Put yourself in the shoes of a new leader joining your organization. They must successfully balance assimilating the culture, learning processes, training, financial briefings, building relationships, and other countless tasks. That is a lot to expect from an individual that needs to hit the ground running and lead their team to success. At Holiday Inn Club Vacations, many of our leaders claimed they could have been more successful from the start if they understood how all of the business units work  together. This was a wake-up call for our organization to completely disrupt the way we onboard leaders, and create a new kind of experience that would show them how to lead successfully within our culture.

We’re giving you two opportunities to catch this popular session – at this time or on Tuesday in Session 407.

We’re giving you two opportunities to catch this popular session – at this time or on  Wednesday in Session 702.

New technology can take time to learn, and can be especially challenging without hands-on experience. At our organization, new slot machine cabinets and components were continuously being introduced, and it was a priority to make sure technicians felt confident in their knowledge when installing them at a casino property. But it was quite pricey to fly field service technicians out to Las Vegas for training each time something new came out.

Augmented reality allows you to enhance your current environment, recognize objects, and add additional experiences to help learners learn and explore more of the world around them. This is great, but how do you get started and do you need to be a coder to create these kind of experiences?

As a small department at Ally Insurance, it would be easy to rely on the old standby of instructor-led classroom facilitation for all topics— especially the boring ones. But we know that instructor-led classroom facilitation is not always the best, most efficient, or even most innovative way to communicate content to learners. What if a small but mighty department could create and implement a whole new way to learn and retain information?  What if they could quickly be the leader in L&D for their entire company with this new way of learning? And what if that new way was radically fun and techy?

In California, a fifth grade teacher encourages his students to roam a museum freely. No problem: it's an augmented reality learning experience. In Texas, a teacher creates an undersea environment where students move through schools of fish identifying flora and fauna, without getting wet. Students do this without buses or chaperones or brown bag lunches. Augmented and virtual reality is already a part of K-12 education. What can we learn from what they’re doing now?

There is often a divide in many virtual reality products. There are the products that have detailed graphics that are not very interactive, and there are those that have a lot of interactivity with low quality graphics. However, what if there was a way to have both, without having to worry about the frame rate of the VR device dropping?

Virtual reality is becoming more mainstream every day. However, use cases can sometimes be theoretical or hyperbole so that when you peel back the layers, it isn't practical, cost-effective, or the right way to best deliver the learning. This, combined with the fact that most instructional designers are very new to how to design an effective VR experience, poses a costly risk for L&D organizations.

VR and AR can generate a great deal of data, and that includes data in the xAPI format. One promise of this data is that it can be used to create predictive models that can classify learners; helping L&D departments to better serve them with appropriate content.