Are you ready to unleash the magic of analog games in a digital world? Join us for this exciting webinar where we'll explore how analog games can create meaningful and memorable experiences for your face-to-face audience or course. Discover the enchantment of building a themed gamified learning event and unlock the full potential of analog games in adult education and corporate training. Don't miss out on this opportunity to revolutionize your learning approach and engage your participants in a whole new way!

The past few years have taught us a lot about the power of virtual connection. We’ve expanded our virtual horizons and bumped up against the boundaries that limit our ability to engage and include everyone in vital learning experiences. Imagine what is possible when we bring people together to learn, committed to full engagement and convinced that inclusion should be the norm.  

Join us for the first of two webinars tailored specifically for learning and development professionals, where you'll uncover the potential of free or low-cost tools to elevate your training efforts. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the media finding and editing tool landscape through personal, tried, and tested recommendations on when, how, and where to use each of these tools. This webinar will focus on tools for sourcing and editing images, videos, and audio assets.  

This training covers accessibility fundamentals that go beyond fixing the errors reported by the accessibility checker available through PowerPoint.  

The workplace is on fire! The half-life of skills in today’s workforce is 2-3 years, workers want to work remotely, and technology is evolving at an unprecedented rate. How do we create alignment across this massive, disjointed, remote workforce, in a time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity?  

As developers and content creators, we want to improve our learners’ training and development experiences. Virtual reality perfectly complements your organization’s existing tools while offering a unique and effective way to engage learners in hands-on, realistic scenarios. These scenarios are inherently safe and affordable and provide a consequence-free space for your learners to fail. New technology like VR can be tricky to navigate due to the many considerations needed, including investment cost, upskilling your team, adapting your workflow, and maybe most importantly, how to get started.  

Join us for this transformative AI technology webinar featuring tech visionary, Josh Cavalier.   

Join us as we unveil the future of e-learning authoring with the highly anticipated all-new Adobe Captivate. Get an exclusive sneak preview and be charmed by the all-new Adobe Captivate - the ultimate eLearning tool that uniquely blends power with ease-of-use.  Experience first-hand the power of its intuitive interface, enhanced workflows, and advanced authoring capabilities that will empower you to create engaging, interactive, and responsive e-learning content like never before. Be a part of the unveiling of the all-new Adobe Captivate and get ready to unleash the future of e-learning!  

In this session, discover creative and innovative ways to enhance eLearning at your organization. Digital learning can be strategically used to achieve better results through customization not possible in in-person training. However, many eLearning designs still follow a linear structure of instructor-led sessions. This session showcases advanced applications of branching to elevate eLearning.  

"Experience Learning" is another "hype" term that designers (and leaders) may add to their arsenal of "engagement tools." The hope is to excite learners so they study the content. Unfortunately, this is far from the intent of the Learning Experience Method. Instead, the focus is to be on how to help learners to learn from real-work problems and issues, solving, fixing, and improving them. Then sharing their experiences and new knowledge. Experience Learning is authentic deep learning by discovery, trial and error, and insights.  

In every team meeting, sales presentation, speech online or in-person, your opening remarks set the tone for your audience’s experience. Do not underestimate the importance of your first 30 seconds.  

Learn about the power and awesomeness of vector graphics in PowerPoint. Use simple vector elements to make professional PowerPoint slides and graphics in minutes. Geek out with Mike as he breaks down pro tips and techniques to make your job easier, lower file size, and blow everyone away with incredible new skills.

For many in our profession, it is a struggle to create a measurement and reporting strategy. It doesn’t have to be this hard. In this session, Dave Vance, former CLO of Caterpillar, will share a simple yet comprehensive approach to get you started, employing concepts from his 2021 book Measurement Demystified: Creating Your L&D Measurement, Analytics, and Reporting Strategy, and from the companion 2022 book Measurement Demystified Field Guide. He will share a step-by-step process which employs an easy-to-use framework for classifying, selecting, and reporting the most appropriate measures to meet your needs.   

"But I’m not in sales." We’ve heard it before, and we’ve even said it before. But here’s the thing: You are. We all are, so we’ll address it head on to show you why the word "sales" isn’t what you think it is.  

What good does it do participants when the trainer shows he/she can do it? The real measure of impact is whether the lesson is caught and applied by the audience. Breakout rooms are a tool to help you facilitate peer learning and make your job as a trainer easier. Becky’s rule of thumb is never do for participants what they can do for themselves—even in a virtual classroom. The more active they are in their learning, the more they remember and ultimately apply.  

Chat GPT (Conversational Generative Pre-training Transformer) , is a language processing tool. It aids users to answer questions - write, code. explain various things, provides diverse information, etc.  It is today’s trendy buzzword that has been humming through the AI world, the world of techies and even among us - ordinary workers and learners.  But is it a fad, a trend  or just another novel idea that will soon fade away?  It certainly is here to stay, With further exploration, research, testing and application in real-world scenarios like responses to complex questions, accuracy, reliability, validity, training, etc. Chat GPT is progressively taking the world by storm and making its mark, bringing forth L &D benefits never seen before.  

Decades of psychological research demonstrates that your members, clients, patients, and customers will remain loyal to your business when you deliver 3 outcomes:

Creative avatars is a great way to represent typical employees or customers that you’re talking about in your training but it has always been hard to find a variety of avatars drawn in the same style and give those avatars the expressions you want to portray. For example, a common situation is to show a before and after situation. A customer might be frustrated before they buy your product and then, hopefully, be happy and you want to show an avatar expressing both those emotions. PowerPoints cartoon characters give you all the tools you need to accomplish this.  

When you think of animation, do you think of flying bullets and spiraling titles? Many people do, unfortunately, and so animation suffers a bad reputation. In fact, one of your best opportunities to shine as a presenter and storyteller is through smart, effective, and appropriate use of motion. In this hour, we’ll explore exactly what that means, using the Animation engine and the always-amazing Morph transition.  

How can you collect deep insights from training participants (and others) to support your surveys or other training evaluation data? Try focus groups! Focus groups offer the opportunity to go deeper and add detail and variety to a dataset - much more than would be obtainable with surveys alone. A focus group is essentially a group interview or small group discussion during which a moderator asks questions in an interactive group setting where participants are encouraged to talk with each other as well as with the moderator. They offer a great way to gather in-depth information about participants’ thoughts, feelings, experiences or opinions on a specific topic.  

In addition to facing the global pandemic, spiking inflation, and near-recession, today’s leaders must deal with trends such as the "Great Resignation," "Quiet Quitting," and "Bare Minimum Mondays." Likewise, they must figure out how to handle the dramatic changes that likely will result from emerging technologies such artificial intelligence-based tools. All this while piloting their employees and organizations toward optimum performance.   

Bring fresh energy and creativity to your virtual and classroom training by putting learners to work on their personal devices. Discover free apps and tools that can add variety and enhance your sessions. It’s time to stop fighting the curse of the mobile phone in class and gently guide learners into your content with the very devices that might otherwise distract!  

In Training Magazine Network’s second "Learning from the Leading Edge" panel discussion we will unpack the opportunities VR can bring to learning with a case study from Daikin Applied Americas, a division of the global leader in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). Laura Masica, VP of People Experiences, and Brian Dewhirst, Sr. 

Businesses need to have a successful post-purchase experience that drives product-led growth, creates new value streams, and in turn reduces churn. However, to achieve true customer growth, a differentiated customer experience mapped to the post-purchase journey is essential. Learning plays a critical role in augmenting this experience. A self-service model for learning that helps the customer acquire product knowledge to unlock more value helps foster retention, increase loyalty and transform customers into advocates.