Have you considered how a recession could impact your organization? Chances are, you could face a hiring freeze yet still be expected to achieve the same KPIs - but how?

Between the Great Resignation, an ongoing pandemic, and now soaring inflation pressures continuing to push staffing issues to the forefront, it behooves you to have an action plan. Many experts predict economic challenges. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is suggesting that we are facing the possibility of a severe downturn that would rival what we have not experienced since 1970.

With dismal predictions, companies around the world are preemptively making dramatic changes in their workforces including freezes in hiring and laying off employees. Many CEOs are already preparing employees to work more with fewer resources.

If you have grave concerns about outsourcing your learning and development functions you may have more options than you think. Other short-term hiring models, specifically staff augmentation, could help reduce costs, fill staffing gaps, and immediately add on-demand specialized skill sets.

Join Debbie Wooldridge and Dana Janssen of ttcInnovations, and Mark Zides of ELB Learning, to review the differences between outsourcing and staff augmentation models - and how to implement them. They will address how organizations conquer common concerns such as communication barriers, talent quality, security, and other challenges with a case study and examples to match. Between Debbie, Dana, and Mark’s decades of experience providing top L&D talent to Fortune 500s, they will help you develop a game plan for recession-proofing your learning needs.

Authentic eLearning Localization: Challenges and Best Practices

November 10, 2022

To avoid awkward (and sometimes disastrous) learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to ensure optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk?” translates to “are you lactating?” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?

With over 317 million people in the U.S., and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical. People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps truly engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion.

In addition to ensuring your text and narration get converted to the target language accurately, how your content is presented with images and tone must also be culturally appropriate and acceptable. Here’s the good news: even if you are only fluent in your native language, the process isn’t as daunting as you might think.

Join us for this exclusive webinar with Chris Paxton as she walks us through:

The key steps you can take to optimize your eLearning content for various international audiences
The common challenges instructional designers and other learning professionals come across when implementing localization
The best practices you can utilize to ensure a successful and logical translation experience

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Training Industry Leader Talk: Technology Trends Featuring John Blackmon

November 17, 2022

Technology continues to revolutionize learning and development (L&D). As a result, keeping up with the latest tools and knowing when and if to implement them in your organization is an increasingly common challenge for learning leaders. With this introduction of innovative solutions like personalized learning experiences, artificial intelligence/virtual reality (AR/VR), it is vital for learning leaders to remain focused on aligning their technology stack to organizational goals. During this Training Industry Leader Talk, industry experts will explore emerging tools in technologies and discuss strategies for selecting, implementing and maintaining your organization’s technology stack.

Authoring Tools Smackdown - Storyline, Captivate & Lectora Go Head-to-Head

December 2, 2022

Three widely used authoring platforms are all very different - and each one has evolved over the years. Storyline, Captivate, and Lectora have unique strengths and weaknesses. So how do you pick the best fit for your project needs?

Two learning solutions engineers, Josh Bleggi and Domenic Caloia, from ELB Learning, are authoring tools experts and have used all three. Curious to see how each tool handles the most common tasks? From assessments and publishing to responsive design and translations, you might be missing out on each tool’s most valuable benefits.

Join us to look under the hood at the ultimate authoring tool match up!

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Is Your Learning Strategy Radioactive or Interactive?

December 6, 2022

Is there a magic formula for effective eLearning? Three parts Instructional Design plus one part Smile Sheets divided by one part Microlearning equals ______?

While every use case and training goal is different, there are tried and true ways you can effectively combine different elements of learning to engage your workers and drive behavior change.

Join Richard Vass, VP of Learning Solutions at ELB Learning and Brian Washburn, the co-founder and CEO of Endurance Learning to learn how you can combine elements of learning—even the radioactive ones—for a winning learning strategy.

How to Drive Learning ROI by Engaging the CARES Framework

December 7, 2022

This session will introduce a new and exciting learning ROI framework: The CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework. The framework consists of five components: (1) Content (2) Application & Accountability (3) Reflection, Routines, & Reinforcement (4) Evaluation (5) Socialization & Sharing.

The CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework is a breakthrough approach to addressing the number one challenge organizations face – how to show what they’re getting in return for their learning investments.

Learning organizations need to show they are driving business outcomes with their learning initiatives. A more robust measurement model is desperately needed, and the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework is that model.

Please join David Wentworth, Principal Learning and Development Analyst for the Brandon Hall Group, who will be sharing the latest research and insights on creating a high impact approach to maximizing Learning ROI and Treion Muller, Creator of the CARES Learning Effectiveness framework and Rich Vass, VP of Learning Solutions of ELB Learning, as they share real-world examples that illustrate how the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework can transform the learning ROI model for any organization.

Session highlights include:

• Uncovering what’s working and what is not (and why) in creating a meaningful learning ROI

• Linking learning to business outcome

• A step-by-step approach to applying The CARES Learning

• Effectiveness Framework to challenging learning experiences with real-world examples

• Harnessing the power and potential of new technologies to support the CARES Learning Effectiveness Framework

Watch Us Build a JEOPARDY!® Training Game

December 13, 2022

Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a JEOPARDY!® game in real-time.

JEOPARDY!®, part of The Training Arcade®, is the ONLY official Jeopardy!® training game. Each game can include up to three rounds—Jeopardy!®, Double Jeopardy!®, and Final Jeopardy!®—plus “Daily Doubles.”

Jake will share his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.

Upskilling Employees with Immersive Learning

January 24, 2023

Over the years, ELB Learning has trained millions of employees with Immersive Learning solutions. With data and intelligence from these deployments, we’ve developed a framework to create and measure the value of Immersive Learning. In this webinar, Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer of The Game Agency, a division of ELB Learning, and Jordan Erickson, Founding Partner at Infuse Medical will present the value framework and share concrete examples from some of the largest companies in the world. You’ll hear firsthand how these companies are creating experiential and embodied training, delivering state-dependent retention, improving operational efficiency, and saving significant costs.

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Using Illustrator to Create PowerPoint Assets

Our Director of Product and Design, Nic Brown, demonstrates how to create high quality and very adjustable graphics in Illustrator for PowerPoint.

Learning Experience Design vs Instructional Design

In this webinar, Dr. Marty Rosenheck shares what it takes to become a Learning Experience Designer and steps you can take to get there.

Storyboarding 101: How to Visualize Your Course

Before you dive into eLearning development, do you take the time to visualize your entire course from start to finish in a storyboard? Creating a storyboard is a great way to ensure you don't forget any key learning objectives or requests from your client, subject matter expert, or stakeholder. Plus, a storyboard can help you organize the flow of your course and communicate your ideas to stakeholders. Join instructional designer Dr. Dave Christiansen and learn how to visualize your course with a storyboard. He'll share his top tips and tricks, drawn from years of experience in instructional design and education.

How to Lead Change and Create a Culture of Learning from Within

Organizational change is constant. L&D professionals play a vital role in leading such change, especially in response to external factors—the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, and our political and economic environments.

But HOW can we lead change and foster a continuous learning culture?

The key to driving such change depends not just on our knowledge and skills, but lies within ourselves and how we show up as L&D professionals and conscious beings.

In this session, we will explore:

What is organizational change?
What is our goal as L&D professionals and eLearning developers?
What role do we play in leading change?
How to be our most authentic selves, so change starts from within?

Join this session to explore these questions and find out how to drive change in your organization.

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Pivot to Learning Experience Design

Learning Experience Design (LXD) is becoming “a thing.” More and more folks are changing their titles from Instructional Designer to Learning Experience Designer. What is Learning Experience Design, anyway? Why the change? Instructional design focuses on only a small portion of the learning process—instruction. LXD takes a broader approach that looks at the entire learning process that includes doing (experience), as well as feedback and reflection, supported by content and guidance.
In this session you’ll explore the key disciplines that inform LXD, including design thinking, user experience design, and cognitive science. You’ll encounter a set of research-based guidelines to design, structure, and sequence experiences into optimized learning paths. You’ll also see how to use technology to support and track learning experiences. Finally, you’ll walk through a simple process for designing learning experiences that produce measurable results.

Our VR Journey: What We've Learned...So Far!

During the session, Annie Levesque and Mark Stauffer will discuss wins and obstacles encountered while developing VR training for front-line employees.

They will describe the production equipment, devices, and software used during the development phase. In addition, they will share lessons learned about camera angles, course size, and device loading.

Lastly, they will provide our deployment strategy, employee feedback, and next steps as Brink’s adapts to a new way of learning.

A Beginner's Guide to Storyboarding for eLearning

Storyboarding is an invaluable tool for planning effective eLearning courses and obtaining stakeholder buy-in, but the process of creating one may seem daunting. Where do you start? What interactions should you include? How do you avoid getting bogged down by design?

In this webinar, one of our custom development instructional designers, Monica Newell, shares tips for building an engaging storyboard and solid foundation for your course.

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How Games Change Your Brain

About 40 percent of the global population plays video games, and that number doubled during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Binging video games is never good, but when they are played in reasonable doses they can have positive effects on brain plasticity and behavior.

In this session, we'll take a closer look at how games have been shown to increase, not decrease, efficiency in the brain networks that control attention. We'll consider the cognitive demands associated with multitasking in a game-based environment, and how those skills can help players navigate their increasingly complex world. You'll also learn how games can positively impact eyesight, attention and visual processing.

Once we recognize the cognitive impact of games, we can start thinking about how to harness their benefits to improve learning. We'll look at different types of educational games and discuss how they can help you develop different cognitive skills. We'll also show you virtual games that can be used to foster friendly competition and interaction, and increase attention and engagement. Ultimately, this session will show you how to leverage the power of games to make the brain work smarter, better, and faster.

Recordings

Watch Us Build a Scramble Training Game

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Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Scramble game in real time.

Scramble, part of The Training Arcade®, is a word puzzle game that allows you to scramble up a word or sentence for your learners to decipher.

In each mode, players must complete the word/sentence before the timer runs out and are awarded hints for each correct puzzle solved that can be used to help in future puzzle rounds.

Scramble makes a great post-training knowledge check or way to reinforce important terminology.

Jake will share his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.

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ELBX Online: Global VR Edition

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Our International Partners and their clients are seeing smashing successes with training projects built in CenarioVR! Join us for a global edition of our ELBX Online virtual conference series and hear five different VR training case studies from Italy, Sweden, and more!

LECTORA LIVE! Time Saving Tips for Building Reusable Content and Templates

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Join us for our monthly live jam sessions with the Lectora Product Team. You’ll get a chance to interact with members of the ELB Learning Lectora product team who work behind the scenes to continuously enhance Lectora for your eLearning development success.

This month, Alan Marquez will share best practices for building eLearning templates from scratch. The focus will be on how to create content that can be reused in future courses, cutting down on your development time.

Level Up Your Sales Training with the Power of AI, Adaptive and Immersive Learning

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Managing a successful sales team requires more than stellar employees and outstanding leadership. You need to equip your team with the tools and resources to win negotiations and close the big deals.

In this webinar, discover how AI, Adaptive, and Immersive Learning can help your sales team grow in a competitive landscape. Discover how you can deliver training that prepares your reps today to tackle the business challenges of tomorrow.

-How to deliver learning experiences that matter to the sales team

-Leverage the power of AI, Adaptive and Immersive Learning to sell more, faster, and with much less stress than ever before

-Help your sales team optimize learning and retain information longer. Provide avenues for practice and application to help excel in the real world

-Take a peek into how we leveraged power from these technologies to build successful sales training courses

Join Richard Vass, VP - Learning Solutions at ELB Learning as he takes his audience on a deep dive into delivering sales training that is effective and engaging. Find how your training courses can deliver results that matter to building brands and organizations.

How to Succeed with Your Rockstar Learning Platform: October Topic

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Join us for a quarterly webinar series on how to enhance your use of the Rockstar Learning Platform (RLP). Our team will share upcoming new features and showcase how clients are using the Rockstar Learning Platform to succeed. You’ll take home new ways to use RLP at your organization and have the chance to ask our product managers and customer success managers your questions.

7 Best Practices to Ensure Success when Outsourcing Custom Course Development

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This How-To webinar demonstrates ways to maximize ROI and results from your custom course development vendor.

The reasons companies opt for the latter in the Build Vs. Buy conundrums are plenty—greater engagement, lack of technical skills, or simply to drive better learning experiences. Whether it’s to help frame your learning strategy, convert existing training, or build training courses, working with the right vendor can deliver extraordinary results—IF you choose the right partner.

This webinar gives you deep insights and best practices that will help you build a successful partnership with your custom vendor and meet objectives from Day 1. The seven best practices are easy to implement and hold the key to the results you seek from your organizational training endeavors—engage learners, drive behavior change and foster a positive (and continuous) learning culture at the workplace.

Join Richard Vass, VP of Learning Solutions at ELB Learning, as he navigates through each of the best practices with examples and case studies, and illustrates a decisive path to achieve stellar results and maximize returns from your custom training investment.

Watch Us Build a Trivia Training Game

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Bring that addictive fun of games into your training with The Training Arcade®!Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Trivia game in real-time.He’ll give you his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.

Developing Leaders: Why Empathy Matters and How to Teach It

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Organizations today are adjusting to changes like distributed teams, remote meetings, and hybrid offices while trying to plan for an uncertain economic future. The one thing that won’t change? The need for strong leaders.

Strong leadership skills are essential if managers want to build and lead engaged, innovative teams that are prepared to handle today’s workplace challenges. In this webinar, you’ll learn why empathy is one of the most critical skills for leaders to have. Kristie DeLoreto, SVP, Project Management Office, and Laura Doerr, VP, Project Management Office at ELB Learning will show you how to help your organization’s current and future leaders develop empathy, along with other essential leadership skills.

A Proven Strategy: Case Studies of VR Training Driving BIG ROI

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Different clients from different industries all had very different business challenges and learning objectives. However, they have one thing in common: they all achieved extraordinary outcomes using immersive learning and VR (virtual reality) training strategies. From a 400% ROI to $588,000 in savings, you will discover why common myths about virtual reality are wrong. Think VR is too expensive and complicated? Not at all. Think VR requires headsets? Wrong again!

John Blackmon, the CTO of ELB Learning (formerly eLearning Brothers), will share examples from multiple clients including Transition Associates for Fendi, Vanderbilt University’s School of Nursing, and more. Highlights include:

Why VR is growing in popularity and getting better results than traditional eLearning
How immersive learning is created and delivered
When to use VR and common use cases
What the content creation process entails
How return on investment is measured
How to get started
Don’t miss learning about the best defense for a recession!

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LECTORA LIVE! Authentic Translation and Localization

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To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course?

With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical. People prefer to learn in their native language, so localizing eLearning helps engage learners and gives them that much-needed sense of inclusion.In addition to ensuring your text and narration get converted to the target language accurately, how your content is presented with images and tone must be culturally acceptable. Here’s the good news: even if you are only fluent in your native language, the process isn’t as daunting as you might think.

Join Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions, to walk through simple strategies step by step.

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Are You Awesome at Autumn? Jeopardy!® Showdown

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Join us for a fun, fall-themed JEOPARDY!® game hosted by our game expert Jake Kwiatkowski! We're here to ring in the season with some laughs, some fun, and to learn a thing or two while we're at it!Join us for this fun, free event and prove your knowledge of fall foods, events, football, and...apples? See you then!

Case Study: How Different Learning Modalities Created a High-Impact, Blended Learning Program

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Have you ever combined different learning modalities into one cohesive blended learning program to add impact, enhance the user experience and improve outcomes? Get ready to be blown away!

Lincoln Financial created a personalized learning experience for diverse user groups to roll out a cyber course and facilitate one of their first live virtual events. Strategic components including learning games, video-based practice, virtual coaching and an experiential learning platform produced a high-impact blended learning program that generated great results!

Join Janet Joseph, assistant vice president of learning management from Lincoln Financial, and Peter Getchell, senior enterprise account executive from ELB Learning, to see an outstanding example of creativity in learning and development (L&D).

This powerful case study will describe how:

Games and video practice can be blended into a curriculum.
Videos can be featured and personalized for user groups.
Learners can be tracked and held accountable for different learning modalities.
Different modalities can be personalized and delivered.

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Recession-Proof Your L&D Needs & Face Your Outsourcing Fears

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Have you considered how a recession could impact your organization? Chances are, you could face a hiring freeze yet still be expected to achieve the same KPIs - but how? 

If the thought of outsourcing is sweat-inducing, staff augmentation may be right for you; it can reduce costs, fill staffing gaps, and immediately add on-demand specialized skill sets to your team. 

Join Mark Zides of ELB Learning and Debbie Wooldridge of ttcInnovations to overcome common outsourcing fears such as costs, communication barriers, talent quality, security, and more. Their combined 40+ years of experience providing top L&D talent to Fortune 500s will help you develop a game plan for recession-proofing your learning needs.

  Highlights include:

• Proven case studies of how staff augmentation increases agility

• How to outsource specialized talent and reduce time to fill specific roles

 • How a staff augmentation vendor can source L&D roles such as Instructional Designers, Technical Writers, LMS Administrators, Facilitators/Trainers, and more.

Engage Diverse Audiences with Your Own Rapid Authoring Process

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Are you caught in the eternal struggle between deadlines and quality? You want to create fun and engaging learning experiences but, burdened with work overload, there is never enough time. In this webinar, two learning solution engineers from ELB Learning will share proven methods, tips, and tricks that you can quickly implement to become the next eLearning superstar.

Highlights include:

How to save time - why build when you can reuse?
See real-world examples and winning tips for working with mixed media.
Easy ways to build for diversity and accessibility- leave no learner behind!
Don’t let your LMS limit you - you can still gather data, metrics, and KPIs Oh my!

Get ready to kick it up a notch! Use these techniques to adopt a rapid authoring process to create engaging learning experiences on time and at scale.

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Watch Us Build a Match Training Game

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Bring that addictive fun of games into your training with The Training Arcade®! Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Match game in real-time. He’ll give you his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.

10 Ways You’re Getting Gamification Wrong - And How to Fix Them for Outstanding Results

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Game-based learning has proven to increase employee participation, training enjoyment, and knowledge retention. But what if your strategy is off and you’re not seeing the desired results?

The Game Agency interviewed 5 Instructional Designers about the 10 most common mistakes you may be making with gamification and how to transform your approach into a winning strategy to get your desired ROI.In this webinar, we’ll explore:

The difference between games and gamification and why it matters
The 10 most common mistakes when implementing a gamification strategy
How to avoid gamification pitfalls and maximize results
5 key data points you need to measure the effectiveness of your strategy

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Accessibility and Inclusion: Why it Matters and What You Can Do

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Did you know that one in four Americans self identifies as having at least one disability or impairment according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)? If 25% of your potential learners cannot access your training, imagine the economic impact.

Between today’s politically charged climate, The Great Resignation and the growing awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), training is no longer a luxury — it’s a requirement. Furthermore, by having inclusive and accessible content, you can expect a healthier work environment with greater productivity and improved employee retention.

Join Chris Paxton, president of D3 Training Solutions, to learn the basics of authoring inclusive, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and 508-compliant eLearning using proven tools and strategies. It’s much easier than you think!

This interactive webinar will provide tangible tools and strategies on:

Understanding the true definitions of accessibility and inclusion, and why they are not the same thing.
Why designing learning for everyone is becoming a requirement and why organizations financially benefit from it.
Commons examples of how to make learning accessible and inclusive.

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Next Level Learning - From Passive Learning to Active Practice

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How do you improve employee performance in a scalable, cost-effective way? Providing training is a great start, but how do you bring each employee to their optimal performance? This webinar demonstrates how video practice and coaching can easily integrate into your existing learning ecosystem and dramatically improve ROI. Key takeaways from this webinar include:-Building a culture of improvement-Increasing learner engagement-How to scale One-to-One training-The Tell-Show-Do formula that produces results-Developing a recession-ready learning strategy

Lectora Live! 6 Tips for Creating Better Learning Experiences In Lectora

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Your learners deserve better learning experience and Lectora is a powerful tool to create those experiences. But sometimes it can be daunting to know what to do, where to start or what process works best. In this webinar, Learning Solutions Engineers and Lectora Experts Josh Bleggi and Domenic Caloia will discuss 6 tips to create better learning experiences with Lectora. They’ll also show you many of the features of Lectora that make these amazing experiences possible.

This webinar is geared toward Lectora users of all skill levels, including those that are getting into Lectora for the very first time or anyone looking for creative learning solutions.

Who C.A.R.E.S?! How Learning Got Its Bad Rap and What We Can Do About It

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With a direct link between training and business goals, learning and development (L&D) leaders have their task cut out for them — to drive learning. However over time, L&D has become a negative (and dreaded) experience for learners. Could this be due to poor learning experiences or that they’ve all received the same one-size-fits-all learning solution? It’s time to reevaluate what’s broken about L&D in order to foster learning and drive behavioral change.

In this Training Industry Leader Talk, Treion Muller, chief strategy architect at ELB Learning, will emphasize achieving a greater alignment between L&D initiatives and business objectives by understanding your audience and how they like to learn. Discover a new framework called the C.A.R.E.S Learning Effectiveness Model and how it can be applied to your unique needs.

This interactive session will provide easy-to-understand insights on:

Aspects of conducive learning for learners, and ways to keep the consumer of information in the front and center of training programs.
The C.A.R.E.S Learning Effectiveness Model, and how it can be applied for effective upskilling and reskilling.
Harnessing the power and potential of new technologies to establish a learning culture and drive behavioral change.

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The Evolution of VR From the Office to the Metaverse

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Join Adam Sidwell, Founder and Studio Head at Future House Studios, and John Blackmon, CTO of ELB Learning for an exciting look at the different ways virtual reality is being used by organizations large and small.First, John Blackmon will cover current applications of immersive learning created in CenarioVR. He'll show what's being done today and what you can do at your organization. Then, Adam Sidwell will discuss the future of virtual reality training. He'll talk about his work building metaverse experiences for Transformers, Sonic the Hedgehog and George W Bush and how organizations can think outside the box with VR and learning programs.

Watch Us Build a Jump Training Game

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Love playing games like Candy Crush on your phone? Now you can bring that addictive fun into your training with The Training Arcade®!Join us for this live game-building workshop and watch Jake Kwiatkowski, Marketing Manager and Game Expert, build a Jump game in real-time.He’ll give you his best game-building tips and answer all your questions about creating an engaging learning game for your employees or customers.

Don't Get Left Behind: Understanding & Succeeding with Tomorrow's L&D Ecosystem

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In today’s post-pandemic world, yesterday’s L&D strategies are falling short. Cultural changes including a remote/hybrid workplace, the new “metaverse,” and the expectation of knowledge on-demand have forced learning strategies to change. Innovations including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), microlearning, video-based practice, and machine learning (ML) are getting better results, so you need to be prepared.

If you haven’t been asked already to implement these newer strategies, expect it. The only question is, how will you adapt to this environment and work with these technologies in a practical way?

Join three heavy hitters: John Blackmon, CTO, ELB Learning (formerly eLearning Brothers); Stephen Baer, Chief Creative Officer, The Game Agency (a division of ELB Learning); Geoff Curless, SVP, Sales - Learning Solutions, ELB Learning, all from three different companies acquired by ELB Learning. These speakers with different areas of expertise can share exactly how to handle these technologies and processes with grace and ease!

ELBX Online Day 2

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10:30 AM EDT - WELCOME

Geoff Curless // ELB Learning

11:00 AM EDT - SESSION 1

Panel Discussion - How 3 Learning Leaders Are Preparing for an Uncertain Future

12:00 PM EDT - SESSION 2

Janet Joseph // Lincoln Financial GroupLearning Management

1:00 PM EDT - SESSION 3

Shaun McMahon // IlluminateLearning Trends

2:00 PM EDT - Live JEOPARDY!® Game

Everyone Welcome! // Host: Mark Gindick, The Game Agency

ELBX Online Day 1

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10:30 AM EDT - WELCOME

Andrew Scivally // ELB Learning

11:00 AM EDT - SESSION 1

Jack Gayler // Video InteractVirtual Reality

12:00 PM EDT - SESSION 2

Karl Kapp // Bloomsburg UniversityGamification

1:00 PM EDT - SESSION 3

Panel Discussion - Innovative Uses of Video in Learning

2:00 PM EDT - Live JEOPARDY!® Game

Everyone Welcome! // Host: Mark Gindick, The Game Agency

5 eLearning Courses That Take Training to a Whole New Level and Why

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Are you witnessing high drop-out and low completion rates with your eLearning? Are you barely inching towards your training objectives? These are tell-tale signs of L&D decline. How can organizations find their eLearning mojo? It may be time to level up your training and make it more interactive and engaging. Move from ineffective and boring to eLearning that wows your audience and turns the tide for the organization.

Join Geoff Curless, Senior Vice President of Custom Learning Solutions at ELB Learning as he walks you through five eLearning courses that take training to a whole new level. Get more bang for your buck with eLearning through preferred levels of interactivity. Discover how you can architect and activate eLearning to leverage skills effectively and achieve better learning outcomes.

In this session, you will learn how to:

-Construct critical levels of interactivity with your eLearning, as suited for your unique needs

-Explore ways to elevate engagement while being instructionally effective (through scenarios, creative activities, visual engineering, imaginative simulations, and everything in between)

-Capture best practices by taking a close look at five active eLearning courses that have walked the walk

-Make “optimum ROI” a reality in your organization

Who C.A.R.E.S.!? How Learning Got Its Bad Rap & What We Can Do About It

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Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience for its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?

The good news is that technology has come a long way since Y2K, and there is much we've learned about UX/UI and how adults like to learn. This session will introduce a new learning framework called the C.A.R.E.S Learning Effectiveness Model, which:

-Draws upon what we know about behavioral psychology and adult learning-Harnesses the power and potential of new technologies

-Keeps the consumer of information at the forefront of the UX

-Evaluates current offerings and the likelihood learners will achieve the desired behavior change and/or skill needed

Plus, we’ll discuss what's broken about learning today and discover how the CARES Learning Effectiveness Model can be applied to solve the problem.

Mastering Performance Management: How Organizations Are Winning with Video-Based Practice & Coaching

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Did you know that organizations like Paychex, 3M, and Honeywell are creating top-performing employees by incorporating video-based practice and coaching into their learning and development strategies? From sales pitches to soft skills, video-based practice helps learners sharpen communication skills and validate their knowledge with the proof of video documentation.

Whether used as a stand-alone application or integrated with a learning platform, video-based practice and coaching platforms give learners the opportunity to repeatedly demonstrate how they respond to workplace scenarios, including common and uncommon situations. They can prove their aptitude with video documentation - including time-coded notations, and then receive immediate feedback from mentors, instructors, and subject matter experts (SMEs).

Don’t have live instructors available? No problem. With newer technologies, learners can be scored via artificial intelligence (AI) using keyword identification and natural language processing (NLP) to identify the context of speech.

To find out how organizations are driving pinnacle performance with video-based practice and coaching strategies, join Micha Eppler from ELB Learning to see hands-on examples of what video-based learning strategies can do. Micah has helped thousands of clients surpass their KPIs and he can help you too!

Highlights include:

How video-based practice and coaching can be conveniently incorporated into a learning program
How video simulations are being used to help learners practice and improve skills.
How advances in AI (artificial intelligence) and NLP (Natural Language Processing) can help provide learners with real-time feedback.

Bring your burning questions to this live, interactive session. You’ll get an inside look at this proven method of modern learning.

The Future of eLearning in 2022: A Sensitive Eye for Authentic Translation and Localization

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In addition to ensuring your text and narration get converted to the target language accurately, how your content is presented with images and tone must be culturally acceptable. Here’s the good news: even if you are only fluent in your native language, the process isn’t as daunting as you might think. Join Chris Paxton, President of D3 Training Solutions, to walk through simple strategies step by step.

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How to Space Out Your Use of Games for Training

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We all are susceptible to the Forgetting Curve (Ebbinghaus, 1885)—after we learn something, we immediately start forgetting some of it. Training games are a great way to incorporate active learning, repetition, and practice at all stages of the training process to maximize knowledge retention. The optimal amount of time between sessions varies based on the kind of information and when the learner needs to use that information.

Carrie Wiser, Senior Instructional Designer at The Game Agency, a division of ELB Learning, will explain the benefits of introducing a training game before your training session, in the middle of your training, and post-training. She’ll also review how to align a training game mechanic to your learning objective.

In this session, you will learn how to: