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6 Top-Notch Sessions at ATD TechKnowledge 2017

Knowledge Guru

We’re speaking and exhibiting at our fourth straight ATD TechKnowledge conference in Las Vegas, Nevada this week. Stop Thinking Like an Instructional Designer: Start Thinking Like a Game Designer. Instructional designers tend to think content first and then action. Game designers think action first.

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Getting a job as an Instructional Designer

Learning Visions

That way your potential employers can see how you write and how you approach design challenges. Learn Some Tools Most employers these days want to hire IDs that know it all: instructional design and adult learning theory, graphics, script writing and authoring tools. that provides some good discussion and practical tips.

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ASTD TechKnowledge 2012 #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

Looking forward to a week of learning about learning with 1,200 of my peers at ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2012. 4:30 Leading a TK Chat on Instructional Design with Ellen Wagner, Allison Rossett, Karl Kapp, and Steve Villachica. Thursday: 11:00 Running a concurrent session on learning design “Yawn-Proofing Your E-Learning”.

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Karl Kapp on Instructional Design Today #TK11

Learning Visions

My live blogged notes from a session with Karl Kapp at ASTD’s TechKnowledge in San Jose: Instructional Design Today: What We Really Need to Know as Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers. Sound instructional design techniques work for the new technology (gadgets, games, etc.)

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Bottom-Line Performance Shows off Knowledge Guru “Quest,” Teases Winter Release at ATD TechKnowledge 2015

Knowledge Guru

This week, we are excited to head back to Las Vegas and continue the quest at ATD TechKnowledge 2015. Where We’ll Be at ATD TechKnowledge. Jennifer Bertram, Director of Instructional Design at BLP, will present a session on Agile Learning Design on Thursday, January 15th at 5 pm. In the expo, booth #305.

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Bottom-Line Performance Shows off Knowledge Guru “Quest,” Teases Winter Release at ATD TechKnowledge 2015

Knowledge Guru

This week, we are excited to head back to Las Vegas and continue the quest at ATD TechKnowledge 2015. Where We’ll Be at ATD TechKnowledge. Jennifer Bertram, Director of Instructional Design at BLP, will present a session on Agile Learning Design on Thursday, January 15th at 5 pm. In the expo, booth #305.

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Reflections on the final day of TechKnowledge 11

Clark Quinn

Because of prior commitments, I only got to attend the last day of the TechKnowledge conference, to participate in two panels, one on mobile and one on instructional design, and then listen to the closing session. Instructional Design Panel. Some thoughts stuck with me: The Mobile Panel.