Walt Disney was a creative genius, a master showman, and an amazing teacher who once firmly proclaimed, "The normal gap between what is generally regarded as ‘entertainment’ and what is defined ‘educational’ represents an old and untenable viewpoint."   

Becoming a micro-influencer takes a combination of compelling content and engagement from your targeted audience to build a reputation of a thought leader and subject matter expert.  

Flipped Learning starts by asking learners to deal with work issues, analyze them, provide solutions, and report the impacts at work. The learning happens along the way and after their activities. Unfortunately, many attempts in Flipped Learning still end up as memorization programs and do not allow learners to apply ideas. Furthermore, the poor implementation of Flipped Learning becomes a demotivation. Instead of allowing learners to be more creative and curious, they are forced to memorize concepts.   

Join Dr. Britt Andreatta as she walks you through insights from building an award-winning leadership training for healthcare professionals. This brain-based program leverages the latest research on healthcare organizations and workplace well-being as defined by the AMA and the U.S. Surgeon General.  

Your people need a holistic talent management program to achieve their full potential. L&D is one of the most critical parts of that comprehensive program. New research from Cornerstone’s global Talent Health Index found most surveyed organizations are falling behind with their talent initiatives, including L&D and skills strategy.  

When it comes to charts, we all know how to make bars, lines, and pies. But sometimes we want something a little different. Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Nolan Haims will show you how to extend and hack PowerPoint's charting tools to create unique data visualizations that will stand out and make audiences take notice.  

In 2024 it will be critical to position your employees to grow and gain the skills both they and your organization need.  Do you have the strategy, people, and tools in place to deliver this experience to your employees?  

Your happiness and success depend on your working relationships. The people you manage. How well you work with your boss. The way collaboration happens with colleagues and peers. How you connect with important prospects and key clients.  

Even terrific content can suck the life out of learners if it’s not delivered like your career depends on it. Becky will demonstrate techniques with a modern twist to enhance blended learning and make it something to talk about. If you’re new to blended learning, don’t be intimidated. If you’ve been at it for years, take a peek at short cuts that will make your job easier and more fun.

Mike Parkinson shows you how to quickly turn ideas, words, and data into professional graphics using Build-a-Graphic. Watch Mike make compelling, expert-level graphics in minutes with the latest AI tools and Build-a-Graphic. If you need graphics, don’t miss this mind-blowing session.  

Much of the discussions about A.I. and ChatGPT have been the WOW EFFECT of new shiny objects. Admittedly A.I./ChatGPT enables us to do 100 times faster with less effort images, videos, content, and unlimited knowledge.  

Windows PowerToys is a free set of utilities that can make your job designing and developing learning applications easier and more accurate. In this session, Joe Ganci will share how you can apply each of the PowerToys utilities in every phase of learning creation, most especially in the development phase.

Designing inaccessible presentations can exclude much more of your audience than you may think. Everyone can have different needs at different times, and with the rise of online presentations, you have even less control over their environment. Arguably, accessible design has never been so important.  

Canva is a versatile graphic design tool that can be integrated with Articulate Rise courses to enhance the visual appeal and engagement of your eLearning content. From brainstorming your design and content with a SME to creating custom image assets, infographics, and process diagrams to scenario illustrations and explainer videos, an instructional designer and eLearning developer can utilize Canva to create the perfect asset for their course.  

Is your L&D team keeping up with the latest industry trends? Are you effectively reaching remote workers and diverse learners? And are you incorporating AI into your development processes?  

Video and video training is in demand, and organizations increasingly use more video technology - especially instructional and explainer videos. TechSmith’s Camtasia is an exceptional all-in-one tool for Instructional Designers to have in their toolbox for screen recording, video editing, and animation. Camtasia's intuitive interface makes it simple to record and create professional-looking videos in no time with an industry-leading timeline for sophisticated animation effects, Camtasia makes it easy for novices to learn quickly yet powerful enough for advanced developers to record, edit and even add interactivity to make world-class quality videos.  

The adoption of Microlearning is progressively maturing. Leaders, designers, developers, and stakeholders are cognizant of the benefits of shorter, faster, and more convenient lessons. However, there are success stories and also failed experiments.  

Is it time to level up your Canva skills? Are you feeling uninspired and bored with your current presentation tool and want to take your design skills to the next level? Eye-catching visuals are the secret sauce to getting your audience engaged. In this session, you will learn how to create training presentation slides in Canva that are visually appealing and engage your learners, and reusable across your team.   

Curious about how generative AI can transform your eLearning modules? Join us in this fun, interactive session, where we'll dive into integrating ChatGPT with Articulate Storyline, putting the power of AI right in the hands of your learner. (You could use the same techniques with any other leading authoring software.)   

One of our most popular webinars from 2022 is returning with an update on how training professionals are incorporating AI voice into their workflows. In January this year, AI and Generative AI have begun to dominate industry newsletters, and learning and development are no exception.  

A 2020 Southern New Hampshire University study found that sales training can deliver a 353% return on investment. This study has been cited numerous times by others who want a quick data point to make the case for investing in sales training. Sadly, these citations lack context, process, or standards, leaving some readers questioning the reliability of the data.

Accessibility is crucial for ensuring that all users, regardless of their abilities, can access and interact with eLearning content. Join us in shaping a more inclusive eLearning landscape and ensuring that education is accessible to all learners.  

Most webinars and virtual sessions are content dumps. We try hard to accomplish a lot of ideas within a very limited time. To add interactions and engagement, we resort to breakout sessions, polls, and/or chatting -- just to add interaction. However,meaningful and insightful conversations are absent. Therefore, deep learning and reflections are missing.   

Everyone wants to go micro and many of us have already done so. But going micro is more than just delivering bite-sized content. There are many different use cases and formats for microlearning, so everyone says they’re using microlearning, but they are all doing something vastly different.