Live online learning events can engage modern learners - but how? Jennifer Hofmann, InSync Training's founder and a virtual classroom pioneer, has a few tricks up her sleeve. 

Jennifer recently joined eLearning Guild's hosts for their brand new Now & Next audio series and answered pressing questions like: 

• What can we do to make training engaging when we're tasked with presenting less-than-exciting content? 
• How can we create dynamic virtual training experiences through multiple voices?
• Which engagement best practices should trainers use?
• How can we read body language when we can't see our learners?
• What features should we look for when selecting a virtual classroom platform? 
• What's new and what's next in virtual learning?  

Ready to design more effective, engaging blended learning? You need Perpetual Learning Design, an approach that combines activities, resources, and lessons into a personal learning pathway.

We're not just designing courses anymore. We're designing experiences that support learners all of their formal and informal moments of learning need. This means recognizing that each learner has a unique path to follow and supporting them along the journey every step of the way. That's what InSync's Perpetual Learning Design Model is all about.

This modern approach to blended learning design meets the needs of learners no matter what their learning environment.

Find your voice and live an authentic life using the advice expert Ginny Palmieri shares on this episode of Modern Learning on the Air.

Discover the underlying importance of networking to your career, the value of your village, the process of building a trusted board of advisors, and how to effectively manage change in work and life. 

Learning videos have become an important part of the blended learning mix. If you're new to video, creating one might seem daunting.

So what is the best way to shoot videos for your modern blended learning program?

Phyllis Banner, learning experience architect, shares her proven tips and tricks in this informative video. 

Daniel Foster, the strategy lead for the Snagit application at TechSmith, believes the best learning professionals think like dirty marketers.

But what does that mean exactly? It requires us to apply concepts from the best marketing campaigns to our training programs, to prove the value of the experience to our learners. Listen in as Daniel shares a six-step framework for achieving this goal.

Listen as Jennifer Hofmann, President of InSync Training, talks about her new book "Blended Learning," published by ATD Press. Discover how this approach relies on traditional instructional design, supports modern learners, and addresses business needs.

Connecting the dots for learners and our businesses is what blended learning is all about. But how can we know our content provides information necessary for those learners to improve our business results?

Myra Travin, Educational Futurist and Learning Design Innovator, sat down with Phyllis Banner to discuss how learning and development practitioners can keep up with the speed of change in the industry.

The modern learning landscape seems to get more complicated with each passing day. How can anyone possibly keep up?

Gamification and game-based learning have become commonplace in modern learning instructional design. 

The flexibility and adaptability of gamification and game-based learning has made it useful for instructional designers working on many different programs, including new hire orientation, compliance training, and technical skill building.

Laura Goodrich, Global Workforce Innovator at GWT Next, sat down with Phyllis Banner to discuss combining storytelling and short bursts of learning to create what she terms cinematic microlearning.

Research has shown that listening to stories helps us make better connections with material and that we retain information better when we receive it via short bursts of learning (commonly called microlearning).

Microlearning is very useful in instructional design as you can create different types to support almost any moment of learning need.  You can use microlearning to address a critical topic in a formal, in-person learning event. But you can also use microlearning to help learners teach themselves whatever they need to know at a critical moment back on the job. 

Need more proof? Watch Phylise Banner’s helpful explanation of formal versus informal microlearning. In under four minutes, you’ll discover that understanding the difference between microlearning that supports formal programs and informal learning moments can be as simple as choosing between riding your bike or hopping on a bus.