TLDCast Podcast

Wednesday brings us a special visit by Andrew Hughes. Andrew is the President and Founder of Designing Digitally, Inc., an E-Learning and Serious Game Development firm. He goes over some real world, virtual and 360 solutions to learning problems and talk about project management in relation to course creation. Andy’s and Designing Digitally’s background Real examples of Virtual worlds Cool stuff vs need to know Agile vs ADDIE Solving problems Data security sponsored by:

Today we start off the week with a special guest, Lauren Waldman. Lauren started as a certified international teacher of language. From there, she has been a trainer, designer, facilitator, speaker, mentor, coach, and self-proclaimed pirate. Lauren draws on her 16 years of professional experience that spans the globe, industries, on land and at sea, and even sometimes in the air and discusses neuroscience in relation to learning! Lauren’s background Neuroscience history Studying vs medical neuroscience Location of training Making learning stick Legacy learning Q&A session

Social Scientist Brian Moon, of Perigean Technologies joins us for a unique TLDCast. With a background in assessments, research, and expertise management, Brian discusses concept mapping, expertise, and methodology. Not a typical TLDCast, this one is a particularly valuable episode for insights on how to turn your learners into experts.

Video Friday brings us to guest Chris Karel who is the Video Production Manager at Cinecraft productions. He has a history of instructional design, project management, video scriptwriter, and producer/director and shares his wealth of knowledge with regular guest host Sam Rogers and the chat group. Chris’s background Animation usage Saving time Audio to visual Script templates Live audio to animation presentation Production checklists

Wes Atkinson, CoFounder and Lead Technical Consultant of Appitierre Ltd. Is the special guest for today’s episode. Appitierre provided Evove Authoring, Bloom Platform, and LearnAppeal Capsule. Want to learn more? Drop in and listen to Wes share his insight on the elearning industry and the tools we use to create training. Wes’s background LMS comparison Training access Practical uses Load information

Anna Sabramowicz, an expert in solving learning problems for major companies like Adidas and Harvard, shares valuable insights on scenarios, scope, and concept mapping in increasing training engagement, retention, and ROI. She discusses storytelling in instructional design, the impact of co-founders, the importance of iteration, and strategies for delivering scenarios. She also explores active learning and supporting beginners in the field.

The PM APAC episode of TLDCast has been created to allow other time zones to participate in the TLDC community. For some practitioners on the West Coast the afternoon time 4pm PT works better. Today’s guest is Con Sotidis from Australia. Conversation started with Con introducing himself. Some of the items discussed: Similarities between Organizational Development and Strategic Learning. The struggles with influencing clients. Finding clients using social selling. Do you remember wikis? Con talks about his success with wikis in his early consulting. The Heavy Metal Umlaut – A great video explaining wikis but also showing the power of communities.

Matt Ash and Media Zoo are revolutionizing learning strategies in the modern workforce and he stopped in to share his insight with the group. Matt’s background Do we need IDs? Evolution of ID Body language Cutting through the noise Iterative design across the board Tearing up the rule book

Andrew Hughes joined us today to demo his award winning restaurant training simulation. We also talked about the usefulness of simulations for training and the complexity that goes into the backend of his flexible gaming solutions. You can download the chat transcript, including relevants links here: https://tldc.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/chat_052318.csv View the recording here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/052318 Sponsored by:

Andy Field is a professional voice-over artist. He joined us to talk about the work of a voice-over artist and how L&D leaders can use VO artists effectively. He shared some amazing tips and tricks that every instructional designer should know. You can download the chat transcript, including relevants links here: https://tldc.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/chat_052218.csv You can find a link to the recording here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/052218 Sponsored by: