created. Additionally, there is the challenge of efficiently engaging with SMEs. This demand for increased transparency and communication is best answered by leveraging Agile processes. In this session, you will learn how the small L&D team at dRofus adopted Agile principles of working in sprints, creating a backlog of learning products, and utilized an online Kanban board to provide more visibility into…
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Learning Leaders: A Day In The Life
This research report follows a day in the life of five L&D managers as they discuss different aspects of their jobs, such as developing staff, their hiring processes, and other elements of their work.
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More than Captions: The Journey to Accessible Learning
Accessible learning is inclusive learning but like many important improvements in learning and development, it’s rarely a simple path to creating accessible learning experiences that meet the needs of your learning population. There are questions you never thought to ask, research into unfamiliar topics, and trial and error. In this case study session, you’ll learn how RSM is working towards creating a sustainable model for accessible learning experiences in live, virtual, and eLearning environments. You’ll learn how the first steps towards improving accessibility can be sparked by curiosity, research, networking, and questions such as: “How do we do live closed…
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Storyboarding in an Agile World
You work hard to make sure that your lesson’s storyboard is a great blueprint for your new project. And then your SME reviews it and there is just one comment? “Looks great!” That’s it? Your SME clearly gave it a glancing review: and they probably have NO IDEA what this solution will look like in the end. Even worse, it means that all the effort you put into storyboarding was a waste of time. There’s a better way to storyboard—by being Agile-centric. In this session, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of commonly-used course development methodologies, compare those to Agile-centric…
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Data and Data Analytics in Instructional Development
Understand the application and software types used to perform data analytics, and how to select software or applications to consider for use.
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Celebrate Hard Work and Innovation
Submit your learning project for DemoFest and share your hard work on April 21 at Learning Solutions 2022 Conference & Expo.
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LeaderChat: Proven Practices for Remote and Hybrid Teams
Forthis month’s LeaderChat we welcome members of the Choice Hotels L&D Team,Chris Longstreet, JT Gunter, David DuBois, & Christy Price for a discussionexamining the proven practices they have applied to remote and hybrid work,including areas like collaboration, working across time-zones, onboarding newpeople, and more.
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Selecting Leadership Training, Online and In-Person
Coaching, instruction, assessment, and feedback are essential to the development of individual leadership development plans in 2022.