My 2023 Training Conference Recap
Training Conference 2023 took place a little over a week ago and it was amazing. Check out my main takeaways and what the experience can be like if you decide to attend.
Tag Archives: training design
Training Within Industry: A Historical Blind Spot in Learning and Development
The Training Within Industry service helped the U.S. win World War II and set the foundational principles for training and development and performance improvement best practices.
Book Review: Evidence-Informed Learning Design
This book review is on Evidence-Informed Learning Design: Creating training to improve performance by Mirjam Neelen and Paul A Kirschner (2020) and according to the authors, its purpose is “to help learning professionals at any stage in their careers to focus on the right things, so that they can build a strong knowledge foundation, based on scientific evidence…”. Of course, the mention of the “right things” intrigued me, so I took a shot at reading and reviewing this book.
Design Learning Experiences with Synapse
Synapse is a learning experience design tool for documenting the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation or ADDIE process of instructional design. As an instructional designer, I always struggled with limited resources to document all stages of a learning project. Often this meant having to manually deal with content versions, shared drives, spreadsheets, and other resources. In […]
10 L&D Worst Practices Everyone Must Know
Best practices have a common popularity among business people. This is a great way to incite quality work but, it’s also easy to see how Learning and Development (L&D) may have trouble identifying what those best practices consist of. Therefore, in good StyleLearn fashion, here are some great worst practices with the hope of enabling […]
Make Online Training Less “Virtual”
Online training or Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) has gained tremendous popularity for its cost reducing advantages and the ability to accommodate large audiences across geographical boundaries. However, here’s yet another learning technology that has been abused and poorly utilized to maximize learning opportunities. In most instances, VILT is delivered as a passive learning experience […]
9 Events Every Trainer Should Know
Robert Gagné (1916-2002) gave us many concepts surrounding the learning process in adults. However, his most significant contribution to all of us in the Learning and Development (L&D) world is known as “Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction”. Whether you are a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who is or wants to become a trainer, any training course […]
Getting Giffy With It: Creating GIFs for Elearning
GIFs or Graphic Interchange format images provide you with the ability to animate images or video for use on web sites and even elearning modules. This week’s Elearning Heroes Challenge #83 is about creating 10 GIFs that could be used for a learning course or even to describe the instructional design process. For my sample […]
Solving the Mystery of Learning Objectives
Learning objectives are a critical piece of any course or learning activity involving adults. They are preliminary statements providing adult learners with clear guidance (when written effectively) about the expected outcome of their involvement in the learning activity. One can then assume that their primary purpose is to inform the learner. However, learning objectives have […]
Another 3 Ways to Rock Out Your Presentation
A couple of days ago I wrote a post on LinkedIn titled “3 Ways to Develop Better Presentations”. Today I offer a follow up with three more “hidden treasure” techniques in PowerPoint for my fellow trainers and presenters who want to sharpen their design skills. Do you find yourself always “building” PowerPoints from scratch? Do […]