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It seems everyone is “going micro”, or wants to be. But you want to use microlearning in ways that will have maximum impact. So how do you assess your content to know where going micro will have the greatest value for your learners and your organization? During this episode of IDIODC, we’ll bring on special guest Carla Torgerson to discuss 6 questions you need to ask about your content to identify where using microlearning will work best. Carla Torgerson has more than 15 years of experience as an instructional designer and instructional strategist. Always interested in the latest learning trends, she has authored numerous blogs and articles on a variety of topics, including eLearning, mobile learning, and microlearning. She also developed MILE, the MIcroLEarning Design Model© and is the author of The Microlearning Guide to Microlearning. Carla has consulted with numerous Fortune 500 clients including McDonald’s, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe, Express, Kellogg’s, University of Phoenix, Fidelity, Cargill, M

Discussions and understanding about inclusion and accessibility can vary by organization. These discussions should be about more than just doing the bare minimum for compliance. Instructional designers should be talking about the difference they can make by ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to learn from what they produce. Brian will share with us the many lessons he's learned while working to create inclusive and accessible learning experiences for ALL learners. We'll talk about how to start the conversation with stakeholders, review design standards, and share resources that will help you build better eLearning. Learn more about Brian on his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briandusablon/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Brian: @BrianDusablon https://twitter.com/briandusablon Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow

Learn how and why the corporate learning organization needs to reorient itself to the digital age. The digital age has created a massive increase in the speed and complexity of business, fundamentally disrupting the workplace. As new technology is integrated, workers at all levels are needing to re-skill much faster and navigate more complex systems and processes. The corporate learning function is in a unique position to lead the transformation required in workplace learning, but first it must transform how it operates. Brandon will discuss how and why the corporate learning organization needs to reorient itself to the digital age and take a more proactive leadership role in driving the business transformation from a performance perspective. Brandon is the author of "Learning in the Age of Immediacy: 5 Factors for How We Connect, Communicate, and Get Work Done" from ATD Press. Award winning, innovative and highly focused leader with a progressive track record of learning strategy and execution. Bra

Brent and Chris host the first ever live and in-person IDIODC Meetup and Hangout at the 2019 ATD International Conference and Expo! But what are they talking about this week? This IDIODC episode is recorded at the end of the meetup. Brent and Chris go live and talk with some folks joining us who have been recognized for their help in our community: Carla Torgerson, Megan Torrance, Karl Kapp, Emily Wood, Duncan Welder and Amy Shilliday (...and the xAPI Gnome too). The gang goes over the best parts of the show so far. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Become friends with some of the guests who joined us live for this episode: Carla Torgerson: @CTorgerson https://twitter.com/ctorgerson Karl Kapp: @KKapp https://tw

Today we're talking with 2-time Demofest winner Ashley Chiasson to talk about how she creates winning projects for her professional portfolio. Her last winning project won for Best Video Solution and so we'll talk a little about that as well. But if you know you need to up your game, or freshen up your portfolio, then you'll want to listen to what Ashley has to say. There is a reason why her projects WIN! And she's willing to share those secrets with us on IDIODC. Join us and start building your winning portfolio. In this session, you will learn: About the importance of an eLearning portfolio About common challenges in building an eLearning portfolio and how to overcome them Ways of building out and promoting your portfolio Ashley Chiasson is an award-winning eLearning developer with over a decade of experience as an instructional designer. eLearning developer, and consultant. She is the Senior eLearning Developer at Traliant, and holds a Masters of Education (Post-Secondary Studies) and a Bachelor of Arts

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on Margie "The Brain Lady" Meacham! She shares brain-based learning design principles backed up by research. If you're interested in truly improving the ways you design, develop and deliver training, then you need to pay attention to newest research in neuroscience. Margie will talk with us about what works and what doesn't. We'll also talk about the myths surrounding the work we do and how current research better informs our design decisions. During this episode Margie gives away a copy of her book, Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience During this episode we will also be giving away an #IDIODC mug for the month of April! Join the IDIODC #MugShot gang! Margie Meacham, aka “The Brain Lady” is one of the foremost experts in educational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. She helps organizations filter through the noise to find to enhance learning and performance through science. Margie is available for keynotes and custom

As an Instructional Designer, you may someday become the manager of a team of IDs. Making the transition can be challenging. This week Brent and Chris talk with Lisa Goldstein to go over valuable notes of what it means to be a successful training manager on a team of IDs. And if you've been tasked with building a team of instructional designers, this conversation will help you understand what to look for in a new hire so that you get the right skillset and attitude on your team. Managing can be a difficult job, and as an instructional designer there are things you can be doing as well to help support your manager and turn your team into the high performing team you want it to be. Join us to learn more! Lisa is a multi-award winning learning technologist and innovative leader. An enthusiastic go-getter who thrives when interacting with others and passionately believes that corporate learning should meet the needs of modern learners while focusing on desired business outcomes. Brainstormer, dot connector, visio

New tech requires new thinking. Old design models rarely translate successfully into new technology solutions. Instructional designers need something other than ADDIE if they are going to effectively design from new technologies like augmented reality. This week for IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Debbie Richards to chat all about the new design model for augmented reality solutions: ADDEDD. Analyze, Determine, Design, Experience, Develop, and Deploy. We’ll break it down for you and help you feel confident finding the resources you need to design your first AR Learning Solution. Debbie is the president of Creative Interactive Ideas. And listed on the of E-learning Movers & Shakers for 2018. Serving as a consultant to corporations and organizations and supports clients in the area of instructional technology. Debbie works with organizations to design, develop and deliver technology-based adult learning programs with measurable impact. Passionate about working with and mentoring other learnin

The training industry has a legacy of creating events that take learners out of the context of their work. Over the years new technologies have disrupted that model. We now have the tools to educate and support learners while they work. Workflow Learning is a relatively new concept but has it's roots in performance support. There is also a significant element of microlearning in the mix. All of these concepts have come together as a new comprehensive solution that improves business outcomes. And that is why businesses are asking for it. This week Brent and Chris bring back returning guest Shannon Tipton for her second appearance on the show! We'll be talking about workflow learning and how it works. She'll go over some of her tips and tricks and examples of success stories using workflow learning. Shannon Tipton is CLO of Learning Rebels, an organization focused on improving business L&D through unique blended and microlearning training designs. She also is the author of her book "Disruptive Learnin

During this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring back on Bianca Baumann to chat about learner-centric styles of training. Similar to the first discussion with Bianca on staying relevant in today's age of technology (you can catch the recording of that conversation here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Engage-the-Modern-Learner-With-Bianca_Baumann), the gang discusses the core of what's important in our eLearning - ways to stay engaging and relevant. L&D professionals think they know what’s best for their learners, but do they? When was the last time we asked? When developing new training strategies, L&D professionals often assume what learners want and need. It could be based on a current performance issue, or because a new product or service is introduced. Whereas training might be the solution, maybe a short email would do. And even if training is needed, what should it look like? In her new eBook The Little Black Book of Marketing, Bianca describes ways of re-envisioning training strategies through

For this session of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring back special guest John Kissinger, voice over master who knows what he's talking about, pun intended. John is back for his second IDIODC session to share more tips and tricks from a voice over professional’s perspective. - But don’t let the term professional scare you, we’ll be talking about the easy ways instructional designers and eLearning developers can improve their own voice recording. We don’t all have a budget for a professional, so we need to do it ourselves. It can be frustrating to hear our own voices and be dissatisfied with the quality. You may be surprised that there are a few very simple things you can do to take your recordings to the next level. Join us and level up your skillset in audio recording. John is an accomplished trainer and voice actor, John has worked with clients from Facebook to Ford! With over 20 years experience entertaining and educating learners, John is a certified Master Trainer through the Association for Talent Developmen

This week, Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden bring on special guest, master of xAPI from RISC, Duncan Welder to chat xAPI applications. - xAPI is a step in the right direction for learning technologies. But many struggle with identifying a good use case within their business to justify the upgrade in their systems. On this episode we talk with Duncan Welder live about how xAPI can support and track spaced repetition. And if you're new to the idea of spaced repetition, we'll get you up to speed on that as well. Since spaced repetition is most effective with short bursts of content, we're certain we'll be making the connection to the latest trend in micro-learning as well. It's going to be an eye-opening episode with real world application for you and your eLearning team. Join us, live from Learning Solutions! Duncan Welder is a director of client services for RISC. He is an educational technology geek, having spent over 20 years implementing learning management systems, domestically and abroad, to manage

Review cycles can make or break your project. In today's IDIODC our special guest Jacqueline Hutchinson will be talking with us about Review Cycles: What are they? Why are they important? And how to include them successfully into your project planning. Mastering your review cycles will lead to greater success during development but also after your course is launched. This can be especially important in compliance training and making sure courses and content do not become outdated and useless. You may still have some old Flash content sitting in your LMS. A proper review cycle can help you clean that up, and so much more. Jacqueline is the CEO of e-Learning Pros Instructional Design Inc., a Caledon, Ontario based instructional design and development firm offering outsourced eLearning instructional design, development and LMS administration. e-Learning Pros Instructional Design Inc.'s focus is instructional design and program development with the goals to solve your business problems and encourage behaviour cha

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring back on another special returning guest from a past episode. We wanted to revisit the great conversation from last episode on instructional comics, so we decided to bring back the awesome Kevin Thorn! Kevin thorn is joining us again to discuss the power of instructional comics. In this appearance we'll focus on cultural differences and how presenting instruction through visual comic storytelling has a unique challenge when presented in a global environment. This conversation will also reinforce the necessity of truly understanding your audience and how focusing on culture can increases your chances of delivering a successful learning experience. Fun Fact about dominKnow: We love comics too! With comics samples and comic eLearning templates, we encourage users to get creative and use engaging forms of learning for better learner retention. https://www.dominknow.com/elearning-examples Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner o

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring back on another special guest. We wanted to revisit the great conversation from last episode on the solo instructional designer, Emily Wood. Whether you’re a department of one, or want to improve your multimedia development with limited resources, Emily will talk about how she juggles multimedia development in her e-Learning development. We’ll talk about audio development, including recording actors, staff, and when or why to use text-to-speech. We’ll talk about video development and where to spend money to improve quality of the final product. Finally we’ll talk about finding, buying, or building graphics. Learning experience designer Emily Wood knows a thing or two about being an e-learning department of one. Learn more about Emily on her LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilywood/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Emily Wood: @IDEmily https://twitter.com/IDEmily Bre

This week Brent and Chris change it up, bringing on two special guests - Gus Prestera and Belen Bilgic-Schneider. Belen and Gus share stories from the instructional design trenches, where they have been able to transform content design into a search for meaning by leveraging the power of critical incidents, stories, examples, non-exemplars, conversations, artifacts, scenarios, and cases. In other words, by putting context ahead of all other concerns, including content, interactivity, and aesthetics, instructional designers can architect more meaning-FULL learning experiences for their audiences, packing a greater learning punch, reducing time-to-proficiency, and maximizing return on learning investments. Once you buy into the idea that Context should be in charge, next comes the question of how you change the dynamic with your subject matter experts and stakeholders. We’ll talk about simple content gathering techniques you can start using immediately. Gus Prestera is an organizational effectiveness consultan

During this episode of IDIODC, the gang brings on special guest Tanya Seidel to chat inclusive design and accessibility. Inclusive design and ensuring courses are accessible to people with disabilities should not be an afterthought. With organizations like Microsoft putting a priority on inclusive design with all of their products, including their product packaging, a new bar is being set for expectations around accessibility and it's time for the e-learning community to follow suit. Historically, accessible e-learning has been categorized as having to be static and limited on engagement. It doesn't have to be! But, many of the rapid e-learning tools that are available today don't always make it easy on developers. So what can we do? Something is better than nothing, and even if you're not obligated to adhere to Section 508, you can take at least some steps to help make your courses accessible to people with disabilities. This session will focus on some of the easier things you can do in development that have

Join us on IDIODC for Mystery Learning Theater with Cara North. Well... okay... so we won't actually be doing a drama. But we WILL be having an exciting conversation with Cara North about multiple topics. She joined us last year as our very first IDIODC guests, and so we thought it might be appropriate to have her back on our 1 year anniversary! We going to followup on last year's conversation about the differences between ISD in Higher Education and ISD in Corporate/Enterprise environments. But we will also be asking her about the amazing presentation gave at TLDC19 that is so highly rated. It's a mystery... so you'll have to join us to learn more. Cara is an instructional designer and PhD student at Ohio State University who also works with #TLDCast as the Community Manager. Check out more about Cara here: https://caranorth.com/ You can learn more about Cara on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caranorth11/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in t

In time of overloaded schedules, smartphones and on-demand resources everywhere, it is getting more and more difficult to get through to our learners. L&D programs need to be ruthlessly relevant in today’s world. We have to focus on the performance-outcomes and work our way backwards to create learning experiences that stick. One way to achieve this is to take a page out of the marketing playbook and use time-tested tools and techniques to create relevant and engaging content. This week Brent and Chris bring on special guest Bianca Baumann to chat ways to increase engagement amongst learners! Check out this helpful link from Jeff Kortenbosch on questions to ask before talking about making learners in an organization successful via engaging techniques. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hey-ld-professional-you-asking-right-questions-jeff-kortenbosch/ Bianca is a curious, self-driven and results-focused professional with 10+ years in the Education field. She is a consultant on learning solutions and leverage da

This is more than just an introduction to xAPI. This is a conversation about real world training and development issues. Megan Torrence from TorranceLearning joins back with us on IDIODC to chat about how xAPI empowers you and your training team to deliver more to the business than just attendance records. You don’t want to miss this conversation. And you don’t want to be in it alone. Invite your manager and other key leadership to hear how other high performing training organizations are shifting to a learning strategy that includes xAPI. This conversation will touch on technical concerns but only at the level that everyone can understand. So don’t let the technology scare you. 2019 is the year you need to understand xAPI. Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are p