When done well, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training creates space for courageous conversations that acknowledge hard truths around systemic inequities and explores topics that touch on people’s vulnerabilities in all facets of their lives. For those of you who do this work, there has not been a clear path to follow for making progress. As a DEI trainer, you have forged your own way and learned as you went.

Maria Morukian joins IDIODC to discuss her new book Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Trainers: Fostering DEI in the Workplace. The need for DEI trainers to go at it alone has come to an end. We'll discuss how to develop the knowledge and skills required for DEI training as well as the historical underpinnings and rationale for DEI work. We'll cover the process of organizational assessment, design, and delivery, and strategies for embedding DEI and promoting sustainability through collaborative practices and dialogues.

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"You must ENGAGE your learners!"  Have you heard anyone say that before?

Yep. Us too.

We've had a few guests talk about it on IDIODC in the past.  And from those conversations we've learned about games, experiences, and making learning fun.  But what, exactly, do we mean by creating "engaging learning"?

Dr. Clark Quinn joins us to talk about how we need to make our learning solutions meaningful to those experiencing them.  He's well known for his writing on the science of learning and many other subjects.  He wrote the book, "Learning Science for Instructional Designers". Dr. Quinn's next book, Make it Meaningful, focuses on how we Make it Meaningful.
He frames the first part of the book using a fishing metaphor:
"...the learners have to take the proverbial bait, becoming willing to start the experience. Then you need to reel them in, getting them from hook to net. It’s a matter of taking them through the experience successfully, carrying them through to the end of the experience, and achieving the outcomes."

He'll also share a design process you can all use to improve your learning solutions by Making it Meaningful.

Join us for this engaging conversation with Dr. Clark Quinn.  You can find more about Dr. Quinn at his blog https://blog.learnlets.com/

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Blockchain, NonFungible Tokens, Crypto, ethereum, and other terms are making their way into L&D. Welcome to Learning3: The L&D version of Web3.  Nobody has any idea what it is, but we might as well start calling it what we always call these evolutions when they hit our industry.

All joking aside, now is a really good time to start having these conversations. L&D may not feel any real impact of Web3 for another 5 years or more, but some in our industry have already started experimenting with these new technologies.

Myra Roldan joins us as a guide in this important conversation.  In her last appearance on IDIODC she shared a game she was creating that teaches about Blockchain.  But in that conversation we talked a lot about the game and blockchain.  In this conversation we'll attempt to cover a the larger topic of Web3. We'll talk about what Web3 is today...as far as we know, and how it works.  

Nobody knows what the future holds but we definitely know enough to start this conversation and discuss potential L&D considerations, use cases, and why we should even care.

Tune in for this important conversation and I promise we'll dumb down the techno-jargon as much as possible.

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Instructional Designers and eLearning developers play an important role in DEI programs.  When stock characters are required it's often difficult to find the right image that reflects your requirements.  And when you do find something that works it's often quite boring and unfitting of the style you had designed. So, we're often left wondering, "I wish I could make my own diverse set of characters for my eLearning content".

Kevin Thorn, joins us to do just that. Kevin is the Chief NuggetHead of NuggetHead Studioz and our guest for the ongoing favorite Drink'n'Draw series.  In this episode Kevin will walk us through the process of designing and sketchnoting our own diverse characters for eLearning.

If you're new to Sketchnoting, then I would encourage you to go through Kevin's "Sketchnote School".
https://nuggethead.net/2013/09/sketchnote-school-6-steps-to-great-conference-sketchnotes/
He wrote the series of 6 Blog Posts teaching conference attendees how to sketchnote during DevLearn. But, of course, all of the elements apply to drawing diverse characters as well.

Bring your pen and paper for another entertaining and skill-building episode of Drink'n'Draw.

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The world of Learning and Development has changed over the decades, but many companies have a difficult time deviating from the comfortable path of "the way they've always done it."  As instructional designers and corporate training professionals we make it our responsibility to improve all forms of learning within the organizations we serve.  But that is no easy task.  It's often a very long journey that requires a strategy, patience, and more than a few skills we're never taught in our graduate school ID programs.

We are very lucky to have Keith Stoneman join us on IDIODC to discuss his journey.  He'll share his successes and failures and give us all an opportunity to reflect on the things that might be holding us back in our own personal journey.

Keith has identified 5 key principles to success:

1. Have an executive sponsor
2. Use updates to educate key leaders and stakeholders - a little at a time.
3. Demonstrate you're using everything you have before asking for more.
4. Good SME content + good L&D practice = great results
5. Better 80% done than 100% perfect
    

Join us for what will likely be a very lively discussion around each of these principles. Save your spot today!

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As instructional designers, we're often working on projects related to very specific processes.  We want to be clear, precise, and concise, in training that process.  However, there are many other situations where training is asked to influence behaviors and build better cultures.  This requires nuance, and creating training that impacts how the learners feel.  This is where dramatic storytelling has a powerful effect for learning.

Gagné's 9 events of instruction puts "gaining learning attention" at the number one spot for a reason. If you can't get your learners to pay attention and to feel something on an emotional level you are not likely to persuade them let alone help change their behavior. Video is the perfect medium for providing that positive impact.

However, if done poorly, it can have a negative effect.  It's not easy, but if you can learn some of the basics and practice with small projects and shorter videos you will begin to see positive results.

Tom Hickmore creates award-winning dramatic instructional videos and joins us to talk about how he does it. Drama for learning is his specialty.  A niche not many instructional designers delve into.  We'll talk about the role of drama in the workplace, storytelling, character design, writing dialogue and more.

You can learn more about his work at https://www.nicemedia.co.uk/ and also buy his latest book on the subject titled Watch & Learn: Designing, Writing, Commissioning & Producing Effective Video Drama for Learning.

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We had so much fun with Jeanne Bakker last year that we had to invite her back.

With a strong background in psychology and the science of education, Jeanne has a keen understanding of how we learn and has applied that understanding to training companies around the world.

We'll talk with Jeanne about a broad range of topics related to designing instruction like storytelling, gamification, and measuring the success of your training programs.  She has many successful case studies to share with us as well as offering up her top suggestions and tips to help all of us level up our training game.

Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on Twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag:

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It seems like every time you blink, a new learning platform pops into existence with some new innovative twist. There are now well over 800 learning platforms on the market. The real question is: what are we supposed to do with that information? How does any organization even begin to make sense of the crazy LMS (...or more like Learning Platform) market place.

Tune in for an informal discussion as Bryan Chapman shares his framework for learning platform market segmentation, with 10 primary segments and 37 sub-sectors based on different user models.  After presenting his map of the learning space, we'll let the discussion and questions take us anywhere you'd like to explore. Some topics that may be fun to touch on include innovations around collaborative learning, balancing highly structured learning with learning-on-demand; and how many organizations use multiple technologies as part of a broader learning ecosystem.

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Have you ever wondered why training solutions often don't actually solve business problems? Or maybe you just inherently know that the REAL issue is something other than a training issue. How can you be sure? And if you're right, how do you effectively communicate that to management?

Performance Improvement Consulting, or PIC, is an outstanding answer to that question.

Guy Wallace is a long time Performance Analyst and Instructional Architect.  He's joining IDIODC to share his knowledge of PIC and how you can level up your career from ID to Performance Analyst Consultant.

Discovering root causes to performance problems is critical in your success.  Even if you're "just the instructional designer", you'll want to know if the work you're doing is going to have any impact on the business.  And if the business problem is not a problem that your training solution will solve, then you will fail.

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Do you still look at Microlearning as simply shorter videos? That's not necessarily wrong, but if that's all they are, then why don't we just call them "short videos"? Microlearning has been a hot topic for several years now and we finally know what makes great microlearning more than just short videos.

Dr. Robyn Defelice joins us to talk about Microlearning as a concept or methodology in addition to the final microlearning products we all want to create.  Dr. Defelice will talk to us about microlearning deriving an answer, creating extremely focused pieces of training that build on one another to enhance, grow, or remediate a skill or performance.  But that's only one part of it. She will also discuss the importance of data analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of your microlearning solutions.  

But there's more. We'll also discuss new skills required for instructional designers like learning to write differently, engage quickly, and more.  There are important design skills to consider and we'll discuss as many as we can in this episode of IDIODC.

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