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ISPI SoCal Presents: First Tuesday Webinars
Designing First Principles Instruction Using AI
Dr. Timothy Stafford
Dr. Max Cropper
Learn how to use AI for accelerated design and development of transformational instruction based on Merrill's First Principles of Instruction.
Curious how to engineer prompts that create effective, efficient, and engaging instruction? This session is for you!
How effective are Merrill's First Principles? Evidence shows that students who chose to engage with web pages designed with First Principles of Instruction were between three and five times more likely to pass a Certification Test.
About the Speakers
Dr. Timothy Stafford is a futurist, instructional designer, and thought leader specializing in online learning, instructional design, and AI ethics. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Online Academic Affairs and Program Director for the MS in Instructional Design & Technology at St. Thomas University. As the creator of the First Principles AI Course Lab, he integrates AI-driven tools to guide instructional designers in building engaging, outcome-driven courses.
Dr. Max H. Cropper is an award-winning instructional design consultant. He has taught many workshops and presentations on Merrill's First Principles. He has studied, researched, implemented, and taught instructional design, evaluation, performance improvement, and leadership best practices for more than 40 years. Some clients include the EPA, the US Department of Defense, Morgan Stanley, and the US Department of Transportation.
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Free for ISPI SoCal Members
Get Good with Articulate Storyline, with John Morley, ATD San Diego
ISPI SoCal has partnered with ATD San Diego to enable ISPI SoCal members to participate in the series Get Good with Articulate Storyline. Articulate Storyline is our profession’s option of choice for developing online learning support. This open forum is for learning and sharing techniques and insights.
Articulate Storyline is our profession’s option of choice for developing online learning support. This open forum is for learning and sharing techniques and best practices.
This will be a click-along demonstration of some of Storyline functionality you may have overlooked and will now be happy to know. Along with some tips on working more efficiently, and different ways of using features you may know already. It’s an open forum to make comments, suggest even better ways to do what is demonstrated, and talk shop about all the great stuff Storyline can do.
John Morley has helped to improve job performance for clients and employers including Genentech, Hitachi Data Systems, Southern California Edison, Kaiser Permanente, and most of the Asian car companies. Author of the book Scriptwriting for High Impact videos, he has taught at Cal State Northridge, lectured at UCLA, and conducted workshops at a variety of professional organizations and conferences, including ADT Tech Knowledge.
An experienced coder, he has developed and managed numerous websites, and developed software used by clients including Saturday Night Live. An external consultant, he is available to help you on a project by emailing: John@IDforHire.biz.
It's an open forum, so come prepared to click along, ask questions, share your own experiences with Storyline, or just sit back and take a look at what Storyline can do.
The workshop is for intermediate to advanced users, but if you are new to Storyline, this is still for you: It will show you what Storyline can do, give you a look under the hood to see how it works, and let you ask questions of practitioners who are using Storyline now.
To click along, you need access to Storyline. If you do not already have access, a free trial is available (once on the page, scroll toward the bottom). https://articulate.com/360/storyline
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO RELEASE
Note to registrants: This webinar may be recorded for chapter marketing purposes.By registering for this event, you are giving permission to San Diego ATD to make and use at their discretion photos and a video recording of this event that may include you or your property. Although you may choose to not have your face recorded by by not activating your camera, your name and voice may still be recorded.
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From Cost Center to Strategic Asset: Measure & Report
Dr. Mike Saunderson
Despite billions spent on training each year, most organizations struggle to prove its true value. This interactive session introduces a practical, research-based framework that empowers L&D professionals to measure, communicate, and elevate the business impact of their programs.
Session Description
Participants will explore five essential questions that align training efforts with behavior change and business results, thereby bridging the gap between learning and organizational performance. Through real-world case examples, live polls, and guided discussions, attendees will apply the framework to their work, gaining clarity on how to identify measurable outcomes, select relevant metrics, and engage stakeholders in meaningful evaluation. The session provides tools and tactics for overcoming skill gaps and challenges in data interpretation.
Attendees will leave equipped with tools and a clear framework to demonstrate the value of training within their organizations. They will learn how to set post-training evaluation plans, identify and align behavior change with business outcomes, and engage stakeholders in ongoing performance discussions and evaluations. Participants will gain strategies for fostering evaluation readiness, cross-functional partnerships, and using data storytelling to influence leadership. These insights will empower professionals to shift perceptions, enhance their strategic influence, and ensure that training makes a meaningful contribution to their organization's long-term success.
About the Speaker
Dr. Mike Saunderson is a results-driven leader with over thirteen years of experience supporting Fortune 500 organizations in training needs assessment, instructional design, and evaluation. He has a proven track record of developing learning solutions that drive measurable improvements in employee performance and business outcomes.
Mike earned his Ph.D. in Learning Design and Technology from the University of Hawaii, where his research focused on evaluating training transfer and leveraging technology to analyze performance data. His expertise bridges research and practice, enabling him to create learning programs that are both data-informed and performance-focused.
He is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences, where he shares evidence-based strategies for evaluating learning effectiveness and measuring behavior change. Mike is also a published author, contributing multiple articles to Training Magazine.
Mike is committed to transforming Learning and Development from a cost center to a strategic asset by helping organizations measure what matters, report meaningful results, and demonstrate the value of training.
Managing Change in the Midst of the AI Storm
James Eicher
What is your organization's human / AI change management strategy?
Organizations are in the midst of escalating social and technological change, driven by rapid development of human / intelligent machine partnerships.
In this session, James Eicher identifies three emerging change challenges:
Current research unequivocally reveals collaboration linking human and intelligent machine expertise results in optimum performance on multiple levels. Note, the current term to characterize and promote human / intelligent machine collaboration is Human AI Team, or "HAT". However, in the midst of the AI driven change storm, have organization leaders made a defined, operational distinction between the impacts of AI and managing the impacts of AI?
Organizational change now includes people change in tandem with intelligent machine change. Thus, organization leaders need to embrace an executable framework of behavioral change in order to optimize HAT performance.
James Eicher is the creator of Cognitive Management™ which applies research from the cognitive sciences to organization and leadership behavior. Mr. Eicher has held leadership positions at KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton, Symantec and IBM, and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Selling magazine.
While an Undergraduate attending UCSC he was both John Grinder’s and the late Gregory Bateson’s teaching assistant. His most recent work, Ecology of Truth, is inspired by Bateson’s work on what he termed the ecology of mind.
Jim is the author of the management communication text Making the Message Clear and many articles, assessments and book chapters. He is co-author, with the late John Jones and William Bearley, of the management assessments the Matrix Manager Inventory: Leading in a Collaborative Environment; the Neurolinguistic Communication Profile; Rapport: Matching and Mirroring Communication and Post-Heroic Leadership: Managing the Virtual Organization.
Jim has also authored or co-authored many articles, assessments and book chapters including: Cognitive Arbitrage: The Outsourcing of Intelligence; the Leader-Manager Profile; The Change Bully: What to do when Demagoguery Masquerades as Organization Change; Making Strategy Happen; Organizational drift: Why organizations drift off keel and what human resource professionals can do about it; The Execution Gap: 7 Questions You Must Ask; the Strategic Action Profile; and Cognitive Management: Managing your Organization’s Mind.
