Forum Discussion
Week 1 Welcome & Introductions
Hi, Alyssa and the rest of the cohort! My name is Elizabeth, and I'm currently working as a contract learning experience designer and developer - one of my favorite ways to experience lots of different people and projects. I love telling people I've worked in eLearning since the late 1900's - and it's true! We used to send it out on CDs for employees to complete at a dedicated workstation.🤔It's been great to see the evolution the industry has made in that time and the amazing tools we now have available to us.
I live just south of Denver, CO ⛰️ and love the sun, the seasons, and the wide variety of outdoor activities here. No pets unless I include my husband, who works in his home office just across the way from my home office. I'm a big fan of board games when I'm home, and live theater and comedy when I go out.
I live in Castle ROCK! Colorado Natives in a town of Migrants. I'll also be participating in the program. GO Avs!!!
I'm unfortunately one of those "got here as soon as I could" Coloradans, after growing up in Minnesota and living and working on the East Coast and back in the Midwest again. There's something about finding "the right spot" that feels right, and I'm glad it's here. GO Summit! (So excited to have professional women's soccer in the state!)
I think Mikaela invested in that - so I'll go!!
With luck, maybe your Avs will play my Ducks in the conference finals. You have a great team this season!
Up 2-0 on the Wild. GO AVS!!!!!!!!
Elizabeth, my first eLearning course was written for delivery via mainframe, so I'm right there with you! AI is just another tool to add to our toolbox of skills; we've seen so many changes over our careers and continue to adapt to new ways of doing things!
Absolutely agree - that's why I think of it as an evolution rather than just a big change. Delivery via mainframe - just text?
So just the characters and the 16 colors that you'd have found on a 3270 display terminal. :D Most of our training was around system skills, so we were able to create very precise simulations of those system screens. The trainee could enter information into fields just as they would on the job and they'd get corrective feedback in response. Some of it was simple text, yes, or text "overlaid" onto a walkthrough of a system screen. We also had a function hotkey that if they were on an actual system screen, they could press an F key and get the valid values for that field from our documentation, and for some fields, press another F key to take a short just in time tutorial on how to choose the correct data to enter. In our courses, we created branching scenarios, adaptive assessments, and did quite a lot given what we think of as "limitations" these days. It was actually an excellent way to develop instructional design skills especially around being highly organized when structuring content. Whenever I hear people reiterating stereotypes of people of "a certain age" not having tech skills, I have to laugh. Would that I could take them back in a time machine when we had to program all of this instead of using WYSIWYG editors!
Hi Elizabeth, welcome to the cohort! It's so incredible how many years of experience you have, and that you're staying relevant with the latest tools and innovations! I look forward to seeing your insights in the next couple week on how AI compares to "the way it was".
I lived in Colorado, Littleton for a year or so, still have family in Canon City (no not the prison lol). I miss Colorado. Castle Rock is so cool! JennieHartman-e been past it many time.
