Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Design offers so much more than an aesthetically pleasing logo or banner, or a beautification add-on after the heavy lifting. In Reimagining Design, Kevin Bethune shows how design provides a unique angle on problem-solving—how it can be leveraged strategically to cultivate innovation and anchor multidisciplinary teamwork. As he does so, he describes his journey as a Black professional through corporate America, revealing the power of transformative design, multidisciplinary leaps, and diversity. Bethune, who began as an engineer at Westinghouse, moved on to Nike (where he designed Air Jordans), and now works as a sought-after consultant on design and innovation, shows how design can transform both individual lives and organizations.

In Bethune's account, diversity, equity, and inclusion emerge as a recurring theme. He shows how as we leverage design for innovation, we also need to consider the broader ecological implications of our decisions and acknowledge the threads of systemic injustice in order to realize positive change. Design transformation takes leadership—leaders who do not act as gatekeepers but with agility and nimbleness build teams that mirror the marketplace.

Design in harmony with other disciplines can be incredibly powerful; multidisciplinary team collaboration is the foundation of future innovation. With insight and compassion, Bethune provides a framework for bringing this about.

This session will be available live onsite as well as streamed online. Registration is required for the live stream. Register for the live stream here.

Are you buried in work from managing a growing course catalog? See how delivering and maintaining training across multiple systems doesn't have to leave you feeling like a zombie. You'll hear how the SANS Institute shifted their content distribution model to save hundreds of administration hours, ensure accuracy for high risk content, protect intellectual property, and gain visibility into course utilization.

You invest a lot of time and energy creating courses when building custom learning and training solutions, publishing commercial content, or having courses spread across multiple internal systems. And chances are, you want to deliver that content in a way that's compatible with every LMS, manageable for admins, and easy for learners to access. This was the case for Dan deBeaubien with the SANS Institute, a global leader in information cyber security training, when they started their journey to solving their content distribution problems.

During this session you'll hear how SANS was able to dig out from under the growing burden of managing content delivery, solve internal challenges, and improve their customers' experience with their training programs when they incorporated Rustici Software's Content Controller solution. This was no easy feat considering that they deliver more than a million training modules per week to over six million learners worldwide and in multiple languages. Before using Content Controller, SANS was on the brink of an apocalypse as their team spent hundreds of hours on content administration alone to manage delivering and updating courses individually to each client LMS. Not to mention struggling with how to gracefully handle the 28 languages they offer without exponentially increasing the admin burden. They also lacked insight into content usage patterns and had a difficult time managing licenses. Since adding Content Controller to their arsenal, they've slayed their content management foes, seamlessly delivered multi-language content that's compatible with multiple systems, automatically served new versions to learners, and controlled access all from a single course library.

Technology discussed:

Content Controller, LCMS, LMS, course library, eLearning, xAPI, cmi5, SCORM

While the recognition that coding is an integral part of eLearning's future is pervasive, the opportunities for a gentle entry into the world of coding are elusive. People are frequently apprehensive about learning to code because it is perceived as highly complex and even mythical in nature. Coding is commonly taught in a technical context, leading people to think that they have to be highly technical and good at math to be successful. While these and other myths surround the world of coding, the reality is that just about anybody can learn the fundamentals and become more comfortable talking about code.

This session is designed to debunk many of the common myths around coding while allowing you to write your first lines of code. The ultimate goal of the session is to help you transition from an apprehensive but curious non-coder to a professional who can speak about code and has successfully written some JavaScript. The presentation will help you remove some of the apprehension around coding and give you a vocabulary to discuss coding-related issues within your projects. 

The session will begin by reviewing the process of creating a simple program and executing it within your web browser. You'll be invited to write code line-by-line along with the facilitator. You'll be using the JavaScript programming language. Not only is JavaScript the most utilized language in the world, but it is also the language that provides an engine for eLearning. Learning management systems, augmented and virtual reality, and xAPI are all driven by JavaScript under the hood. The language also doesn't require any special tools or software—all you need is a text editor and web browser to begin. At the end, you will be provided options for continuing your learning with available resources that work well for coding beginners.

In this session, you will learn:

• The biggest myths that prevent people from learning to code
• The basic coding structures found in every programming language
• How to write and execute JavaScript code on your own
• How JavaScript is used in the eLearning ecosystem
• How to read code and discuss it with developers, even if you aren't one
• Additional resources to continue learning JavaScript coding if you wish

Technology discussed:

Web browsers, JavaScript, authoring tools

Participant technology requirements:

This is a step-by-step tutorial style session where individuals will write and execute code on their own machines. Bring a laptop with web browser and text editor.

Extending learning beyond the online course to support performance on the job can produce more effective outcomes. Whether it is a customized job aid, personalized checklist, a guided self-assessment, or simply a certificate with key takeaways, a downloadable PDF is a common option for designers. However, creating a customized PDF on the fly used to be a time consuming, error-prone, and tedious activity mostly done by highly-skilled developers. In this hands-on session you will use Articulate Storyline, along with a more flexible yet robust PDF creation tool written in JavaScript.

In this hands-on session you will use Articulate Storyline to capture data for a personalized action plan learners can download in a PDF format. First, you'll explore an existing solution to experience the process. You'll then create a data architecture design to document what data you want to capture form Storyline and where that data will show in the PDF. Next, you'll use Adobe Acrobat to prepare the PDF. (We'll also share some time-saving tips on how to use PowerPoint to speed up this part of the design.) In this example, you will include the name, role, timeline, and an avatar for the user, and then list the selected actions along with links to supporting materials and a checkbox for completion. The PDF will be created on the fly by a JavaScript library called pdf-lib. You can use the library under MIT license for free. Finally, you'll use JavaScript triggers in Storyline to integrate the data source and the PDF library. The session only covers the basics of the process but we'll explore some more advanced examples and you'll walk away with the source files to build your own application. We'll end the session with a brainstorming activity to get you inspired on how you could implement this technology for your audience.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to create a personalized PDF on the fly from Storyline
• How to capture and transfer Storyline variables into the PDF
• How to simplify the PDF design by using PowerPoint
• How to include custom images in the PDF

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline, JavaScript, pdf-lib JavaScript library, Adobe Acrobat

Participant technology requirements:

Articulate Storyline 3.0 or 360, a text editor for JavaScript code (Notepad++,  Sublime Text 3, Atom, or similar), and Adobe Acrobat DC

Remote work has many benefits for employees and organizations but it also poses new challenges, particularly in creative industries like eLearning where ideation, trust, and collaboration play a key role in fostering innovation and problem solving. Addressing these new dynamics means that leaders must expand their toolboxes in order to answer important questions such as: How do I build trust with my employees in online and remote settings? How do I help my team feel together when we are physically far apart? How do I cultivate the safety and trust required to support collaboration and candor? As a leader, what do I need to prioritize to support creative work in a remote setting?

This session will provide leaders with research-based best practices for supporting eLearning professionals in remote settings. We will begin by exploring remote work trends, centering specifically the needs of employees and teams. Next, we will examine how leaders can identify meaningful employee moments for coaching, connection, and feedback. Lastly, we will look at some of the systems and processes leaders can put in place to ensure their teams feel a sense of safety, collaboration, and trust in the remote setting. Participants will walk away with helpful templates and resources to support leading creative teams in the remote workplace.

In this session, you will learn:

• What remote employees and teams need to be engaged, satisfied, and productive
• How to identify opportunities to increase trust and build psychological safety
• How to optimize development systems and processes that support creative teams
• How to infuse culture and connection among employees in the remote workplace

Technology discussed:

Microsoft Suite (OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams), project management software (Asana), video conferencing software (Zoom, Teams)

Finding a technology or methodology that can effectively both prompt and react to learners in the flow of work is a foundational problem for L&D teams. How do learners access the help they need in a frictionless and easy way? How do learning teams push out useful information in a way that the learner is happy to receive?

In this session you'll see a case study of how Kaiser Permanente leveraged a chatbot to engage learners who were part of a GROW leadership initiative. You'll see how chatbots engaged these learners in a frictionless way and how Kaiser optimized training content for this unique medium. With the boon of collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams, it's now easier than ever to get resources in the hands of learners without the hurdles of complicated systems to navigate around. A chatbot on these platforms takes that ease a step further by creating both a "push" and "pull" mechanism for delivering content, "pushing" reminders and nudges and "pulling" content when learners request help. You'll leave this session with a new appreciation of the power and efficacy of making things easy for learners, as well as a sense of the effort it requires to design a chatbot for learning, and its accompanying ROI.

In this session, you will learn:

• How a complex organization like Kaiser Permanente decided on a workflow of learning approach
• How a chatbot can be deployed to learners via SMS, Microsoft Teams, or Slack
• Lessons learned in designing the personality behind chatbot interactions for learners
• How to design a chatbot to both push proactive nudges as well as respond to learner inquiries

Technology discussed:

Microsoft Teams and Slack, Mobile Coach, SMS

Whether you are rolling out a new time-and-attendance system, upgrading your accounting software, or sharing the best tips and tricks on Microsoft Excel, eLearning can be a great way to get software training out to the people in your organization. But how do you approach such a project? Before recording simulations in tools like Captivate, Storyline, or Camtasia, you‚Äôve got some important decisions to make. 

• Should they just sit back and watch, or do they need to practice?
• Should we teach all the ways to do something or just one way?
• Do we really need a lesson on how to log in?

In this session, you‚Äôll look at six key design decisions you‚Äôll need to make when creating online software training. You‚Äôll tackle everything from deciding if you should teach just the procedural steps or teach underlying business rules to structuring practice activities so they provide just enough support to help your learners be successful.

You’ll walk away with specific tips on how to tackle issues like these:

• They don‚Äôt just need to know where to click‚Äîthey need to know how to make decisions and adjust their workflow. 
• This needs to work for folks who know the old system, as well as people new to the organization.
• I call it a menu, but my co-worker calls it a drop-down.
• A lot of this is self-explanatory, but that might not be true for everyone.
• I need to start developing but the software isn‚Äôt done yet.

You’ll get to see real, live examples of different options so you can get a real sense of what the learner experience would be like and how that approach might work in your environment.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to uncover the needs of your learners around software training
• How to get the right people on the team and the right access to the system you‚Äôre training on
• To balance the need for ‚Äúwhere-to-click‚Äô training with the need for business process training
• To use clear, consistent language when writing scripts or procedural steps
• How to design practices with just the right amount of support and guidance
• How to adjust your process when encountering delays or changes to the software.

Creating immersive and engaging content is always a requirement from our customers and clients. Lately there has been a big push to adding a 3-D, AR, or VR component to our eLearning gamification approach. We needed an easy way to add these capabilities to our courses and tools.

In this session you'll explore the A-Frame web framework, an open-source, free resource that allows you build 360¬8, 3-D, AR, or VR interactions and content that works across desktop and mobile devices and most VR headsets.  We will go through how to get started using A-Frame, and how to use the framework and other libraries to build immersive interactive virtual experiences.

In this session, you will learn:

• What A-Frame web framework is and  to get started
• How to create simple 360¬8, VR, and AR interactions using A-Frame
• How to use Glitch or a local development environment to preview your A-Frame projects
• How to use A-Frame's built-in inspector to access and modify A-Frame entities right in your browser

Technology discussed:

A-Frame web framework, WebVR Javascript API, Glitch online code editor, Visual Studio code editor

While having extensive knowledge about research and theories in learning science, many learning professionals find it challenging to put research into practice. The key is using a combination of learning design principles that yield better results, however another challenge is collaboration with stakeholders who might need convincing to move away from commonly used learning myths and adopt an evidence-based research approach.

In this session you will learn clear steps to bridge research and practice. These steps will help you build partnership with your stakeholders to explore effective strategies for performance improvement or training design. You'll also explore a blend of evidence-based learning principles that can enhance your training design. You'll leave the session with the ability to nudge a shift of mindset in your stakeholders, and with a new learning design approach that encapsulates several frameworks and learning design principles in one.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to bridge research and practice
• How to get the stakeholders' buy-in for using evidence-based learning experience design
• Which frameworks and principles can be combined to design a training program
• How to use implementation science in your day-to-day work

Technology discussed:

PPT, online polling

Hours of VILT and longer-form eLearning is still the norm, more than two years into our new normal. In a recent global L&D study, respondents identified concerns about learner engagement, participation, and attendance in digital and virtual solutions as a result of rapidly assembled and converted in-house designs. Many L&D professionals report that their virtual/digital designs are less effective than their face-to-face counterparts. Learners' time has never been more at a premium, and things aren't likely to "go back to the way they used to be." It's time for us as an industry to deliver world-class, innovative experiences that align with the needs of our hybrid workforces.

In this session, you'll learn strategies and techniques around microlearns, flipped classroom experiences, and social learning that can be woven into a digital frame and layered in group time only when it matters most, and in a repeatable way that produces the necessary performance outcomes. You’ll learn that the hybrid environment does not have to be a barrier to building and implementing quality learning experiences that work—in fact, it has created many new opportunities! You'll leave with the templates and tools to put it all to work and share with your team the minute you get back to the office.

In this session, you will learn:

• To factor in the Learn, Apply, Reflect, Refine approach to create modern, resonant learning designs
• How to create modern-modal learning experiences that fit into a busy work environment where it's easy to be distracted, multitask, or just "watch the recording later"
• To build innovative designs that support the needs of all learners when some are on-site some of the time, some are never on-site, and others are on-site all the time
• To design group experiences that make the most of collective group time and draw your learners in ways that are similar to a more traditional face-to-face format

Technology discussed:

Traditional LMS platforms, SCORM packaged microlearns, multi-form curated content, MS Teams, Zoom

In this session you will hear Go1's customer, Ferrellgas, discuss how they have fostered organization-wide adoption of the learning organization concept and a high performing culture. They will share how performance against these goals has contributed to positive business outcomes. They will share their journey, key initiatives, data insights, and lessons learned on why good is not good enough. Additionally, they will cover strategies and tactics for building custom training and learning resources for their employees to enhance service both internal and external to the organization, as well stimulate both professional and personal growth initiatives.

The organization historically operated as a functional organization that leveraged a principle of prioritizing functional leadership. This format contributed to extensive lead times in building qualified bench strength of qualified employees for management positions due to lack of knowledge share and experience from both operational and corporate staff.

Attendees will feel inspired, view a case story with data points to understand the key drivers of what made Ferrellgas successful for their L&D strategy and tactics through the establishment of their industry-leading management development program, and learn how the program created respect and belief in the learning organization methodology.

Key takeaways:

• Learn more about Ferrellgas' strategy and outcomes to develop high potential management through a learning organization format
• Hear more on an educational resource deployment technique that facilitated organizational knowledge sharing
• View data points through their management development program that were essential for charting the course for baseline, progress, and ROI

Technologies discussed:

Learning organization concept, custom training and learning resources

Some big challenges today include the labor shortage, employee retention, and training for frontline employees. This session will provide strategies to retain and engage your current frontline workforce. In addition, it will provide insight to creating learning and training content that sticks.

The value of a highly-skilled workforce is undeniable, but only 25% of business executives believe that training measurably improves business performance. While we've become quite adept at instilling foundational knowledge, the one-size-fits-all, knowledge-based approaches to training we rely on lack the science-based ingredients for meaningful skill development. To turn L&D into your competitive advantage, you need to overcome three critical challenges: Accurately identifying soft skills gaps to ensure the right people get the right training; providing relevant, real-world application to increase the transfer of learning; and measuring training impact.

Join us as we introduce you to inbox simulations and how this new simulation-based assessment technology gives talent management teams the ability to assess and develop the skills that matter most. We'll walk you through three case studies and how each company uses inbox simulations to improve training ROI:

• How Yellow corporation uses inbox simulations to identify skills gaps to fast-track emerging leaders
• How a military defense contractor uses inbox simulations to assess program managers in an authentic context
• How Microsoft uses inbox simulation to measure the impact of their hands-on training for technical leaders

Technology discussed:

CapsimInbox, a simulation-based assessment technology

As learning developers, we work hard to develop interesting, educating, and engaging courses. And since we work so hard at developing our content, our goal should be to enhance the quality of learning and meet the learning needs and style of as many people as possible. While learning styles (most often referred to as visual, auditory, and kinesthetic/physical) are important, I want to challenge all of us that we need to think about so much more. If we are to ensure knowledge is delivered clearly and concisely to and for everyone, we need to develop our courses to meet the needs of all learners by ensuring our courses are inclusive and accessible to all learners. Again, you work hard on your eLearning content—you want as many users as possible to see and learn from it, along with users actually wanting to use it, and ultimately feeling safe using it.

Discussion topics include:

• Understanding the definitions of accessibility and inclusion; how they overlap, and why they are not the same thing
• Understanding WCAG & POUR and how it affects you and eLearning
• Explaining why designing learning for everyone is becoming a requirement at most organizations, and why organizations financially benefit from it
• Understanding what your bias are and how to overcome them
• Examples of accessibility and inclusivity in eLearning, including word choices, photos & illustrations, and audio/voiceovers
• Reviewing how screen readers (NVDA & Jaws) and keyboard navigation actually ‚Äúreads‚Äù your eLearning course
• Reviewing tools and checklists to properly vet your learning programs

Closed captions, alt text, keyboard navigation—where does one even get started when building in accessibility? It may seem daunting but accessibility is more important than ever. Accessibility features not only make online learning usable for the one-in-five people that have a disability, but also benefit anyone that works in a loud environment (closed captions), anyone with fatigue from extended computer work (color contrast), and anyone that likes to skim material to find what they need quickly (headings). Let's talk simple strategies that will make your training and courses better and more usable!

In this session we'll practice simple strategies for building accessibility into your learning projects. There are many quick and stress-free ways to build in accessibility features from the very start, or to retrofit an existing project. Learners will get started right away with hands-on practice, and they will walk away with an accessibility checklist and workflows. This session will cover what accessibility is, how to avoid common accessibility pitfalls, how to implement the most important accessibility features, and we'll also practice analyzing accessibility of existing content.  We will practice using Microsoft Word, as the accessibility features available in Word are highly representative of those you'll find in other authoring software. We'll also practice creating and downloading closed captions using YouTube. Finally, we'll practice analyzing accessibility of existing content using WAVE, a free tool.

In this session, you will learn:

• The definition of accessibility and 508 compliance
• To identify the most critical accessible features
• How to implement alt text and closed captions
• Accessible formatting of documents and web documents
• How to write accessible copy for the web
• How to analyze accessibility of online content using WAVE

Technology discussed:

Microsoft Word, YouTube, WAVE accessibility checker

Participant technology requirements:

Tablet or laptop connected to the internet with Microsoft Word and WAVE (open source)

In the age of YouTube, Tik Tok, Twitter, etc., it is harder than ever to make sure that our employees are getting the information they need at their moment of need. Microlearning has gained a lot of traction as a solution to this attention deficit. Many organizations have realized that providing targeted information to their employees in micro formats is more effective compared to long articles and courses. However, the traditional microlearning concept still requires the learner to step out of context to search and discover the information. Wouldn't it be great if the information came to the learner instead of the learner searching for the information?

Context is becoming ever more important. Microlearning by itself is good but contextual microlearning is better. This session will discuss and then show examples side-by-side of what microlearning versus contextual microlearning looks like. We will start by looking at the history of how microlearning formats came to be and what challenges was it looking to solve. We will look at very specific examples of how microlearning works within organizations and also outside of it. We will explore the learner’s journey as it looks today. Then we will talk about what is still working with microlearning and what is not. We will explore the concept and cost of context switching. The demonstrations will show the power of contextual microlearning and how beneficial it is when information is brought to the user at her moment of need, in context of her own environment, and within the flow of her work.

In this session, you will learn:

• How microlearning came to be and what challenges it looked to solve
• Why traditional microlearning is not as effective as it used to be
• What contextual microlearning is
• The differences between microlearning and contextual microlearning
• How to apply contextual microlearning within your organization
• How to calculate return on investment of contextual microlearning to see if it's working or not

Technology discussed:

Microlearning, contextual microlearning

Are you struggling to motivate your learners and considering adding game mechanics? Or are you using gamification in your training but you aren't getting the desired results from the courses? Sure, games are fun and you'd think that would be enough to engage learners, however, you must be careful. You can disengage learners if they cannot connect the purpose of the game to a desired outcome. The key to making the rewards, points, and other game mechanics effective is to use them to motivate and encourage specific behavior.

In this session you will up your game (your instructional design game, that is) by learning how to design effective, engaging, and relevant game mechanics that motivate learners to perform desired behaviors. First, you'll discover exactly what gamification is beyond the points and badges, and more importantly, what gamification is not. You'll learn when and when not to use gamification.Then you'll go through the gamification design process step-by-step, seeing lots of specific examples and scenarios. By the end of the session, you will be able to qualify business goals and learning objectives for gamification, and create behavioral-based games the get results and keep learners engaged.

In this session, you will learn:

• What gamification is and what it is not
• Why gamification isn't always the best training solution
• The best situations to use game mechanics in training
• How to tie game mechanics to a business goal and learning objectives
• The methodology for designing game mechanics that motivates desired behaviors

Global HVAC leader Daikin faces the challenge of selling industrial chillers big as a bus to smart buyers who want to "kick the tires" before investing in equipment that needs to last 50 years. Pharma leaders Pfizer, Novartis, and Bristol Myers Squibb need to train technicians on how to conduct lab experiments, compound drugs, gown and glove, and practice safety protocol with limited physical training labs and SMEs to train people on skills where mistakes have life and death consequences. Walmart, the world's largest employer, has to attract and develop a new generation of managers who have spent more time playing games than they have in the classroom. Meanwhile, Alarm.com faced the challenge of training field technicians to install commercial access control solutions that integrate with their unified, cloud-based security platform.

Think-forward companies are harnessing real-time 3-D learning to reduce training costs, improve job performance, and boost engagement at scale. Activating touch, sight, and hearing, their virtual reality (VR) programs create sensory experiences of such convincing verisimilitude that the brain suspends disbelief and generates a feeling of "presence." This is not a talk about VR—in this session you’ll step inside multi-user VR simulations from the stage to demonstrate what they look like. The case studies and demos will showcase how a team of top-tier simulation designers can harness emerging consumer tech to unlock "10x" learning effectiveness with the nine superpowers of VR learning. Visionary organizations are already harnessing the unlimited flexibility of the virtual world to upend enterprise training and human performance as we know it. Connecting the physical and the 3-D digital worlds in real-time is the promise of the "enterprise metaverse." This is the future of training. And that future just arrived. We will demo and answer your questions in this interactive session.

In this session, you will learn:

• To identify a VR pilot, build the business case, overcome obstacles, and partner with professionals to develop VR sims in a real-time game engine
• How students can interact seamlessly in a multi-player VR performance environment to learn with and from each other
• To deploy VR at scale with device and content management platforms, advanced analytics, and LMS/LRS reporting
• To build photo-realistic simulations with immediate feedback and unlimited do-overs

Technology discussed:

VR (Oculus/Meta Quest), Unity game engine

Often in the L&D world, success or failure can hinge on how well you're able to navigate the challenge of finding the right tools for the job. If you're smart, you don't limit yourself to only "learning" tools. There are literally thousands of marketing tools you can "steal" for your L&D needs.  

In this session you'll learn about some top marketing tools and how they can help you create more engaging content easier and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. Marketers are no better than us, but they've often got better tools that help them make more dynamic, impactful content. We will start this session by learning about what our marketing friends use to craft attention-grabbing headlines and the amazing copy that lives behind them. During a fun exercise you get to write your own headline and compete for the most points for the best one. 

Dealing with content every day also means the burden of managing that content and getting useful data out of it. We'll share a collection of marketing tools you can use to upgrade your L&D programs from content to managing data and more. Next, we will show you how to create impactful professional videos, interactive websites, and adaptive learning campaigns with marketing tools like Canva, MailerLite, Mindstamp, and more. You'll see how easy marketing tools can make learning campaigns that adapt to provide unique content based on the actions of the learners. These will really up your L&D game. And everyone wants to be more efficient, right? You'll learn about some tools that help marketers be the masters of automation so they can cut out the grunt work and allow you to focus on more important things. The best part is, many of these tools are free and you will be able to start using them immediately.

In this session, you will learn:

• Marketing tools for easy-to-create adaptive learning campaigns
• How easy it is to make interactive content that can provide you valuable usage data
• How marketers use automation to be more efficient and work smarter not harder
• Where to find even more and keep up with the latest new marketing tools

Technology discussed:

Writing tools and headline analyzers (Hemmingway, CoSchedule), content creation and design (Canva, Vidyard, Carrd), interactive video (Mindstamp, Wirewax, Luma1), email marketing tools (MailerLite, MailChimp), landing pages (Leadpages, Luma, etc.)

Learning teams often receive requests for training without having the opportunity to provide consultation/gap analysis to identify whether the issue is truly a training need or if a non-training solution would be more appropriate. Post-training reports from the client may indicate minimal change in employee behavior as a result of the training. In other words, there is a performance problem that remains unresolved, despite favorable survey and knowledge assessment results. Why? Not all performance problems can be solved with training.  

In this session, you will learn how to integrate a simple performance consulting framework that moves you from taking training orders to becoming a trusted partner in helping the business reach its desired performance goals. This means you are moving from a design mindset to a performance mindset. You will explore how learning departments can not only design and develop various training solutions, but analyze performance gaps and recommend solutions that are evidence-based and optimize processes along the way. We will look at important steps to help design and develop performance-focused solutions and measure intervention effectiveness to ensure the performance gap is closed. You will explore how the performance model relies on a strong feedback loop, good use of data, and evidence-based decision making. These skills are the foundation of building and strengthening client partnerships that move you from taking training requests to being a business partner.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to integrate a performance consulting framework to move from a design mindset to a performance mindset
• How to analyze performance gaps and recommend solutions that are evidence-based and optimize processes along the way
• How to design and develop performance-focused solutions
• How to measure intervention effectiveness to ensure the performance gap is closed
• How to build and strengthen client partnerships with strong feedback loops, good use of data, and evidence-based decision making

Technology discussed:

Learning management system

Dr. Britt Andreatta, an internationally recognized learning thought leader and author, is best known for her expertise in creating brain science–based training solutions. She has developed highly effective training programs for change management, creating high-performing teams, and highly effective managers. But how could she deliver expert material and also guarantee that learners would not only be able to demonstrate the knowledge, but change their behavior as a result?

In this session you'll learn how video-based practice and assessment enable experiential learning, skill validation, and coaching at scale. Andreatta's content creates opportunities for practice, demonstration, analysis, and collaboration, and provides evaluators with a tangible learning outcome through video versus traditional assessment. Not only is there value in her brain science concepts that inform and enhance critical skills for upskilling employees, but her programs provide customers with a guaranteed positive return on investment because of her use of video technology within her programs. You'll learn how she was able to weave video assignments throughout her training programs, and the impact it had on her customers. Not only did it result in better knowledge retention but changed behavior, creating more impactful, high-performing individuals.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why video-based assessment is more effective than traditional assessment
• How video technology enables skill development and validation
• How video technology provides better learning outcomes for individuals
• How video improves an individual's performance and change in behavior
• How video enables actionable, pointed coaching and feedback at scale

Technology discussed:

Thought Industries, Bongo

For many L&D professionals, one of the biggest challenges they face in using data to inform future strategies is the inability to see a path between where they currently are and where they want to be. Learning Pool's Learning Analytics Maturity Model lets out a roadmap for the journey and can give you practical guidance on how to take the next step.

How does your company use data in the learning process? And how does that compare to other companies? These are the questions that the Learning Analytics Maturity Model (LAMM) set out to answer when we conceived it in 2021. In this session we will reveal the latest results, allowing participants the chance to benchmark their organization's use of data in learning versus their peers. The CEO of Learning Pool, Dr. Ben Betts, will explain the history behind the model, the fundamentals of learning analytics for organizations starting out, as well as the findings from more than 250 global organizations who have benchmarked how they use data in their L&D practices against the model's standard.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to measure the 'maturity' of your learning analytics efforts
• Benchmark data on the progress of different companies in different industries, geographic locations, and scale in using data for learning
• Insights into what helps fast forward learning analytics adoption
• The tools needed for taking the next step

"The path to personal insight leads through other people."

David Dunning

Social learning happens every day, but it's not always by design. How do we harness the richness of social learning to guide learners' growth and performance?

This session will walk you through how Sublime Media and Microsoft crafted a groundbreaking learning and development cohort program that prioritizes community over traditional learning objectives. David Linder, founder and creative director of Sublime Media, and Jason Gray, senior learning development consultant for Microsoft, will reveal how they designed meaningful social learning opportunities for Microsoft's innovative Aspire Pi program.

In this session you will learn:

• How to build meaningful relationships that improve satisfaction and retention in a hybrid workplace
• To balance free form learning with the expertise your learners need to succeed
• How to increase engagement through social learning opportunities
• How to partner with learners to develop effective learning programs

Technologies discussed:

Microsoft Suite, video conferencing software (Teams, Zoom), digital communication tools (Slack, Outlook)

Having too much data confuses people and can delay how fast an organizations make decisions. Your learning systems probably contains a multitude of data, but how do you make sense of that data and make it actionable? There is no one-size-fits-all strategy, but there are some simple questions you can ask yourself and your organization to help you create a data strategy.

With a methodology of questions you will be able to move towards a data strategy in a simple and effective way. Once you know who cares, about what, and what data you have, you can turn that into reports and dashboards to enable users to consume and react to all that data.

At this session we'll discuss those questions, some strategies for how to determine what information is actionable and what is just noise, and some ideas on how to use data to tell a story to your users.

Technology discussed:

Open LMS features

Training today's workforce, particularly those employees in remote, frontline, and customer facing roles, has become increasingly challenging. Poor speed, quality, and learner engagement are often common challenges in traditional training environments. It is time to reimagine the conventional methods deployed in standard LMSs and LXPs for required training. With the advent of personalized learning methods and technologies augmented by machine learning and analytics, core skills training can be made more efficient, effective, engaging, and relevant to each learner.

In this session you will discover how personalized, adaptive learning technologies can accelerate training times, increase quality, raise confidence in job readiness, and improve engagement for critical, frontline, and customer-facing roles by providing deeply relevant required training to every employee.

Key takeaways:

• Learn the keys to training employees for high-stakes roles where competency and precision is vital
• Understand what is required for personalized training that engages, accelerates learning, and ensures competency
• Hear customer stories of connecting training at all stages from onboarding to on-the-job-training, to ongoing knowledge maintenance

Technology discussed:

AI-powered adaptive learning system

What is the connection between games and learning? Can a learning game really change behaviors, attitudes, and outcomes? Explore how games and various forms of gamification have been used for decades to help learners understand complex processes, learn how to react to unfamiliar situations, and make difficult decisions. In this session, we’ll discuss how gamification and games, when properly deployed, provide a level of engagement, critical thinking, and reflection that few other tools provide. Gain a strategic advantage by understanding how and when to use games to take your learning experience design to the next level.

 Key takeaways are:

•  Learn how games facilitate learning facts and concepts
• Discover how simple games can be the foundation for advanced learning
• Explore the role of games in corporate training programs

The mission was delivered: Train 13,000 users on major changes to a new financial system; 41 unique courses and one summer to complete the training needed for our clients to maintain access to the tools they need. While the mission may seem impossible, in this session you will learn how you can realize the most unlikely of training implementation leading to project and client success.

In this session you will learn how Emory University completed its impossible mission. You'll get an in-depth view into how we identified user needs through client interviews and data analysis. You'll learn how to design an education campaign to address client needs and short runways. You'll also see how to engage stakeholders and subject matter experts to realize the most unlikely of training implementations. Finally, we will share some quick wins that you can start doing now as you start completing your own mission.

In this session, you will learn:

• What questions to ask to begin your training story
• How to identify data points to develop your training plan
• How to use engagement strategies to begin the knowledge journey
• How to continue relationships post training, leaving your clients wanting more
• How to use data to identify learner approach
• How to develop a learner support plan to help stabilize the people while your developers stabilize the systems
• How to Identify quick wins you can take now to get started on your mission

Technology discussed:

Blended learning platforms, Captivate, web conferencing platforms

Visual data makes it more compelling, easier to understand, and therefore easier to make your point. Power BI is a powerful way to help your data tell a better story through tables and dashboards that give you, your boss, and your company the best and most timely information possible.

In this session you'll learn the basics of Power BI. You’ll learn to massage your data to make it easier to do top-level reporting in just minutes. We’ll walk through how to upload multiple reports so you can make them all interact with each other to get the most out of what your company would want to know. Using scenario questions you could be asked to provide, you’ll see how easy it is to develop multiple tables and dashboards to answer the questions. You’ll learn which visualizations work best for what you’re trying to produce. You'll learn how to upload the data into power BI, Power Query Editor, and how to set up the data before you use it in the Power BI desktop. You’ll see how you can manipulate each visualization to truly make it your own, and create some great looking visualizations about the data. Lastly, you’ll see a way to add to your data so you can update it in just seconds, saving you from having to rebuild your dashboards over and over again.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to upload to the Power Query Editor
• How to manipulate your data in the Power Query Editor to make it easier to build custom visualizations
• What visualizations and functions are available to you
• How to create a dashboard of multiple visualizations that will interact with each other
• How to keep your data to easily add to it and update for each week/month/quarter

Technology discussed:

Microsoft Power BI, laptops, cell phones

You've built great content, but your learners don't seem to care. They're not engaging with your learning. Why? Companies spend billions of dollars trying to understand consumer behavior, resulting in marketing strategies aimed at getting consumers to buy their products. In those same organizations, there are L&D groups that are not leveraging the same insights and strategies to reach their learners. Treat your solution like a product and minimize the friction between your solutions and your learners.

This session will examine the Fogg Behavior Model and how companies seek to minimize "friction" between us as consumers and their product offerings, providing the path of least resistance. If you look at your learning solutions as a product that you want your learners to consume, where are you creating friction that discourages those learning consumers? And what can you do about it? You'll leave this session with a "friction assessment" of your learning ecosystem, along with a toolkit of strategies you can explore to minimize that friction in your organization. Moreover, you'll leave with a new perspective on your learners, their motivations, and how you can best reach them.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to apply the Fogg Behavior Model to identify points of friction in your learning ecosystem
• To complete a friction assessment to identify opportunities for improvement
• To identify potential solutions to the friction in your learning ecosystem
• Over 20 tools and techniques to reduce friction

Technology discussed:

Video, LXP, LMS, artificial intelligence

The communication between the client (stakeholder and/or SME) and designer to create a gamified course can be challenging. Gamification is evolving and the request to gamify a course, program, or beyond can mean different things to different people. The client is often unaware of the time necessary to bring their idea to fruition. What if there was a way, at the start of the process, to provide a more realistic idea of the costs, options, and time required to bring the vision to life?

In this session, you'll learn how to effectively determine the goals of the project, inform stakeholders of gamification options, possible solutions, and communicate the associated costs to create the course or program. The key to success is having the stakeholders experience gamification elements through a gamified intake process. This is accomplished through creating a virtual shopping experience. Starting with a list of elements desired, the stakeholders will use their list to pick and choose items from the store shelves and then "checkout" of the store. As the cart is filled with items, the stakeholders can comparison shop, make budget and time decisions, and test various elements. Most people have experienced online shopping so by creating a relatable, realistic, intuitive experience, this facilitates a collaborative creative process by fostering effective communication while minimizing unnecessary revisions and expense. You'll leave this session with a new appreciation for gamification strategy and practical means to accomplish your goals.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to effectively apply gamification methods and strategy
• How effectively communicate this strategy to stakeholders and all involved on the project
• How to efficiently gather project details through a gamified strategy
• How to seamlessly communicate the associated costs of the project to the project team
• What it takes to create a solution that meets the needs and expectations of the project team
• How to design an engaging intake experience

Technology discussed:

Storyline, Genially, Vyond, Camtasia, Tolstoy, Storyboader

A 2022 HCM Outlook Study shows that at least two-thirds of organizations are challenged with redefining their culture and work environments. This means reimagining their employee and leadership development and also improving employee recruitment and reward. Learning is shifting from tactical to strategic in order to support organizational success while adapting to the current and future landscape. The whole organization needs to think differently, act differently, and become human-centric. Success requires leaders to rise from the comfort of "how we've always done it," apply new tools for engagement that enable L&D upskilling initiatives to focus on disparately located learners, demonstrate how each contributor is valued, and increase their engagement and feeling of belonging‚Äîall while transforming their skills to optimize business performance.  

In this session, we will discuss the current and future landscape of instructional design as it relates to hybrid work environments. LXD adaptation today requires creativity, innovation, and practicality. Proven instructional design methods combined with design thinking tools will allow attendees to visualize the current state of their L&D, utilize new tools to build learner-focused journeys, and continuously adapt to transform their organizations.

In this session, you will learn:

• To visualize the current and potential future L&D landscape in a hybrid work environment
• How to utilize current instructional design methods combined with design thinking tools to drive transformation
• To build human-centric, learner-focused journeys to upskill/reskill people and the organization
• Tools to use right away to start your organization's transformation towards performance, growth, and success in a hybrid work environment

There's a lot of eLearning out there. Traditionally it's all been slide-based (think Storyline or Captivate) but the advent of new authoring tools and learners' desire to complete courses on various devices has made responsive eLearning (think Rise or Evolve) more popular. How do you know what's right for you as a designer/developer, or most importantly, how do you know which is the right one for your audience and what they need to learn?

We'll explore the what, when, why, and who for each approach in this session. Specifically, we'll discuss WHAT is slide-based and what is responsive, including the benefits and drawbacks for each. We'll look at examples of WHEN to use them and WHY each could be the correct choice for your project. Finally, we'll look at WHO the key players (vendors or platforms) are for each type of eLearning (including the benefits and drawbacks for the most common tools). You'll walk away with a solid understanding of how and when to select the right approach for your project.

In this session, you will learn:

• What slide-based learning is and when to use it
• What responsive learning is and when to use it
• The top authoring tools for each and the pros/cons for each
• How to decide what's right for your project

Technology discussed:

Slide-based authoring tools (Storyline, Captivate, iSpring, etc.), responsive authoring tools (Rise, Evolve, Adapt, GoMo, etc.)

Microlearning is one of the least understood trends in our industry right now. Everyone wants to "go micro" and every vendor says their solution includes microlearning. However, there are many different use cases and formats for microlearning, so although everyone says they're using microlearning, they are all doing something vastly different. This creates a tremendous challenge for us to identify best design practices, delivery approaches, and implementation methods. When we actually understand HOW we are going micro, we have a far greater chance of doing it successfully.

In this session, you'll identify how to go micro with the greatest impact in your curriculum. First we'll share four primary use cases for microlearning and look at real examples of these different types of microlearning used successfully in organizations today. Then you will consider how you can use these types of microlearning in your own curriculum. Then we'll get tactical. We'll identify 20 ways to go micro and you will identify which of these 20 ways would work best in your curriculum so you can walk away with specific ideas for how you can capitalize on microlearning–in real and tangible ways–in your own work. You will leave this session with fresh ideas for incorporating microlearning successfully in your curriculum.

In this session, you will learn:

• Four uses of microlearning
• Five formats of microlearning
• Twenty ways you can use microlearning
• How to use microlearning to make the greatest difference in your curriculum

Video can be an extremely powerful tool in many aspects of a successful learning and development strategy for any company. However, many small and large companies shy away from utilizing video because they are intimidated by what they perceive as high barriers to entry, as well as not fully understanding the great benefits that video can provide.

In this session, Kelly Jura will outline how to integrate an effective unified video strategy into your learning and development program quickly and with minimal resources. After seeing how easy it can be, you won't see video creation as being big and scary and will want to embrace it rather than hide from it. Kelly will showcase how async video messaging can be easily adopted in all of your web-based apps including Google docs, email, learning platforms, and so much more. Authentic, quick video messages are proven to be personal, clearer, quicker, and more effective than plain ordinary text. They are great for feedback, collaboration, explainers, and quick learning tips. Kelly will walk you through creating professional video courses quickly that deliver by incorporating screen and video recordings, annotations, quality stock content, virtual backgrounds, effects, and more. She will provide tips on using scripting tools and storyboarding to organize your thoughts and content for flexibility and optimized delivery. Of course, accessibility is key, so she will step through automated closed captions and other accessibility considerations, tools, and tips.

Kelly will also show you how to create an effective, secure video hosting environment that meets your learning needs. Her walkthrough will include branding, optimization through insights and analytics, as well as integrations with all of the leading learning and development platforms. She will demonstrate how to easily include robust quizzing solutions, CTAs, and inline text and video commenting, to master interaction and engagement. She will continue by identifying tools and tips to monitor results and actively make changes to best meet your targets and goals.

Upon completion of this 30-minute session, you will walk away with a great understanding of why video is a critical tool in any learning and development solution. You will feel more confident about how to quickly create successful video training solutions with a small or large team. You will have a set of tips and tricks that you can use for effective video communication and messaging immediately. And, to keep you on the path to a successful video strategy in your learning and development program, the first 100 attendees will get a free subscription to Screencast-O-Matic.

Technology discussed:

Screencast-O-Matic video messaging, creation, hosting, and interactive engagement software on desktop and mobile

It seems that each new advance in technology brings with it both opportunities and unique challenges. Upgrading and re-tooling legacy courseware presents a significant design challenge as well as a development effort. There is no great sausage grinder in the sky that will magically take old straw and spin it into new gold. When AAA was faced with the challenge of upgrading and updating their novice driver training program, they turned to ELB Learning for assistance and together we reimagined 30 hours of courseware, from core content through final delivery, chalking up successes and learning lessons along the way.

Attendees in this session will explore three key components for successfully re-designing courseware for mobile delivery:

• Analyzing content and interactions to identify key performance requirements and match them to the right types of activities optimized for mobile delivery
• Leveraging 3-D motion video to create a library of cost effective, high-quality still images
• Weaving formative user experience testing throughout the entire design and development process to enhance learner engagement

There's a long list of stereotypes that can get in the way of learning. These widely held assumptions affect the way people view their own ability to learn. Many of these stereotypes are so embedded in our cultures that they can affect our practice as learning professionals through unconscious bias. In order to design truly effective and inclusive learning programs, we must find ways to break through these stereotypes and biases.

Dr. Kate Biberdorf has been blowing up stereotypes for years —quite literally. Through her theatrical and hands-on approach to teaching that has been seen by millions on television like the Today Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dr. Biberdorf is breaking down the image of the stereotypical scientist and reaching students who might otherwise be intimidated by science. During this explosive keynote filled with entertaining experiments, Dr. Biberdorf will share how she breaks through the assumptions people have about how we teach and what we can learn.

Many companies and organizations may be collecting learning analytics, but once you collect that data, do you know how to interpret the information and make business improvements based on your learning metrics? For many L&D leaders, one of the biggest challenges they face with measuring employee learning performance is how to connect the data to business growth and goals.

In this session, Daniel Mills, Valamis senior learning consultant, will examine how learning analytics can help leaders pinpoint the most effective learning strategies, saving organizations time and money while delivering better business results. Understanding learning data can give companies a competitive advantage and help solve a wide range of business problems including personnel training, measuring effectiveness and productivity, and planning employee development strategies. When learning data provides management teams with information about learning performance behavior, skill gaps, and training engagement, organizations can use the analytics collected to improve business strategies and achieve their goals.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why it's essential to collect learning data
• What learning metrics can tell you about your employees and your organization
• How learning data can connect to your organization's goals

Technologies discussed:

Valamis learning solution (LXP, LMS, LRS, Content Authoring, Career Mobility, eCommerce)

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

In this fascinating keynote based on his newest book, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind, Dr. Michio Kaku illustrates the stunning breakthroughs being made in neuroscience, which are finally beginning to unravel the mysteries of the most complex object in the known universe: the human brain. Dr. Kaku takes audiences on a grand tour of what the future might hold, explaining how the brain functions, how technologies will change our daily lives, and what implications these changes present for the future of learning. He will present a radically new way to think about "consciousness" and provide fresh insights into mental illness, artificial intelligence, and alien consciousness. Now, learn how what was once solely thought of as science fiction has become a startling reality.

Extraordinary outcomes can happen when companies invest in their people. In this session, we address how learning and development can move from just implementing an organization's strategy to helping drive it.

By putting an organization's people at the heart of everything we do, we can not only increase internal skills and capability but also ensure our people are confident and capable and that they have the ability to drive the future direction of the organization.

Through the session, we'll explore:

• How L&D can help drive organizational strategy, using skills
• The right mix of learning tools to support the skills journey
• How to map skills and capabilities to strategy
• The results of an internal project to map the skills and capabilities of Learning Pool's 450+ employees to our wider strategy

Most of us have encountered eLearning courses, podcasts, or videos where the content may have been great, but the quality of the audio was substandard. In some cases it was enough to drive you distraction. Things like hisses, pops, background noise, inconsistent quality—all of these can cause a listener to tune out immediately. But with a few simple steps, you can take your audio quality to the next level.

In this session you'll learn how to edit and clean up your audio for elearnings or podcasts using the free program, Audacity. Having quality audio begins with getting a good sample. You'll examine the beginning steps needed to get a quality audio recording. Then, you will edit, enhance, and publish some sample files so that they are ready to import into any project. You'll leave the session with an understanding of the power of Audacity, and how with a few simple steps you can go from meh to amazing.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to get a good audio sample
• How to remove background noise in an audio track
• How to edit and clean up audio, removing ums, ahs, and errors
• How to enhance the audio sound using filters
• How to publish recordings to a file that can be imported into other projects

Technology discussed:

Audacity software, types of microphones, tutorial resources

Participant technology requirements:

Learners will need a laptop with the latest version of Audacity installed (version 3.2). Headphones are strongly recommended.

As a designer have you ever stepped back and realized that the immersive, bootcamp-style onboarding that once felt cutting edge no longer meets the needs of your learners or the business? We did, too.

In this session you'll hear about our journey from bootcamp-style onboarding to a scalable, 12-week, global program through the use of communication platforms such as Constant Contact, Slack, and SharePoint. You'll learn how leveraging these communication platforms can help establish the behaviors you want by incorporating information and education into the systems employees will continue to use on a daily basis to get their work done. You'll see how the use of drip campaign communications improves global scalability to ensure information is consistent, timely, and meets the needs of the new employee as well as their manager. We'll share how rethinking the new employee schedule allows for stronger connection between the new hire, their manager, and their team. We'll share how applying an intentional weekly focus throughout your onboarding program helps your learner receive information that is more appropriately timed to their onboarding journey and enriches the experience with more culture building opportunities. We'll demonstrate how the addition of a couple key resources can allow for more autonomy to better support learners who prefer to move at their own pace. You'll also hear about the challenges we faced along the way and how we continue to evolve our approach.

In this session, you will learn:

• How segmenting content over time allows for stronger culture-driven education in a simplified and timely manner
• How structured learning campaigns create consistent and reliable experiences for a globally distributed workforce
• Why using company communication tools helps meet employees where they are in their working environment
• How treating your hiring managers as a key consumer of your onboarding experience enhances the connection between the new employee and their manager
• How we continue to evolve to stay relevant with simple modifications

Technology discussed:

Constant Contact, Slack, Donut (Slack integrated product), SharePoint

As more and more companies incorporate accessibility into their online learning, designers find themselves in the position of crafting alt text to meet WCAG standards. But oftentimes, alt text falls short of meeting WCAG Success Criteria 1.1.1, therefore putting a company at risk of legal action against it.

In this session you will learn how to meet WCAG Success Criterion 1.1.1 Non-Text Content. You'll start with reviewing the WCAG guidelines for text alternative to gain an understanding of non-text content and how to meet non-text content for Level A , AA, and AAA. Next, you'll discover four questions to ask yourself to help you decide what text to include in the alternative, and the five steps to writing clear, descriptive alt text. Finally, you'll explore four examples of non-text content and how to craft alt text that meets WCAG Success Criteria. You'll leave this session with a renewed focus on alt text, it's importance in creating inclusivity, and how to keep your company out of legal risk.

In this session, you will learn:

• WCAG non-text content guidelines for Level A, AA, AAA
• Four questions to ask to help decide what text to include in the alt text
• Five steps to writing clear, descriptive alt text
• How to write alt text for an image, for a simple diagram, for a complex diagram, and text for a chart
• How meeting WCAG alt text success criteria can help mitigate legal risk for your company

Technology discussed:

Alt text within Microsoft Word/PPT

Virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly popular medium for delivering learning experiences, yet there has been little defined in terms of solid frameworks and best practices for immersive learning experience design. This can make designing VR learning solutions feel like a shot in the dark, hoping you won't miss the mark fulfilling learning objectives and achieving learning efficacy. This is where learning engineering processes can help us. We don't need to guess whether our design is sound or leads to favorable outcomes—data can tell us about our design's effectiveness. Learning engineering helps us build better VR learning experiences.

This session will equip you with the knowledge you'll need to implement learning engineering practices and processes to design and measure learning within your virtual reality solutions. We'll discuss using the cycle of questioning, collecting data, deriving insights, and applying our findings to our models and solutions to further improve conditions of learning. You'll learn how you can apply learning science research to guide decisions pertaining to learning design, interaction design, measurement methodology, and the overall immersive experience of your VR solution through the lens of several VR use cases. You'll discover how modeling helps to inform design choices and we'll unpack examples of various models that you can apply to your immersive learning design, including the learner model, domain model, and activity model. We'll discuss how learning engineers employ instrumentation to collect data to test their hypotheses and assumptions, which can then be analyzed and interpreted to shed light on their research and design questions. By instrumenting and analyzing data, you'll be able to discover what about your VR solution works, why it works, identify critical issues, develop targeted solutions, and most importantly, scale what works through iterative, evidence-based design.

In this session, you will learn:

• What learning engineering is, the processes and practices involved, and how they can be applied to the design and iterative development of VR learning solutions
• How you can apply learning science research and human-centered engineering design methodologies to the design and development of your VR learning solutions
• How you can use modeling (knowledge domain, activity, and learner) to craft a comprehensive view of the learner and their environment, which helps set the foundation for initial design and subsequent data-informed iterations of your VR learning experience
• How you can use instrumentation to gain insights about learners, learning models, instructional scaffolding, the immersive experience, and product efficacy to make data-driven decisions to improve your learning design

Technology discussed:

Virtual reality

Video is ubiquitous in instructional content. It can be the main content,  a supplement to virtual or instructor-led sessions, or part of interactive learning modules. The space for videos has never been more clear. But just turning on and pointing the video camera really isn't enough. From TV to YouTube, we're surrounded by high-quality examples. It seems like everyone is making better-looking and better-sounding videos. You don't have to be left behind, and you don't need a huge budget. We'll look at a variety of ways you can level up your videos in a scalable, approachable way.

During this session we will define what 'good video' is and should be. Next, we'll look at the process and pieces needed for video creation. What strategies can be applied to improve each section? Rather than look at each one and just throw out a bunch of ideas, we'll be borrowing the approach from author James Clear's book, Atomic Habits, and approaching our video creation skills with a growth mindset of the 'aggregation of marginal gains.' We'll look at how some small changes can add up to huge improvements and quality outcomes in the areas of pre-production (e.g., scripting and objective setting), production (recording and creating materials), and post production (e.g., editing.) During the session you'll be presented with lessons learned from experienced video creators, several key best practices, and suggestions for avoiding pitfalls and making improvements. We'll also explore opportunities where having a budget, even a modest one, might help, and what to do if you don't have any. You'll leave the session with resources to help you put a plan of improvement into place.

In this session, you will learn:

• Standard processes and workflows for effectively creating videos
• Ways you can make small improvements to increase the quality and effectiveness of your videos
• Recommended best practices as suggested by other video creators about quality and process improvements
• About a variety of resources available that can help you on your video learning journey

Are you challenged with more requests for training content than your team can provide? This has become the reality for many large organizations, and we are all struggling. Your success comes from your ability to scale the development aspect of your programs without adding staff to do it. The good news is that your SMEs can help...and many want to. But we need to help them first.

In this session you will learn about eight frameworks our learning team built and is providing to our SMEs so they can self-serve when it comes to content and program creation. The eight frameworks include podcast-format interviews or discussions, masterclass, virtual summits, lunch-and-learn, bootcamps, cohorts, informal mentorships, and self-paced SME-created content. The goal of using these frameworks is to empower your SMEs to perform more of the "heavy-lifting" that comes with training program development. This allows you, the learning team, to take on more projects and scale your capabilities to improve your business. In the end, if we can get our various teams around the company to self-serve and create content and programs that are "good enough," as a learning team we can be better positioned to advise, guide, and package that content so it meets the learning needs and we can meet the ever-growing training demands of our business. To demonstrate the value of using frameworks, you will have an opportunity to practice applying these frameworks to real-world scenarios with your fellow participants. As a participant, you will receive all eight of our frameworks to take back to your business and apply them to your own situations.

In this session, you will learn:

• To describe the basic frameworks we have put in place
• To create frameworks that meet your unique situations
• How to apply the frameworks to common business scenarios
• To deconstruct what the pros and cons of the frameworks might be in a real-world environment

Technology discussed:

MS Teams, MS PowerPoint, MS Stream, Articulate Rise, DaVinci Resolve

In an ever-changing world, learning and development as a practice has to evolve to adapt to the realities of quickly changing digital environments. I'll share the journey from training to true learning that our organization is on, and the five key elements of our learning strategy.

In this session you'll learn how five core elements of your learning strategy can connect with the desires of your employees and affect the performance of an organization. You'll learn about how the games industry is continuously on a digital transformation journey and highly technical skill development is the key to remaining competitive in a highly competitive environment. You will discover how a focus on improving the employee  experience can unlock monumental performance in re-imagining how games are made.

In this session, you will learn:

• How the games industry is evolving
• About the challenges organizations face in keeping pace with the speed of change
• How you can connect with your employees in identifying skills of the future
• How you can implement a strategy in developing a culture of learning

Technology discussed:

Employee surveys, business intelligence tools (Power Bi), annual employee reports, community engagement (Slack, Zoom, etc.)

You understand the power of xAPI and you can see the potential value it can drive in your organization. Now you need to pitch it to your stakeholders.

Join in for a unique opportunity with your DevLearn peers! This session will be a live stream of The Learning Guild’s xAPI Cohort Week 9 session on how to build a business case for launching an xAPI initiative in your organization. Bring your laptop if you like and engage with the community of L&D professions learning with each other in the xAPI community!

As learning program designers, we spend a lot of time explaining our programs to internal stakeholders. Each stakeholder is often siloed and only cares about a certain part of our program. What happens when these programs aren't performing as needed for our learners and organizations? How do we communicate that change is needed across various teams to drive better results? Gathering leadership and stakeholder feedback on what a learning program should be is daunting. We need a way to make program design fun and engaging for our stakeholders. We need to give them safe spaces to listen and learn from each other so they can drive the organizational change that makes life easier for our learners and our business.

In this session you'll hear real-life stories about how learning journey mapping was used to drive organizational change at large and small-scale businesses. You'll learn how journey maps are a collaborative tool that enable the sharing of ideas, aligning of decisions, and help achieve a common understanding of learner and business goals. You'll learn how mapping workshops give high-level leaders a safe space to voice their concerns and envision how an organization has to work together to fix performance issues. You'll learn about the key outcomes that leaders found most eye-opening about the mapping experience, including how to act on the results of the journey mapping workshop. You'll learn about the different levels of formality a journey map can take and how to chose which level is appropriate for your analysis. You'll leave this session with an overview of how journey mapping can drive organizational change that not only benefits your learners, but your business as well.

In this session, you will learn:

• How journey mapping enables collaboration and alignment throughout an organization
• How organizations have used journey maps to take action towards improving learner performance
• How mapping workshops create an open atmosphere to gather ideas and concerns from leadership, while considering a more ideal future-state
• How to determine the level of detail or formality you need in your map based on your company‚Äôs maturity and goals

Technology discussed:

Miro.com virtual whiteboard

Cisco partnered with Xyleme to help drive both consistency and efficiency across multiple business units in order to increase product adoption rates and improve the customer experience, while also gaining visibility into content performance and customer sentiment with expanded reporting analytics dashboards.

The Cisco Content Enablement Platform team partnered with Xyleme to drive innovation by leveraging content best practices, data analytics solutions, and experience design across the product teams, while also meeting each individual group's unique content needs. The Cisco team was able to create a content technology stack that is uniquely configurable to each business units' key strategies.

In this session we will explore how a centralized content operations strategy can improve customer experience and enablement across diverse distribution strategies and separate integrations to both drive and leverage efficiencies across them.

In this session you will learn:

• How Cisco improved customer experience and enablement across their product portfolio
• How a centralized content operations strategy can improve customer experience
• How Cisco used Xyleme to integrate across a diverse set of platforms

Technology discussed:

Xyleme LCMS

If you already stream videos online or maybe you're planning to, delighting viewers is critical to your business. If your business is to educate, a seamless online streaming experience is a must have. But what makes a great online streaming experience that won't get in the way of learners?

Join Mihael Simic, Bitmovin project manager, as he answers this question and more in the context of media preparation, validation, playback, and measurement. In this session, you'll learn about the foundations of video and online streaming, what impacts, and also how Bitmovin's products may be used to achieve your goals.

I mean, really–what’s all the fuss about? No one in your organization has a disability–you’d know, right? And besides, someone with a disability couldn’t do the job you’re creating training for. And even if they could, you can just make a PDF of the transcript for them, right?
(Umm…pardon me for interrupting…but exactly none of this is true.)

Join us for this helpful–and maybe a little sarcastic–session. You’ll learn to manage some of the misconceptions, challenges, and opportunities we have as an industry to remove barriers for individuals with disabilities.

Key takeaways:

• Why accessibility is not worth the time and trouble (Umm‚Ķunless you care about human beings at all!)
• How drag-and-drop questions are ESSENTIAL to eLearning no matter who they exclude (Umm‚Ķmost of what you‚Äôve learned in your life you learned without dragging and dropping anything.)
• How the accessibility standards are impossible to understand and implement (OK, this is a little bit true. But come see us; we can help.)

Designers are often told to create game-based courses but find themselves unsure of the overall training goals. Without that clarity, it's difficult to make the first decisions. It's important to understand the principles behind game-based learning and how it can be applied properly when creating a course. As game-based course experts, Paul Schneider, PhD, dominKnow, and Shrikant Pattathil, Harbinger Interactive Learning, will utilize a game-based learning example to review best practices and guidance that you can apply to your own unique situations.

In this session, you'll get an inside track into understanding the thinking and thought process behind developing game-based learning. We will first examine the steps to determining when to use game-based learning and what content best lends itself to this type of design. Next, we'll examine specific gaming design elements and how and when to best apply these to various aspects of your training design. Last, we'll dive into the ins and outs of operationalizing these gaming principles when authoring the content with an authoring tool. For each stage we'll unpack a highly interactive game-based sample Drive-Thru Service Game: Be a Headset Hero (demo: https://dki.io/ec426543) and visually examine specific aspects of this learning to illustrate these key questions. But this is more than a presentation, it's a discussion. While we have identified many of the types of questions you are likely to face in the design and development process, we can't anticipate every question you may have about developing game-based learning. To this point, we encourage you to review the sample and provide us with your specific questions in advance at: https://www.dominknow.com/devlearn-2022, so you can help us to further enhance this discussion and dive into game-based learning.

As a course creator, you're often tasked with creating magic at your organization through transformative learning experiences. As learning needs evolve, the tools you rely on to create that learning should evolve, too! It's one reason we offer Articulate 360 as a subscription-based platform, ensuring that you always have the latest training technology at your fingertips. But what does that look like? Two award-winning authoring apps (Rise 360 and Storyline 360) provide all the tools and templates you need to create engaging courses that work seamlessly across any device. Plus, supporting apps and resources further simplify the course creation process, empowering you to turn even the most complicated content into something spectacular for your learners.

At Articulate, we strive to continually improve our products so together we can change the way the world learns. However, with an ever-growing list of new features and updates, it can be difficult to keep up and ensure you're making the most of your subscription. During this session, we'll demo the latest feature set across Articulate 360 including:

• Professionally designed and carefully researched course and lesson templates, featuring real and placeholder content, to help you jumpstart course creation
• Prebuilt and customizable course theme options for creating cohesive learning experiences with a distinct look and feel in Rise 360
• Exciting new features in Storyline 360 that save you time and delight your learners
• Accessibility enhancements that empower you to create engaging experiences for all learners
• And more!

Technologies discussed:

Articulate 360 apps including Rise 360, Storyline 360, Content Library 360, and Review 360

One of the best things about on-demand/self-paced learning is its ability to be non-linear. Courses full of exploration and learner control are great, but how do you help the learner track their progress? The Articulate Storyline Player Menu works well for page-turners, but not as well for non-linear exploration. Have you ever considered using an interactive custom menu slide but didn't know where to start? Are you intimidated by variables and triggers? Have you ever looked at other people's courses and wished yours could be just as cool?

In this BYOD session you will learn the basics of Articulate Storyline variables and triggers. Without any prior understanding of computer programming you will walk out knowing that you, too, can use advanced features of Storyline to wow your stakeholders. Together we will dissect and demystify variables and triggers in non-technical terms. We will then use these two concepts to build an interactive course menu that tracks completion of course activities and changes dynamically to show the learner what has (or has not) been accomplished. By the end of this session you will know that you, too, can utilize advanced features of Storyline to wow your stakeholders.

In this session, you will learn:

• The definition and purpose of Storyline variables and triggers
• How variables and triggers can enhance the learner experience
• How to use variables and triggers to set actions that are dependent on learner progress
• How you can use these features to create an interactive menu that informs the learner of their progress through the course
• How to apply these concepts to 360 images for a truly immersive menu experience

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline 360

Participant technology requirements:

An internet connected laptop or other device with Articulate Storyline 360 installed and activated. Trial versions will work for this session. The presenter will provide sample files for download that will be used during the session. Note that the sample files may not work in earlier versions of Storyline. Please ensure that Storyline 360 is installed prior to the session to ensure that you can participate in the hands-on portion.

The days of lengthy, boring PowerPoint courses are numbered as microlearning takes front and center stage in the adult learning space. Consequently, the need for designers to create quick and concise learning opportunities that are both engaging and mobile-friendly continues to grow.

In this session you will explore the microlearning planning process, including a simple, easy-to-follow planning document. This enables you to structure the microlearning course to fulfill the learners' needs and guide subject matter experts in creating content. Additionally, you will learn tips that can guide you in your search for outside vendors (i.e., animators and illustrators) to add multi-media components to your microlearning courses. You'll discover creative ways to utilize course development tools such as Articulate Storyline and Rise to create microlearning course components like branching scenarios and content application knowledge checks. You'll also see samples of microlearning courses for inspiration. You'll leave this session motivated to create your own microlearning courses!

In this session you will learn:

• A tried and true microlearning planning process that breaks down course components for subject matter experts
• Tips that can guide you in your search for outside vendors to add multi-media components such as animation to your microlearning courses
• Creative ways to utilize course development tools such as Articulate Storyline to create microlearning course components like knowledge checks and application scenarios
• Creative ways to utilize course development tools such as Articulate Rise to create microlearning course components like branching scenarios.

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline, Articulate Rise, Upwork.com

It isn't always up to the learning and development department to decide the start dates for training, whether it's training for onboarding, new rollouts, skills, recalibration, etc. It can be logistically challenging for leaders who need workers to start earlier or later than the scheduled dates of the set onboarding program. Additionally, live instructor-led programs are great for establishing company culture but due to complexity, they can be costly. What if you could make a learner-led training experience that still provides virtual or in-person connections with intentional cultural moments, as well as equip learners with skills beyond the tasks necessary to do their jobs?

In this session we'll explore how to engage new employees from the beginning of their onboarding experience to own their development with every training thereafter. Drawing on experience at Chick-fil-A where leadership, resilience, adaptability, communication, and teamwork are embedded in the training experience, you’ll see how learners can have the same level of ownership over their learning as they do for responsibilities in their actual jobs. You’ll recognize the importance of designing self-led learning so all audiences are involved beyond the learner audience (e.g., leaders, SMEs, coaches, mentors, etc.), and how learners need to create moments and resources with their leaders, SMEs, and coaches to be used on the job. By the end of this session, you'll feel empowered to design learner-led training solutions and create training with intentionality, thus creating a culture of learning, and make development tools work for your designs and not the other way around.

In this session, you will learn:

• The importance of learners owning their own learning and development
• Where to start when designing learner-led training
• How to be intentional with every component of the learning design
• Why incorporating all audiences involved into the design is critical
• How to design around your learner and not just the learning tools or platforms available

Technology discussed:

Intrepid

New technology is appearing inside and outside L&D at an unprecedented rate. Some are taken up with great analysis and others without a clear answer to the basic question of why. Move too slow and you’ll adopt a solution that’s soon obsolete; too quickly and deeper analysis is missed. You're left with an overpriced and/or overhyped tool that doesn’t meet your needs.

The call to action today isn’t so much where to look for emerging technology, but how to look!

Join our Guild Masters as they share their practical insights on navigating the pitfalls of emerging technology research, experimentation, and selection. We’ll also take a more visionary look at how technology, and it’s use outside of our industry, is challenging how people perceive learning and the role of L&D itself.

A virtual training hero is a learning and development professional that seemingly possesses superpowers—abilities beyond what's expected, easily engaging an online audience. They use their powers to make virtual learning more effective, protecting learners and their experiences from common nemeses like fear, technical problems, and organizational disbelief. Some heroes derive their status by using advanced technology while others practice skillful virtual design and facilitation techniques to achieve their successes. In this session we'll reveal the secrets to becoming exceptionally skilled and successful virtual learning professionals, aka "heroes." And you know what? It actually doesn't take superhuman powers to do it!

This session will be full of examples attendees can use immediately. While we demo the activities and processes, I'll share stories of application and experience with the many people I have trained virtually over the last two decades. Attendees will participate, analyze, and reflect upon the examples and processes shared. We'll discuss not only reactions but also the technical details and instructions involved in the making and delivering of each example. Following that, we'll spend time sharing how they will use these examples in their own training, and in what ways they would make adjustments for their content and audiences.  Attendees will learn the secrets to becoming a virtual training hero!

In this session, you will learn:

• Three ready-to-use virtual learning activity examples
• A "never fail" debrief strategy to reflect on, validate, and encourage learning
• A job aid to assist you to make your own virtual learning activities
• Many ways to defeat the virtual training villains of fear, technical problems, and organizational disbelief

Technology discussed:

Zoom, Webex, Teams, Adobe Connect, PowerPoint, Padlet, Mentimeter

Microsoft Teams has grown to become one of the most used communication and collaboration tools in business today, so it's not surprising that Teams has also become a hub for both virtual and asynchronous learning. And yet, Teams includes so many different features, tools, and integrations that it can be a challenge for any training professional to keep up with all the tools and options available for training inside Microsoft Teams.

In this session you will learn several different ways that Microsoft Teams can be used as a platform for learning. You'll learn best practices and common obstacles to using Teams for live virtual instruction, and you'll also explore the many apps and options which can be used to turn Teams into a powerful workflow learning platform. You'll start with instructor-lead training, including how to use tools like Teams Meetings, Breakout Rooms, Whiteboard, and third-party app integrations to improve engagement and usability for your virtual training classes. Next you'll get tips on how to build a culture of learning inside Teams with features like SharePoint, Viva Connections, Viva Topics, and OneNote. Finally, you'll take a closer look at Microsoft's own learning tools in the Viva Learning app experience, including options for integrating to your LMS or third-party content libraries. You'll leave this session with a list of tips and techniques for how you can better utilize Microsoft Teams to expand the culture of learning within your organization.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to use Teams Meetings, Breakout Rooms, and Whiteboard for live virtual instruction
• How to avoid common issues with live training in Microsoft Teams
• How SharePoint and Viva Connections can be used to create learning portals inside Microsoft Teams
• How Microsoft Viva Learning can be used to augment or replace your company LMS inside Microsoft Teams
• Five popular apps that can enhance your training programs inside Microsoft Teams

Technology discussed:

Microsoft Teams, Viva Connections, Viva Learning, SharePoint, Microsoft Whiteboard, Microsoft Loop

Are you looking to transform your learning culture, but unsure where to start? This session walks you through five practical steps to embed a self-directed and always-on learning culture in your organization. We will cover everything from nurturing a growth mindset to connecting your people, better understanding learner motivation, getting resourceful with learning content, understanding data, and so much more.

In this session you will learn:

• Actionable steps to impact your organization's learning culture
• Out-of-the-box methods to drive self-directed learning
• Ways to increase engagement and create a hype for L&D
• Savvy ways to get resourceful with content
• How to break out of silos and connect your people to each other and even more learning opportunities

Imagine a supercomputer that makes your work machine feel like a penlight aimed into the sun. Imagine that supercomputer reading the entire internet before it goes to bed at night, dreaming about it, then waking up writing sonnets, painting the Mona Lisa, and eating chess grandmasters for breakfast. The next night, it does it all over again, getting exponentially better at everything. The next night, it does it all over again.

AI is one of those things where you can get on the bus, or get run over by the bus. AI will revolutionize everything we do, specifically including the creation of courses and videos. Join Vyond CEO Gary Lipkowitz and get your bus ticket to understanding:

• The basics of machine learning
• CANs (Creative Adversarial Networks), GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks), and the engines of intelligent content creation
• If machines can "think" or "be creative"

We'll then take the bus home to see practical, relatable examples such as:

• Vyond's Fall Release, including new features powered by VyondAI
• How one global organization is using Vyond's intelligent video creation to improve the speed of course creation and relevance of their content

Technology discussed:

Vyond Studio

Research shows that people leave companies that don’t offer training that benefits their career. So good training is essential, however you also have to make learners feel like they own those results too, and they can’t feel that if it’s locked up inside your LMS. There is no use taking qualifications out of one closed system to put it in another. Unfortunately, so many systems only use their own database, their own app, or their own blockchain and restrict learners’ access and usage of their own qualifications.

What if you could issue learning in a universal open learning format, with inbuilt verified authenticity that can be accepted by a learner in any compatible lifelong learning wallet? Using the latest technologies like blockchain, Web3, and distributed ID’s, can this be a reality?

Offering great learning means offering learning that has an ROI for both employer and employee. In this session, you'll learn about the latest Web3 standards in digital certificates, learner records, and badges. This will include a vision of lifelong learning, and the practical steps to make this a reality and enable your organization to start issuing Web3 credentials using these open standards.

Key takeways:

• Lifelong learning records and skills have much greater scope to benefit the learner
• Web 3.0 makes it possible for learning institutions to issue fully verifiable digital records of learning
• The future is decentralized, trustable, and private
• The standards exist today to make it a reality. You'll understand about how to attract & retain great people by issuing verified learning credentials.

Technologies discussed:

Blockchain, SaaS, distributed ID’s, badges, CLR’s

Learning ecosystems continue to evolve to focus on the modern workforce. Learners are seeking new and innovative ways to acquire knowledge and develop skills. The logical next step in providing realistic learning experiences in a controlled environment is the Metaverse, but the question for leaders is how to successfully achieve this within an ever-changing world of virtual possibilities. To reach this next phase of innovative transformation is to understand and harness the metaverse and realize the benefits of immersive engagement.

In this session, KnowledgeWorks Global Learning's Kelly Lake will describe how learning ecosystems are adjusting to the needs of today's workforce. You will hear about the metaverse and how it is providing the opportunity to augment learning and performance for organizations while also positively impacting ROI. She will share advancements in new disruptive technologies that provide realistic virtual engagement that learning leaders will need to embrace. Additionally, you will experience the metaverse landscape through strategic insights into emerging mixed-reality learning modalities and discover what you need to know for the next phase of your virtual evolution. In this session, you will learn:

• How learning ecosystems are evolving to support the modern workforce
• The role of the metaverse in learning
• Advancements in immersive learning technology
• The insights for building a successful virtual transformation framework

Technologies discussed:

AR, VR, MR, immersive solutions

While COVID has brought new areas of opportunity in the digital world, it has unfortunately taken away some of the irreplaceable benefits of in-person learning and experiences. To adapt with safety measures, AR & VR offer the next best thing to experiencing a location in real life. In this session, learn how AR & VR can be utilized in Storyline to give a fully immersive tour where the learners can guide themselves safely around an area and learn more at their own pace with full control of their "surroundings.”

This session will walk participants through the 360 camera needed to create a virtual tour, how a 360 camera functions, and how to take photos. We will have a 360 camera to demo and provide suggestions on purchasing a camera. We will teach participants how to import the 360 photos, create multiple slides, and create hotspots when building a tour. After creating a simple tour, we will add graphics and videos within the 360 tours for educational purposes. Participants will come away knowing what equipment is needed, how 360 photos are taken, how to create a virtual tour, and how to add educational media within the project. They will see why this is a great solution to address a multitude of learning issues that are prevalent in today's world. They will be able to return to their places of work confident in how to use these skills to benefit their organization and how to demonstrate to others this technology.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why VR is important and how this technology can benefit your organization
• What equipment and software is required (prices, etc.)
• How to set up for capturing 360 photos
• How to import the 360 photos into Storyline
• How to use triggers in Storyline to create a virtual tour
• How to add instructional elements (videos, photos, links) within the virtual tour

Technology discussed:

Windows OS, Storyline 360/3, 360 cameras, Photoshop

Participant technology requirements:

Laptop and Storyline 3 or 360 loaded if attendee wants to follow along and build a demo

It is likely that you have heard about xAPI and are familiar with its benefits for tracking learning more accurately, but you probably aren't using it yet. For the longest time xAPI required custom JavaScript, even if you used tools like Captivate or Storyline. Many eLearning developers found it too complicated and laborious. 

Fortunately, it has gotten a lot easier, and in most cases, it does not even require you to write code. You can still use code to fine-tune your tracking, but it is not necessary. In this session, we will explore ways to send xAPI without writing a single line of code. 

We will first explore how to publish from Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate without doing anything extra. You can get basic xAPI tracking in your LMS and then control the data you can send in Storyline with some simple triggers, and even send the statements to an external LRS from your LMS. If you need to host your content outside an LMS, then we will walk through a free tool that will give you the code you need to copy and paste right into Storyline or Captivate. Finally, we will wrap up by talking about a way to track everyday applications like SurveyMonkey, Trello, or Google Docs to Watershed LRS or Grassblade LRS without having to write a single line of code. Now you have no excuse to start using xAPI right away!

In this session, you will learn:

• Exporting to cmi5 packages for xAPI tracking (in Storyline & Captivate)
• How to add custom triggers to Storyline to control what gets sent over to the LRS
• How to capture who the actor is when content is outside an LMS
• How to capture the actor and control all xAPI statements being sent to the LRS
• To connect everyday applications like SurveyMonkey to an LRS using Zapier

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, xAPI Builder, Zapier, SurveyMonkey

What do you do when you are faced with a suite of support resources created ad hoc and tasked with creating a learning strategy? The context is a complex software product developed internally and rolled out for clients. A more consistent approach was definitely needed‚ ideally one grounded in how we actually think, work, and learn. If you want to be principled, how do the cognitive and learning sciences guide you to a solution?

In this session, we will discuss the context, the process followed, and the lessons learned. We'll look at how learning science was applied to review the resources and develop principles, the pivot from checklists to content templates, and how they were tested and refined. The different evaluations performed will also be unpacked. We'll review what a performance strategy means, and the benefits of a template approach. Come look at what learning science says for meeting real customer education needs in a dynamic environment.

In this session, you will learn:

• How a context suite meets performance needs
• How testing can be done in real environments
• What learning science means in practice
• What templates should contain to provide needed guidance

Technology discussed:

Games, scenarios, simulations

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 a single video and create transcripts, job aids, images for print, podcasts, and more.The process begins by investigating all the potential outputs that are required for your audience and their learning journeys, and then putting in place a cohesive media production plan with a single video as the foundation. Next, you will experience the steps required to transform one piece of instructional media into another, and important format considerations along the way.

In this session, you will learn:

• The opportunity when creating an instructional media derivative plan
• How to create text-based outputs from a video
• How to leverage a single video into a job aid
• Why a video can be a great starting point for an audio podcast

Technology discussed:

Video, Camtasia, Storyline, Adobe InDesign

When designing learning, it's easy to get so focused on the content and goals that you forget about the learners. Following a "content is king" approach without focusing on your learners can create learning that subject matter experts and stakeholders love but doesn't help learners learn…or even makes it difficult to learn. Identifying some audience characteristics during an initial analysis helps but doesn't go far enough to keep the learners alive and in focus as you build learning and make myriad design decisions that have the potential to hinder learning.

Unleash the power of personas! In this session we'll discuss why personas are effective and provide tips, templates, and best practices you can start using right away to create and apply these powerful tools in your learning design processes. We'll discuss the research demonstrating how personas streamline and make your learning design process and the learning experiences you create more effective for learners. We'll explore case studies to illustrate how you can create different types of personas and apply them throughout the learning design process to provide powerful learning results. We'll practice creating a plan to gather information about your audience, and deciding which characteristics to use to develop your personas so your design supports your learners and achieves learning objectives. You'll complete an activity to practice creating personas and applying them to design decisions, and receive templates and samples to start using in your own design work right away.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why personas are powerful tools in designing effective learning experiences for your learners
• What makes a useful persona including relatability, relevance to learning objectives, and correct level of detail
• Multiple replicable real-life examples of how personas can be implemented into learning design processes to create powerful learning experiences
• The best ways to gather information to create personas including analyzing data, empathizing, and interviewing
• How to create personas including identifying key characteristics and differentiators that relate to learning objectives
• How to use templates, tips, and best practices to implement personas in your learning design processes

Learning professionals often perform a wide variety of functions. In a given day (or hour!) we may be a technologist, copywriter, graphic designer, project manager, UX designer, marketer, community manager, and more. Many of us have learned these skills informally, relying on available resources to inform our practice. Adding to this challenge, the language that we use in our field doesn't always translate to the language of the business—especially when the business is used to L&D developing and managing courses. How can we better understand and communicate the breadth of our work in a rapidly changing field?

Product managers and learning professionals share the same goal—helping people perform a task in support of a larger business need. In this session you'll look at your own field through the lens of product management. We'll talk about the role of product manager, drawing from our own experience in program management, instructional design, and product management. You'll learn how the principles outlined in the Product Manifesto can help you approach performance issues in a holistic, human-centered way. You'll extend your instructional design toolkit by exploring additional skills, frameworks, and resources used for user research, problem identification, solution design, user experience, and marketing. By the end of the session, you will have a new way of looking at your role, new ways to communicate and demonstrate your value, and new resources to help guide you.

In this session, you will learn:

• How your goals, competencies, and skills overlap with the growing field of product management
• How viewing your own work through the lens of product management can help you create more human-centered and performance-focused performance solutions
• Which frameworks and concepts used in product management can support your instructional design activities
• Where to find resources for product managers that can benefit your own practice

Technology discussed:

Agile project management tools including Jira and Asana

This session offers an overview of recent Guild research, provided by the authors. Megan Torrance, CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, will review the current state of xAPI adoption, including its affordances, limitations, and challenges. Jane Bozarth, director of research for The Learning Guild, will recap the findings of our recent LMS survey: What are organizations using, what do they still need, and what advice do they have for others? And Hadiyah Nuriddin, author of Story Training, will discuss research-based considerations for using storytelling/narrative as part of our practice. All three components of the session will include discussion of takeaways and actionable tips.

Pitching your L&D projects to leadership and stakeholders is not easy. Analyzing the audience, defining your communication goals, sharpening the messages, and turning your data into a compelling story requires a specific skill set and practice. Getting the message across is crucial for justifying the existence of the L&D function in your organization and to show the impact and ROI we bring based on compelling storytelling of L&D data.

In this session, you will learn:

• What great storytelling is
• Techniques and examples
• Storytelling with data
• Strategies for creating memorable and effective data visualizations and data stories for your organization
• What kind of data we need to collect, how to analyze it, how we can understand the story behind the data, and what we need to do to present it to different types of audiences

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

Take part in casual conversations on popular industry topics with your peers each morning during Morning Buzz. Sit back, sip your coffee, and share best practices, insights, and tips while learning from one another's experiences.

DemoFest is a huge science fair-like event; a collective showcase of eLearning examples from conference participants. As you move from table to table exploring a wide range of learning solutions, you can discuss the tools, tech, and processes with those who built them. Although it’s an exciting evening of discovery, diving deep into each of the projects can be challenging.

Join us the day after to get an exclusive, in-depth look at some of the most popular solutions, voted on by your peers and shared at DemoFest. Over this full hour, select demonstrators will go back under the hood of their solutions and allow you to dig into the how and why of their projects.

In this session, you will learn:

• Cutting-edge examples of innovative learning solutions
• Why a design decision was made, and its impact
• About the various technologies used, and why they were chosen

Whether you're capturing images of websites, documents, or application interfaces, screenshots are one of the most basic building blocks that we use as training developers. Basic screengrabs may work in a pinch, but the final quality of our work can only be as good as the quality of the assets we build it with. Yet, the quality of the average screenshot isn't great. Each capture is its own unique puzzle to get right. For instance, how do you get a clean, high-resolution capture when the subject is larger than your screen? And how do you deal with sensitive information caught in the capture, without resorting to blur or censor effects?

In this session we will answer these questions and more as you learn to master the art of capturing pixel-perfect screenshots and screen recordings, every time. You will take a comprehensive look at the variables involved in your recording environment—from the resolution and magnification of your operating system to the application zoom and dimensions of your target capture window. You will learn about the surprising role of basic coding fundamentals in screen capture, and how you can edit any webpage in real-time using Chrome DevTools. For those who are not yet comfortable using code, you will find a fun and risk-free way of practicing code yourself. In our field of work there are very few skills you can master without significant time and effort. Thankfully, perfecting the art of screen capture is one. Bring your laptop and prepare to become your team's capture guru.

In this session, you will learn:

• To master the art of capturing pixel-perfect screenshots and screen recordings, every time
• How to use Chrome DevTools to edit webpages pre-capture
• Why it's important to properly stage your capture environment carefully
• How to batch your capture process and ensure consistency across screenshots
• How to adjust screen resolution, zoom, and capture dimensions
• How to emulate the screens of tablets and mobile phones for accurate captures from your PC or Mac
• How to use Photoshop templates to incorporate your screenshots into photorealistic 3-D scenes

Technology discussed:

Snagit from Techsmith, Chrome DevTools, Adobe Photoshop

Participant technology requirements:

A laptop (MAC or PC) with Google Chrome, a free trial of Snagit from Techsmith (and Adobe Photoshop if possible, though not required)

For large companies with wide geographical footprints, attempting to move the needle in your training can seem incredibly overwhelming. How do you gain insight on hundreds of training sessions to make meaningful change? We tend to look at Big Data, a trendy phrase that promises to lead to big change. What if small data can tell us just as big of a story, leading to measurable opportunities for improvement? You can turn small data into big change if you know where to look (and what to ignore!)

In this case study session, find out how First Student fought the good fight against swimming in Big Data and made significant changes amidst the largest employee shortage the industry has ever faced. You will dive into corporate KPIs and metrics with us, sift through the fake nuggets, and come up with the real gold. You'll learn how to engage a large employee base and gather the right data that will help you make meaningful decisions about your training programs. Then, you will learn how to shift a culture of "we've always done it this way" to an excited culture of "let's try something new!" by strategically using pinpointed data points to make your KPI's stand out. Finally, you'll explore how to gain confidence in smaller metrics and use that to fight for innovation and change. You'll leave this session with a new outlook on how to use data to overcome today's on-the-job training challenges.

In this session you will learn:

• Why pinpointed data measurements can be more insightful than Big Data
• How to use small data points to make big suggestions for organizational change
• What to look for when swimming in a large pool of data to find the diamond in the rough
• How to use data to overcome staffing challenges in an ever increasingly difficult workforce staffing trend

Technology discussed:

Company personalized mobile app for trainers, Power-BI

Whether an organization is finding balance in hybrid work settings or going completely office-less, the need for learning never stops. However, working with employees dispersed over time and space presents new challenges.

In this panel discussion we sit down with three experts who are taking this challenge head on as we breakdown the situations, scenarios, and demands placed on organizational learning. Additionally, we will explore the strategies being deployed, how success is being measured, and the technologies being used to support the new movement of work from anywhere.

The value of visual design in learning is often overlooked and misunderstood by many instructional designers and SMEs. Without explicit frameworks, incorporating sound visual design principles and elements becomes a frustrating and time-consuming burden rather than an impactful expression of creativity. Together we will explore the answer to two of instructional design's most pressing questions. What looks good? And why is it important that it looks that way?

In this session you will not only learn how to apply visual design strategies to create aesthetically appealing content, but we will also get familiar with the most notorious and common visual design missteps and offenses. We will familiarize ourselves with the data and research highlighting the impact of white space, balance, proximity and alignment, hierarchy, contrast, and type while concurrently demonstrating how to explain these concepts to SMEs. Lastly, we will share outstanding resources for visual design collaboration and inspiration that will save you time and frustration. At the conclusion of this session it is our hope that you will have increased your own informed appreciation for the power of visual design in learning and be equipped to share that understanding with stakeholders and collaborators.

In this session, you will learn:

• How good visual design promotes engagement, knowledge retention, and learner persistence
• What design principles make visual design for learning most effective
• Which tools best facilitate visual design collaboration
• How to explain the value of visual design principles to SMEs

Technology discussed:

Figma, Google Slides, Webaim, Canva, Genially, Flaticon, Pexels, Pixabay

Most designers and companies know it is important to create accessible content for their learners. However, often a company only has only a few experts that know how to create accessible content and those experts are in charge of teaching and training everyone else in the company on how to do so. When the responsibility of creating accessible content falls on a small number of individuals in the company, it is hard to go above and beyond for our learners because the majority of individuals in the company would just focus on meeting the minimum requirements. What if there is a way to disperse the responsibility of creating accessible content across the company and have individuals organically take ownership over creating accessible materials?

In this session you will learn about effective ways to create an accessibility team at your company. You will hear about the challenges and successes from real-life examples of team formation at different institutions. You will also learn about the common reasons for why there may not be buy-in and support to developing accessible content. In addition to the lack of institutional buy-in, this session will also cover what challenges subject matter experts typically face when creating accessible content, and how to address their needs. You will leave this session knowing how to address common challenges, how to select meaningful members to start a team, how to organically spread accessibility knowledge across the company, and how to explain the importance of going above and beyond for our learners to your company executives.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why creating accessible content is important for your learners
• How to address why there may not be buy-in to create accessible content beyond the minimum requirements
• How to select meaningful members to create an accessibility team
• How to organically spread accessibility knowledge and expertise throughout the company with your accessibility team
• How to talk to executives about the importance of creating an accessibility team to create a culture that embraces the development of accessible learning content

The software industry is embracing Agile project management and there is much that we in learning & development can learn from them. Whether you’re using SAM, LLAMA®, Scrum, or still exploring your options, there’s a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships and communications with the business in order to deliver their work on time, in budget, and in line with expectations–even as those expectations evolve throughout the project. However, a strict implementation of Agile methods may not apply to your L&D work. What can we borrow from this useful mindset and approach, and what do we need to do to get started?

In this session you’ll hear why and how an L&D team implemented Agile methods, what it took to bring about the change, and lessons learned along the way. You’ll learn about the tools that were implemented, how the team embraced the change, and how the team’s performance metrics changed in just a year … and what’s in the plan for next year.

In this session you will learn:

• A quick definition of Agile and how it‚Äôs used in the L&D space
• How Agile helps L&D teams meet business needs when those needs are rapidly changing
• Lessons learned from a recent implementation of Agile
• Metrics you can use to measure your team‚Äôs performance

xAPI Hyperdrive is an open competition to be held at the xAPI User Conference on Tuesday, October 25. Individuals and organizations will share how xAPI is being used in innovative and exciting ways to enhance learning and solve business problems. Each Hyperdrive presenter will share their project for a panel of expert judges to assess and score. Three winners will be selected and showcase their projects in this exclusive session.

In this session, you’ll learn from the winners how and why xAPI was implemented and the results of their projects. This is a great opportunity to see and learn about real-world applications of xAPI. Each winner will have a 15-minute slot to share their story and answer your questions.

One instructional designer joins your team to build an eLearning course. Other instructional designers are hired and get to work because there's a need to move quickly. Courses are developed but there are inconsistencies. New requirements arise, like awarding continuing professional education credits, accommodating new product partnerships, and new product release versions. New management is hired, and she wants consistency, efficiency, and cost savings. The team needed to execute a comprehensive eLearning program, and this required a new approach: Master Slides + Template + Process + Team.

In this case study session, learn how Trintech's training team executed a comprehensive eLearning program through a consistent, efficient process across multiple instructional designers of various skill levels while addressing the needs of learners. This case study provides insights for using Master Slides and a Template within Articulate Storyline 360 to solve the following four challenges:

1. The training content applies to learners across various audiences and multiple products 
2. The learner desires a consistent learning experience that is easy to navigate and provides hands-on instruction
3. The training content adheres to standards of a governing body to award learners with continuing professional education credit
4. The team of instructional designers tasked to execute the content have varying experience across the subject matter and the use of Articulate Storyline 360

In this session, you will learn:

• How to reflect the company's brand in the design of the eLearning Master Slides and Templates
• How Master Slides and a Template can work to provide a consistent and efficient learning experience
• How standards can be easily built into Master Slides and Templates to ensure adherence to requirements
• How a team, ranging in experience, can work rapidly and collaboratively to create content using Master Slides and Templates
• To evaluate team composition to structure an executable content development plan

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline 360

Have you been on the receiving end of requests to create workplace training you know is unlikely to get results? Have you found yourself feeling more like an order taker vs. a trusted partner capable of delivering impactful learning? Are efforts to employ action mapping in the workplace met with pushback? Helping stakeholders buy in to an alternative to their solution can be an uphill battle–especially when the working relationship is in early stages, a power imbalance exists, or the designer's communication with stakeholders or client is indirect. Building a mutually beneficial relationship is a journey. What if there was a simple technique to create an opportunity for productive dialogue about what workplace learning can accomplish?

In this session you'll learn the two-solution pitch you can use to aid the transition from an order taker to trusted business partner. The two-solution pitch offers a diplomatic approach to highlighting the true problem the business wants to address and creating alignment with and among stakeholders. You'll learn how to use information from front end analysis to determine two elements of the basic pitch: (1) key characteristics of the final learning product or experience, regardless of form, and (2) a second learning solution for consideration. You'll explore tips and tricks for effectively framing the recommended learning solution for the pitch, communicating the key characteristics of all solution options, and maintaining a diplomatic approach throughout. You'll leave this session with a simple and effective technique that empowers you, the learning professional, to share insights about results-focused learning solutions in a way that respects stakeholders as the knowledgeable decision makers that they are. Templates will be provided for you to try your hand at crafting your own two-solution pitch.

In this session, you will learn:

• Why a two-solution pitch can help you to build trust with stakeholders
• What makes a good two-solution pitch and when to employ this technique
• How to utilize information from front end analysis to identify characteristics that matter most to stakeholders and outline a more effective learning solution option
• How to craft a simple yet thoughtful pitch that incorporates the originally requested solution plus a contrasting option more likely to deliver results
• How to maintain a diplomatic approach when delivering the pitch
• Why the pitch might benefit future discussions of learning solutions, even if the less-effective solution is selected in the short term

Tedious remote learning, Zoom fatigue, or the classic click-through eLearning are all uninspiring ways to share knowledge. Yet that's exactly what learners are experiencing. It's both boring and ineffective. It's well recognized, but people either cite 'compliance' or 'lack of tools' to fix it, or try to solve it with 'fun' and 'exciting' eLearning that just employs gimmicks and flashy content around the dull and boring content, so there's no improvement in knowledge transfer. What people need to learn is how to create compelling and effective eLearning using tools they already have. And, amazingly, PowerPoint can be the answer.

The importance of compelling content is becoming ever more apparent, but trying to do that with the same tools you've always had can be hard, right? Wrong. PowerPoint gives you terrific tools to create the kind of dynamic, visual content that you need to capture your audience's attention with functions that allow interactive sequences, navigable content to respond to your audience, and pop quizzes for informal knowledge checks. And then easy ways to share that content with learners in your LMS—whether it's saving as PDF, video, or converting to HTML5. It's a superb tool for quickly and easily creating effective visual learning content. Come along to this masterclass packed with live demonstrations of how to create compelling content for successful training in a virtual environment.

In this session, you will learn:

• To create dynamic visuals that support persuasive stories to engage your audience
• To develop professional looking designs for presentations and other content
• How to build interactive sequences that respond to your audience's need
• To become a PowerPoint legend, with techniques to make effective presentations quickly and easily

Technology discussed:

PowerPoint, iSpring, Microsoft Teams

Many designers know that both formative and summative assessments should be included in the course materials, but all assessments should not be treated equally. Why do so many designers rely on hearsay, what "feels" right, or never venture outside the "create of a video and multiple-choice questions with feedback" and call it good? What question types best support learning; when and how is feedback delivery the most effective; and what are best practices for using formative and summative assessments to improve outcomes?  Countless hours and funds have been used to determine best practices for assessments; do you know what those best practices are?

In this session you'll learn evidence-based best practices for creating both online summative and formative assessments for adult learners. You'll dive into what the research says about what assessment question types to use, how to improve learning outcomes with formative and summative assessments, and the importance of feedback timing and delivery methods. Next, you'll become familiar with a variety of different assessment software available for free or to purchase. You'll leave this session empowered with knowledge and resources to create evidence-based assessments for your organization.

In this session you will learn:

• To define and identify formative and summative assessments
• Best practices for creating evidence-based formative assessments online for adult learners
• Best practices for using feedback in assessments to facilitate learner success
• How assessments can be used to improve learning outcomes for your intended audience
• What assessment software is available to facilitate the creation of evidence-based assessments for your intended audience

Technology discussed:

Canvas LMS, Kahoot, Quizlet, Atomic Assessments, Padlet or Lucid Chart, Articulate RISE, Google Forms, Flipgrid

When onboarding new hires or retraining existing resources, employees need space and place to practice tasks, processes, procedures, new tools, or difficult conversations with customers. Active working environments aren't always conducive to that practice, whether it's because the environment is unsafe, the procedure is complex (oil and gas, energy, telecommunications, construction, or production applications), there's potential for waste or impact to brand reputation (retail, customer service, hospitality, food service), or there's a steep learning curve (new software, equipment, or machinery). In such cases, eLearning can help simulate activities for learners to practice new concepts.

This case study reviews how, as part of a larger blended learning strategy, we used an open practice environment to create a safe space for new employees of our client's franchise restaurants, Rusty Taco, to practice building taco recipes without wasting ingredients, eating up valuable manager time, and risking customer orders. We'll walk through how we worked with SMEs to document recipe steps, photograph ingredients and the taco build process at each step, and replicated the restaurant's typical kitchen layout and assembly methods in a simulated environment. We'll walk through considerations for designing different simulated environments or situations, including how to adjust the stress level for the desired learning outcomes by adjusting time constraints or branching options, and how to increase the difficulty level as learners gain proficiency. After reviewing our process, we'll dive into some ways to apply the same techniques to other learning applications that would be a good fit for elearning simulations and practice environments including automotive repair, manufacturing, production and assembly, software simulations, point of sale systems, situational soft skills training, mechanical applications, aviation, healthcare, and more.

In this session, you will learn:

• How simulations provide a safe environment for practice
• How simulations allow for learning through mistakes
• How simulations can help people learn new soft skills, processes, procedures, hardware, and software
• How to design a simulated environment and adjust for difficulty and stress level
• How to use eLearning simulations in other industries and use cases

Technology discussed:

Articulate Storyline, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite

We've all heard about technology trends such as the Internet of Things, robotics and artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. These technologies will impact us profoundly as individuals and as communities and will connect us by providing the ability to have shared experiences in life, work, and learning. As we augment human performance, will this result in a Borg collective or in shared and collaborative experiences that bring a collective empathy to society? How will these changes impact the ways that we learn, and what does that mean for the future of training and education?

In our closing keynote for DevLearn 2022, Dr. Cori Lathan explores the impact of emerging technologies on us as humans, and what that may mean for the future of learning and development. By attending this closing session, you’ll receive tips on how we can understand and prepare for the changes brought about by these trends and discover how we can shape the human-technology interaction towards the most positive impact.