ASTD Education Programs

Blended Learning Certificate

This program provides a roadmap for creating high-impact solutions that address these needs by combining various learning platforms, methods, and formats to motivate learners, produce real results, and increase productivity. More »

Creating Leadership Development Programs Certificate

Align leadership development programs to your organizations culture, vision, mission, and goals, while incorporating best practices in leadership needs assessments, implementation, and identifying high potential candidates for leadership programs. More »

Essentials of Designing Synchronous Games and Activities

Transform your online classes into active, collaborative, and fun events by learning how to design engaging activities and games in your programs. You’ll receive several recipes for specific games and activities, a process for discovering what your technology does, and a worksheet for integrating any activity into the online classroom. Walk away from this program with a game or activity of your choice ready for the online classroom! More »

Essentials of Experiential Learning and Simulations

Join Ken Spero in the exploration of experiential learning and simulations and learn how to train participants in new ways and on a restricted budget. More »

Essentials of Graphics for Learning

Are your e-learning visuals eye candy or do they promote learning? What does the latest evidence tell us about how and when to use visuals to represent content and to show content relationships? This workshop offers the latest evidence and guidelines for how to design and develop visuals for e-learning. Whether you are an experienced graphic designer or a visual neophyte, you will benefit from the updates to the latest evidence and methods for visuals in e-learning design. More »

Essentials of Performance-Based Job Aids

This interactive online workshop will give you the tools, processes, and knowledge to specify the correct job aid to achieve the desired outcomes for the job, determine the appropriate format and structure of the job aid, plan and design it, validate and test it, and measure the overall impact of the job aid on achieving organizational goals More »

Essentials of Podcasts, Video and Writing for the Web

Essentials of Podcasts, Video, and Writing for the Web covers the three key media that can be used to easily develop to enhance online learning products. More »

Essentials of Technical Training

In this program, we will explore what makes technical training unique, the essential skills necessary for the development team, and the process of developing technical training programs. Detailed solutions, suggestions and take-aways will be provided that address technical training from both the big picture perspective as well as the day-to-day requirements. At the end of the program, learners will have an opportunity to discuss and generate solutions for their own technical training challenges. More »