Santa and his elves feature submitted learning wishes and woes and provide helpful holiday advice! Need a new learning strategy? Want to spice up your boring e-learning? Want to increase your ROI? Need help with design ideas or development insights? Remember, Santa has a whole workshop full of elves to help, so tell Santa what you want!

1. Wishes or Woes:
Santa Knows How to Help
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
1:00-2:00 pm Central
Ethan “Santa” Edwards
chief instructional strategist
Lisapingle Stortzcicle
strategic relationship manager

2. Hannah Von Vixen, Brittany Dasher & Carrie Bliltzens

3. The Control Panel
Meet
SAM:
An
Agile
Process
for
Developing
the
Best
Learning
Experiences

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6. Wishes or Woes:
Santa Knows How to Help
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
1:00-2:00 pm Central
Ethan “Santa” Edwards
chief instructional strategist
Lisapingle Stortzcicle
strategic relationship manager

7. THANK
YOU!
Santa
Allen Claus
Inter
action
s

8. Dear Santa,
For Christmas this year, I’d like to request
Not something for me, but my team - a behest.
My wish list this year may be long and untoward,
But each one is important to move learning forward.

9. Gen Y’ers need many a sim challenge and game;
Let’s make their X-Box and Nintendo look lame.
The X’ers are easy to please, no big ask;
But real life scenarios sure get them on task.
Now boomers don’t like all this PC-based stuff,
But weave in a story for meaningful fluff.
Matures are much harder, but think if you will
Of some courses where clear ROI’s not a pill.

10. Make it easy and fun, make it feature-filled;
Let instructional designers add flare when they build.
Give me images, videos, interactions and toys,
For new hire and tenured, for girls and for boys.
And last but not least, if you could, if you please,
Get me some learners who take training with ease;
Who jump right out of bed in the morning to find
What new courses there are for expanding their mind.

11. That is it, that is all – not such a big list.
Without learning this year, all our goals would be missed.
If we get all these treats for us under the tree,
We promise to share them with joy and with glee!
You’ll experience the fruits of our labor and then,
We can celebrate learning with family and friend!
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!

12. Santa’s List
• Reining
in
SMEs
• Deligh@ul
Design
Tips
• CreaCng
More
Meaningful
Learning
• Ways
to
Ensure
Learning
Transfer

13. Dear Santa,
I would really love a way keep the elves from adding
too much content that distracts from the scope of the
toy.
Wendy & Kandi
P.S. Could you help some of my content authors, I
think they’ve made the naughty list?

14. 5 Analysis Questions

15. What
do
you
expect
learners
to
be
able
to
DO?

16. Elf Job Tasks
History of Tools for Workshop Reindeer Annoying
Giggling Toy Safety Husbandry Elf Tricks
Making
Build
Toys X X
Load
Sleigh X
Feed
Reindeer X

17. LAUNCH
COURSE

18. Dear Santa,
I wish for coal in the stocking of those who nitpick
everything to death to hold up a course.
Fredia

19. You are asking for too
much little girl!

20. Dear Santa,
I would like clever instructional design tips to guide us
through the ID process.
We need creative ideas to engage our learners.
Sharon

21. Design Principles
ENGAGING
LEARNING
EXPERIENCES

22. Creating e-Learning That
Makes a Difference

23. Santa,
What I would really like for Christmas (besides
world peace) is a better system for taking the detailed
content and making it meaningful for our learners.
Kandi

24. 5 Critical Design Activities

25. 5 Critical Design Activities
• Don’t
start
with
storyboards
• Use
prototypes
&
sketches
• Don’t
work
linearly
• Pretend
your
learners
can’t
read
• Seek
input
early

26. Santa,
I know our users are getting bored – and we are too!
If you could fill our stockings with some fresh ideas
for learning activities, we’d really appreciate it!
Jeremy

27. LAUNCH
COURSE

28. Santa,
Learning Attrition remains a major challenge... much
of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are taught
and learned are not transferred to job performance.
Everett

29. An Example:
Training
for
safe
rail
crossings
for
truck
drivers
a
crossing
p roaching
when
ap
• Slow
tracCon
s
is )
• R emove
d k
and
roll”
wa ys
(“Roc
• L o ok
both
w
and
liste
n
w n
windo
• Roll
do d
signage
co ntrols
an
• Obey h
cauCo
n
it
• Proceed
w
Stopping
D
istances
Storage
A
reas
Off-­‐road
c
rossings

30. LAUNCH
COURSE

31. Santa,
I wish you could send new glasses to the management
so they can see the world differently, outside their
theoretical PPT presentations!
Julie

32. Elves, get on that!

33. Santa,
I’d mostly like a pony, and also I’d like an
interactive design process that doesn’t look
like I’m flying by the seat of my pants...
Rhea

34. SAM: Successive Approximation Model
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35. SAM: Successive Approximation Model
Copyright ©2011. Michael W. Allen. All Rights Reserved.

36. Dear Santa,
Can you sneak into the Adobe Labs, put some
electrodes in the Authorware Cadaver and bring it
back to life?! I can see the visual... the lightning!
The Red Suit! Santa Resurrects Authorware!
Seriously, nothing matches it - nothing.
Pining for an AWful Christmas,
Rudolph (well, you asked) :)

37. ZEBRAZAPPS

38. Dear Santa,
Why don’t people read pre-training materials? And
what’s a training manager to do about it?
Yours truly,
Andy

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40. You’re Invited!
Holiday party!
Candies and sweets!
Get to know your colleagues!
Secret Santa gift exchange!
Poinsettia decorations
Videos and popcorn in the boardroom!
Wear you favorite holiday apparel!

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42. Dear Santa,

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