Illumen Group had a great time at the 2016 Chicago eLearning & Technology Showcase. Several from the Illumen team were there to be at our booth (happy to sponsor the event), present on eLearning, and sit in on a number of great educational presentations.

The eLearning Showcase had over 350 in attendance this year from Chicago and many surrounding areas.

We at Illumen are very proud of the article recently written by ATD (The Association for Talent Development) who covered the event. They say in their article (Variety Was the Spice of Session Program at 2016 eLearning & Technology Showcase):

One of the sessions with the biggest “Wow” factor was “Supercharging eLearning Design,” presented by David Charney of the Illumen Group.

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David Charney then showed a sample that seemed to intrigue the entire room—an activity where the learner could move a camera over a background and zoom in and take photos of objects. Clicking the mouse produced both the sound of an exposure and a mock “photograph” with white border at the right edge of the background. At the room’s insistence, he showed how he created the activity in Storyline.

Natalie Sikes, an instructional designer with HPSI, gave the workshop equally high marks. “His example of moving the camera around—it was really cool to see how he did that,” she said, adding: When I go to these events, if there’s one great take-away, I feel it was worth it.”

Jay Yearley, an instructional designer at Telemedia, LLC, agreed, saying it was valuable seeing examples of how to design and visualize the eLearning screen based on the audience and material, rather than just advancing to the next screen.

The show had so many other fantastic in depth presentations covering eLearning theory, approaches, showcases, best practices, software, and analytics. As always, Illumen enjoys sharing ideas at the event, talking with old eLearning friends and meeting many new ones. The show takes place every year usually in August. Hope to see you there next year!