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- Strengths-Based Leadership For Instructional Designers: How To Identify, Develop, And Leverage Employee Strengths For Better Team Performance
on July 23, 2026Learn how strengths-based leadership helps Instructional Designers identify, develop, and leverage employee strengths to improve engagement, performance, collaboration, and team effectiveness. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
- Why Completing Training Fails To Change Employee Behavior
on July 23, 2026Completion rates and passing scores tell L&D teams that employees finished a course. They say far less about whether the employee does the job differently afterward. This article looks at the research behind that gap and what teams can build into training design to close it. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
- Beyond Kirkpatrick: Why L&D Finally Has The Tools To Measure What Actually Matters
on July 23, 2026Most L&D teams never get past level 2 of the Kirkpatrick model. This article explains why—and how AI analytics is finally making behavior transfer and business impact measurable for every training program. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
- How to Pitch Course Design Ideas to Your Customer
on October 10, 2023Ever wonder how to present e-learning course ideas to your customers? I had a conversation the other day with someone who was presented with a somewhat boring course project. We chatted about ways to make it less boring. During the conversation, the person was concerned that the customer would never go for a different idea
- 25 Free Illustrated Characters
on September 5, 2023Here’s a back-to-school special! As you may know, I’ve been playing around with AI and creating illustrated characters for e-learning. Each day I committed to releasing one character which you can find below. As a grand finale, I pulled together 25 illustrated characters for you to use. 25 Free Illustrated Characters Here’s a batch of
- 7 Ideas to Help Make an Online Course Less Boring
on August 31, 2023We’ve all been there, building courses where we don’t have much say in the content. You know the ones I’m talking about – those compliance courses or those annual refreshers that are driven by content more so than performance. Truth be told, the organization isn’t really expecting miraculous performance improvements from these courses. They simply
- Avoid Order-Taker Syndrome with Root Cause Analysis
on July 15, 2026Conducting a root cause analysis for learning design will help you evolve from being an order-taker to a strategic partner. Learn how.
- ELC 092: Beyond Productivity: A More Ambitious Vision for AIon July 5, 2026
Phillipa Hardman discusses an ambitious vision for AI, using its superpowers to innovate new types of solutions to performance problems.
- Designing Learning for Mental Modelson July 1, 2026
By understanding a learner’s mental models, we can improve our user interfaces, instructional interventions and overall learning experiences.
- How to design engaging e-learningon May 5, 2026
We’ve all been there: mindless e-learning where you click next until you guess your way through a quiz and pass without learning anything. E-learning has a bad reputation, but it doesn’t have to be an awful experience! There are great ways to make e-learning engaging. Here’s how to do that. Know where to start Before we even talk about e-learning, … Het bericht How to design engaging e-learning verscheen eerst op Learning Experience Design.
- Learning Experience Design and Artificial Intelligenceon January 29, 2026
Is artificial intelligence (AI) a strength, opportunity, weakness or threat for learning experience design (LXD)? We gathered forty learning experience designers to do a SWOT analysis of AI for LXD. A SWOT analysis is used to evaluate the strategic position of organisations or projects. During a recent LXD meet-up, we used this concept to analyse the position of LXD, as … Het bericht Learning Experience Design and Artificial Intelligence verscheen eerst op Learning Experience Design.
- Live Action Learning: Imagination as a Learning Toolon September 4, 2025
By designing embodied, emotionally resonant journeys, Live Action Learning can be used to elevate learning experiences that have the power to transform participants in ways that last far longer than traditional training. Not only thinking about new behavior, but truly experiencing it… that is the essence of Live Action Learning. This method involves learners not only cognitively, but also emotionally … Het bericht Live Action Learning: Imagination as a Learning Tool verscheen eerst op Learning Experience Design.