Color Theory for Instructional Design

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

While attending a Training Magazine Network webinar event, I made a off-handed comment regarding the importance of understanding color theory and accessibility for instructional design. I shared a few tools and resources and was quickly asked to present a webinar on the topic to their audience at some point in the future. That time has…

Learning Event Game Plan Toolkit

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

https://youtu.be/qh7QlGJaVdc I was asked by colleagues to provide a workshop on developing a game plan for delivering a learning event. The concept of “game planning” got me immediately thinking about coaches for sports teams and how they use a whiteboard to develop their strategies and convey information to the team. The x’s and o’s of…

ASAE 2020 Virtual Conference

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

https://youtu.be/TV1_FZBKRTU On August 11th at 11am, Bucky Dodd from iLED and I will be presenting our talk at ASAE 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting and Exposition. The title of our presentation is Developing a “New Normal” for Association Learning Experiences.  This is not actually the original title for our presentation. Originally the session was titled, “Develop…

Gamification

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

Over the past decade I have been experimenting with game-based learning (GBL) and gamification in my classrooms and learning designs. These are two different concepts, but both emphasize the power of games in education. I am also not interested in edutainment. Though learning should have an element of fun, I find that skill and knowledge…

ArtHistorySurvey.com

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

While Flying Cloud Solutions had not yet been publicly established, Frederick and I had been busy with a variety of projects and contracts associated with Flying Cloud Solutions, LLC. One such project that I have been actively working on is ArtHistorySurvey.com, begun in 2014 in support of research I had been doing within the scholarship of…

We are Flying Cloud Solutions

By Josh Yavelberg, PhD

It has been a long time coming, but Flying Cloud Solutions is finally ready for action! Frederick Steiner and I had a vision to start a company that leveraged both of our unique talents and experience. A company that would be innovative and creative. A company with flexibility and the potential to grow in spaces…