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LeaderChat: Hadiya Nuriddin on How Leaders Use Stories
Forthis month’s LeaderChat we welcome Hadiya Nurridin of Duets Learning for adiscussion examining how learning leaders use stories to inform, communicate,connect, and lead in their organizations.
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AR/MR/VR: You Could … But Should You?
Augmented reality. Mixed reality. Virtual reality. We can come up with countless reasons—ranging from case studies to research and Gartner hype cycles—that these are much more than mere fads. Holding equal, if not greater importance, would be the need to first ask ourselves if a given learning initiative can, and should, be supplemented by AR/MR/VR. Is there a clear learning need, or are we succumbing to Shiny Object Syndrome? Are we electing to use these technologies to fill an existing gap no other approach can fill, or are we mistakenly making major revisions solely for the sake of adding a…
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Monthy MeetUp: Shawn Rosler on Using Podcasts for Performance
Forthis month’s Monthly Meetup, we welcome Shawn Rosler of Office Practicum, whojoins us with a presentation on “Podcasts for Performance: Leveraging a Pastimefor Your Learners.” He’ll share why podcasts are a cost-efficient,time-efficient platform to share knowledge, empowering SMEs to connect directlywith learners as “guests” on your training-focused podcasts.
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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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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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Give the Tools to your SMEs and Fast Track your Process!
In a perfect world, every organization has the time and resources to create world-class training to support every new business initiative, change, or great idea. But in the real world, we don’t always have this luxury. Is there a way to reduce the amount of time we spend on design and development on each project? Does every business initiative require training? Which ones should we spend our time on? Can anyone create learning materials? In this session, you’ll learn from how I created some simple processes and tools that enabled my SMEs and stakeholders to design, and in some cases,…
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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…
