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The Learning Lab

Thoughts on instructional design, tech enablement, and building better learning cultures.

Using an LMS and an LXP

A traditional LMS still serves an important role for organizations, but the more modern LXPs are an opportunity to surprise and delight learners with friendly interfaces and pathways.

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Coming Around on Captivate

I develop a lot of technical product training for our in-house software, so I’ve been using Adobe Captivate more and more over the last year.

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Cara North Aids a Righteous Cause

Cara North offered to review my Nashville Defenders project and I was blown away by how gracious and thoughtful she was.

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Part II: Remote Work and my Personal Life

This reflection will look at some of the ways remote work has benefited my personal life.

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Part I: Remote Work and my Professional Life

Remote work has been a blessing in every aspect of my life. This post will explore some of the ways that remote work enhances my professional life.

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How Codecademy Does Asynchronous Learning

The Codecademy courses are completely self-driven and asynchronous. They grant their learners complete autonomy to jump around, look up solutions, and engage at our own pace.

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How to Reduce Screen Time

The entirety of my job today involves staring at a screen. Because of this, I have to limit my screen time in the afternoons and evenings when work is finished for the day.

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Whatcha Reading Wednesdays

‘Bonafide bookworm’ is part of my professional brand on LinkedIn, so I’d love to bring my digital community together to share what y’all are reading these days.

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A Cabin Work Retreat

I worked remotely from a mountain cabin in Tennessee for a week! It wasn’t until this summer that I decided to take full advantage of our remote work policy.

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Evaluating My Impact as an ID

Recently I attended a webinar hosted by the ROI Institute and it got me thinking about my evaluation strategy. There is a really easy way to evaluate the effectiveness of my learning solutions. I need to answer this one question:

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