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Nurture an Inclusive Culture: What L&D Can Contribute
Creating an inclusive culture—one where all people can work, learn, and thrive—is an essential element of improving accessibility and diversity in your organization. It’s a process that requires ongoing attention, starting with fostering and nurturing psychological safety. In this session, we’ll define key concepts such as diversity and power imbalances, microaggressions, implicit bias, and social identities. We’ll provide guidance on handling issues when they arise and describe strategies for employees to learn and use when they experience or witness incidents that compromise a colleague’s psychological safety. From there, we’ll delve into what L&D teams can do to create a culture…
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Designing for Everyone: Tips, Techniques, and Resources
Most professionals designing learning want to design a best-in-class experience but with time and resource challenges, launching often becomes the top priority. In this session we will explore the critical concept of universal design and how you can apply it to your projects. You’ll learn about free tools and resources and explore techniques that will prompt you to grow as a learning designer. By the end of this session, you will better understand the importance of inclusive design and leave with actionable insights to apply to your next project! In this session, you will learn:
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How & Why to Build Accessibility into the Beginning Stages of Learning Design
Are you thinking about designing a virtual game show using buzzers and flashing lights? Maybe a hover-and-reveal interaction? Planning to use a table full of data in a live webinar? Before proceeding with any of these, consider whether you may unintentionally create barriers for some learners. Ensuring that learning is accessible to everyone should be baked into our design processes. Following the four main components of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (also known as WCAG)—Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust—this session will equip you to consider how learners with varying abilities may experience online modules, instructional videos, live webinars, and other learning…
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Revolutionizing Learning & Development: How AI Tools are Changing the Game
Are you on the fence about using artificial intelligence (AI)? Are you struggling with the ethical aspects or credibility impact of using AI to develop learning programs? In the rapidly evolving world of learning and development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. With the emergence of AI tools, we are witnessing a shift in how we approach training and development. AI is transforming the industry making it possible to create customized, interactive, and engaging learning experiences, but not without social implications. Engage in a robust discussion about potential risks and challenges while discovering the advantages of AI. This session…
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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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Countdown to DevLearn: Lessons from Classic Games to Design Games for Learning
You are invited on an adventure to uncover the history of learning games, discover how to leverage the ideas, insights and innovations from earlier games into your own design of games, and have some fun in the process. A game doesn’t become a classic by happenstance. It takes good design, attention to detail, and a careful examination of game elements. These items separate a so-so instructional game from a game that makes a lasting impact. Learn what those elements are and how you can use them in your own learning game design. You’ll leave this session with a new understanding…
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LLA Monthly Session: Create Your Learning Manifesto
This month’s MeetUp explores what a Learning Manifesto is and what it can do for you. Regardless of what aspect of L&D you work in, your audience, your industry, your technology, or any schema or structure you operate in, your Learning Manifesto will be a guiding star throughout your career and help shape your practice. Alison Shea, the chief of global learning strategy for Coretography, will share what’s involved with identifying the key parts of your Learning Manifesto and how to use it to transform what you do and how you do it.
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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…
