June E-learning Series

Presenter:

Kelly Donaldson is a Ph.D. student of Instructional Design at Northcentral University. She possesses an extensive background in project management, education, and corporate training where she consistently displayed a desire to excel. With a passion for education and instruction, Kelly combines her customer service background with expertise in learning science to help clients meet their training goals.  She currently works at RB Retail & Service Solutions, where she aids clients in implementing business management software by helping them navigate change, learn the program, and devise a training plan for their business to ensure success.  Kelly has taught internationally at both a corporate and K-12 level.

June 17 OnDemand - A New Approach to Professional Development

The need for stronger hybrid learning has long been a call from talent development professionals. Traditional LMS’s have surely assisted training teams in deploying and tracking completion of asynchronous learning experiences. However, many of these systems fall short in aiding us to develop stronger hybrid learning.  Many find themselves asking questions like these:

• How do you extend learning and connection to facilitators and subject matter experts beyond the classroom (and virtual classroom)?
• How do you embed micro-learning as part of your program strategy?
• How do you embed asynchronous social learning with your online content?

The answers may lie in a truly hybrid learning approach called OnDemand.

In this session, you will be introduced to a new approach to professional development supported, not by an LMS; but rather, by a learning experience platform. OnDemand is an approach developed by Dering and supported by a different type of technology that focuses both on micro- and social learning. As a participant you will learn the philosophy and approach to OnDemand professional development and receive a tour of the online tool used to support it.

ATD Capabilities:

• Training Delivery and Facilitation
• Technology Application  

Presenter:

As Senior Consultant, Steve Riccio’s responsibilities include supporting client needs through strategy, organizational development, training and coaching solutions and services. Steve is also a senior lecturer in the International Business & Management department at Dickinson College.

Prior to teaching, Steve served as the associate vice president of human resources at Dickinson. Steve received his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a certified professional coach through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and has more than 600 hours of experience coaching leaders across all industries.

June 24 (Bad) Video Killed the L&D Star

To quote the Buggles: “Video killed the radio star.” Radio stars aren’t the only ones at risk! A bad video can kill even the greatest learning and development (L&D) rock star. Now, if you’re thinking, “That’s a bit overdramatic...” well, you’re right.

Bad videos might not kill you, but they certainly CAN derail an e-learning—or ANY form of learning. Don’t let it happen to yours! Join this session for tips that will help keep your videos polished.

We’ll start with a discussion on when to use video (and when not to). Sometimes it’s a no-brainer, but other times it’s not so clear. Maybe it’s what your stakeholders want, but it’s not necessarily what your learners need. Maybe it’s a nice-to-have, but not a must-have. No matter what: you need to be certain that it’s worth the effort to produce.

After we cover use cases, we’ll delve into some best practices for designing and implementing videos. Video production is an art form itself, distinct from the L&D world. Though we couldn’t possibly come close to addressing every aspect of creating videos in forty-five minutes, we’ll have plenty of time to uncover some best practices for making them accessible, engaging, and future-proof.

Before we conclude, we’ll briefly discuss three video production tools: Camtasia, Kaltura, and Vyond. These are three of countless production tools, each offering a different capability for your DIY videos, SME-produced content, and animations.  

Objectives

• Identify use cases for video in asynchronous or hybrid learning
• Discuss best practices for video in asynchronous or hybrid learning
• Discover common tools for producing videos

Presenter:

Becca Argenbright is a senior instructional designer for SAP. Like so many, she stumbled into the learning and development (L&D) world accidentally and quickly found herself at-home. Since 2011, she’s held various L&D roles and served distinct audiences at SAP: both external customers and internal employees across customer support, implementation services, and sales organizations.

In that time, video has been a fairly constant deliverable among Becca’s projects, regardless of the job title, audience, or stakeholder. She’s lost track of the exact number of videos that she’s produced, but she’d guess it to be at least 100 (and she tends to guess low on those “How many M&Ms are in this jar?” contests, for what it’s worth).

Starting out with little background experience, Becca found herself with plenty of learning opportunities, either based on learner and peer feedback, content management needs, or academic pursuits. She’s eager to share her lessons learned with you in this session.

Becca lives in the Polish Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. When she’s not working, she’s usually either outside somewhere with her husband, fawning over her two spoiled cats, or tending to her small jungle of house plants.