Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
30-Second Stories for Training
I'm going to walk you through some frameworks for creating microvideo content for training that doesn't suck and isn't just for likes.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Sep 22
- 3 min
Release the Reins: Go Social
Let's talk about what you can do to support meaningful peer to peer learning and productive collaboration via social learning.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Sep 7
- 3 min
Stop Thinking Like an Educator! Start Thinking Like a Journalist
Steal these habits from journalism to build a strong approach to needs analysis.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Aug 31
- 3 min
3 Mistakes People Make When Conducting Needs Analysis
Not all needs analysis is conducted equally. Let's talk about the big pitfalls you want to avoid. Mistake # 1: You approach needs...
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Aug 24
- 5 min
Caring: A Winning L&D Strategy
The scope of L&D may be limited, but the impact L&D can have on an organization is large, especially when it comes to caring.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Aug 10
- 3 min
What Video Data Tells Us About Learning-- And What It Doesn't
I'm going to break down for you some of the useful data points you can gather with these types of sophisticated video hosting systems.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Jul 27
- 4 min
Identifying and Preparing Your Internal Influencers and Change Champions
You're ready to invest in a social learning network solution. You want to make knowledge and story sharing a central piece of your...
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Jul 20
- 3 min
6 Learning Strategies to Steal from Social Media
There is a lot we can learn from social media about how to quickly distribute learning, make content digestible, and create community.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Jul 13
- 4 min
How to Make the Case for Non-Traditional Learning Solutions
In this post, we're going to talk about how to get buy in for non-traditional learning solutions.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Jun 29
- 4 min
Why We're Doubling Down on Knowledge Sharing Over Training
We should be replacing training with knowledge sharing opportunities: peer to peer, to-down, formally documented, off the cuff, serious, fun
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- May 19
- 3 min
Make It Easy for Them: 4 Ways to Get the Yes
Making decisions is hard work. Reviewing data takes time. Imagining something you can't see can take a lot of brain power. These are all...
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Apr 27
- 3 min
The Grey Area: Designing Learning When There's No Clear Answer
It's about the wading through the grey area and making the best choice possible at that moment in time with the information you have in the
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Apr 14
- 4 min
Leveraging Learner Personas in ID Writing
This is about how to leverage those personas to create engaging written content.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Mar 17
- 4 min
HAVE It All: 4 Ways to Tell Data Stories
Using data can be one of the most intimidating parts of being a learning designer. Facts, statistics, or just random information.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Feb 3
- 5 min
Video Inspo to Break Through Designer's Block
I offer to you a fun list of inspiring videos whose styles you can steal for your next video-based learning project-- in no particular order
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Jan 19
- 5 min
Learning in the Key of "New Mom": What Parent Training Has Taught Me about LXD
First time parent during a pandemic means lots of learning to do. This post talks about what we can learn about from parent training tools.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
If Not a Course... What Do I Build?
Today, I want to share some of that toolkit with you by walking through some of the tools you might use in four different common use cases.
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Dec 15, 2021
- 4 min
What Meant Something to Me: PD Done Right
This week, I want to talk about and deconstruct some of the meaningful professional learning experiences
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Dec 10, 2021
- 2 min
Why Aren't There More Meaningful Learning Experiences for Professionals?
Last night, we had the last meeting of From Data to Design - Cohort 3, and as always, it was bittersweet seeing how much growth there had...
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Nicole Papaioannou Lugara
- Sep 29, 2021
- 4 min
How to Get Your IDs to Write Better
How do you help developing instructional designers improve their writing skills? Start with this blog post.
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