IDTX Online 2025

26th - 28th February 2025 - Virtual

IDTX turns 5 with another 3-day online
celebration of awesome L&D practitioners

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Agenda

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Wednesday 26th February

Key Takeaways

  • Understand how AI voice-bots can enhance assessments with real-time engagement and feedback.
  • Learn to design prompts aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy and LTEM for measurable outcomes.
  • Discover how to implement a voice-bot for scalable, effective assessments.
  • Gain actionable insights to ensure assessments align with real-world skills and objectives.

Session Description

Learn how to design impactful, real-time assessments using AI-powered voice-bots. This interactive workshop demonstrates how to create engaging prompts, leverage proven frameworks like Bloom’s Taxonomy and LTEM, and implement a voice-bot, to transform assessment practices into scalable, meaningful learning experiences.

Key Takeaways

  • Learn how to convert traditional, static workbook materials into engaging, interactive experiences
  • Discover practical strategies for integrating interactive features
  • Gain insights on learner-driven design principles that prioritize the needs and preferences of learners

Session Description

We will guide the audience through the process of creating interactive workbooks that click with learners and drive engagement. Participants will learn how to turn static content into dynamic learning experiences with simple eLearning tools. And we’ll also share practical tips for incorporating interactive elements that enhance learners’ understanding and make workbook learning more enjoyable.

Key Takeaways

  • Apply efficient project management strategies tailored for small learning teams or solo practitioners to streamline the design process.
  • Identify and utilize budget-friendly design tools and resources suitable for creating engaging learning experiences.
  • Analyze and implement practical approaches to elevate the learning experience within your corporation despite budget constraints.

Session Description

Explore practical and cost-effective approaches to instructional design and learning management, tailored for learning teams with limited budgets or even solo practitioners. From efficient project management strategies to budget-friendly design tools, we’ll cover a spectrum of low-cost methods that empower you to elevate the learning experience within your corporation.

Please note: we will use engagement technology, so it will be helpful to have a cell phone or multiple monitors to engage.

Key Takeaways

  • Explore six common learning value propositions that align learning activities with business impact.
  • Discover an agile process for aligning and evaluating the impact of learning activities on business goals.
  • Review a learning strategy tracker to have clear visibility into what learning activities align with a businesses’ key performance indicators.

Session Descriptions

All learning has a business impact. To make calculating the outcomes of learning easier, we must clarify which business value proposition our programs and services align with. In this session, you’ll explore Robert Brinkerhoff’s 6 Learning Value Propositions and practice aligning your learning learning initiatives with the most relevant business value proposition. The purpose of this exercise is to create shared language and goals among the learning and executive teams. With a shared language and shared hypothesis of business impact you can easily create your learning value proposition.

Thursday 27th February

Key Takeaways

  • Explore innovative ways to elevate your eLearning projects using AI-powered workflows and advanced Storyline development techniques.
  • Discover how cutting-edge AI tools like OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Colossyan can work together to create dynamic, data-driven learning experiences.
  • Learn how experiences built with Articulate Storyline 360 can securely transfer data between AI services in the back-end.

Session Details

2025 is shaping up to be the year of ‘Agentic AI’, and for learning experience developers, the possibilities that this new technology delivers are truly out of this world!

In this live demo, we’ll boldly go where few eLearning developers have gone before, combining the cutting-edge capabilities of OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Colossyan to create a fully agentic AI workflow. Jump aboard as we build a space-age candidate assessment survey designed to identify the best recruits for Discover Galactica. Watch as we transform Articulate Storyline into a command centre, securely carrying data across online services via the eLearning Magic Toolkit plugin.

We’ll explore how voice-activated interactions can lead to more insightful results, intricately capturing users’ decisions, confidence, and reasoning. Be ready to see how Colossyan’s brand-new API powers a bespoke video experience, where our virtual captain speaks directly to participants, creating a truly immersive and adaptive learning journey.

This session is ideal for intermediate-to-advanced Storyline developers looking to push boundaries with APIs and AI. If last year’s demo amazed you, this one will take things to the next level. Strap yourself in for more Extreme Storyline Development!

Key Takeaways

  • Understanding Learning as a Wicked Problem: Recognise the inherent complexities in learning design and delivery, including diverse learner needs, varying contexts, and unpredictable outcomes.
  • Introduction to the ASRI Model: Learn about the ASRI framework—Attention, Sense-Making, Retention, and Internalisation—and how it provides a structured approach to address the challenges in learning design.
  • Strategies for Effective Learning Design: Discover practical tactics for capturing learners’ attention, facilitating accurate understanding, promoting long-term retention, and encouraging the application of knowledge.

Session Description

In the realm of Learning and Development, crafting effective learning experiences is often a ‘wicked problem’—complex, multifaceted, and resistant to straightforward solutions. This workshop introduces the ASRI model—Attention, Sense-Making, Retention, and Internalisation—as a structured yet flexible framework to navigate these challenges. Join us to explore how the ASRI model can transform the complexities of learning into opportunities for impactful education.

Key Takeaways

  • Enhance your teaching toolkit and ensure academic integrity in your virtual classroom
  • Refine your assessments to accurately reflect your team’s knowledge and skills
  • Discover innovative techniques to create assessments that are both engaging and secure, ensuring precise measurement of learning impact.

Session Description

This engaging session is designed to transform your approach to online assessments! Discover foolproof strategies to safeguard your tests from cheating, including randomised question selection, time constraints and limited attempts.

Key Takeaways

  • Act Like a Consultant
  • Be a Spider in the Web
  • Understand the Company’s Context
  • Build Strategic Relationships
  • Focus on Outcomes, Not Tools
  • Sneak in Facilitation
  • Adapt Your Narrative
  • Embed Initiates into Existing Workflows

Session Details

Many learning programs fail to make an impact because they aren’t directly aligned with organizational objectives. Learning designers often struggle to connect with the business side of their companies, leading to a lack of buy-in and initiatives that feel disconnected or undervalued. In this session, we’ll explore practical strategies to bridge the gap between Learning & Development (L&D) and business leaders. You’ll learn how to speak the language of business, gain higher stakeholder buy-in, and foster cross-departmental collaboration. Whether one is looking to break down silos, elevate one’s role, or make learning material indispensable, this session will equip listeners with practical tools to succeed.

Key Takeaways

  • Confidently be able to use coaching to empower your learners during debreifs
  • Experience how to use appreciation to supercharge your learners thinking

Session Details

Taking a coach-like approach to facilitation empowers youre learners to be able to make sense of all the new stuff they’re learning and be excited to put it into action in the real world.

In this session you’ll get to try the Coaching Two-Step, a coaching model that can be used in any conversation, but is especially powerful when running debreifs with your learners.

Key Takeaways

  • Applying the ‘What? So what? Now what?’ Framework for reflection
  • Consideration of your own ID toolkit and how you can add additional active learning strategies.
  • Reflecting on your own experience during this short workshop.

Session Details

In this workshop you’ll gain a practical experience of how to add personal and professional reflection into any learning experience. It will (briefly) cover what reflection is, and the value it can provide for learners, then we’ll focus most of the session on practical ways you can add this vital tool for active learning. We’ll wrap the session with our own mini reflection exercise and the steps we can take to add reflection into your instructional design toolkit.

Key Takeaways

Click-to-Reveals and gaming elements don’t necessarily support learning and can often detract from it (and render online courses completely inaccessible). Reflections and scenarios are far more effective strategies to support real and authentic learning.

Sessions Details

What does effective learning look like? With buzzwords like gamification being thrown around and flashy interactions in high demand, how do we provide meaningful and engaging learning experiences that support learning?

Key Takeaways

  • Identify innovative ways to measure learning impact beyond traditional SCORM metrics
  • Uncover data sources that already exist in other departments that you can leverage to show performance improvement
  • Tell the story of impact in a way that makes leaders excited about learning projects

Session Details

Data. Metrics. ROI. Alignment. All these scary words keep coming into L&D conversations, and they can be pretty intimidating. But there’s no reason to fear! In this session, you’ll hear a few real-life stories of how L&D can go beyond smile sheet and completion data to gather learning impact metrics from all the dusty corners of your organization. We’ll talk about how these multiple data points can come together to tell the story of how amazing the learning project was – in a way that will make even the grumpiest senior leaders excited!

Friday 28th February

Key Takeaways

  • Applying the Principles of Animation: Learn how Disney’s animation techniques, such as “anticipation,” “timing,” and “squash and stretch,” can bring e-learning content to life and improve learner engagement.
  • Demonstrate examples: Discover some examples by other eLearning developers.
  • Leveraging Articulate Storyline 360 and Vyond: Get insights into how these tools are used to design interactive and visually appealing animations.

Session Description

If it moves, eyes will follow it. Discover how animation can elevate engagement and comprehension in online learning environments. This session is designed for instructional designers, educators, and e-learning developers looking to harness the full potential of animation to enhance the learning experience.

Key Takeaways

This session will summarize a year of efforts in digital transformation and teaching. I will highlight how we’ve equipped our academics with AI literacy and enhanced their use of technological tools and games in the classroom, ultimately enriching student experiences and boosting engagement.

Session Details

  • Overview of a year’s journey in digital transformation and teaching.
  • Strategies for equipping academics with AI literacy.
  • Effective use of technological tools and games in the classroom.
  • Methods to enhance student experiences and engagement.
  • Insights into best practices and lessons learned.

Key Takeaways

  • Facilitation techniques used during a kick-off session can streamline collaboration and reduce frustrations with SMEs and stakeholders.
  • Clear accountability exercises and expectations established during kick-off meetings prevent scope creep and misalignment.
  • Creating a list of terms of engagement can maintain mutual respect over the course of the project.
  • Contingency plans help maintain workflow momentum and minimise disruptions.
  • First conclusion bias can be used to create more focus when goal-setting within workshops.
  • Improved collaboration and clarity lead to better and more measurable learning outcomes for your audience.

Session Details

Instructional designers juggle many roles—project manager, collaborator, and creative problem solver—while working under tight deadlines and high expectations. Challenges such as scope creep, uncollaborative SMEs, and unclear accountability often disrupt workflows, leading to stress and endless iterations that fail to resonate with the audience. In focusing so much on the learner experience, it’s easy to lose sight of ways to make your own work more efficient and enjoyable.

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how facilitation techniques can help instructional designers address these challenges head-on. You’ll learn how to:

  • Establish clear accountability and expectations during kick-off meetings.
  • Navigate difficult conversations with stakeholders and SMEs to avoid misalignment.
  • Design and implement contingency plans to maintain momentum and minimise disruptions.

Drawing on insights from over eight years as an international facilitator, I’ll guide participants through intercultural collaboration exercises as we co-create an example of a kick-off session that sets the tone for a positive and impactful working environment. By focusing on facilitation and problem-solving strategies, you’ll leave with actionable tools to enhance both your workflow and the outcomes of your instructional design projects.

Key Takeaways

Session Details

Learning designers, we have a problem—our brains were never built for nonstop focus, yet we design like they should be. In this fast-paced, hands-on session, we’ll break down the F.U.C.K. framework—Focus, Understanding, Cognition, and Kinetics— to understand how to better design learning to work with the attentional networks in the brain.

Expect interactive experiments, a few “oh sh*t” moments, and practical takeaways to make your designs a little more brain-friendly and focus-ready. If you’re ready to rethink attention, come get your F.U.C.K. on.

Key Takeaways

  • Decode your learners’ hidden motivations and learning preferences
  • Craft personas that become your content creation compass
  • Apply the SURE principles to write learning materials that truly resonate

Session Details

Tired of training content that falls flat? The secret lies in understanding your learners and writing specifically for them. Join us to discover how to transform dry training into compelling content that grabs attention and drives engagement.

In this session, you’ll learn how to:

  1. Decode your learners’ hidden motivations and learning preferences
  2. Craft personas that become your content creation compass
  3. Apply the SURE principles to write learning materials that truly resonate

Key Takeaways

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Session Details

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