Check out our e-learning episodes including video interviews, podcasts, and live event recordings!
Video Interview with Richard Mayer on Gender Matching Avatars and Non-Binary Gender
In this video, we ask Dr. Richard Mayer about his research on using gender-matching avatars to help students learn. Listen in as Dr. Richard Mayer explains his experiment and how the movement toward more inclusion (especially in regards to recognizing a nonbinary identity) could be considered going forward.
Video Interview with Richard Mayer on Learning in Virtual Reality
In this interview with Dr. Richard Mayer, we discuss one of Mayer’s recent 2022 publications in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Learning in Immersive Virtual Reality” where Mayer and his co-authors, Guido Makransky and Jocelyn Parong, state that “a pitfall of learning in immersive virtual reality is that high immersion can create distractions in the form of increased emotional arousal and increased levels of interesting but irrelevant perceptual richness.”
Listen in as Richard Mayer responds to the question, “Given the duality of IVR being both engaging and distracting, what can learning designers do to reduce distractions while trying to retain engagement?”
Video Interview with Richard Mayer on Mayer’s Principles and Accessibility
We interview Richard Mayer on how to apply Mayer’s Principles while at the same time, designing with greater accessibility in mind. Tune in to see how Mayer responds to our first prompt:
“As you know, many instructional designers use your principles as a foundation for designing learning experiences. However, the depth of understanding and the knowledge of your principles vary greatly, from person to person, and as a result, many learning and development professionals see the redundancy principle, and the modality principle as being noninclusive and not conducive to universal design practices. My question is, How do you see accessibility fitting within the principles of your book?“
Check out Richard Mayer’s response to this question and more in our latest video!
Mayer’s Principles and Accessibility Book Chat
On October 18, 2022, we invited two special guests to join us as we discussed how Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning intersect with accessibility and universal design. We referenced the 3rd edition of Richard Mayer’s book, Multimedia Learning. Our panelists shared how they apply Mayer’s principles in their work and discussed whether they believe it’s possible to implement these principles while designing for greater accessibility.
How to Build an Instructional Design Portfolio
Our very own Dana Chung and Cecil Cheng presented a guide on how to build an instructional design portfolio for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Check out the video to learn more.
New Instructional Designers Panel
On May 11th, 2022, we invited four newer instructional designers to speak about their career and experiences! They discussed what they wish they knew before starting and provided tips for those trying to break into the field.
Interview with Chaka Jaliwa
Chaka Jaliwa is an education specialist at Space Center Houston in Texas. Although his current position involves engaging K-12 students and teachers in science activities, his formal education is in electrical engineering. How did he get here, and how does he create learning experiences for students? Watch to find out!
Interview with Mandy Lin
Have you ever been confused about the different job titles in the Learning and Development world? Instructional designer, learning experience designer, and user experience designer. What exactly are the differences between them? Mandy Lin is a graduate student studying Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.
Interview with Jack Du
Do you get frustrated when you’ve studied a foreign language for a long time but can’t even order a coffee in the language you studied? What makes language learning effective and attractive? Today we have Jack Du, an experienced teacher of Chinese language and science, and a current MBA candidate at UCLA, to talk about how education technology in the form of a language learning app could help enhance learners’ communicative competence while making language learning more fun and engaging.
Future of Work
Online Pop-Up Conference presented by Stanford Continuing Medical Education
Watch elearningdesigner.org’s very own Cecil Cheng participate in a discussion hosted by Stanford Medicine. The panel was called, “The Secret Sauce for Concocting Effective Learning Experiences: Looking at Learning Design Principles & Applications!”
Association for Talent Development Webinar
On April 18, 2021, Cecil presented “Measuring Learning Success: Building Effective Assessments” for the Association for Talent Development (ATD). Check out her slides to learn more about writing learning outcomes, best practices for writing learning assessments, and how to use Kane’s Framework for Validating Assessments as described by David Cook, Rose Hatala, Ryan Brydges, and Shiphra Ginsburg.