The ATD State of the Industry report states that interpersonal skills remains in the top five content areas for training development year after year. In a different survey, Lighthouse Research respondents overwhelmingly indicated that Human Skills ranked #1 for long-term success. If you're one of the instructional designers tasked with creating an eLearning module where humans learn how to interact with other humans, how do you demonstrate the skills they need to observe?

Adobe Character Animator may be one way you can build character-driven storytelling that brings human interaction to the forefront of your training.

Adobe Character Animator offers a practical solution by enabling designers to create dynamic, video-quality animated scenarios that bring interpersonal skill-building to life. These animations can be kept consistent across a learning path, localized for global audiences, easily updated, and designed to reflect diverse learners — all within the Adobe Creative Cloud ecosystem organizations may already own.

The session focuses less on building characters from scratch and more on repurposing existing characters to animate realistic scenarios, leveraging Character Animator's AI-powered features alongside tools like Captivate. Attendees will leave with the skills to establish a distinct character "brand" for their eLearning and a hands-on sense of how quickly and effectively the tool can elevate their learning design.

In ILT, we recognize that questions are key to successful learning experiences because they create opportunities for learners to reflect, connect ideas, and clarify misunderstandings. This often happens through facilitated discussions. In asynchronous eLearning, those opportunities are limited, making well-designed feedback even more essential to help learners process and retain knowledge.

In this session, we'll discuss the PASS framework, a neuroscience-informed approach to turning eLearning feedback into a meaningful instructional tool. Attendees will learn how to apply prompting, individualized, explanatory, and supportive feedback that corrects misconceptions, strengthens learning retention, and encourages deeper learning.

"Creativity is seeing what others see, and thinking what no one else has ever thought." ~~Albert Einstein
"There are so many THINKS that a thinker can think!"  ~~ Dr. Seuss

We're often called to "think outside the box," but when we step outside we're a bit flummoxed about where to start. This is where AI can excel — not to create the answers we seek, but to serve as a launching pad for ideas.

Built on the four stages of the Double Diamond Design Framework—Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver—this presentation provides a concrete, repeatable protocol to tackle complex business challenges systematically. Participants will actively engage with advanced prompting strategies that drive both extreme creative volume and rigorous analytical quality during organizational ideation. 

It's not uncommon for webinars to be attended by learners clustered into a single office or conference room, making your webinar a group of decentralized classrooms with a computer screen serving as proxy for the instructor and a gatekeeper for participation.  

In this presentation, Paul shares techniques to overcome this hybrid onsite-online learning format with relevant, easy, and engaging tools that connect with learners both within and without the webinar.

Don't make it easy for your virtual audience to become passive learners.  Think outside the webinar and engage them today!