Mind blowing, game changing, adjective stretching. We just wrapped Day 1 of Docebo Inspire. Day 1 was focused on pragmatic, hands-on training. And it proved you can be both visionary and practical. After all, what’s the point of understanding future opportunities if you don’t have the skills to seize them?Here were some of the key themes and learnings:1: Practitioners are starving for help with AI and automations
The most popular session on Day 1 was Building Custom Widgets With ChatGPT. This session taught people how to build web pages (and web widgets) with ChatGPT, including prompt templates and direct examples. We hear about AI every day, but beyond generating images and text, it’s hard to know how to use it. This session’s popularity shows that L&D professionals have an appetite to get more out of AI tools.Huge shoutout to our speakers:
Day 1's most popular session featured a robot guest. 2: Learner engagement is still king
There’s an arms race in L&D between distraction and learner engagement. Day 1 tackled this arms race with sessions on gamification and personalization to make learning more fun, relevant, and effective.These sessions continued the trend of having something for everyone. There were step-by-step technical demos on how to create a personalized learning journey as well as fun philosophical tangents like “what is a game?”
What’s the point of understanding future opportunities if you don’t have the skills to seize them?
3: Design and accessibility are more important than ever
Apps today are designed to exploit our attention. This means user-focused design isn’t just important to get people learning; it’s a moral imperative. Sessions like "Level Up Your Page Design" and "Experiencing Inaccessibility" put the spotlight back on user-focused design. Designing with empathy and inclusivity improves accessibility and creates a smoother, more intuitive experience for all learners.
Are you designing learning with everyone in mind?4: Social learning and knowledge sharing are powerful tools you need to be using
Social learning is the only learning paradigm that has increased in popularity since 2021. And that’s because it works. We all want to feel connected and we learn most effectively from each other. But there are technical challenges, like capturing that shared knowledge and making it searchable.Sessions included talks on how to manage knowledge and create repositories that fit your audiences. You want learners to discover the content they need, not drown in a deluge of information.
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The average person gets 46 notifications each day on their phone, plus over 100 daily emails. It's a recipe for nagification. This session shared best practices around when and how to push notifications to people, as well as tips to get people to attend to your notifications rather than just dismiss them.Best out-of-context slide
'Nuff saidWe're just getting started!
Day 1 is a wrap, but Inspire has a lot more to come. We hope you’re warmed up, because tomorrow is going to be even bigger.