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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 This can be especially important in compliance training and making sure courses and content do not become outdated and useless. You may still have some old Flash content sitting in your LMS. A proper review cycle can help you clean that up, and so much more. Jacqueline is the CEO of e-Learning Pros Instructional Design Inc., a Caledon, Ontario based instructional design and development firm offering outsourced eLearning instructional design, development and LMS administration. e-Learning Pros Instructional Design Inc.'s focus is instructional design and program development with the goals to solve your business problems and encourage behaviour change. Jac's team also creates online and blended learning solutions, job aids, workbooks, checklists and any other learning aid required. You can find eLearning Pros Instructional Design Inc here! Jac loves sharing information, especially information about learning, development and employee performance improvement. Also a dedicated lifelong learner, dedicated to spend time every day reading, researching and learning. Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Education, Adult Education from Brock University, and a BA with a declared Legal Studies Option from the University of Waterloo. Jacqueline also has a podcast on elevating corporate learning and educational technologies. You can catch her recent episode on Learning Content Review Cycles here. https://www.theloungepodcast.com/23-minisode-learning-content-review-cycles/ You can learn more about Jacqueline Hutchinson on her LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jachutchinson/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Jac: @JacHutchinson https://twitter.com/jachutchinson Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 environment. This conversation will also reinforce the necessity of truly understanding your audience and how focusing on culture can increases your chances of delivering a successful learning experience. Fun Fact about dominKnow: We love comics too! With comics samples and comic eLearning templates, we encourage users to get creative and use engaging forms of learning for better learner retention. https://www.dominknow.com/elearning-examples Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique custom design and development studio specializing in online learning experiences. http://nuggethead.net/ After retiring from the US Army, Kevin pursued a career in corporate IT and Training & Development. With his combined military and industry experience, Kevin started the Studioz in 2012 working with clients in various industries solving problems in a wide-range of creative projects. Based in the North Mississippi Delta, Kevin, the Chief NuggetHead harnesses a bench a creative practitioners in instructional design, elearning development, illustration and graphic design, animation, and serious comics. Kevin is a well-known industry speaker and trainer on elearning development, design workflows, and is also a certified facilitator in LEGO®Serious Play® methodologies. Academic stuff: BS in Information Technology Management from Christian Brothers University (2003) and MS in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Memphis (2018). Learn more about Kevin on his LinkedIn. (and check out his blog!) https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinthorn/ http://nuggethead.net/blog/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Kevin: @LearnNuggets https://twitter.com/learnnuggets Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 talk about video development and where to spend money to improve quality of the final product. Finally we’ll talk about finding, buying, or building graphics. Learning experience designer Emily Wood knows a thing or two about being an e-learning department of one. Learn more about Emily on her LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilywood/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Emily Wood: @IDEmily https://twitter.com/IDEmily Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 aesthetics, instructional designers can architect more meaning-FULL learning experiences for their audiences, packing a greater learning punch, reducing time-to-proficiency, and maximizing return on learning investments. Once you buy into the idea that Context should be in charge, next comes the question of how you change the dynamic with your subject matter experts and stakeholders. We’ll talk about simple content gathering techniques you can start using immediately. Gus Prestera is an organizational effectiveness consultant, educator, and coach. He supports innovative HR and business leaders who are transforming their workforce, making big changes to how they engage, manage and develop their people. He has over 20 years of human capital management experience. Through his consulting firm, Prestera FX, Gus and his team have helped change agents improve employee engagement, capabilities and performance in mid- to large-sized businesses, including AIG, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Main Line Health, Dialight, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Gus holds a PhD in Education, with a minor in Management, and an MBA, frequently speaks at local and national industry events, and regularly facilitates skill-building workshops for HR and business leaders. He is an advisory board member for American University’s Human Resources Analytics and Management MS program and has taught graduate-level courses at Penn State University and American University. Learn more about Gus on his LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gusprestera/ Belen Schneider is a creative director and consultant, basing her work around communications, instructional design, performance and training projects, RFPs, multimedia production and more. Belen has been a Partner at RnD Interactive since 2009, a creative director and instructional designer at Prestera, and a self-employed consultant for interactive courseware and communications since 2012. Belen has experience from all around the L&D field, giving her a great overall perspective on business efficiency and performance. Learn more about Belen on her LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/in/belenbilgicschneider/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Prestera FX: @PresteraFX https://twitter.com/presterafx Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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. Historically, accessible e-learning has been categorized as having to be static and limited on engagement. It doesn't have to be! But, many of the rapid e-learning tools that are available today don't always make it easy on developers. So what can we do? Something is better than nothing, and even if you're not obligated to adhere to Section 508, you can take at least some steps to help make your courses accessible to people with disabilities. This session will focus on some of the easier things you can do in development that have a big impact on a course's accessibility. Tanya is the VP of Finance and Technology at Artisan E-Learning and has close to 15 years of experience in the e-learning industry. In addition to managing Artisan’s finance, technology, and marketing landscapes, she is involved in the development and delivery of e-learning courses for a variety of clients and is well-versed in accessibility (Section 508 and WCAG), usability, and responsive design. Tanya spent more than seven years working for Trivantis, the makers of Lectora. She has been involved in creating instructor-led and web-based training programs and materials, but also in leading the design and development of e-learning authoring software and Learning Management Systems. Check out Artisan E-Learning's blog here: https://artisanelearning.com/blog/ You can learn more about Tanya on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyaseidel/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Tanya: @TanyaSeidel https://twitter.com/tanyaseidel Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 we will also be asking her about the amazing presentation gave at TLDC19 that is so highly rated. It's a mystery... so you'll have to join us to learn more. Cara is an instructional designer and PhD student at Ohio State University who also works with #TLDCast as the Community Manager. Check out more about Cara here: https://caranorth.com/ You can learn more about Cara on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caranorth11/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Cara: @CaraNorth11 https://twitter.com/caranorth11 Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 Brent and Chris bring on special guest Bianca Baumann to chat ways to increase engagement amongst learners! Check out this helpful link from Jeff Kortenbosch on questions to ask before talking about making learners in an organization successful via engaging techniques. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hey-ld-professional-you-asking-right-questions-jeff-kortenbosch/ Bianca is a curious, self-driven and results-focused professional with 10+ years in the Education field. She is a consultant on learning solutions and leverage data to make learning stick, personalized and delivered just-in-time. Bianca has a mix of education, digital marketing and customer success experience. She's not one for the LMS, seat-time or the next button. Challenging the status quo, Bianca asks the tough questions in order to bring L&D into this century, leaving behind old learning styles that don't work. You can learn more about Bianca on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancabaumann/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Bianca: @BiancaBaumann https://twitter.com/biancabaumann Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 shifting to a learning strategy that includes xAPI. This conversation will touch on technical concerns but only at the level that everyone can understand. So don’t let the technology scare you. 2019 is the year you need to understand xAPI. Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and, of course, the xAPI. TorranceLearning hosts the xAPI Learning Cohort, a free, virtual 12-week learning-by-doing opportunity where teams form on the fly and create proof-of-concept xAPI projects. Megan is the author of The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA® for ISD Project Management and Making Sense of xAPI. She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning projects have won several Brandon Hall Group awards, the 2014 xAPI Hyperdrive contest at DevLearn, and back-to-back eLearning Guild DemoFest Best-In-Show awards in 2016/2017 with xAPI projects. TorranceLearning is a 2018 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch. Check out Megan's books: A Quick Guide to LLAMA - Agile Project Management on amazon https://www.amazon.ca/Quick-Guide-LLAMA-Management-Learning/dp/1500751553 Agile and LLAMA for ISD Project Management on ATD https://www.td.org/td-at-work/agile-and-llama-for-isd-project-management Making Sense of xAPI on ATD https://www.td.org/td-at-work/making-sense-of-xapi You can learn more about Megan on her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megantorrance/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Megan: @MMTorrance https://twitter.com/MMTorrance TorranceLearning: @TLearning https://twitter.com/tlearning Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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 been the realm of digital marketing for decades, but it’s important to instructional designers as well. The learning experiences we create are part of a larger learning experience for the user. They may attend a virtual classroom session, take a self-paced eLearning course, and consume short videos to refresh the learning. And they’ll also be joining communities and chatting with peers about the same content. All of those contribute to learning and using analytics we can use data to discover what they need. Jo Cook is a speaker, instructional designer and classroom facilitator who specializes in virtual classrooms, webinars and live online learning technology. Jo’s passion is in helping and supporting teams, professionals and organizations embrace the benefits of the virtual classroom. Through her company Lightbulb Moment, Jo has specialized in training learning professionals about virtual classroom design and delivery since 2013 and has spoken on various topics at conferences such as Learning Technologies, Online Educa Berlin and keynoted for Colleges Wales and E-learning Fusion. Jo is also part-time is the Deputy Editor of Training Journal magazine and website and her background include: further and higher education; the charity sector; small and large organizations, including CNN News and Bupa International. Find out more about Jo and her work on her website! https://lightbulbmoment.info/ Jo has started her own free, open community for sharing webinar and virtual classroom questions, challenges and ideas: www.lightbulbmoment.community Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Jo: @LightBulbJo https://twitter.com/LightbulbJo Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

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. Emily Wood recent book, E-Learning Department of One can be your lifeline. https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Department-One-Emily-Wood/dp/1947308823 Learning experience designer Emily Wood knows a thing or two about being an e-learning department of one. This week on IDIODC she shares shortcuts to create quality products when faced with limited resources, help, and time. You can learn more about Emily on her LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilywood/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Emily: @IDEmily https://twitter.com/IDEmily Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - Produce, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.