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The Big Shift – Virtual and Hybrid Learning in the Wake of COVID-19 with Jo Cook
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - November 02, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSo much changed in the spring of 2020. In our L&D world there was a massive shift to online learning to deal with the elimination of in-person events. Two-and-a-half years later online virtual and hybrid sessions are still a highly popular way of delivering training. Our industry has had time t...
Top Trends in eLearning - LIVE #IDIODC from DevLearn 2022
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - October 26, 2022 16:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDevLearn is always filled with new solutions, forward thinking conversations, and great people. This episode of IDIODC will be a special DevLearn episode to discuss the most exciting new trends in eLearning. Most of these trends will be on display during the event, so it's a great opportunity to...
Why Does Corporate Training Struggle? "It's the Balance Sheet, Stupid!" with Mark Oehlert
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - October 19, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThere are many frustrations working in Corporate Learning & Development. And there are many opinions as to why Learning & Development, and training departments struggle to be recognized as important parts of the business. Mark Oehlert joins us with what may, or may not, be one of the most contr...
Automate Your Instructional Design Work Using No-code Tools with Mike Taylor
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - October 12, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDesigning and developing instruction is a creative and fun process. But it can also be filled with boring and frustrating details and "administrivia". In the not so distant past automating simple workflow processes meant learning to code and programming sequenced tasks, or worse, doing them you...
How to Balance Instructional Design Visuals that Avoid Cognitive Overload with Rachel Allen Dillon
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - October 05, 2022 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsVisual design is a big part of building successful learning experiences. Whether you’re an instructional designer producing training or an ID that manages a team that creates your vision, you have to be tuned into the presentation of visual information. How slides are laid out can make, or break...
Improving Corporate Training Using Hollywood Experience with Jim Piechocki
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - September 28, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhat happens when experienced Hollywood professionals join the corporate training industry and begin to solve real world safety and training problems? I get very curious. That's what happens. And when I find out they're creating successful training using Hollywood storytelling skills instead of ...
How to Storyboard for eLearning with Tim Slade
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - September 21, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStoryboarding is only one part of the instructional design process. But storyboarding is a craft that's been around for a very long time, and used in the design process of many creative endeavors. There are many different techniques for storyboarding as well. Some IDs will start with pen and ...
What You Need to Know about Nudge-Learning with Amy Parent
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - September 14, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNudge-Learning. Is it micro-learning? Is it slow-drip learning? It is work-flow learning? Whatever it is, it's become another hot new term being used amongst instructional design communities. It's a new one for me, so of course we needed to learn more about it. I reached out on LinkedIn, comme...
Drink'n'Draw: Creating Visual Languages for More Effective Training with Kevin Thorn
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - September 07, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCommunicating clearly is probably the most difficult thing anyone can do in business. Our job as Instructional Designers is often to make better communication happen under the guise of "we need everyone to be better trained on _______". It doesn't matter what level you are at within your trai...
Understanding Organizational Enablement for Instructional Designers with Mike Simmons
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - July 20, 2022 16:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe Organization Enablement movement is coming. But what is it? And how does this impact our role in corporate training learning and development? Since corporate culture starts at the top, here's a few questions to ask yourself. How are you facilitating growth in your organization? Do you defi...
Drink'n'Draw: Your Vacation While Building Visual Design Skills with Kevin Thorn
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - July 13, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur Drink'n'Draw host, Kevin Thorn, recently took his family to Disney World and he sketchnoted the entire experience. Of course he did. If you think this doesn't have any relationship or impact on your work, well, you'd be wrong. Analyzing business processes is a mandatory part of L&D work...
Freelancing: 5 Tips for IDs Planning their Corporate Exit Strategy with Cara North
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - July 06, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe corporate 9 to 5 isn't for everyone, and never has been. In a post-pandemic world nobody is even really sure what "work" looks like any more. Are you going back into the office? Maybe, you're in the office for half the week and working from home the other half. Or maybe not. It's been a frus...
Building Career Mobility for Frontline Workers with Matthew Daniel
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - June 29, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDid you know the same percentage of employees who quit due to pay also quit for not having career advancement opportunities (63% - Pew Research)? We talk a lot about the technologies and processes used by instructional designers, but have you ever thought about how important your role is in pro...
Catching and Riding the Instructional Design Wave with Chuck Hodell
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - June 22, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIf you're new to Instructional Design, or a more experienced L&D professional, you've probably seen the need for our skills spike recently. There has never been a better time to be an Instructional Designer. Job growth is predicted to be at the top of the list of professional careers. Emerging ...
Big Learning Results with Little Experiments with Shannon Tipton
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - June 15, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDamn it, Jim! I'm an Instructional Designer! Not a scientist! That may be so, but it doesn't mean you can't perform experiments. Testing things out is how we learn. You can ask experts, consultants, and thought leaders, to give you all the answers, but you'll never truly know what will work unt...
How L&D Can Build a Corporate Learning Culture with Andrew Barry
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - June 08, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBuilding a learning culture is the latest trending priority within many organizations. It's a daunting task. However, it's not impossible. Even the smallest shift in the corporate culture towards a learning culture can offer significant outcomes. But where do we start? The most important step i...
EnABLE the 5 Moments of Need with Conrad Gottfredson
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - June 01, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this episode of IDIODC we have the pleasure of talking with the founder of the 5 Moments of Need, Dr. Conrad Gottfredson. Dr. Gottfredson recently released a white paper titled EnABLE: The 5 Moments of Need Instructional Systems Design Methodology. And if you missed it, or have not download...
How to Create Your L&D Measurement, Analytics and Reporting Strategy with David Vance
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - May 25, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBuilding measurement skills is critical for corporate training professionals who seek to align their L&D programs to business outcomes for organizational success. Achieving measurement maturity is a change effort requiring commitment and discipline. Understanding your current capabilities and g...
Photoshop for eLearning Developers with Mark Lassoff
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - May 18, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs an aspiring, or new, instructional designer, PowerPoint is okay to start building eLearning graphics. But at a certain point you'll need to level up your skillset in graphics creation by moving to Photoshop. After all, you're a professional now. It's time to start working like one and using...
Marketing Your Learning Content for Success with Ashley Sinclair
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - May 11, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe often forget that creating a training event is only one part of the process. Just because you build it does not mean anyone in the business will hear about it, or want to engage. Some might say that if you use good enough instructional design practices that you don't need to do anything else....
Demystifying VR Training with Lee Gregory
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - May 04, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsVR Headsets? Avatars? Metaverse? You may have heard these terms, but aren't sure how you might apply them in your learning solutions. You may still believe they are too expensive and out of reach for you and your team. In this episode we wanted to help training professionals understand where t...
A DEI Roadmap for Trainers with Maria Morukian
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - April 27, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on people’s vulnerabilities in all facets of their lives. For those of you who do this work, there has...
Making Meaningful Learning Solutions with Clark Quinn
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - April 20, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings"You must ENGAGE your learners!" Have you heard anyone say that before? Yep. Us too. We've had a few guests talk about it on IDIODC in the past. And from those conversations we've learned about games, experiences, and making learning fun. But what, exactly, do we mean by creating "engaging ...
The Rise of Web3 for L&D with Myra Roldan
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - April 13, 2022 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBlockchain, NonFungible Tokens, Crypto, ethereum, and other terms are making their way into L&D. Welcome to Learning3: The L&D version of Web3. Nobody has any idea what it is, but we might as well start calling it what we always call these evolutions when they hit our industry. All joking asid...
Drink'n'Draw: Sketchnoting Diverse Characters for eLearning with Kevin Thorn
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - April 06, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsInstructional Designers and eLearning developers play an important role in DEI programs. When stock characters are required it's often difficult to find the right image that reflects your requirements. And when you do find something that works it's often quite boring and unfitting of the style...
The Journey to Corporate Training Success - Real World Case Study with Keith Stoneman
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - March 30, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe world of Learning and Development has changed over the decades, but many companies have a difficult time deviating from the comfortable path of "the way they've always done it." As instructional designers and corporate training professionals we make it our responsibility to improve all form...
Create Effective Dramatic Videos to Increase Learning with Tom Hickmore
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - March 23, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAs instructional designers, we're often working on projects related to very specific processes. We want to be clear, precise, and concise, in training that process. However, there are many other situations where training is asked to influence behaviors and build better cultures. This requires...
Using Storytelling, Gamification, and Measuring Results for Success with Jeanne Bakker
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - March 16, 2022 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe had so much fun with Jeanne Bakker last year that we had to invite her back. With a strong background in psychology and the science of education, Jeanne has a keen understanding of how we learn and has applied that understanding to training companies around the world. We'll talk with Jeanne...
Learning Platform Innovations: Where is the technology taking us? with Bryan Chapman
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - March 09, 2022 17:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIt seems like every time you blink, a new learning platform pops into existence with some new innovative twist. There are now well over 800 learning platforms on the market. The real question is: what are we supposed to do with that information? How does any organization even begin to make sense...
How to Shift from Instruction to Performance Improvement with Guy Wallace
#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee - March 02, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHave you ever wondered why training solutions often don't actually solve business problems? Or maybe you just inherently know that the REAL issue is something other than a training issue. How can you be sure? And if you're right, how do you effectively communicate that to management? Performanc...
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