Project Management
The core skills and methodologies used to move an initiative from ideation to completion, overseeing timelines, resources, and budgets efficiently and effectively.
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Keep Up with the Ever-Changing Skills Needed for ID
Sixteen Guild Masters share their perspectives on the business skills that are most important for contemporary instructional designers to cultivate.
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Business Skills for Instructional Designers: Guild Masters Weigh In
In this eBook, 16 Guild Masters contributed personal essays highlighting the business skills they deem most important for contemporary instructional designers to cultivate.
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Level Up: Preparing for a New Learning Leadership Paradigm
This eBook discusses what is causing the shift in the leadership paradigm and how you can create solutions to the ever-changing needs and expectations of your employees.
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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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Out of One, Many: Creating Instructional Media Derivatives from Video
Many designers create video-based content without considering how to leverage a video into other forms of media. Your audience will consume your message in various formats based upon where they are in the learning journey, their preferred method for consuming instructional content, and the learning environment. What if there was a proven workflow that could plan video, audio, image, and text-based outputs that aligned to your audience’s needs? In this session, you will learn how to plan your video production to produce various media derivatives that will support the different stages of a learning journey. You’ll experience how to take…
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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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Product Champions and eLearning Development
Do you encounter repeated changes in objectives, scope, and content during eLearning development projects? Maybe you need an Agile product champion.
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New Tools for Instructional Design and Development Teams
New application types are emerging for research and development of eLearning. These will make life easier for creators of online education and training.
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65 Useful Project Management Tips
This eBook breaks down 65 project management tips shared by L&D professionals from around the world.