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Turn L&D into a Performance Department
A conversation about measuring the business impact of training can trigger panic in many L&D professionals. You want to be a strategic partner and contribute to the overall growth and success of your organization, but the corporate university structure is built to drive awareness—not produce results. This session will be an active discussion for those who desire to elevate themselves, their teams, and their impact. We’ll explore long-held beliefs about the role of training in the corporate environment that are barriers to success. Come prepared to share your thoughts, resistance, and experiences as they relate to these important questions: How…
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xAPI In Practice (Case Studies 1)
This week, we focus on xAPI in practice, showing two examples of organizations that have leveraged the power of xAPI in their learning programs. You will discover why xAPI was put into practice, the lessons that were learned along the way, and most importantly, the value that was driven. These examples will provide context for the in-depth sessions to follow in the weeks ahead.
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Intro to the Experience API & the xAPI Cohort
This week’s opening session for the Fall 2022 Semester features Megan Torrance as she explores the foundational elements of xAPI, providing an introduction to the specification that will serve as the foundation we will build upon each week. We will also cover how the Cohort works to ensure you get the most value from your time as a participant.
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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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LLA Monthly Meeting: Learning Org Maturity: What Drives L&D Impact & Finding Your Breakthrough
Join Steve Lowenthal and Cammy Bean to explore the changes in people, process, technology, and use of analytics that organizations are leveraging to accelerate maturity and make a bigger impact on their organization.
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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…
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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…
