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Sessions on Thursday, October 25, 2018
MB15 Docent Morning Buzz 2: Reflection & Projection
Morning Buzz
Jump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreJump-start your day—and your networking—with Morning Buzz, the popular early-bird discussions held each morning of DevLearn. Grab your coffee, pull up a chair, and join a casual conversation around an important topic. Share your best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another’s experiences.
Read MoreArticulate knows that eLearning developers face big challenges. You’re asked to create engaging courses for any device, develop gorgeous eLearning on a budget, and get projects approved on a tight schedule. And you may not have access to the budget, resources, and support you need to do your best work.
Read More10:00 AM Thu, October 25
Track: Management and Strategy
The eLearning industry is constantly changing. It can be difficult to keep an eye on what advancements are coming while also trying to manage current budgets and technology restraints.
Read MoreLearners don’t always want to sit through a formal training course, and they often simply don’t have the time. Microlearning is a great way to deliver just what people need, when they need it, to maximize effectiveness. But, as a learning professional, how do you create it?
Read MoreAre you looking for amazing ways to use your mobile device to create content? Learn how to use your device outside of your typical apps and email to discover new ways to create, brainstorm, and improve your learning development workflow.
Read MoreSMNX201 Give Your Organization the Freedom to Innovate
Management Xchange
Highly customized learning platforms may sound like an inherently good thing. But what if those customizations are patching holes rather than tailoring the performance of your learning solution to your organization’s needs? These kinds of patches and workarounds can hinder a learning professional’s ability to innovate. In the rapidly evolving world of digital learning, the freedom to innovate is essential for a sustainable, scalable, and efficient learning program.
Read MoreSXAPI201 Creating a Data-Driven L&D Team—an xAPI Case Study
xAPI Central Showcase
From an organization-wide executive directive to become more data-driven, a retail corporate L&D team took an internal look at their own data practices. Realizing that they had an overwhelming lack of transparency into their learning initiatives and a great amount of data that had gone unused, the team developed a transformation vision to create a single system of record for learning to enable observability, granularity, and accountability for all team members. The team was committed to the vision of xAPI; however, the data and information they needed in order to make actionable change for their learners was locked away in non-interoperable formats, and they recognized the need to develop a data strategy and implementation plan.
Read MoreHave you ever been offered unsolicited advice? If so, you know that advice received before you’re ready falls on deaf ears. The same thing happens at work when training is offered before the need is clear. The need for change is like a journey that your reluctant heroes face. Knowing the phases of this journey helps you plan for guidance at the right time. Everyone knows that the Hero’s Journey is a tool for writing good fiction stories, but what if it could be modified to accommodate common models of conflict resolution?
Read More402 Wonder Woman, Wakanda, and Work: Make Your eLearning Representative
Concurrent Session
You know that most media—including eLearning—is failing at representation. You see it every day. And not only is it leaving people out of the picture, it’s less effective as a result. Maybe you’ve tried to make your work more inclusive but haven’t been able to find great media, haven’t been able to convince your stakeholders, or simply aren’t confident in navigating how to respectfully represent different genders, ethnicities, orientations, and abilities.
Read More403 Wired, Not Tired: Is Curation the Cure for What Ails L&D?
Concurrent Session
Content curation is rapidly becoming an essential skill for learning professionals, but many have yet to take the step of putting it into practice. This session will arm you with an understanding of how curation helps both you and your organization, along with the tools and techniques you’ll need to craft your own personalized curation system. It’s time to make curation a central part of your digital learning toolkit.
Read MoreThe world is gripped by accelerated change, and the need to learn and adapt is taking center stage; yet ironically, L&D professionals continue to struggle for relevance and impact. Instead of being sought-after business partners, practitioners are often marginalized as order-takers for narrow training solutions. The challenge is one of urgent relevance as L&D must quickly learn and adapt to better enable the future of work.
Read MoreYou’ve signed the contract for your new LMS, but the hard work is only beginning. It’s time to think like a marketer. How can you get everyone at your company to adopt this new software? How can you help employees to think of learning as happening outside of the classroom?
Read More406 Using xAPI to Personalize and Adapt Learning Content to the Learner
Concurrent Session
For so long, learning has been one-sided. Everyone gets the same course and same content, no matter what they have already learned or experienced. xAPI gives you greater details and insights into what the learner does, but where do you go from there? How do you adjust and change content based on learners’ xAPI history?
Read MoreGamification is the integration of game mechanics, or game dynamics, into a learning experience, while game-based training can be defined as a game designed for the purpose of solving a problem. However, these words are being used in parallel by the industry, and it can be quite confusing. This session will explain the key differences and definitions that can assist practitioners in ensuring they use the wording appropriately.
Read MoreSearching for new ways to present content in eLearning is an ongoing challenge for most designers. Animation effects beyond the typical require deeper thought in design, and often involve additional storyboarding. Barriers to learning new animation software result in some designers not pursuing a more engaging approach than typical animation effects. With new smartphone cameras, available apps, and software, you can dramatically reduce those barriers to get started with stop-motion animation.
Read More409 Using Design Systems for Scalable, Accessible, Cohesive eLearning Experiences
Concurrent Session
Can you count how many times eLearning developers on your team have re-created the same button? That time really adds up. You want to create high-quality custom solutions, but they tend to take up lots of time. You’ve adopted templates, but they just don’t cut it for all of your users’ needs. What if you could create custom, cohesive, accessible, and high-quality learning experiences in half the time?
Read More410 Learning Technology’s Past, Present, and Future: A Guild Master Panel
Concurrent Session
David Kelly, Jane Bozarth, Joe Ganci, Julie Dirksen, Marc Rosenberg, Michael Allen, Nick Floro, Robert Gadd
10:45 AM Thu, October 25
Track: Management and Strategy
Technology has shaped much of the world of education and training for decades. Understanding the role technology plays in our work is critical as technology continues to advance and become even more embedded into our work. Being prepared for this emerging world won’t be easy and will require an understanding of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we are headed.
Read MoreChoosing the right learning technology is a daunting task. A bad decision could cost an organization immeasurable time and money, not to mention the negative impact on talent development. Research shows that nearly half of organizations are looking to choose another technology provider. Whether the system is lacking features, is hard to use, or simply appears outdated, companies want a change.
Read More412 Shed Unwanted Megabytes: Tips and Tools for Reducing Media File Size
Concurrent Session
Are your files weighing you down? Do your courses no longer fit on your mobile device? Are you embarrassed by unsightly buffering? It’s time to put your files on a diet, following tried-and-true best practices. In less time than a juice cleanse, you can have the course of your dreams.
Read More413 What L&D Can Learn from Marketing’s Use of AI, AR, and Machine Learning
Concurrent Session
It’s no secret the marketing industry is investing millions on emerging technology to change people’s behavior. What can L&D learn from their endeavors? How can you capitalize on their success and failures to design learning solutions that incorporate their best practices and are truly effective?
Read More414 Using Articulate Rise to Build a Responsive Microlearning Curriculum
Concurrent Session
For years, eLearning tools have been based on a PowerPoint-slide paradigm. However, to be truly device independent, courses need to be responsive and use a webpage style. Articulate Rise provides an easy-to-implement solution that encourages microlearning. This session will discuss using Rise to implement a full, 35-module curriculum that is both responsive and delivered in microlearning-sized chunks. Challenges and solutions will be highlighted.
Read MoreTo some, variables may be an unknown function in Articulate Storyline. Many haven’t had the opportunity to use variables, or have been confused by variables and what they are capable of adding to the learning experience. Whatever the reason for pleading ignorance, this session has it covered!
Read More416 BYOD: Introducing WebXR—a Lightweight Way for Developers to Create VR
Concurrent Session
Unity and Unreal Engine create high-quality VR experiences, while AR learning usually requires building an app. A lightweight way to create VR and AR experiences is needed for quicker turnarounds and lower costs.
Read MoreSMNX202 Perception to Reality: Proving Your Training’s Value
Management Xchange
In a world of perpetually shifting priorities and uncertain outlooks, it’s important to prove the value of your work to your clients and stakeholders. We rarely have the resources we need to do effective analysis before and after training, which leads many in management to view training as just an expendable expense rather than an investment. How can we, as learning professionals, change that reality?
Read MoreWith more than one million new crew members hired every year in the US alone, it is imperative for McDonald’s to onboard new hires efficiently and effectively. However, new hires were spending more than twelve hours studying processes and procedures in back rooms with printed binders that could double as doorstops before learning in the restaurant with peers and managers. McDonald’s recognized the need for a new approach to their training program.
Read MoreDid they learn it? Do they know it? Can they do it? Most organizations use assessments as part of talent development initiatives, promotions, compliance, onboarding, or recruitment. The stakes are substantial: Decisions made based on the results can impact both the reputation and financial well-being of the organization, as well as the lives of its employees.
Read MoreeLearning and instructor-led classroom training both have inherent strengths and weaknesses. Why not take advantage of the best of both worlds?
Read MoreSTRS202 Successfully Implementing an LCMS: eXact and Merck Case Study
Strategic Solutions
One of the most challenging issues for organizations is how to undertake digital transformation successfully. Adopting new technology to address content and learning challenges can be high on internal agendas, and therefore it is imperative that the enabling technology is able to deliver successful outcomes to an organization. It is essential to anticipate the challenges that might lie ahead, in order to optimize potential efficiencies and measurable benefits. This session will provide a guide for those who might consider embarking on such an internal transformation—and you will be given the background on how Merck progressed on its innovation journey.
Read MoreA hospital system had an instructor-led course that they needed to move online, but wanted to keep aspects of the learner-to-learner communication that was possible in the instructor-led course. The organization asked the SmartBuilder team to replicate this functionality in an online course by allowing learners to see live statistics showing how other learners answered the same questions. xAPI allowed the team to provide an innovative solution to this challenge.
Read MoreOften, employees have no simple way to find relevant information in the flow of their work. Printed or digital information can be difficult to find and search through, all while seconds and minutes are ticking away with an unresolved problem or need—resulting in a missed opportunity with a customer, a failed process that slows down a team’s productivity, or a larger issue that requires more resources to solve later.
Read MoreThis session will explore often-overlooked game elements that focus on the story—the narrative—which can take surprisingly little time to craft, but can make all the difference. You’ll explore a proven model with examples that demonstrate these elements in detail. Core concepts from the hero’s journey apply to all incredible stories—from Rocky Balboa to Indiana Jones, these elements are the reason people care to dedicate their attention.
Read MoreThis session will look at the eight big challenges that gomo’s global customers have highlighted when developing and delivering eLearning at scale.
Read MoreShort videos—less than two minutes in length—or long videos chunked up into short, digestible bits are retained longer and are more frequently shared and consumed. Creating, managing, and updating short, digestible content has become a challenge in most organizations. The desire is to be able to create content by anyone, anytime, and deliver it in an exciting and digestible way.
Read MoreFor thousands of years, knowledge has been the catalyst for growth, providing organized groups of individuals a competitive advantage. Awareness, insight, and discernment became essential for groups to progress and lead, and that same principle shapes today’s successful organizations. One of the main challenges that organizations face is aligning business objectives with employees’ ambitions. Clustering individuals and calling them a group doesn’t necessarily guarantee they’ll meet learning goals or the company’s expectations. The assimilation of knowledge depends on many factors, and even when you can granularly customize training, you still need to make it applicable to the collective goal.
Read MoreSometimes you have to get creative to gather the data you need for your digital learning project. xAPI opens up the ability to track all sorts of activity that happens outside the LMS, but sometimes the “how” of getting that data calls for a bit of creativity.
Read MoreSubject matter experts (SMEs) are the keepers of knowledge and know-how, but working with them can be a challenging experience. How do you get the SME to share their knowledge and know-how with you? What should you do if the SME provides too much information—or not enough?
Read MoreVirtual reality technologies are finding new ways to enhance our ability to perceive the world that surrounds us. With the focus being on the learner experience, VR offers opportunities to organizations that implement VR into their training toolkit. This session explains how to create an effective VR learning game from an organization that has built from them from the ground up using the VIVE and the Rift.
Read MoreSoftware and system simulations created in tools such as Captivate are a great way to engage learners and provide visual demonstrations. But when developer access to live systems is limited or system updates are frequent, creating and maintaining such simulations can be time-consuming and difficult. But what if there was a way to simulate simulation?
Read MoreThe whole industry seems excited about xAPI. It’s a spectacular option for gaining deep insights into learner actions—or opening up the learning environment entirely. Exciting stuff indeed. Getting excited is easy; getting started is another story. How do you get started with xAPI? How can you use the rapid authoring tools you’re already familiar with to tap into the reporting potential of xAPI?
Read MoreDo you find that the pressures of rapidly changing technology and the need to support a nontraditional, remote workforce require rethinking how work is done in your organization? Is it challenging for your organization to keep up with the needs of your audience due to restrictive, outdated procedures, tools, and skill sets? For the talent development function, emerging workforce needs raise important questions when it comes to strategic planning.
Read MoreSXAPI204 Case Study: Tracking and Analyzing US Army Training with xAPI
xAPI Central Showcase
This US Army Basic Rifle Marksmanship case study began in 2013 with a white paper discussing training challenges. There was no uniform mechanism for collecting the available data from the various proprietary live ranges, and data was often abstracted to the unit level. They wanted to find better ways to provide meaningful feedback and training at the individual level and have the ability to securely aggregate data sets for analysis. If data from live fire exercises could be captured, correlated at the individual level, and made easily available for data mining, then the US Army could benefit from a wide array of analysis focused on live fire training. In addition, trainees could receive relevant and timely feedback: not only detailed training records, but also automated feedback or remediation based on their results delivered on-demand.
Read MoreMost L&D teams are keenly interested in exploring ways to combine their macrolearning needs—traditional ILT classes and VILT sessions, tracked online learning, and structured compliance programs—with microlearning initiatives leveraging mobile, game mechanics, and social interactions. While most legacy LMS platforms have yet to include compelling microlearning features, there are ways to design and integrate legacy macrolearning platforms with modern microlearning solutions to achieve tech-enhanced learning success.
Read More502 Ukulele Learning: Exploring the Relationships Between Music and Learning
Concurrent Session
A large amount of research in recent years has explored the value that music has for the brain and learning. Everyone has experienced it in some way, be it from listening to music while studying, learning something from a catchy song, or learning to play an instrument.
Read MoreEach day, you are exposed to various forms of media, marketing, and design all geared to grab your attention. Specific techniques are used in almost everything you interact with to draw you to the next item, scroll down, click here or there, and to make that purchase, watch that video, look at that picture. Adopting these techniques and implementing them into your eLearning designs can have a similar engaging impact on learners.
Read MoreDigital transformation is the push for most L&D organizations. But what does it really mean? Just because you are leveraging digital technology to develop learning assets doesn’t necessarily mean you are working in a digital way. In many ways, today’s L&D is still “analog,” leveraging the latest technology but traditional methodologies and working culture. You may need to not only transform your tool set, but also your mindset and how you work.
Read More505 Project Management Tips for Learning Professionals
Concurrent Session
1:15 PM Thu, October 25
Track: Management and Strategy
Managing learning projects, even small ones, can be a complex endeavor for learning professionals attempting to bring their courses to life. By incorporating appropriate project management principles, instructional designers can create a smooth process for all stakeholders involved in designing and developing learning products to submit project deliverables on time.
Read MorexAPI holds enormous promise for bringing data-driven decision-making to the practitioner’s level—if you can make it happen in your organization. Countless sessions attempt to address how xAPI data can assist with ROI, but few outline an actual implementation of xAPI from the ground up. So what does a real xAPI implementation story look like, and what lessons can you learn from it to inform your own use of xAPI?
Read More507 Developer Secrets: Avoiding Common Mistakes in Creating Serious Games
Concurrent Session
Organizations are increasingly using serious games in their learning, development, and assessment activities. But designing and developing custom serious games requires a different set of skills than traditional eLearning creation. What skills do you and your team need to create successful serious games, and what people will you need to partner with in order to have a smooth development process?
Read MoreAs an instructional designer or developer, do you have skills that you don’t use in your nine-to-five job? Do you want to try something new, but feel stuck in the day-to-day grind? You want to be your own boss, choose your own projects, set your own hours, and remove the daily commute, but you’re not sure how to make the leap, or you worry about how you’ll make ends meet. Sound like you?
Read MoreIn a landscape of increasing video creation, many learning professionals are approaching video without formal training. This is an amazing opportunity and challenge that brings with it the need to understand what can make videos not work. And while video has gotten easier to create, it’s just as easy (if not easier) to make a bad video. This session will look at seven “gotchas” that video creators should know about.
Read MoreIf you got the chance to walk around experiencing the world as a retired person, would that change your financial planning in the present? If you got to have firsthand experience of being a patient, could that change how you treat patients? If you were able to experience the results of a major safety catastrophe, would that make you safer in your daily work life?
Read MoreEducation, training, and even learning itself is changing. As technology advances, the shift towards learning and development initiatives that require engineering support is growing at an ever-increasing speed. The increased need for engineering skills within learning and development will be a major disruption in the near future, one filled with both challenges and opportunities.
Read MoreIt’s a request you may have received from company leaders: “Create training that doesn’t take employees away from the work they are paid to do.” At first, this might seem as if the eLearning and instructor-led classes you’ve developed aren’t valued. But wait. You know that many valuable learning experiences are rooted in performing actual tasks. Could it be that this request is actually steering you toward better solutions?
Read MoreThe many ways to measure the business impact of learning are becoming increasingly sophisticated, yet many L&D professionals are struggling to even get started. Marketing departments are increasingly adept at measuring their contribution to financial performance, but why are we so much slower at proving our worth?L&D increasingly has to justify its existence, so how do we rise to the challenge?
Read MoreIn 2016, the first iteration of this session explored seven aspects of emergent and innovative technology. This rolling session will be an update on that—seeing what has emerged, what has strengthened, and what has fallen by the wayside. Participants will look to the future: What will impact organizational learning in a three- to five-year time frame? What should be on your agenda right now?
Read MoreUsing animation and motion in a Storyline course, when done well, can be a tremendous asset to the visual voice of your course. When not done well, however, it can be quite the distraction. So how can you know what animations and motions will work well in different situations and how to develop them in Storyline?
Read MoreWhen you’re getting started designing an eLearning experience, it’s easy to get stalled at this stage by the sheer volume of possibilities for what you can create, especially if you don’t feel visual design is a strength. But a humble sketch on a whiteboard with a red marker can still become a brilliant eLearning interaction. At its heart, eLearning is a visual medium, so starting with drawing will result in an entirely different outcome.
Read MoreKraft Heinz is the world’s fifth-largest food and beverage company, with over 200 brands in nearly 200 countries. The company needed a way to effectively disseminate information and train its workforce regarding its products, while also ensuring that the solution could dynamically change due to the short shelf life of the content.
Read MoreEveryone’s talking about microlearning, but what does it really mean to your organization? Is microlearning destined to simply mean sub-10-minute videos, or is there more to it?
Read MoreWith so many options at your fingertips, it’s easy to spend hours and hours wading through countless images, backgrounds, interactions, and templates. It can seem overwhelming and bottomless. If you aren’t careful, you can get distracted and lose focus.
Read MoreTraditional eLearning receives very little employee attention. In fact, extremely low (2 – 20 percent) completion rates for ongoing training are common in the industry. Learners often dislike eLearning and avoid it as much as they can. It is clear that a fundamental shift in eLearning is needed to increase employee engagement, enhance learning, and improve performance.
Read MoreDo you find yourself getting stuck using the same patterns of delivery without thinking about whether it is helping your audience or whether it’s the best fit for a challenge?
Read MoreSMNX205 Keeping an Agile Workforce in the Digital Age
Management Xchange
2:15 PM Thu, October 25
Track: Management and Strategy
Digital transformation is accelerating at an exponential pace. While it disrupts old ways of doing things, it also opens up new avenues of innovation, efficiency, and connectivity. As complexity increases, you have the opportunity to use tech to support your performance, to learn, share ideas, and innovate. This requires thinking differently about how you digitally design your learning and interactions. Agility depends on it.
Read MoreThe cost of copyright confusion can affect every stage of the development and delivery process. Copyright law can be intimidating, even though its intent is to encourage creativity. Break down the walls that prevent you or your organization from using fabulous free resources because you aren’t sure whether your use will infringe someone else’s rights. Make fair use your friend. Access thousands of free photos, videos, music, and motion graphics.
Read MoreA lot is known about how people learn and develop skills. Cognitive science research on learning, behavior change, and development of expertise has provided a wealth of information. Unfortunately, much of that wisdom is locked in journal articles and dense books, so designers of learning experiences often rely on traditional methods that may or may not be supported by science.
Read More603 Email Course Design: Using Digital Marketing as a Learning Strategy
Concurrent Session
Throughout the history of training, learning something new has often been treated as an event rather than a process. However, practitioners now know that eLearning, videos, and instructor-led training are only the beginning. To be effective, you need ways to support your workforce over time, building their competence through multiple approaches.
Read More604 Case Study: Starting an Online Community—from Ideation to Launch
Concurrent Session
Morningstar is built around serving individuals—both by helping them reach great financial outcomes and by providing outstanding customer service. Morningstar partnered with an online community platform to modernize the support experience, provide greater transparency around product development, and enable its customers to connect with each other. This session shares that journey with you, so you can know what’s ahead if you choose this option for surfacing and supplementing more traditional eLearning.
Read More605 CANCELLED: Building a Culture of Feedback with Your Digital Learning Strategy
Concurrent Session
While organizations have started to recognize the importance of including practice in their learning programs, one of the most critical aspects of practice—feedback—has been an overlooked aspect of performance improvement. Feedback is challenging, as most feedback depends on critique, and an organization’s culture can impact how comfortable employees are in providing and receiving feedback.
Read MoreDo the executives who fund learning and development care how many courses you have? Or how many students? Or the number of class hours you’ve delivered? Actually, they may react negatively to those numbers. Most of the time, when people are in training their productivity is zero. The key question is how to get to Level 4 and measure actual impact.
Read MoreThere’s a lot of buzz around gamification, and plenty of confusion about what it really means to gamify a corporate training or eLearning program. One thing is clear: It’s much more than just adding badges to your training. It’s about finding the right motivators for your audience and promoting the desired actions or skill sets without getting bogged down in meaningless measurements and mechanics.
Read MoreYou’ve been handed the same old content, and the thought of creating the same old learning experience makes you sad. Worry not! You can transform that tired content into an engaging eLearning experience by applying powerful storytelling and graphic design techniques. You will leave your learners wondering where that new course came from. When they ask, just tell them you put your visuals to work.
Read MoreAs gamified learning transforms the L&D field in positive ways, it also brings along the challenges of game development: design problems, feature creep, troublesome timeline estimation, and project crunch. Game developers often say, “Making games is hard.” This is an understatement. What if there were a fun way to learn how to manage these pitfalls by investing as little as a few days, prototyping innovative eLearning along the way?
Read MoreWhile many companies are experimenting with AR in the L&D space, there are a number of businesses harnessing the power of AR for enhancing operational performance outside of the training department. How do these experiences differ, and how can you renew your department’s focus on performance by taking on more advanced AR solutions in your efforts?
Read MoreArticulate Storyline can be used to create simple and functional interfaces and user applications when you mix in the power of APIs. You can use this tool in unexpected ways to create solutions most wouldn’t expect you could make with a rapid eLearning development tool. It’s easier than you might imagine to learn how Storyline can talk to API-enabled systems.
Read MoreYou’ve captured a video yourself or been given one to publish, but it isn’t perfect. There might be artifacts in the video that you want to hide, or you may want to showcase a feature that the video skipped. The action on the screen might not sync with the audio, or the audio itself might be bad. You could re-record the entire video—or you could fix it using some handy editing tricks.
Read MoreLearning is a vital part of individual and organizational success, but traditional methods of instruction are falling flat. Today’s learners not only want, but expect, consumer-grade learning experiences—not only regarding content, but accessibility of information and sophistication of learning interfaces. Now, L&D professionals are being tasked with creating learning and training ecosystems that provide information at the point of need and meet the on-demand workflow of today’s professionals.
Read MoreTraining teams are too commonly asked to do more than their resources allow. Training executives are left scrambling to tackle the challenge of servicing a complex organization with learners spanning different geographies, job functions, and development needs. While the recent investment boom in learning technologies has started to scale capacity, it still can feel like it’s not enough, leaving training executives searching for better solutions.
Read MoreAdobe Captivate is a great tool for developing eLearning courses. However, many seasoned developers have hit walls as they want more functionality than what’s available. Adding JavaScript will open many more doors, but it can be a daunting task. Coding can be overwhelming and difficult to grasp. Even if you have an understanding in JavaScript, knowing where to place the code in Captivate can be a challenge.
Read MoreStakeholders typically want their courses fast, cheap, and good. And if you jump too quickly into developing slides, it can cost you extra time down the road—especially when they come back with change requests.
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