Putting the Design back into Instructional Design #DevLearn

Here are my slides from my presentation on Thursday, November 1, 2013 at the eLearning Guild DevLearn conference in Las Vegas.

Putting Design Back into Instructional Design from cammybean

Thanks to a great audience -- we had lively conversation and great food for thought!

DevLearn 2012 Wrap Up #devlearn

Wrapping up a few days in Las Vegas for this year's eLearning Guild DevLearn 2012 conference.  I could NOT miss Halloween with my kids, so flew in Thursday afternoon.  So I missed a lot, but still had enough time to talk my head off and soak in a lot of elearning goodness.

Shortly after I arrived, I jumped on stage to participate in a panel with Koreen Olbrish, Janet Clarey, Jane Bozarth, and Jeannette Campos on New Emerging Tech. Great format as we pulled Jeannette in from Skype and Jane on Twitter.  Koreen handed us a new topic every five minutes-- from QR codes (hot or not?) to 3D printers.  

At 3:00 I presented a concurrent session on Putting the Design Back into Instructional Design (slides forthcoming!) I had everyone closing their eyes and imagining "good design" - forks and phones and Harry Potter rides came to mind.  Not surprisingly, eLearning examples were not the first thing to pop into people's minds.  We talked a lot about Design with a big D and then came back to elearning and what we can all do to be better DESIGNERS of elearning.  

The afternoon/evening was all about DemoFest.  I shared a demo of an example of our new Responsive Elearning Design Framework - all HTML5.  If you want to know more about RED, check out a webinar presentation that Steve Rayson did last month.  

The downside of presenting something at DemoFest is you can't wander around and see what everyone else is doing.  I did get to check out some interesting work at the next table over that Reuben from EdCetra Training showed off:  a responsive onboarding program developed as an "app store.  Each app is a short onboarding exercise and the whole thing is built off the TinCan Experience API. 

Which leads me to Tin Can. You couldn't walk through the conference this year without tripping over one...

So Friday morning I listened to a panel on TinCan - "Everything you ever wanted to know..." And while it may not have answered everything I want to know about the new Experience API and what many are calling "the new SCORM", it was useful to hear some real world examples and listen to the questions of real developers who are trying to figure out what the impact of this will be.  There's a lot of hype about TinCan at the moment...and a lot of confusion.  My message to people: no need to panic.  This will take time.

Then I sat in on a session with Sharon Boller (@sharon_boller) on converting a PC based elearning course to an iBook. I've been playing around with iBook Author recently and think it could really meet the needs of a lot of what gets produced as elearning these days. Sharon did a nice job presenting their design process and the finished output.  Learn more about their project and download a demo from the Bottom Line Performance site.

The closing keynote (and so sorry I missed Wednesday's fire breathing keynote!) wrapped up with a hilarious eLearning Guild documentary. The final speaker, Dayna Steele, urged us to find our inner rock stars and to be nice to each other.  Karma pays off, man.

Of course, the most memorable bits of the conference are the informal hallway chats, the late night beer of elearning conference, and the Las Vegas experience.  Last night, I saw The Beatle's LOVE -- a Cirque du Solelil extravaganza.  Talk about experience design! 

So thanks to the eLearning Guild for putting on another memorable conference.  

I'm off to catch a plane home now!  See you on the other side.

Is Your Elearning Interactive?

If you missed my recent webinar on interactive elearning, have no fear!

Answering the question, "did you record the webinar?" Why, yes. Yes, we did.  Watch the 60 minute webinar on Youtube.

And answering the question, "will your slides be available?" Why, yes. Yes, they are.

Interactivity in eLearning from cammybean

Creating Effective Design Models - Thursday Sept 20th Kineo Webinar

Join me this Thursday, September 27 at 11:30 EST for another webinar in Kineo's fall series: Creating Effective Design Models. 

At Kineo, we've been creating our own names for the design models or patterns that we find ourselves applying over and over again to solve different types of learning challenges with our clients.  Having a common language that we use 

As usual, I'll share lots of examples and look to you to help create another lively back channel!

Register for the webinar here.

Responsive eLearning Design (RED)

iPads, iPhones, Galaxy Tabs, laptops, desktops -- it's now a learning-on-the-go world where most of us regularly access multiple devices in a day. (Me? I've got three: my laptop, my iPhone, and my Kindle).

We've got authoring tools that output to Flash and HTML and do this and do that.

And everyone's scratching their heads about how to build that next elearning/mlearning/learning  project. (Seriously, can't we drop the prefix by now?)

At Kineo, we've been exploring options for delivering content in this new world order. Yesterday, Steve Rayson shared some of the cool things our team has been looking at.

In case you missed it, the webinar recording and slides are now available.  Find out more about Responsive eLearning Design and why we think it's the way forward.

Free Kineo Webinar (join me on Sept 13!) : Interactive eLearning?

Join me this Thursday, September 13 11:30 EST for a free Kineo webinar on that elusive holy grail of e-learning....interactivity!

What is it? How do we use it effectively? Why do we need it and do we? What are the dangers of interactivity? ...(hint: beware of CCBB!!!) What does effective interactivity look like?

And while we're waiting for Thursday to come round...take a moment to share your unique thoughts on interactive elearning in the comments.  Feel free to answer the questions I've posed here -- or answer something else completely.

We'd love to have participants share their own examples of good interactive elearning.  Let me know if you've got a great (or even a terrible) example you'd like to share!

Details and registration info on this week's webinar and more available here:  Kineo Events Registration and Info Page

What Are You Reading?

I have the perpetual stack of books next to my bed and stacked up in my Kindle.

Right now I've got at a few design/learning things going on:


In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing by Matthew May

Learning Everywhere: How Mobile Content Strategies Are Transforming Training by Chad Udell

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk


And lest you think I'm all business:

The Hobbit -- reading aloud to my kids :)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy -- haven't read this since high school.

What are you reading? And what else do you think I should be reading? (Because my stack is not nearly big enough as it is!)