DevLearn 2019 Sessions
DevLearn 2019 has the largest, most comprehensive, most cutting-edge learning technologies program in the world. The event features over 200 world-class sessions covering key topics that will help you advance your skills and expertise in the management, design, and development of technology-based learning.
Hands-On Learning BYOD Sessions
Hands-On Learning BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) takes learning to the next level. In these sessions you will bring your mobile device or laptop, with the software being discussed installed, and have the unique opportunity to learn hands-on, following along with an instructor step-by-step.
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601 Test Instructional Ideas Quickly and Cheaply With Lean Prototypes
Concurrent Session
You've got a great idea to increase learner engagement, decrease learner attrition, or improve learning outcomes by adding a new feature to your learning platform or purchasing a new product or service. Maybe you have clear research to back up your idea, or just a solid hunch based on your experience as an eLearning expert. But implementing your plan will take time, money, and personnel. If you're wrong or you implement the solution incorrectly, you'll end up wasting precious resources without improving your learners' outcomes. What you need is a way to quickly and cheaply test your idea before deciding to commit to a purchase or addition to your learning system.
Read MoreOne in five newly-graduated registered nurses quits within the first year of their first job, never to return to nursing. Exit interviews often reveal the same basic stories: nurses feel unsupported and overwhelmed by the transition from school to nursing practice. But what if hospitals had an early warning system to inform interventions that address a newly-graduated nurse's concerns before a nurse feels like they have to quit? And how could this early warning system be used in other situations, as well?
Read MoreWe all want to be able to show bottom line results from our training efforts. But how do you engage an on-the-go, never-at-their-desk sales force? At Cydcor, a face-to-face, outsourced sales company, engaging a busy learner base in a format that appealed to them was a challenge. Not only that, but the executive team was asking for tangible results. The team needed a fresh approach to meet the needs of the learners and the executive team—and quick!
Read MoreOur organization had a challenge: we had text-heavy, hard-to-navigate, print-based learning documents with multiple versions. Not only that, the documents needed to be updated often. We wanted to change this approach and instead make the possibility of "right-time-right-place" training and support into a reality using a mobile app. While not a seamless nor instant fix, our results show that we're providing a better learning and support experience to our users with media-rich, navigable and interactive offline, "right-time-right-place" content—an approach which would work well for delivery of any media-rich, navigable content to diverse and mobile users.
Read More605 Transforming Organizational Learning: SMEs as Creators, L&D as Advisors
Concurrent Session
In an ideal world, your organization would have enough designers and developers to create all the eLearning and performance support tools employees need to do their jobs right—and you’d have the budget to pay vendors when your team's capacity was running low. Unfortunately, we don't always live in that ideal world. We sometimes find ourselves in one where resources and budgets may be stretched, but company initiatives still need to be supported by training programs. One way to address this is to use your development team for key initiatives, but give your SMEs the tools, resources, and support they need to develop non-essential programs. There’s risk that SMEs could pump out slide after slide of bullet points that no one really learns from, but it can be mitigated with a strategy that maintains some design quality standards while allowing SMEs to get the development done.
Read More606 Strategies for Tackling Learning Modernization Challenges
Concurrent Session
3:00 PM Thu, October 24
Track: Management and Strategy
Learning modernization cannot be merely shoving legacy content into new technology. It needs to be a transformation in the way organizations approach learning to ensure better utilization of people and resources as the workforce of the future emerges. To be successful, the development of learning ecosystems requires collaboration between information architects, instructional designers, software developers, human resource managers, and others. Teams are applying skills in which they may have never received formal training and, while the principles of classic educational models (e.g., Bloom's Taxonomy) continue to hold true, the means by which we apply them has evolved. No one field has the background skillsets and expertise to accomplish this task alone.
Read More607 Training Games - The Best Tool To Educate & Motivate Employees
Concurrent Session
Our mission at The Game Agency is to help companies train their employees better. Investing in human capital is the most important strategy a company can have to ensure its workforce has the knowledge and confidence to be successful. People are so distracted today and traditional training is simply not stimulating enough. Creating a game-based learning strategy can be overwhelming and just getting started can be daunting. Gamified learning is pointless without good data and robust analytics; however understanding all the data and analytics can be challenging.
Read More608 Case Study: How a Small Part of Ally is Using AR in a BIG Way
Concurrent Session
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?
Read MoreA struggle many of us face in our work is a lack of retention of concepts and content. Studies show learning experiences that aren’t entertaining, current, or relatable to the audience can have less success with short-term and long-term learning retention and comprehension. The solution: transforming your pedagogy to include pop culture references. This approach gives people a personal relationship with the material being taught, which can lead to increased comprehension and retention.
Read MoreCopyright law can be intimidating, even though its intent is to encourage creativity. The cost of copyright confusion can affect every stage of the development and delivery process, as well. But thankfully it can be easier to understand how to respect copyright and find free online media you can legally use than it might seem at the surface.
Read MoreAs technology has continued to advance, engineering methods are increasingly needed for learning and development initiatives that depend upon data science, computer science, and learning science to structure solutions and to measure outcomes and results. Learning engineering represents a new amalgamated discipline that applies engineering methodologies to develop learning technologies and infrastructures to better support learners and learning. The need for learning engineering is becoming more apparent, and the powerful combination of this field with the work of instructional design has the potential to significantly advance learning and its impact on organizations. For this partnership to work well, we need to understand what competencies instructional designers need to have in this new world, as well as the competencies that learning engineers bring to the table .
Read MoreThe traditional approach for designing a learning experience and then gathering content can sometimes also inadvertently include frustrating roadblocks—things like SME wrangling, latecomer reviewers who disrupt design and delivery timelines, and new content that hits the stage at the eleventh hour. With more learning for us to create and quicker turnarounds expected, anything that can help us speed up our design cycles and reduce these kinds of disruptions can be a real win.
Read More613 Measure ROI by Collecting, Connecting & Visualizing Data
Concurrent Session
Training professionals find it difficult to prove the ROI of their efforts. That makes it harder to grow programs, sell training services, or find our "seat at the table”. Many of us can't get past Kirkpatrick's levels one or two to measure our training outcomes, and as a result can't also measure the broader impact of our training efforts. How do we get access to the data we need, and how do we successfully use that data to tell a story that resonates with stakeholders?
Read MoreGood news: Your company is about to have its "iPhone moment" and nearly quadruple in size! Bad news: You are responsible for scaling training as the company grows from a promising start up into a world-wide industry leader. You have a small team of jack-of-all-trades learning professionals that need to scale training faster than an intern returning from a coffee run. The budget is small, the bandwidth is past its limit, and the days until launch are looming. What would you do if big changes were coming quickly with no sign of slowing down?
Read More615 BYOD: Using Camtasia to Build Scenario-based Interactive Videos
Concurrent Session
We’re all constantly looking for ways our audiences can apply new content in authentic, real-world scenarios. But what can you do when you don't have the time or money to build a full eLearning course, or when you realize your audience is tired of the standard eLearning "text and next" format? You could develop several scenario-based test questions, but unfortunately that won’t realistically replicate what learners will experience while on the job (since answering test questions isn’t how they will be applying what they learned). But … what if there was another way to provide realistic, scenario-based application so people actually gain confidence that they can apply what they’ve learned to their job?
Read MoreThere are plenty of options for creating chatbots. From Amazon to Watson, there are versatile platforms that require strong developer skills and others that guide you step-by-step through the process of creating a chatbot. But choosing a platform may not even be the right place to start, or the most important part of the process. Really taking advantage of chatbot technology requires the right kind of planning and thought. And it might just require a bit of machine training.
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