#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee

In the past we've covered 15-20 items in one IDIODC episode. And as much as I feel that I'm connected to all things tech, he always surprises me with something I haven't discovered yet. Everything from media creation apps to microphones lighting kits and fancy desks.We all use technology for the work we do and while you might not think you need new gadgets, you just might discover one that makes your life a LOT easier.  Join us for this special episode and share your own cool apps, gadgets, and tech in the chat. This is always a fun and lively IDIODC topic.Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Most skills will never be learned without actually DOING the skill. Duh. It's basic training 101 that if it's too expensive or too dangerous to simply practice a skill many, many, times, then you the design should include a simulated version of the skill. And all knowledge can only be valuable to a business if it is applied to the work being done. Well, coding skills and knowledge are neither dangerous nor expensive for learners to practice. And because of that fact, proving proficiency in coding skills should be easy to do. Or is it?Brent Newhall joins us to talk about how the value of implementing a project-based assessment strategy will improve your training outcomes. After all, if they can't do the work by performing on a fake project, how are they going to handle the real projects? Brent will share his case study implementing a project-based assessment program for the Capital One Developer Academy's coding bootcamp.This is another special episode of IDIODC where we get the chance to introduce you, the IDIODC community, to one of your peers who is out in the wild, doing the work. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

In this discussion with Aaron Silvers, a learning scientist and the architect behind xAPI, listeners get an inside look at the evolution of this game-changing technology. Aaron explains why xAPI emerged as a necessary tool amidst the limitations of SCORM. He shares insights on how xAPI enhances data tracking and organizational learning, pushing beyond simple completion metrics. The conversation also addresses the challenges and opportunities for instructional designers in adopting xAPI, paving the way for improved learner engagement and outcomes.

Having instructional design skills and knowledge can open up many different career paths. The easiest distinction for many is either being in education/higher ed or going the corporate route. If you decided to go the corporate route, you would typically land in the HR department designing training solutions for internal employees.However, more and more IDs are making the shift to corporate product departments and designing learning systems for external users of the product or services the company offers.Is there a difference in your ID work for one versus the other? Some say yes. Others say no, instructional design is instructional design no matter what.We asked B.J. Schone to join us and help facilitate this conversation. He's an experienced instructional designer and has been in both departments over his career. This career conversation will help IDs get a better understanding of their options and how they may, or may not, be shifting their methods and models between settings.We'll also talk about the technology issues involved as well. So, if you're an eLearning developer with instructional design skills and looking at an opportunity as a one-person-band this conversation is for you as well.Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Learning Engineer may sound like a fancy new title for instructional designers, but it's so much more than that. The current state of our "industry" is spread quite thin across many domains. There is art, science, technology, humanity, politics, business, and so much more all part of the work we do as corporate training professionals of one form or another. Learning Engineering finally brings it all together under one banner.Jim Goodell is the editor of the new book The Learning Engineering Toolkit. He joins us to talk about the growing number of practitioners adapting to this more complete understanding of the work we do and services Learning Engineering provides for the enterprise.This conversation will appeal to everyone in the L&D, and corporate training industry. And whether you're new to Instructional design or a seasoned professional you'll benefit from understanding the future of Learning Engineering. The Learning Engineering Toolkit is everything you need to get started.You don't want to miss this conversation!Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

So much changed in the spring of 2020. In our L&D world there was a massive shift to online learning to deal with the elimination of in-person events.Two-and-a-half years later online virtual and hybrid sessions are still a highly popular way of delivering training. Our industry has had time to settle in with tools like Teams and Zoom – but how many of us have actually been able to shift to using them in the most effective ways possible?In this week’s session we’ll talk with Jo Cook to discuss her research with Jane Daly, Behavioral Scientist specializing in evidence-based culture and capability transformation.Jo and Jane are this week releasing the results of their research report on the use of virtual and hybrid learning for organizational training.Jo was with us last December to discuss early insights of this research a year ago, so we’re excited to have her back to learn more now that the report is out in full and see what has and hasn’t changed in the past 12 months!Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

DevLearn is always filled with new solutions, forward thinking conversations, and great people. This episode of IDIODC will be a special DevLearn episode to discuss the most exciting new trends in eLearning. Most of these trends will be on display during the event, so it's a great opportunity to discuss and experience the future of eLearning.You may be wondering why we don't have a guest listed. Well, we expect several guests to be joining Brent in the foyer outside the expo, as well as special guests invited to join us online to engage in the conversation.What's different this year is Chris will not be at the event. He will be hosting the event from dominKnow HQ in Canada. However, Brent will be there hosting the IDIODC booth and managing co-hosting duties for the Wednesday morning episode.You may also have heard that we have our own booth and lots of topics to discuss throughout the expo. So, if you're going to be at #DevLearn22 we hope you'll stop by, say hi, and take a selfie pic with Brent at booth #227.Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

There are many frustrations working in Corporate Learning & Development. And there are many opinions as to why Learning & Development, and training departments struggle to be recognized as important parts of the business.Mark Oehlert joins us with what may, or may not, be one of the most controversial reasons why L&D struggles. And could it really be as simple as how the accounting department accounts for our existence?But wait! This conversation is surely not as boring as accounting sounds. Trust me, it won't be. Mark is not your typical eLearning geek. He's a deep thinker with unique insights into many of the cultural struggles that have plagued enterprises for decades.  And as an anthropologist and historian he brings a very different thinking process to our industry.This is sure to be an enlightening and entertaining episode... especially if someone will do me a favor and ask in the chat why SCORM was his fault. Save your spot in crowdcast so you're notified with a reminder. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Designing and developing instruction is a creative and fun process.  But it can also be filled with boring and frustrating details and "administrivia". In the not so distant past automating simple workflow processes meant learning to code and programming sequenced tasks, or worse, doing them yourself, over and over again, manually. But not any more.Mike Taylor joins us to talk about no-code tools that can help you improve your workflow and make you more efficient. If you're not sure what no-code tools are and how they can help you, then this episode is perfect for you. We'll start with the basics and work up to more advanced no-code tools.Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:Brent: @BSchlenkerChris: @Chris_V_WIDIODC: @TeamIDIODC 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 Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Rachel Allen Dillon, an expert in visual design for learning experiences, joins the discussion to explore the intersection of design and effective learning. She shares valuable tips on balancing visuals to prevent cognitive overload, emphasizing key design principles that can transform presentations. Dillon highlights the importance of recognizing common visual pitfalls and simplifying designs to boost clarity. Listeners will gain insights into how to enhance memory retention and engagement in educational materials through mindful visual strategies.