New to IDIODC? What is IDIODC all about?

Well, it's pretty simple. IDIODC, short for: Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee, is a weekly, live video and podcast used to help ID's with pain points and provide best practices and insight. Every Wednesday morning at 9am ET, the upbeat and candid conversation encourages peers to participate in the chat and share their own personal insight! Often bringing on guests, our hosts Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden keep it real with ...

This week on IDIODC new special guest Mike Kunkle joins show hosts Chris Van Wingerden and Brent Schlenker for a session on building a training plan that delivers results.

This week on IDIODC, new special guest and L&D professional Tricia Ransom joins us to talk about PLN. What is a PLN? How can you understand the importance of PLN, and how to build your own!

Special guest Nyla Spooner joins us on an episode of IDIODC for a conversation on her career path to becoming a Learning Experience Designer.

Building your own eLearning tool kit is part of being a successful eLearning practitioner in today's work environment, and even more so in a post-COVID workplace.

For more successful outcomes in our eLearning, we should all be starting with paper and pen. And if you’re one of those people that thinks “…but I can’t draw”, then this IDIODC session is perfect for you. On this week's episode of IDIODC, special guest Kevin Thorn joins show hosts Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden for his fourth Drink'n'Draw session.

It's time to talk about this topic. This session is led by three L&D professionals, Jessica Jackson, Myra Roldan and Nyla Spooner for a discussion on racial justice.

On this episode of Instructional Designers In Offices Drinking Coffee, special guest and master of podcasting Evo Terra. The three talk about corporate podcasting and how you can introduce it into your L&D.

The author Sharon Boller joins us for a conversation on learner experience design and shares some practical case studies that have successfully implemented an LX strategy.

Now that you've been forced to train online for 2 months, you're probably wondering how to up your vILT (or virtual instructor led training) game.

With many organizations finally taking online learning seriously, we're hearing this question a lot: "How Long Will it Take to create this eLearning". And sometimes it's asked this way, "How much does it cost based on how much time is required by the employee".

Storytelling and Instructional Design are a match made in heaven when it comes to learner engagement. But there are researched and backed reasons why this pair works so well together.

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris speak with special guest Dr. Will Thalheimer for a session to discuss the current state of L&D during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brian Fanzo joins Brent and Chris for a session all about making the career switch to working online. With so many folks mandated to work from home, now is the time to get aqaunited to a new era of our careers.

Welcome to our special 100th episode! Hard to believe we've been at this for 100 episodes now. Thank you for joining us and being a part of our community. This week's guest is Alexander Salas. He is an outspoken instructional designer, eLearning developer, and podcaster.