Podcast: Best Practices for Partnering With SMEs

Juana Llorens

When working on instructional design projects with subject matter experts (SMEs), there are numerous moving parts to take into consideration—for launching a project, defining roles, bringing key players into the fold, and solving common critical issues with these... More »

We All Have “Needs”…or Do We?

Juana Llorens

There seem to be plenty of questions around what needs assessment is, what it does, and how we know we’re doing it right. In their new book Needs Assessment for Organizational Success , Roger Kaufman and Ingrid Guerra-López tackle these and other fundamenta... More »

Getting the Basics of Technical Training Right

Sarah Wakefield

Technical Training can be hard to create. Course developers are doubly challenged: they must complete all the regular challenges of writing and putting together courseware, but they must do it by using words and concepts they don’t fully understand. And this is ju... More »