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Don't Forget the Learning!

When we’re optimizing development for a do-more-with-less world, it’s easy to overlook the hard bit – how do we know our interventions work? Let’s look at ways to ensure your learning development does what it should.

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July 16, 2024

Finding Success with Subject Matter Experts

In the previous posts, we’ve talked about the SME-ID relationship and the risks of SME-led development (with some mitigations). Enough doom and gloom! Let’s talk about how to manage a successful engagement with SMEs.

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June 19, 2024

Managing Risks with SMEs, Part 2

In part one of the risks discussion, we talked about managing the content risks when a subject expert does their own learning development. In this post, we’ll talk about the other risks &emdash; the costs and long-term implications. As always, I’ll include suggested mitigations.

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June 15, 2024

Managing Risks with SMEs, Part 1

In the beginning of this series, we talked about whether learning development should be entirely on your subject experts and how instructional designers can help. In this post, we’ll talk about the risks and mitigations when a subject matter expert (SME) develops learning content.

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June 8, 2024

AI for learning development

Everywhere you turn, vendors are adding AI to their products. They promise faster, easier, better development with fewer people. But is this true? How can we evaluate the process and the results when AI is used? Let’s explore.

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June 1, 2024