What learning how to become an instructional designer on LinkedIn taught me. You’re looking to get into instructional design (ID), but don’t know which course(s) to take? Here are my two cents. Last Tuesday, I completed the Become an Instructional Designer learning path on LinkedIn. …

How to start designing from zero to hero in no time. — I’ve always considered myself creative, but all that graphic design stuff seemed, well, scary. Back in the day, you mostly had those extensive design tools or suites like Adobe Photoshop where the sheer number of options was just overwhelming. How do I even start? Where do I go from there…

Recently, I started learning tennis, something I have wanted to do for quite some time. And while I haven’t won any major tournament just yet, I already learned some valuable lessons about learning, training, and development that I’d like to share. 1. Avoid the immediate result bias I want it all. I want it all. And…

English is, in many ways, convenient. Whether you’re watching that latest show on Netflix, listening to your new favorite band, or talking to your old friend halfway around the world, English is there. It’s relatively easy to use, ubiquitous, almost normalized. The same goes for many language models, built by…

In the #VoiceFirst era, you can’t go wrong with more linguists on your team. What is the last frontier in automatic speech recognition (ASR)? Better hardware, faster computers, more data? According to NYU’s Michael Picheny, it is none of these things. Instead, speech recognition systems struggle with recognizing multiple…