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...
Jun 05, 2019•41 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
May 29, 2019•45 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast 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 part...
May 22, 2019•32 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
May 15, 2019•42 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast 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....
May 08, 2019•37 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
May 01, 2019•49 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast 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 a...
Apr 24, 2019•50 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Apr 17, 2019•44 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast 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 be...
Apr 10, 2019•39 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ne...
Apr 03, 2019•46 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast 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 s...
Mar 27, 2019•31 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Yo...
Mar 20, 2019•39 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast 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 environm...
Mar 14, 2019•47 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast 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 t...
Mar 06, 2019•35 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast 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 aesthet...
Feb 27, 2019•45 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Historicall...
Feb 20, 2019•36 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 13, 2019•43 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Bren...
Feb 06, 2019•35 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast 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 shifti...
Jan 30, 2019•39 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast In the past, teachers were responsible for “reading the room” and “getting a feel” for how learners were responding. But todays technologies help us discover more about them through their digital body language. Digital Body Language is more than just how you look on your webcam. That’s analog body language as seen through the webcam lens…and it’s important. But did you know that everything you do online tells us…them…someone… a little more about you and what your needs are, or might be? This has...
Jan 23, 2019•38 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast For the second episode of 2019, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Emily Wood. Many companies are still exploring the e-learning space for training and development, they often task lone individuals to bear the load unaware that there is a professional discipline specifically designed for this task. You might be an instructional designer asked to start with e-learning, or an experienced marketer developing a sales support e-learning module, or a classroom trainer taking your content online. E...
Jan 16, 2019•38 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast We're kicking off the new year of #IDIODC with an amazing guest outside of the training world. But everything he does represents the signposts directing us towards the future of learning. Brian Fanzo, better known as @isocialfanz, is going to talk with us about the importance of video. He is often asked to keynote marketing events because the marketing community is often driving innovation faster than the L&D industry. But what most people don't know is that Brian comes from OUR world. He's ...
Jan 09, 2019•43 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast For this special last episode of IDIODC before the holiday season really begins (and the last episode of 2018), Dr. Ray Jimenez will talk with us about this major new trend in instructional design that integrates learning experience, not training events, into the regular flow of our business process making learning a major part of working. Ray is an accomplished learning architect, facilitator, author, systems developer and consultant for eLearning. As the Chief Learning Architect and Founder of...
Dec 19, 2018•42 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Thomas Stone to chat i4cp and workplace collaboration. The Institute for Corporate Productivity, or i4cp, focuses on the cultural, leadership, workplace, and talent practices that can increase collaboration in organizations. A recent study by i4cp revealed many best and next practices that drive increased collaboration at high-performing organizations, but also shed light on the dark side of collaboration—the issue of collaborative over...
Dec 12, 2018•37 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast For this episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent chat holiday season. It's gift giving season! And you're wondering what the heck to get for that instructional designer or eLearning developer in your life. Well, IDIODC has got you covered. This episode is all about the things we love to use in our professional work. We'll count down the top 10 hot gift ideas for learning professionals. If you're like me you'll use this list for the after holiday specials and buy a few items for yourself. And, in the ...
Dec 05, 2018•47 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast For this 36th episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent bring on our pal Mike Taylor! The three chat about great ways to instil entertaining and digestible learning experiences. Looking for more information related to this session? Check out Mike's recent post summarizing his DevLearn DemoFest blended and responsive mirco-doing project. https://mike-taylor.org/2018/10/30/a-quick-tour-of-our-blended-responsive-micro-doing-demofest-project/ With over two decades of real-life, in-the-trenches experience, ...
Nov 28, 2018•39 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee, Brent and Chris bring on one of the most influential stewards of the xAPI standard, Aaron Silvers. He knows more about the history of xAPI than most and holds all the scars of battles won taking it from idea to Government standard. We're going to take a trip down memory lane and talk about WHY xAPI needed to be born, and how a small but dedicated band of OG's made that happen. Aaron is now working with analytics and big data in a B...
Nov 21, 2018•46 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Connie Malamed. The three will talk about visual design and creativity as well as the psychology around eLearning, as presented in her two books: Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. This session speaks volumes about the importance of psychology in design, and the roles those in an L&D team have in order to target a learning audience in the most effective way. Connie Malamed is a learni...
Nov 14, 2018•42 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Interactive video often has a wow factor that’s hard to deny. What’s critical for L&D, though, is thinking beyond the wow factor to ensure interactive video truly supports learning and performance improvement. Interactive video offers a range of design models, each with different strengths. Understanding how to align those strengths to different learning needs simplifies your design process, reduces development costs, and produces the best results for your organization. During this episode o...
Nov 07, 2018•42 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Zsolt Olah to chat about the six essential traits of instructional design, and his book: Engage the WORL&D. During this chat the two ID's will chat about training solutions, current myths, curating content, mobile learning and more! Zsolt Olah, a creative learning consultant at Kineo, is a strong believer in building impact, not (only) courses. Zsolt has 20 years of experience in the learning and development...
Oct 31, 2018•35 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast 
