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• April Chapter Meeting: Your Portfolio is Your New Resume

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    Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CDT)

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  Join us for our April Chapter Meeting -

  Your Portfolio is Your New Resume

  Program Description:

  The job market for learning professionals is rapidly shifting. Nowadays, more and more companies are hiring for tangible skills and talent. This means they care more about what you can offer them right now, regardless of the length of your employment history or your education credentials. As a result, in order to be competitive and land your next gig or client, it’s more important than ever that you can showcase your work, skills, and talent. To put it simply, a resume alone isn’t enough to get hired—you need a portfolio! In this session, you’ll explore why portfolios aren’t just for freelancers and why and how you should start building yours ASAP.
  
  After attending this session, you'll be able to...
  

  • Find the right tool for building your online portfolio, regardless of your skill level.
  • Optimize your portfolio to sell your skills and talents.
  • Overcome common challenges and best practices for curating your portfolio examples.

  
  

  

  Speaker Bio:
  

  Tim Slade is a speaker, author, and award-winning freelance eLearning designer. Having spent the last decade working to help others elevate their eLearning and visual communications content, Tim has been recognized and awarded within the eLearning industry multiple times for his creative and innovative design aesthetics. Tim is also a regular speaker at international eLearning conferences, a recognized Articulate Super Hero, author of The eLearning Designer’s Handbook, and creator of The eLearning Designer’s Academy. 
  

  
  

  
  

  ATD Capabilities: Career and Leadership Development, Instructional Design

  After completing your event registration here, you will need to register for your unique Zoom link to join the chapter meeting. Instructions will be included in your ATDKC event confirmation email.
  
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• May Chapter Meeting: Designing from the Heart! Learning Empathy and the User Experience

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    Tuesday, May 11, 2021
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    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)

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  Join us for our May Chapter Meeting -

  Designing from the Heart! Learning Empathy and the User Experience

  Program Description:

  Getting to know your learner and wanting to design the best training you can for them is at the heart of a human-centered design practice called Learner Experience (LX) design. Learner Experience design focuses on developing empathy for your learners, understanding their needs, and creating a training experience that supports those needs. This practice can aid instructional designers, trainers, and developers to create more relevant and engaging trainings for their audience. However, in order to truly develop empathy for your learners, it is important to understand who they are in a way that goes beyond basic demographics. Creating Learner Personas to serve as specific representations of general groups of learners allows you to dive into their motivations, outlooks, and personalities so you can deepen your understanding and connection. In this session we will define Learner Experience and human-centered design, and discuss how it can be applied to the training lifecycle. We will also examine how Learner Personas can take audience analysis even further by cultivating a deeper understanding of your learners, which will foster empathy within your design team to help create training that is intentional and truly meaningful.

   

  Program Learning Objectives/Job Application:

  • Develop strategies for conducting in-depth audience analysis by using our Learner Persona template
  • Integrate Human Centered Design practices into your Development Process by using Learner Personas to make better informed training decisions that account for your learner's needs
  • Learn how to have intentional and purposeful conversations about learners with your team in order to create a culture of learner advocacy
  • Determine a balance between satisfying business needs and accommodating the training experience of your learners

  
  

  
  

  Speaker Bio:

  Debra Jensen designs learning experiences and development solutions as the Senior User Interface/User Experience Designer at Reflection Software. Through her background in design and computer programming she has developed a passion for usability, good design, and user empathy.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

  Speaker Bio:

  Alicia is an Account Manager at Reflection Software. She supports clients in defining what is at the heart of the training solution they’re looking to create, and then works with her talented RS team to make that vision come to life! She also helps to bring new clients into the RS family and has been known to contribute some blog writing as time allows. One of her main driving goals is to work hard so her 2 cats can have a better life

  
  

  
  

  
  

  ATD Capability: Instructional Design

  
  

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• eLearning SiG: Outside the Box - Non-Learning Tools for Improving Your L&D Practice

  • When
    Thursday, June 17, 2021
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    4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT)
  • Location
    Virtual Event

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  Join us for our eLearning Special Interest Group (SIG):

  Outside the Box - Non-Learning Tools for Improving Your L&D Practice

  Program Description: 

  There are plenty of common tools that learning and development professionals use every day as part of their work. But sometimes you discover a tool that opens new doors or makes an existing workflow much more effective, transforming your work for the better.
  
  

  In this session, we’ll explore non-L&D tools that can improve your practice. Get ready for an exploration of tools that you can use to improve the work you do every day.

  
  

  Learning Objectives for this program:
  

  Introduce you to a collection of tools useful for your L&D work for automation, learning campaigns, mobile apps and more. 

  
  

  Speaker Information:

  With over two decades of real-life, in-the-trenches experience designing and delivering learning experiences, Mike Taylor understands that effective learning isn’t about the latest fad or trendy new tools. Known for his practical, street-savvy style, Mike is a regular and highly-rated speaker at industry events, consults on learning design and technology at Change4Growth and teaches in Franklin University’s Instructional Design & Performance Technologies graduate program in Columbus, Ohio. Mike holds an MBA degree from Ohio University and a master’s degree in educational technology from San Diego State University.
  

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