Instructional Design
Applying learning theory and design strategies to meet specific performance goals through the creation of instructional materials and formal learning experiences.
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Giving Technical Interns a Head Start: Why Speaker Training Matters
By Neil Thompson As summer rolls in, thousands of college students across the country start internships. These interns, especially those in technical departments, represent the future workforce. They come equipped with technical know-how, but there’s a vital piece of the workplace puzzle they often lack: soft skills, particularly communication. Engineering curricula tend to emphasize coding, […]
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Instructional Alchemy: Turning Ideas into Learning Adventures
Traditional course design often results in passive learning. This session explores a creative instructional design approach to transform courses into engaging learning worlds that foster deep, meaningful engagement.
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Will AI Change the Work of Instructional Designers? Maybe It Already Has
By Saul Carliner, Giuliana Cucinelli, and Samira Karim On the one hand, it seems that ever since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, professionals in learning and development (L&D)—including instructional design—have tried to figure out how this technology might affect the work of instructional designers. After all, some early examples of generative AI (the […]
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Leveraging Rubrics in Instructional Design
Using rubrics can help you boost the effectiveness and quality of your training materials.
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Making Security Training Less Painful & More Human
On May 3, 2019, I received a letter offering me my first cybersecurity position. I was ecstatic. After 16 years in Human Resources with the federal government, I had decided to make a complete career change. There was one condition I had to meet: I had to obtain my Security+ certification within two weeks of […]
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Flipping the Classroom: A Case Study
By Dawn Peterson and Emily Tubman Introduction The Clinical Education team at Boston Scientific recently leveraged adult learning principles and a data-driven approach to redesign a Peer-to-Peer Mastery course. The following case study explores how flipping the classroom improved learner satisfaction, reduced costs, and more effectively aligned the course with how adults learn best. The […]
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The Magic Formula for Learning Content That Actually Changes Behavior
We’ve all been victims of bad training. But what if there were a formula to create learning experiences that would not only keep people awake but actually transform how they work?Good news! That formula exists, and it’s as easy as remembering one word: SURE.
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Build or Buy? Identifying When to Customize Your Learning
Small and solo L&D teams face a constant dilemma: Should we build custom learning, buy off-the-shelf solutions, or find a middle ground? Without a structured decision-making framework, teams often waste precious time, budget, and effort—leading to solutions that miss the mark. This session solves that problem by introducing a proven, adaptable model to make smart, […]
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If Leadership Training Isn’t Applied, It Hasn’t Happened
L&D leadership training sessions often “feel” successful. A program is designed, a workshop is delivered, and employees leave feeling informed and engaged. But if that training isn’t applied in the workplace, did it actually happen? If we focus entirely on the “learning” but not the “development,” we’re wasting huge amounts of time and money. So […]
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Boost Workflow Learning with In-Product Tours
Have you ever invested months building comprehensive training content, only to discover that almost nobody was using it? At Pigment, a business planning platform, we faced this exact challenge. Despite our robust Pigment Academy featuring video tutorials, eLearning courses, and practice activities, the majority of our users—particularly the business users representing most of our user […]