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The Learning Lab

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

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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Self-Management and Organization

How do I stay organized and manage my work tasks? A big change in my work world has been how to manage all of my different projects and deadlines.

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A Day in the Life of an ID

I have settled into a daily work routine. The key here is that my schedule is UP TO ME.

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Overhauling a Teacher Resume

Teachers looking to break into the field of corporate instructional design need to redo all of their application materials.

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Why I’m Learning to Code

E-Learning development has much in common with web development. This is why I am enrolling in Codecademy’s front-end web development course!

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Working Through Summer

This is my first summer working my full-time job, ever. So what’s it like working a corporate job all summer?

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E-Learning Heroes Challenges: Spring 2022

One of my professional goals for 2022 was to increase my skill level with eLearning authoring tools.

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Tech Upskilling via LinkedIn Learning

In the world of corporate instructional design, we use very specific digital tools. If you are transitioning to this field and have K-12 experience, our platforms are similar, but not the same. 

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