This session provides an overview of free and low-cost tools that enhance instructional design for many audiences and environments. We will discuss how to: 1) Engage internal subject matter experts (SMEs); 2) Create communities of practice within an organization; 3) Encourage learners to generate learning content; 4) Incorporate word clouds, memes, wikis, and discussion boards into activities and assignments; 5) Use social platforms such as Slack and Twitter to engage learners; 6) Create "mob-style" training events; 7) Incorporate scavenger hunts into virtual classes; 8) Use learning technology to enable gamification and game-based learning; 9) Track learning experiences using learning platforms and QR codes to increase efficiency; 10) Use data to prove return on investment/expectations to stakeholders and secure a higher budget for next year

Objectives:

• Hear about free and low-cost ways you can use to engage learners and enhance their experience
• Learn "why" an instructional designer should use out-of-the-box teaching methods to engage the learner, and understand learning design concepts like diversity of thought and social collaboration
• Share ideas with your colleagues and hear their ideas as well

Take-aways:

• Establish why curation is a vital component for learning and performance improvement
• Define what recent research reveals about the use of curation for learning
• Explore an end-to-end curation process: Champion, Unearth, Refine, Aggregate, Transfer and Embed

This interactive session will involve inputs from Charles Jennings and Laura Overton and opportunity to explore together three questions to help L&D become business critical :

• Are there better ways to modify and articulate our value proposition?
• Is it time to change relationship with stakeholders?
• What L&D capabilties do we need to prioritise business value?

Objectives:

• Rethinking the business critical role of L&D
• Redefining the scorecard
• Building L&D Benchstrength

But how do you fit interactivity and games into a digital training session? It’s not as hard as you think. Join this session and play a game. Participate in digital decision making, collaboration and learning. Become engaged as you learn how to incorporate simple but effective interactive elements into your online sessions.

Take-aways:

• Experience how a simple digital card game can be used for role-plays
• Discover how to create simple but effective activities to engage and motivate learners
• Learn a framework you can use for your own interactive sessions