#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee

This week on Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee, Brent and Chris bring on one of the most influential stewards of the xAPI standard, Aaron Silvers. He knows more about the history of xAPI than most and holds all the scars of battles won taking it from idea to Government standard. We're going to take a trip down memory lane and talk about WHY xAPI needed to be born, and how a small but dedicated band of OG's made that happen. Aaron is now working with analytics and big data in a BIG way. So we're certain to cover that topic as well. Join us for a conversation you won't soon forget. Aaron E. Silvers works with leaders, teams and data to accelerate innovation, cost savings, and organizational effectiveness aligned with business objectives in high compliance environments. A common theme throughout his 20-year career is an embrace of emerging technology, creativity and entrepreneurialism that charts paths towards the most beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders. At Elsevier, Aaron is responsible for learning analytics that help reduce the variability of clinical care and the retention of newly graduated nurses to improve patient health outcomes. Check out Aaron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronsilvers/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Aaron: @AaronESilvers https://twitter.com/aaronesilvers 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Connie Malamed. The three will talk about visual design and creativity as well as the psychology around eLearning, as presented in her two books: Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. This session speaks volumes about the importance of psychology in design, and the roles those in an L&D team have in order to target a learning audience in the most effective way. Connie Malamed is a learning experience design consultant with Connie Malamed Consulting and publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie is an author, speaker and workshop facilitator in the fields of learning experience design, design thinking, and visual communication. She has helped nonprofit, government, and corporate clients improve performance by creating meaningful learning experiences for more than 20 years. She was honoured with the Guild Master award for 2018. Check out Connie on LinkedIn. Check out a few of these awesome resources by Connie related to visual design and psychology in eLearning: Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective? - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/realistic-graphics-and-learning/?platform=hootsuite 21 Ways to Improve Your Infographics - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/improve-your-infographics/ A Graphic Development Workflow For eLearning . - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/graphic-development-workflow-for-elearning/ How to Crop Photos for eLearning - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/how-to-crop-photos-for-elearning/ Check out Connie's books on Amazon! Visual Design Solutions: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Design-Solutions-Inspiration-Professionals/dp/1118863569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-1&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=41y87keLrpL&preST=SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40&dpSrc=srch Visal Language for Designers: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Language-Designers-Principles-Understand-ebook/dp/B003NUSBUU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-2&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=4172IoNxCSL&preST=SX342_QL70&dpSrc=srch Connie Malamed Consulting: http://conniemalamed.com/ The eLearning Coach: http://theelearningcoach.com/author/connie/ Connie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/ Become virtual friends with Connie and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Connie: https://twitter.com/elearningcoach Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Interactive video often has a wow factor that’s hard to deny. What’s critical for L&D, though, is thinking beyond the wow factor to ensure interactive video truly supports learning and performance improvement. Interactive video offers a range of design models, each with different strengths. Understanding how to align those strengths to different learning needs simplifies your design process, reduces development costs, and produces the best results for your organization. During this episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent will rally through a couple great examples of interactive video seen and used, in order to build a reference framework. You’ll discover how these models can then be applied to different types of learning needs, contexts, and situations to take advantage of each model’s strengths. You’ll gain a range of practical tips to help you make your designs come to life with the best possible results for your organization. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Zsolt Olah to chat about the six essential traits of instructional design, and his book: Engage the WORL&D. During this chat the two ID's will chat about training solutions, current myths, curating content, mobile learning and more! Zsolt Olah, a creative learning consultant at Kineo, is a strong believer in building impact, not (only) courses. Zsolt has 20 years of experience in the learning and development space, mostly focusing on the synergy of technology, creativity, and human-centered design. He’s also the author of the book, Engage the WORL&D! and a certified boredom resuscitator. Check out more about Zsolt via his site: https://www.rabbitoreg.com/ Become virtual friends with Zsolt and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Zsolt: https://twitter.com/rabbitoreg Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

From October 24 - 26 Vegas holds DevLearn - the learning and technologies conference. DevLearn is commonly known as one of North America's favourite cutting edge conferences for technologies. Every year with fail The ELearning Guild brings outstanding keynotes, sessions and activities allowing for some serious learning and networking opportunities. This year, IDIODC goes live with Brent at the conference giving us the scoop on whats to come! Stay tuned and in the loop with #IDIODC and #DevLearn2018 this year with the hashtags. Become virtual friends with Brent and Chris on Twitter too and stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag! Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

For this special episode of #IDIODC, the gang brings on Bianca Woods. The three chat about this years upcoming and greatly anticipated Learning and Tech conference in Las Vegas, DevLearn. The three go over what's new this year and what makes DevLearn so great. Bianca Woods is Senior Manager of Programming for The eLearning Guild and the founder of Clever Raptor, an L&D design studio. With degrees in both art education and education media design & technology, she's passionate about demystifying design and technology for others. Become virtual friends with Marco and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Bianca https://twitter.com/eGeeking Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee This audio cast was recorded candid and live, we apologize for technical difficulties with sound. This week we bring on another special guest from Gamification Nation, Marco Faccini to talk about VR. Currently used as one of the most modern forms of gamification and game-based learning (and just flat out gaming) in the world; virtual reality is so much more than just a shiny toy! Marco joins the IDIODC guys to showcase VR's pros on business impact to training and learning. Looking to learn a little more about VR before the live cast? Check out this website and blog post by Marco! http://www.aquinasvr.com/ http://www.aquinasvr.com/insights/the-instructional-experience-designer/ From starting out as an e-learning professional back in 2001, Marco is passionate about making a difference in Learning & Development and Education. Marco works as Gamification Nations Non-Executive Director and CEO at SilkRoad Edtech/ Marco works with many modern, new and innovative technologies bringing a 'blended' proposition. Currently 'immersed' in the 3D, Virtual Reality, Video Based learning and collaborative learning arenas helping to educate workplace professionals and bring solutions to life. Working with Corporate companies, SME's, Apprenticeship training providers and educational faculties to utilize these newer technologies and add real value to the business and their people. Become virtual friends with Marco and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Marco: https://twitter.com/marcoable?lang=en Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee While the many in the L&D industry know, it's important to use engaging forms of learning tools past the basics to maintain learner retention and performance improvement. Expand your organizations learning ecosystem with gamification! Welcome to an introduction to the basics of gamification and how you can easily use it to add more value in your learning solutions. In this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest and master of all things gamification An Coppens to discuss how gamification can be used to improve learning! An Coppens is the Chief Game Changer at Gamification Nation Ltd, which offers gamification design solutions and an online gamification academy. The company is based in London and serving clients worldwide from well-known brands to smaller product focused SME’s. Our solutions are designed to encourage winning behaviours and improve business results in the areas of sales, marketing, HR, learning and productivity. In February 2018 An was shortlisted at number 21 in the top 100 movers and shakers of the elearning industry, rolling into elite level, a jump of 32 place from gold standard to elite since 2017. In November 2017, Gamification Nation was awarded the “Outstanding Gamification Agency Award” through recognition from peers in the industry. In February 2018 An was shortlisted at number 21 in the top 100 movers and shakers of the elearning industry, rolling into elite level, a jump of 32 place from gold standard to elite since 2017. In February 2016, An was recognized at the World HRD congress in Mumbai as a HR tech visionary. In October 2017 one of our client projects was shortlisted in the top 10 educational games awards of TIGA. Projects she has worked on included reviewing onboarding of sales staff and their recognition, assisting managers with getting ready for new hires, website gamification, gamification of an in-house learning curriculum, membership site gamification, etc. Increasing engagement is always our key focus. Clients include Adidas, Chubb, Chubb, Thomson Reuters, Qinetiq, RB, Cenlive, Millicom, YouEQ, Nightingales, EIT digital, EIT Climat-KIC, Active Management, 5app, etc… An is also an award winning business coach, speaker, learning & development professional and author. She is a prolific blogger on gamification through www.gamificationnation.com and tweets under her Twitter alter ego @GamificationNat. Her 3rd book called “Gamification in business” is available for download here https://bookboon.com/en/gamification-in-business-ebook. Her 4th book “Tapping into crowd” – competitive advantage from the inside out” launched in February 2017 is available from Amazon and the publisher Pencraft Publishing. Her 5th book is currently being edited for a June 2018 release. In her career An has worked in learning and development and change management roles for Modern Times Group, Xigma Management Consultants, Philips Electronics and Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. She was a guest expert on the TV show “How long will you live” for RTE in Ireland. For 10 years An ran a successful business coaching practice in Cork, Ireland with B/Right Business Coaching. She holds a BA (Hon) in International Marketing and languages from Dublin City University and an MBA from the Open University Business School in the UK. She holds a gamification master qualification from the Engagement Alliance and has completed a number of online gamification courses. Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag: Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

In this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris talk about leveraging the design potential of responsive design to help tell stories. Responsive design was created from a practical need to ensure that content could be accessible across all devices. More than just a solution to a problem, responsive design has actually created new opportunities to frame content and user experience – which has some very practical applications for the learning and development world. Chris and Brent will review some great examples of responsive design to explore what design lessons we can find as instructional designers. The sites Chris and Brent analyzed: https://historia-arte.com/ http://pharmafilter.nl/en/ https://haacht.com/en/ https://www.sbs.com.au/margarete/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag!: Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee For this episode of IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Jo Cook on to discuss webinars and virtual classrooms. Both done live and over the web, virtual classrooms and webinars typically do have many similarities, but still vary greatly. Each with their own unique pros and cons, Jo and the gang will discuss the differences and what angle is best to take for learning in different situations. 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 on Twitter and Lightbulb Moment! Lightbulb Moment Blog: https://lightbulbmoment.info/ Jo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/LightbulbJo 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 and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag!: Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: 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 - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.