Podcast appearances and mentions of connie malamed

This week, Connie Malamed, a leading expert in visual instructional design, joins Crystal for a deep dive into the art and science of creating compelling learning materials. In This Episode, You Will Learn: Visual Design Essentials: Connie breaks down the importance of visual instructional design and its impact on learner engagement and retention. Avoiding Common Pitfalls: Discover the biggest mistakes in eLearning design and how to steer clear of them. Why Visuals Matter: Explore why integrating visual elements is crucial for effective instructional design. Advice for New Designers: Get practical tips on what every beginner should know about visual design to enhance their projects. Industry Evolution: Connie shares her insights on the most significant developments in instructional design over the past two decades. Words of Wisdom: Be inspired by Connie's advice for those starting their journey in instructional design. Join Our Community: Take your learning further by joining the eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners Mastermind Community. Connect with like-minded individuals and access a treasure trove of resources tailored to elevate your instructional design skills. Important Links and Mentions: Access the eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners Toolkit for essential resources. Visit The eLearning Coach for more insights and resources from Connie Malamed. Stay Connected: Subscribe to our podcast for more expert interviews and insights into the world of eLearning and instructional design. Share this episode with fellow designers and educators to spread the knowledge!

When should designers, course writers, and faculty use animated instruction to its greatest effect and when should it be removed? How does visual design affect learning in higher ed, and online, coursework? We explore all of these questions and more with our amazing guest, Connie Malamed, so you can apply her wisdom to your work and create more success for your courses and your students!

When should designers, course writers, and faculty use animated instruction to its greatest effect and when should it be removed? How does visual design affect learning in higher ed, and online coursework? We explore all of these questions and more with our amazing guest, Connie Malamed, so you can apply her wisdom to your work and create more success for your courses and your students!

The user experience is more than just usability. In this episode, learning experience and design consultant Connie Malamed shares practical methods for improving the effectiveness of eLearning.   Show Notes:Connie Malamed shares tips for learning experience design including:Importance of User Experience (UX): User experience is the totality of a person's interaction with a product or learning event. This includes factors like engagement, satisfaction, and even support from managers and other who contribute to a positive learner experience.Common Mistakes in Usability: One prevalent mistake is the failure to use interviews and surveys to better understand the learner, their need for the learning and how they will apply it. Think Aloud Method: Connie introduces the Think Aloud method as an effective and inexpensive approach to gather learner feedback. By observing individuals as they perform specific tasks and express their thoughts aloud, designers gain insights into user experiences, preferences, and potential challenges.Creating User Personas: Developing user personas is a valuable practice in instructional design. While some critics argue about potential stereotyping, Connie suggests breaking the audience into subgroups and using personas to humanize the approach. This method helps designers understand their audience's characteristics and needs.Tools for Improved Usability: Connie recommends tools borrowed from user experience design and design thinking. These include personas, empathy maps, journey maps, and storyboards. These tools contribute to a more inclusive and accessible design process, enhancing the overall usability of e-learning projects.Visit Connie's eLearning Coach websitePowered by Learning earned an Award of Distinction in the Podcast/Audio category from The Communicator Awards and a Silver Davey Award for Educational Podcast. The podcast is also named to Feedspot's Top 40 L&D podcasts and Training Industry's Ultimate L&D Podcast Guide.Learn more about d'Vinci at www.dvinci.com.

In this episode of Beltway Broadcast, your Metro DC Chapter of ATD hosts Connie Malamed. Connie is a learning experience design consultant, mentor, and international speaker. She is the host of the eLearning Coach podcast and the author of Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals and Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand. In this episode, Connie explains what it means to create engaging eLearning, describes components of successful eLearning, and shares tips and best practices for practitioners who are new to eLearning. If you'd like to learn more about Connie, visit her website. For more info about the Metro DC Chapter of ATD, visit DCATD.org.  Episode Credits: Series Announcer: Julie Waters Hosts: Christina Eanes, Stephanie Hubka, Laëtitia Gnago, and Halyna Hodges

Connie Malamed, AKA the eLearning Coach, is a learning experience design expert who helps people learn, build, and grow instructional design skills. She's also an author, blogger, and podcast host, and she leads a membership community that offers both live and self-paced courses. In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, co-host Jeff Cobb talks with return guest Connie about hybrid and blended learning, including the ambiguity of those terms. They also discuss the pandemic's impact on learning designers, forgetting and retention, visual design, using community to support learning, personal networks as knowledge, and the importance of the learner's journey. Full show notes and a transcript are available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode324.

Learning & Development seems to be constantly evolving but at the same time revisiting and reinventing what has come before. In this episode, we discuss the emerging trends that have their origins in the past and the pioneers that we all need to pay more attention to. KEY TAKEAWAYS Even today, much of what we do in L&D is not evidence-based. This has to change. We are not taking successful methods from the past and reworking them for the modern world. Instead, we are simply rehashing old theories, without looking for evidence that they work. We don´t look back to see who might have done what we are trying to achieve before. You have to understand the jobs of the participants, and do the cognitive task analysis. L&D is not all about delivering learning. They are there to solve problems that are holding the business back Stakeholder management is a vital component of delivering solutions that work. BEST MOMENTS 'There is a big gap between positive endeavour and evidence-based practice.' 'Do it well, or don´t do it 'You need to work with problem analysis teams and then with problem-solving teams.' 'We need to think more holistically ' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Learning And Development Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-learning-development-podcast/id1466927523 L&D Masterclass Series: https://360learning.com/blog/ EPISODE RESOURCES You can follow and contact Mirjam via: Twitter: @MirjamN LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirjamneelen/details/experience/ How Learning Happens by Paul Kirschner - https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Learning-Happens-Paul-Kirschner/dp/0367184575/ How Teaching Happens by Paul Kirshner - https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Teaching-Happens-Effectiveness-Practice/dp/1032132086/ Guy Wallace Books - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guy-W-Wallace/e/B08JQC4C4V?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662104935&sr=8-1 Joe Harless - https://hptmanualspring16.weebly.com/harless-model.html Donald Clark - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Donald-Clark/e/B08HVS5QSP?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662105350&sr=8-1 Dr. Jane Bozarth - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Bozarth/e/B001JS7VKO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4&qid=1662105930&sr=8-4 Patti Shank - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=patti+shank&crid=1I6XTHRPN5DBM&sprefix=patti+shank%2Caps%2C123&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Connie Malamed - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Connie-Malamed/e/B001SQ2JHW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662106345&sr=8-1 Mike Taylor - https://mike-taylor.org/   ABOUT THE GUEST Mirjam Neelen Bio Mirjam Neelen is the Head of Global Learning Design and Learning Sciences in Novartis. She is part of a team that redefines how Novartis Associates build competence. With 15 years' industry experience, she has worked in a wide variety of learning design roles in organisations such as Accenture, Google, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ABOUT THE HOST David James  David has been a People Development professional for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.  As well as being the Chief Learning Officer at 360Learning, David is a prominent writer and speaker on topics around modern and digital L&D.  CONTACT METHOD  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/davidinlearning/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjameslinkedin/ L&D Collective: https://360learning.com/the-l-and-d-collective/ Blog: https://360learning.com/blog/ L&D Masterclass Series: https://360learning.com/blog/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Connie Malamed, theelearningcoach.comMy guest for today is Connie Malamed, curator of theelearningcoach.com, which she founded way back in 2009. She has been in the visual, instructional and learning design field for more than 20 years and has, literally, seen it all.In this insightful conversation, Connie and I discuss:Why visual design is so important in learning today, given the fact that so much data is transmitted visually in online learningWhy the two most important things to consider as a visual designer are your audience (as in who are they, really) and context (as in where are they, what are they learning, etc.)Why it is important to consider how humans cognitively process graphics and visual parts of learning. Your eyes are always moving, so we need to think about how to build a visual hierarchy that accounts for perception, processing and remembering.When and how we give something “meaning.” - is it working memory, long term memory, and how we don't really know how this works exactly.Why learning designers are not the same as graphic designers and how to avoid the biggest mistakes of design: clutter, forgetting visual hierarchy, and simply having “too much” (fonts, colors, etc.)... And… the reason why you should never use a white background for a presentation in a large room.~

Do you want to learn how to use visual elements to create polished, professional learning materials? Visual design expert, Connie Malamed, shares the answer to that question in this educational episode. She is not just an expert in visual design, she's also a consultant, author, and speaker in the fields of online learning and visual communication. Connie is the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. She also publishes The eLearning Coach website and podcast. She was honored with the Guild Master award in 2018 for contributions to the learning technologies industry. Essential Learning Points: The importance of visual instructional design for learners and eLearning The biggest mistake in designing eLearning Reasons why visual design is so important What new instructional designers should know about visual design Biggest developments in ID in the last 20 years Words of wisdom for beginners in the field of ID Important Links and Mentions: eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners Mastermind Community (https://www.eteachonline.com/join) eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners Toolkit (https://www.eteachonline.com/toolkit) The eLearning Coach (https://theelearningcoach.com/)

This week's podcast episode is an exclusive interview with visual design expert, Connie Malamed! In this week's podcast episode, you'll learn: The importance of visual instructional design for learners and eLearning Biggest mistake in designing eLearning Reasons why visual design is so important What new instructional designers should know about visual design Biggest developments in ID in the last 20 years Words of wisdom for beginners in the field of ID Connie Malamed helps people learn and build instructional design skills at Mastering Instructional Design. She is a consultant, author and speaker in the fields of online learning and visual communication. Connie is the author of Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. She also publishes The eLearning Coach website and podcast. She was honored with the Guild Master award in 2018 for contributions to the learning technologies industry. Visit Connie's website at https://theelearningcoach.com/ for a multitude of free instructional design resources! __________________________________________________________ I would love to have you as an eLearning & Instructional Design for Beginners Mastermind Member! My program is a proven step-by-step process you can use for a successful career in instructional design and create online courses from scratch! I offer a FREE membership that gives you all the tools and resources you need to successfully start a career in instructional design and eLearning. Click here to learn more: https://www.eteachonline.com/join SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR MORE ELEARNING & INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN TIPS & RESOURCES!__________________________________________________________ Who is Crystal? I'm a mom and former teacher in my thirties who transitioned to instructional design so that I could have a more flexible work schedule. All while working full-time as a single mom. Now I help other people do the same. I've helped thousands become successful in instructional design. I have all the tools and resources you need to start a career in instructional design and online learning! FOLLOW Crystal on SOCIAL: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/elearningidforbeginners Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/eteachonline LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eteachonline/ Again, don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if it helped you today... Subscribe to my channel...hit that notification bell...and if you have any additional questions, ask in the comments (I monitor them daily). Kajabi is one platform I recommend for creating and selling an online course. Try Kajabi for FREE! https://app.kajabi.com/r/zQ2FTcBG

Connie Malamed is a life force for the learning and development industry. We were told to get in the Connie canoe and so we did. In this episode we meet Connie, US based learning experience consultant, the host of the eLearning Coach Podcast and author of a number of books including Visual Design Solutions which we explore with book club members from the Change Republic learning community. We touch on key principles from the book including visual design hierarchy, cognitive load, colours, process and more. This is a must - come and jump into the Connie canoe with us.  Enjoy.  The Learning to Thrive podcast is brought to you by Change Republic - Australia's number #1 learning talent marketplace and community. Get learning services on demand and build a dream career or learning business with our help. Let's get learning working. Visit www.changerepublic.com.au

What's the secret to great visual design? We asked Connie Malamed, The eLearning Coach, to share her eLearning and visual design expertise in this episode of The Visual Lounge. Connie helps people build their instructional design skills. She's a consultant, an author, and speaker in online learning and visual communication. Connie is the author of ‘Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals' and also runs The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie's interview is packed full of fantastic advice for instructional designers, experienced or otherwise. She explains how creativity comes in many forms and why you don't need to be a top artist to be a great visual designer. She also delves into the top design principles you need to know about, how to avoid overwhelming your audience, and why style guides are so important. Learning points from the episode include: Why everyone can be creative in visual design, not just the artists Why using white space and positioning are key to great visual design How to create focal points and draw the eye How cognitive load works Why we need to avoid overloading our audience with information How standardization and style guides can help visual designers Important links and mentions: The eLearning Coach: https://theelearningcoach.com/ (https://theelearningcoach.com/) Connie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/) Connie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/elearningcoach (https://twitter.com/elearningcoach) Mastering Instructional Design: https://masteringid.com/ (https://masteringid.com/) Businesses Must Modernize Communications or Risk Productivity Loss: https://www.techsmith.com/visual-communication-research.html (https://www.techsmith.com/visual-communication-research.html) The Future of Communication Is Visual. Here Are 6 Ways Your Team Can Innovate: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/visual-types-remote-communication/ (https://www.techsmith.com/blog/visual-types-remote-communication/) How To Use Visual Communication and Why It Matters: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/why-visual-communication-matters/ (https://www.techsmith.com/blog/why-visual-communication-matters/) The One Tool You Need to Create Awesome Visual Instructions: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/the-tool-you-need-to-create-awesome-visual-instructions/ (https://www.techsmith.com/blog/the-tool-you-need-to-create-awesome-visual-instructions/) Learn more about the https://academy.techsmith.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=visuallounge&utm_content=visuals-for-instruction-secrets (TechSmith Academy). To read the blog post on the topic or watch the video, go to: https://www.techsmith.com/blog/visuals-for-instruction-secrets (https://www.techsmith.com/blog/visuals-for-instruction-secrets)

Think charisma and good instructional design are enough to make up for mediocre visual design? Think again. Connie Malamed, Chief Mentor at Mastering Instructional Design and publisher of The Elearning Coach website suggests that we can be doing better when it comes to visual design.

In this solo episode, I briefly introduce the idea of empathic design to create a learner persona to best help learning and development professionals understand their learners' needs. First, I briefly explain the Empathic Framework created by Kouprie and Visser. Then, I introduce another form of empathic design, an Empathy Map that was first introduced to me by Connie Malamed but has since been updated into a new Empathy Map Canvas by Dave Gray.Finally, I share an article, Building Empathy and Developing Instructional Design Experience and Skills, written by my Ph.D. advisor, John Baaki, and Jennifer Maddrell (who I worked with on projects that included the personas mentioned in the article). 

    Looking back over a year and a half of podcast episodes, John Helmer summarizes the main themes that have emerged from these these fascinating discussions and attempts to draw insights by taking a helicopter view.   Where do people agree, and where do they clash? Includes contributions from George Siemens, Nick Shackleton-Jones, Donald Clark, Connie Malamed, Gianni Giacomelli, Laura Lee-Gibbs, Andrea Miles, Sharon Claffey Kaliouby, Jane Hart, Matthew Confer, Paul Matthews, David Wilson, Julliette Denny, Steve Dineen, Dani Johnson, Henri Palmer, Paul McElvaney, Leonard Houx, Myles Runham, Victoria Marsick, Reda Sadki, Caroline Ford and David Perring.   01:23 Learning Hack Facts & Figures 04:04 5. The Learner Experience 13:18 4. Learning in the Flow of Work 20:22 3. Women in Learning 25:42 2. Evidence-Based Design 31:26 1. The Global Pandemic     Writers and thinkers referenced by Leonard Houx: David Merrill Robert M. Gagné Siegfried Engelmann Charles Reigeluth John Sweller Paul Kirschner Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer   Books cited: Diana Laurillard Laurillard, D. (2002). Rethinking University Teaching. A conversational framework for the effective use of learning technologies. London: Routledge ISBN 0415256798   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/   Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer – 'Experience: theory, design and supporting technologies for an experience-based learning culture' https://learningpool.com/theory-design-and-supporting-technologies-for-an-experience-based-learning-culture/

Love your Mac? Find your vacuum cleaner cumbersome? Despair at the booking system of your local leisure center? User experience design (or lack of) plays a significant part in whether you love or loathe the products and services you interact with.    This week on the Good Practice podcast, Gemma and Ross D talk to Rhys Pendred, Emerald Work's Lead UX designer. We focussed on the what, why and how of user experience, discussing:  What UX is  UX fundamental principles  How we might think about and improve the UX of our products / learning.    Show notes  For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit emeraldworks.com. There, you'll also find details of our award winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.  Rhys mentioned Jacob Neilson's "10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design". This article can be found online at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/  If you'd like to find out more about UX in learning design, we would recommend listening to our previous podcast "Design thinking for instructional design" with Connie Malamed. You can find it here https://podcast.goodpractice.com/78-design-thinking-for-ld  Rhys talked about Eddie Van Halen's quirky, brown M&Ms stipulation. This is mentioned in The Independent's Eddie Van Halen obituary. You can read the obituary at https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/obituary-eddie-van-halen-39608991.html  Gemma referred to a piece of research on muscle loading. It was mentioned in Tom Goom's video "What muscles should runners strengthen". The video is found online at https://www.running-physio.com/muscles/     Connect with our speakers  If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter / LinkedIn:  Gemma Towersey @gemmatowersey  Ross Dickie @RossDickieEW  Rhys Pendred linkedin.com/in/rhys-pendred 

As the learning industry evolves, so has the role of the instructional designer. Renowned learning experience designer, author and coach Connie Malamed, discusses the shift from Instructional Design to Learning Experience Design and the value it brings to the learner with host Susan Cort and co-host Jenica Jones. Show Notes: eLearning Coach Connie Malamed helped coin the phrase “Learning Experience Design” yet many in the industry struggle with explaining the difference between LXD and ID (Instructional Design). In this podcast, Connie makes the following statements about LXD:Learning Experience Design is human-centered with the focus always on the learner. Learning experience design takes all of the research, UI/UX, and all of the best things that Instructional Designers have learned over the years and creates a new mindset and new experience for learning. Learning can be a true experience and not just a one-time event. Instructional Designers work to create a learning journey to get the best results for the learner.Connect with Connie Malamed on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/Download Connie’s free eBook: Writing for Instructional Designers at http://theelearningcoach.com/Listen to Connie’s Podcasts: http://theelearningcoach.com/category/podcasts/

The eLearning Coach Connie Malamed discusses ways to keep your e-learning training engaging and effective in a time when in-person training is not an option. Connie also discusses the advantages to blended learning and the need for managers to foster a community of lifelong learning.    Resources Connie Malamed is a speaker at the ATD Virtual Conference Connie Malamed's website Connie's ATD Author Page Instructional Design Community, Mastering ID  eLearning Coach Podcast

This episode is part of the Learning Uncut Disruption series.  This pop-up daily series aims to equip learning professionals with practical guidance and tips to get started or scale up with practices needed as part of their organisational response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.  eLearning design and development is not something to be rushed into, especially if you are just getting started.  The eLearning Coach, Connie Malamed, provides tips for both absolute beginners and those who are moving from face to face to online solutions quickly.  She discusses solid evidence-informed approaches you can draw on and suggests ways of applying them.  In particular Connie warns against ‘page-turning, click-next’ design and suggests using eLearning for spaced practice and repetition as part of a blended online approach. Host:  Michelle Ockers Guest: Connie Malamed  Resources: The eLearning Coach (Connie Malamed) website http://theelearningcoach.com/about/ The Decisive Dozen – short list of the most important learning factors based on scientific research and practical real-world wisdom. Based on extensive review by Will Thalheimer http://bit.ly/2IWtjAw More Episodes & Info: More episodes: https://learninguncut.libsyn.com About the Learning Uncut podcast: https://michelleockers.com/learninguncut/

We've all been using the traditional ADDIE model for Instructional design for so long that most of us probably follow the model without even thinking about it. But is there a better way? Perhaps the trend in Design Thinking can offer a fresh look at the classic instructional design model. It's a conversation that many are having. And most of know a little bit about what design thinking is. So let's talk about how we may, or may not, replace ADDIE with Design Thinking. Over this IDIODC episode, we're talking with amazing Connie Malamed to get her thoughts on the topic! Join us. Connie Malamed is a learning experience design consultant with Connie Malamed Consulting and publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie is an author, speaker and workshop facilitator in the fields of learning experience design, design thinking, and visual communication. She has helped nonprofit, government, and corporate clients improve performance by creating meaningful learning experiences for more than 20 years. She was honoured with the Guild Master award for 2018. Connie on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/ Connie Malamed Consulting - http://conniemalamed.com/ The eLearning Coach - http://theelearningcoach.com/author/connie/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter. Remember you can always stay in the loop by searching through the #IDIODC tag. Connie: @eLearningCoach https://twitter.com/elearningcoach Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W IDIODC: @TeamIDIODC https://twitter.com/TeamIDIODC Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html

John Helmer talks to visitors, exhibitors, speakers and all-comers to get a picture of why people come to this event, what they get out of it, and what it has to tells this year about the state of the market in learning technologies and the progress of thought about learning more generally.   01:57    Ken Ross 06:46    Fiona Leteney 11:22    Carsten Storgaard 19:20    Connie Malamed 24:33    Martin Couzins and Barcamp 27:59    Day 2 - Caroline Ford 29:12    Morten Zetlitz & Anders Heivoll of Galdr Studio 33:54    Vivian Heijnen & Jos Arets 702010 Institute 37:16    Caroline Ford - Conference 2nd day wrap-up   Links: Now Communications https://nowcomms.com/ Fosway Group https://www.fosway.com/ Laerdal https://laerdal.com/gb/ Connie Malamed http://theelearningcoach.com/ Galdr Studio https://www.galdr.no/ 702010 Institute https://702010institute.com/     Sponsors: To learn more about Powtoon's Business solution (and claim your Learning Hack discount), visit https://go.powtoon.com/learninghack/   Visit Make Real's shiny new website: https://makereal.co.uk      Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

Connie Malamed – a learning experience design consultant and author of Visual Design Solutions: Principles and Creative Inspiration for Learning Professionals – has been helping organizations create meaningful learning experiences for more than two decades. She’s also the publisher of The eLearning Coach Web site and podcast, where she shares actionable strategies, practical content, product reviews, and resources. She is truly passionate about helping others design, develop, and understand learning to improve performance and effectiveness. In this episode of the Leading Learning podcast, Celisa talks with Connie about the role of visual design in learning as well as the impact of cognitive load on learning, including it’s impact on collaborative learning. They also discuss tips for how to work well with subject matter experts and explore the idea of “curated courses.” Full show notes available at https://www.leadinglearning.com/episode190.  We are grateful to our sponsors for this quarter, Community Brands and WBT Systems. WBT Systems develops the industry-leading TopClass LMS, which delivers transformative professional development experiences for education and certification programs. With a single point of support from in-house integration experts, TopClass LMS easily integrates with a wide variety of systems to provide efficient administration and a unified learning experience. WBT supports organizations in using learning technology to help drive growth in membership, increase revenues, and enhance the learning experience. WBT believes in truly understanding your challenges and partnering with you to ensure the success of your education programs. Community Brands provides a suite of cloud-based software for organizations to engage and grow relationships with the individuals they serve, including association management software, learning management software, job board software, and event management software. Community Brands’ award-winning Crowd Wisdom learning platform is among the world’s best LMSes for corporate extended enterprise and is a leading LMS for association-driven professional education programs. Award-winning Freestone, Community Brands’ live event learning platform, is a leading platform for live learning event capture, Webinars, Webcasts, and on-demand streaming.  

Connie Malamed reminds us in this episode that when our fears hold us back, the world doesn’t have the opportunity to benefit from our special talents.

This episode is part three of our informal trilogy about instructional design in customer education. (See parts one and two.) What does it take to become a great instructional designer or content developer in Customer Education. How can you succeed in the role if you’re transitioning from another career? We'll tackle these questions and more, so listen in! For those making the leap into Customer Education as Instructional Designers, they typically come from three places: Customer Success and Support: The rock-star customer-facing folks who love educating their customers, and want to do it full-timeInternal L&D: Education experts who have been working in corporate L&D or enablement, and want to transition to external educationMaster's programs: People who have committed to get a degree in instructional design or instructional systems design Which is best? Are any of them best? The big question most people ask is whether they need a degree to be most successful in the field. What's more important, field experience or a degree? https://www.pexels.com/@startup-stock-photos We'll look at these three common paths and give some perspective on them. How do CSMs and support agents become Customer Educators? Let’s start with one of the most frequent places we see customer education-focused trainers and content developers come from. And the younger the company, the more frequently we see this happen. They’re rockstar CSMs or support agents who naturally gravitate toward training customers or documenting things. This can be great career development. If you spend all your time with customers, then you tend to have more customer empathy, something that more frequently doesn’t factor into more academic instructional design. If you love training customers and helping them learn, this can be a career path. Plus you get the benefit of learning instructional design and content development skills, which you probably didn’t have before. The risk in coming from this side of the house is that many startups don’t realize what skills are needed to do this job well. When support agents become “the training person,” they get asked to put together decks and webinars, but they don’t always know what will make that content effective. So they become order takers instead of consultants. It’s also hard for them to find mentors who really know this field well, especially with a customer education focus. Our recommendation to these “accidental instructional designers” is to go to conferences like ATD TechKnowledge and DevLearn, to take instructional design and content development courses and bootcamps (like you can find on any online learning site -- LinkedIn Learning, etc), to follow great instructional designers (Julie Dirksen, Cathy Moore, Connie Malamed, Cara North, and Melissa Milloway are all great examples of instructional design pros who "work out loud") and join communities (

This week Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee brings on special guest Connie Malamed. The three will talk about visual design and creativity as well as the psychology around eLearning, as presented in her two books: Visual Design Solutions and Visual Language for Designers. This session speaks volumes about the importance of psychology in design, and the roles those in an L&D team have in order to target a learning audience in the most effective way. Connie Malamed is a learning experience design consultant with Connie Malamed Consulting and publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast. Connie is an author, speaker and workshop facilitator in the fields of learning experience design, design thinking, and visual communication. She has helped nonprofit, government, and corporate clients improve performance by creating meaningful learning experiences for more than 20 years. She was honoured with the Guild Master award for 2018. Check out Connie on LinkedIn. Check out a few of these awesome resources by Connie related to visual design and psychology in eLearning: Realistic Graphics and Learning: What’s most effective? - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/realistic-graphics-and-learning/?platform=hootsuite 21 Ways to Improve Your Infographics - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/improve-your-infographics/ A Graphic Development Workflow For eLearning . - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/graphic-development-workflow-for-elearning/ How to Crop Photos for eLearning - http://theelearningcoach.com/media/graphics/how-to-crop-photos-for-elearning/ Check out Connie's books on Amazon! Visual Design Solutions: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Design-Solutions-Inspiration-Professionals/dp/1118863569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-1&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=41y87keLrpL&preST=SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40&dpSrc=srch Visal Language for Designers: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Language-Designers-Principles-Understand-ebook/dp/B003NUSBUU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1542114674&sr=8-2&keywords=connie%20malamed&dpID=4172IoNxCSL&preST=SX342_QL70&dpSrc=srch Connie Malamed Consulting: http://conniemalamed.com/ The eLearning Coach: http://theelearningcoach.com/author/connie/ Connie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniemalamed/ Become virtual friends with Connie and the IDIODC gang (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag)! Connie: https://twitter.com/elearningcoach Brent: https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html

In this third podcast in the design thinking and learning series, we explore the relationship between the processes of design thinking and instructional design. Traditional instructional design is a form of designing thinking, but often it lacks the creative elements. Also, the ADDIE process does not have the prototyping phase that is so important for finding out if a solution is going to work. This podcast is a great exploration of design thinking in action within learning design. Download the eBook Useful links Find out more about Connie Malamed by visiting The eLearning Coach website. Listen to The eLearning Coach podcast. Read Connie’s blog post on How To Use Design Thinking In Learning Experience Design. Gain some more valuable tips from Connie’s blog post 10 Things You Should Know About Design and Design Thinking. Listen to another interview with Connie on Design thinking for L&D on the Good Practice podcast.

Connie Malamed wrote a book about visual language for instructional design to achieve quick and effective communication - but she had to speak about it. Considering herself more of a writer and not a speaker, she was terrified of public speaking. Eventually, she found a tactic that helped her to move onward and upward.

Megan Torrance and Torrance Learning takes over TLDCast with guest Connie Malamed. Not to be missed!

Today we welcomed back the always amazing Connie Malamed to TLDCast. This was a fantastic episode on using Design Thinking in L&D. We also talked about the importance of looking outside of our own industry for ideas, systems, and processes that might benefit the learners we impact. If you’re at all interested in implementing Design Thinking into your instructional design strategies, this is an excellent episode that will offer some an nice overview and some helpful tips to get started.

When we're asked to create a learning solution, how often do we think about the context within which that solution will sit? Design thinking prompts us to take a wider view, collaborating with learners and stakeholders to co-create a course or resource. On this week's podcast, Connie Malamed from The eLearning Coach podcast joins Ross G and Owen to share her insight into design thinking. If you'd like to share your thoughts on the show, you can tweet us @RossGarnerGP, @OwenFerguson and @eLearningCoach. You can also find us @GoodPractice or @GoodpracticeAus. To find out more about GoodPractice, visit goodpractice.com.  Harvard Business Review covered design thinking in some detail here: https://hbr.org/2015/09/design-for-action Connie's NICU and HDX examples from Frog Design can be found at https://www.frogdesign.com/press-release/aspect-imaging-frog-collaborate-mri-technologies and https://www.frogdesign.com/work/un-ocha-humanitarian-data-exchange We covered agile methodology way back in episode 13. You can listen here: http://podcast.goodpractice.com/agile-ld-lessons-from-coding Owen's 'Little UI Details' Twitter moment recommendation can be found at: https://twitter.com/i/moments/880688233641848832?lang=en Ross' '1 Second Everyday' video for 2017 is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9skphCdsE You can find out more about Connie by visiting theelearningcoach.com or by listening to The eLearning Coach podcast.

Today we were joined by Connie Malamed, The eLearning Coach. Connie was fantastic as expected, and offered tremendous insight into her approach for designing learning, especially as a visual designer. Get to know Connie, she is easily one of the top learning designers in our industry. We discussed: Connie’s history in the field “Perfect” learning solutions Graphic design in L&D L&D field evolution Predictably irrational This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

We speak with visual design expert and author, Connie Malamed, about the craft of communicating with type and image, and how these skills may be acquired by instructional designers who are being asked to do more than ever in our industry. Connie is the author of VISUAL DESIGN SOLUTIONS.

Connie Malamed and Judy delved much more into design thinking and applying it to that voo-doo that we do…with sprinkles of Tin Can, knowing when you’re done, and egos. We even talked about tools a bit — for wireframing, prototyping, and user testing. By the way, if you’re enjoying these more design-related episodes, be sure … Continue reading "#19 1/2 – Instructional Design Thinking"

In our nineteenth episode, we were thrilled to have Connie Malamed, The eLearning Coach, join us for a conversation that could have easily lasted another couple of hours. We covered more about being a consultant, design thinking and design processes, and some of our favorite podcasts. We’ve both been big fans of Connie’s for a … Continue reading "#19 – Design Outing"