During my time as an instructional designer, I’ve been given great opportunities to explore different types of learning needs and solutions, using mostly the ADDIE model, CRI methodology, and Agile processes.
Learn more about my experience by taking a look at some of the fun projects below! Remember, these are a representation of what has been done in the past, I’m continually innovating and striving for new and different.
“The goal is for learners to leave a learning
-Rebekah Olejnik
experience believing it was worth their time.”
eLearning
After identifying that an eLearning is the right solution, my focus is to provide a learning experience that the end user would find engaging and helpful. If at all possible, I am placing them directly into the situation or building the situation for them to be a witness to and active participant.
Safety
Course Topic: Confined Spaces
Audience: Retail | Supply Chain
Learning Solution:
➔ A Storyline shell hosting dramatic intro videos providing insight into the impact of breaking the pane of a confined space can have on life itself and livelihoods.
➔ After learning they apply their knowledge during an interactive assessments built in Storyline.
Pharmacy
Course Topic: Accreditation
Audience: Pharmacy Roles
Learning Solution:
➔A Storyline shell hosts Vyond videos leading the learners from the perspective of the accreditation surveyor, who explains what information they are looking for and what to expect when interacting with them. team members in their roles asking questions about chemicals, ingredients, hazardous, SDS sheets, etc.
➔After learning they apply their knowledge during a couple of short knowledge check questions to assess their understanding built in Storyline.
Policy
Course Topic: Michigan Scan Award Law
Audience: Retail
Learning Solution:
➔Hybrid Rise course that serves a dual purpose as both an assigned course that is locked down with required knowledge checks and also offered unlocked as a job guide that can be searched for and found in training resources.
Compliance
Course Topic: OSHA Right to Information
Audience: Retail | Supply Chain | Corporate
Learning Solution:
➔Branching course for different areas of the business.
➔A Storyline shell hosts Vyond videos leading the learners from the perspective of team members in their roles asking questions about chemicals, ingredients, hazardous, SDS sheets, etc.
➔After learning they apply their knowledge during an interactive assessments built in Captivate.
➔To wrap up, they meet an OSHA officer and engage in a final interaction where they answer common questions applying their learners from the course.
Software and Application Training
Course Topics: Ariba and SAP
Audience: Company-wide.
Learning Solution:
➔Micro learnings for each task built in Rise or Captivate.
➔SharePoint training sites housed all of the content for learners to get started with the basics, or dive in to how to accomplish specific tasks.
➔See my website page to view the sites.
Instructor Led Training
After identifying that an instructor led training is the right solution, my focus is to provide a learning experience that includes a mixture of group interaction, media, and instructor explanation. These solutions can include a facilitation deck, facilitator guide, participant guide, resource guide, and supporting assets.
Onboarding
Course Topic: Essentials for Safety and Performance
Audience: Supply Chain | Manufacturing & Distribution
Solution: Blend of instructor led and eLearning courses.
Conducting Investigations
Course Topic: Conducting Investigations for Complaints Received in the Organizational
Audience: Leadership
Solution: Instructor led training courses.
Leadership Development
Course Topic: Leadership Develop for the Art of Trust and Feedback
Audience: Leadership
Solution: Instructor led training courses.
Fun with JavaScript
When a learning solution offers the opportunity for getting fancy, or requires it, I like to stretch what’s been done and reach for new and different.
Digital Card Sort
Tasked with bringing a physical card sort to a digital format, in partnership with a fellow ID, we created a Storyline course that not only allowed the drag and drop digital card sort to come to life, but I was able to implement JavaScript to pull out the individual learner’s data into color coded pie charts so they could better understand their results.
Supportive Learning Assets
They are many learning assets that solve the need of our learners. I love to create any and all of them!
Infographics
To support the Michigan Scan Award learning experience I created in Rise as a hybrid course and guide, I created an infographic to use with the interactive hotspot block for learners to click to learn more.
Job Guides
In an effort to meet the mobile demand of learning content, traditional Word job guides have been transformed into interactive experiences using Rise.
Interactive Resources
There are so many options with Rise, one option I developed was a leadership resource for engaging team members in a hybrid working environment.
Hybrid Course and Interactive Guide
Here is the hybrid Rise resource I developed for the Michigan Scan Award learning solution. It serves a dual purpose as both an assigned course that is locked down with required knowledge checks and offered unlocked as a job guide.
Course Resource Guides
As a companion to instructor led, blended, and eLearning courses, I often develop resource guides that provide both a refresh and additional detail to support learning objectives. This is the companion to the Dangers of Confined Spaces course I created for safety and compliance.
Videos
Creating video scripts, shot lists, organizing camera crews, soliciting for vendors, shooting videos myself, or developing animated versions is FUN! Below is an example of a Vyond video I developed for the Michigan Scan Award learning experience. Unfortunately, all live-action videos that have been developed contain proprietary information that must be kept confidential.
Instructor Led Training Course Materials
After developing synchronous learning, I’ve learned the importance of considering the facilitator’s needs to understand the why behind the concepts of the content and how to respond to participants in a way the reinforces the course objectives. It’s also an amazing creative opportunity to craft ways for participant’s to stay engaged, absorb the content, practice, and apply learning objectives. My goals with ILTs is to make it so engaging they don’t have time to think about getting an email sent off!
Work samples can be found under the Instructor Led Training section above.