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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

Here’s a story about where performance support would’ve made a task much easier. The other day, I had a classic need for performance support. The support section of the site did list the error codes, but numerically, not by icon. This is just bad design, and it’s so obvious how to ameliorate it.

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The Virtual Classroom Designer Supporting Live Online Training

InSync Training

The Importance of Specialized Skills for Instructional Designers in Virtual Learning Environments The success of any learning program always rests predominantly on the instructional designer. It’s the designer who:

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Professional Organizations for Instructional Designers

Experiencing eLearning

What professional organizations are useful for instructional designers? This post is part of a series about instructional design careers. The Learning Guild, ATD, TLDC, Training Magazine Network, and LDA all provide both free and paid resources for instructional designers and other learning and development professionals.

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What is Learning Experience Design?

eLearningMind

UX designers are the rock stars of the design world: they’re the folks who worry about user experience on everything from phone apps to toasters to your car’s coffee cup holders. In the corporate world, LxDs, or Learning Experience Designers, are the rock stars in the eLearning space. What is Learning Experience Design (LxD)?

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From Surviving to Thriving: Returning to what science says about how we think, work, and learn

Speaker: Clark Quinn, Ph.D., Author and Executive Director of Quinnovation

Being forced to distance, we took emergency steps to build mechanisms that supported remote-learning, with an emphasis on elearning and virtual training. Our efforts to rely on elearning more and translate training to virtual experiences weren’t well-designed.

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Designing for Learning Impact

Upside Learning

To have measurable impact requires designing solutions to achieve change. Similarly, there are guidelines for designing performance support solutions. Still, cognitive science and design practices give us guidance there, as needed. Together, measurement and design are the tools we need to apply.

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Best Practices and Strategies to Implement Experiential Learning Design

Hurix Digital

Having said that, we’ll dive deeper into experiential learning design, the best practices and strategies to implement to create compelling educational content, and more. This design process focuses on integrating elements such as real-world experience, critical thinking, problem-solving, and reflection into the learning environment.

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Technology to Support and Empower Users With Disabilities

From MacBooks to iPads to iPhones and all things in-between, schools around the globe have found that Apple devices’ ease of use, robust design, and thoughtful creative and educational features are absolutely essential in the classroom. Learn how Apple and Jamf can support and empower disabled users in your school.

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3 Guiding Principles to Support the Human Dimension in Learning

Speaker: Dr. Amy Titus, Managing Director in Human Capital at Deloitte Consulting

Supporting the human dimension can unleash the workforce’s adaptability and creativity and drive the organization’s vision for the future. How can we set ourselves up to thrive in a post-pandemic world? Organizations need to adapt, prioritize, and create resilience to manage through ongoing instability. The question is where do we even start?

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

Highlights include: A comparison of how each authoring app handles key functionality, including interactivity, mobile design, accessibility, and more Important factors that impact the total price, such as integrations and support Learning trends that are most likely to affect your future needs, and more!

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

In this webinar, you will learn how to: Create dynamic visuals that support persuasive stories to engage your audience. Develop professional-looking designs for presentations and other content. Become a PowerPoint legend with techniques and assets to make effective presentations quickly and easily.

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The Better Way to Onboard Customers

Speaker: Skilljar Experts

Cutler Bleecker, Learning Experience Designer. How digital resources can support your onboarding program. Linda Schwaber-Cohen, Product Marketing. You’ll learn: The Skilljar methodology to great onboarding. What we've learned and how we're constantly improving our onboarding program. Register now to reserve your spot!

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Drips, Bots, and Blogs: A Non-Traditional Approach to Learning Reinforcement

Speaker: Shannon Tipton, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Rebels LLC

For learning professionals, this means delivering learning support and reinforcement programs that are produced in manageable bites, giving people a chance to reflect and apply lessons without large disruptions to the workflow. Apply drip feeds in your organization to enhance outcomes.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.