Use these 5 ideas to reflect on how gratitude and learning are connected to your personal growth and development.
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🔨 How Do You Build a Learning Experience?
Ever wonder what it means to “build a learning experience?” We’re going to show you how we build learning experiences from the ground up in 5 easy steps. Let’s put on our hard hats to take a step inside the construction site to see how it all comes together.
👟10 Common Missteps with Technology in Education
What you should…and shouldn’t do to implement new technologies into learning experiences.
🦾 Using Technology in the Workplace to Increase Human Connection with Emily Harburg
Is technology tearing us apart…or bringing us together? Learn how to use technology in the workplace to increase human connection with the Co-Founder and CEO of PairUp, Emily Harburg. (Watch on YouTube HERE.) Get to Know Dr. Emily Harburg Dr. Emily Harburg is passionate about building technology that helps people feel more connected, supported, and […]
What Can You Do to Bridge a Skills Gap?
Only 40% of employees feel their companies are upskilling enough, leaving the workforce with a skills gap. There’s obvious room for growth that forward-thinking organizations will take advantage of by developing innovative strategies that will bridge the skills gap and create a workforce that’s prepared for the future. Learn what the skills gap is, what […]
15 Blended Learning Strategies to Spice Up Trainings
Tired of bland organizational trainings? Let’s take a look at how you can incorporate blended learning strategies into your approach for a more flavorful experience your employees will crave. “If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?” Whether you’ve been asked this by a friend on […]
12 Ways to Sabotage a Learning Experience
At Desklight, we are passionate about creating learning experiences that are truly learner-centered. While you might think all learning experiences are built for the learner, the reality is that not all designs fully embrace the learner’s needs and preferences. With over 40 years of combined experience, our team has identified 12 common pitfalls in learning […]
Getting Intentional About Creating Tension in Learning
Discover 6 ways to create tension in your learning experiences, why it’s important, and how it will cultivate learners, stimulate critical thinking, and boost knowledge retention for transformative learning. Tying Tension into Learning Do you remember the struggle of learning how to tie your shoes? Your uncoordinated fingers had to be pinched just right, your […]
SIGNIFICANCE: The Design of the Learning Experience (6 of 6)
Design learning to answer why? When I taught marketing communications, one of the early lessons I conveyed to students, and the very first element I looked for in their work was this: can the audience explain WHY this message is for them, and will they care? What makes this message, at this moment, significant? Learning […]
TOUCHPOINTS: The Design of the Learning Experience (5 of 6)
Close your eyes. Breathe deep. And remember. Not that long ago I taught a course on semiotics to help advertising students understand how to draw connections between material forms (things that can be heard, seen, touched, or tasted) and the signified (the mental concept – what that thing means). One day I taught a class […]
