#IDIODC Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee

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 playb...

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...

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...

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 markete...

We're kicking off the new year of #IDIODC with an amazing guest outside of the training world. But everything he does represents the signposts directing us towards the future of learning. Brian Fanzo, better known as @isocialfanz, is going to talk with us about the importance of video. He is often asked to keynote marketing events because the marketing community is often driving innovation faster...

For this special last episode of IDIODC before the holiday season really begins (and the last episode of 2018), Dr. Ray Jimenez will talk with us about this major new trend in instructional design that integrates learning experience, not training events, into the regular flow of our business process making learning a major part of working. Ray is an accomplished learning architect, facilitator, au...

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on special guest Thomas Stone to chat i4cp and workplace collaboration. The Institute for Corporate Productivity, or i4cp, focuses on the cultural, leadership, workplace, and talent practices that can increase collaboration in organizations. A recent study by i4cp revealed many best and next practices that drive increased collaboration at high-performing...

For this episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent chat holiday season. It's gift giving season! And you're wondering what the heck to get for that instructional designer or eLearning developer in your life. Well, IDIODC has got you covered. This episode is all about the things we love to use in our professional work. We'll count down the top 10 hot gift ideas for learning professionals. If you're like m...

For this 36th episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent bring on our pal Mike Taylor! The three chat about great ways to instil entertaining and digestible learning experiences. Looking for more information related to this session? Check out Mike's recent post summarizing his DevLearn DemoFest blended and responsive mirco-doing project. https://mike-taylor.org/2018/10/30/a-quick-tour-of-our-blended-respo...

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...

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 te...

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, r...

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 b...

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 con...

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 degr...

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...

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 yo...

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...

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...

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this episode, Brent and Chris chat with the one and only Megan Torrance from TorranceLearning. With the xAPI Fall Cohort just getting kicked off, the three go over the ABC's of xAPI and get you a full scoop of what the xAPI Cohort is all about. (Don't need to read anymore on xAPI Fall Cohort and want to get started ASAP? Well, here's the link!...

Choosing an eLearning authoring tool can be tough, especially with so many options available; while trying to balance current and future needs. In this episode, we'll offer some advice on how to choose an authoring tool for you. Be sure to subscribe to the dominKnow channel for more episodes of #IDIODC - Instructional Designers in Office Drinking Coffee, where our goal is to help our peers create...

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this episode, Brent chats with Kevin Thorn from NuggetHead on comics in eLearning. When and how to use comics in eLearning and the value it adds to the learner experience. Kevin is an award-winning eLearning designer & developer, consultant, and owner of NuggetHead Studioz, LLC., a boutique custom design and development studio specializing...

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee While Chris is away for this week's episode, Brent continues the conversation on Part 3: Audio in eLearning with Matt Pierce from TechSmith Academy! During this session, the two will chat about the lessons learned while creating the audio for the videos in the TechSmith Academy. Matthew Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador from TechSmith Corpor...

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent goes live with special guest John Kissinger for a special one-on-one about voice over acting in eLearning while Chris is away. The two chat tips on how to ensure the highest quality and authenticity out of your voice. Want that tea John talks about in this session? Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Traditional...

Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee In this IDIODC episode, Brent and Chris bring you the first episode of the interactive, video-cast series: A Beginner's Guide to Audio for eLearning. The first topic of discussion will be specifically on recording hardware and best practices. Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solut...