Start Your Path to Becoming An LXD Expert

101: Becoming a Learning Experience Designer

Marty Rosenheck, eLearning Brothers

8:15 AM – 9:30 AM PT

Instructional design is evolving to meet the needs of the modern workplace and available technologies. In this session you will learn about the key steps to becoming a learning experience designer and how to apply design thinking, user experience design, and cognitive science principles to the design of learning experiences. Learn more.

201: Designing for Performance: Using UX Methods to Meet Your Learners' Needs

Roberta Dombrowski, Learn Mindfully

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT

In this session, we'll examine design thinking approaches to create impactful learning experiences You'll learn the basics of learner interviews, creating empathy maps, and learner journey maps for contextual design. These artifacts can help you identify solution opportunities that meet your learners needs and gain critical buy-in from key stakeholders. Learn more.

301: LX:2020—Perfect Vision for the Ideal Learning Experiences

Robert Gadd, OnPoint Digital

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT

Modern Learning Experiences (LXs) combine an ever-changing mix of internally-created content with externally curated resources from leading publishers, experts, and diverse informational services. This session will explore how progressive L&D teams are investing in vastly improved learning experiences as they design, develop, and deploy next-generation enterprise training initiatives. Learn more.

401: Improving Learning Experiences with Design Thinking

Kristen Hayden Safdie, Motivf

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PT

Design thinking can help bring together and manage organizational and managerial perspectives to create solutions that respond to the business needs while remaining learner-centered. In this session, you'll learn how design thinking can be used to understand and refine problems, elicit and manage ideas from different perspectives, prototype, and test solutions. Learn more.

501: Innovation Governance: Turning Big Ideas into Low-Cost Experiments

Becca Wilson,  Strategic Marketing and Product Manager—Amazon Web Services (AWS)

8:30 AM – 9:30AM PT

Innovation governance is a conceptual framework for capturing ideas, prioritizing them, and developing solutions that solve user problems. In this session learn how design thinking, lean, and Agile can be integrated to help you find patterns in the noise, and turn insights into low cost experiments. Learn more.

601: Creating Powerful Personas for Outstanding Learning Experiences

Bianca Baumann, GP Strategies

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT

Marketers have been using personas for years to draw a picture of an ideal buyer in order to push the right content at the right time. In this session, you'll learn how you too can use this technique to do the same and create more relevant and impactful learning solutions. Learn more.

701: LXD: A Day in The Life

Linda Daniels, Merck

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM PT

As learning architects, we are problem solvers who focus on the overall ‘opportunity’ to map out what is needed before we can design a plan to get there. In this session, you'll identify all the ‘players’ involved with an initiative, understand the critical need for performance consulting, learn how to manage difficult conversations, and understand the steps to help you create holistic learning experiences. Learn more.

801: Panel Discussion: The Foundations and Practices of LXD

Moderator: Jane Bozarth, The eLearning Guild
Bianca Baumann, GP Strategies
Robert Gadd, OnPoint Digital
Kristi Ivan, University of Toronto
Linda Daniels, Merck

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PT

In this final panel session led by Dr. Jane Bozarth, you'll join with LXD experts to dig deeper into the theoretical foundations of the practice, the influence of technology, and explore how LXD is impacting organizations to bring a more holistic approach to learning and development. Learn more.