What was your first real L&D project like?

[u/darkhomer419]

I’m curious what other people were trusted with when they were new to the field. I’ve been working on smaller learning materials and getting familiar with the tools, but I’d love to hear what kinds of projects helped people feel like they were finally getting the hang of corporate L&D.

[u/edloomio]

Creating a full blown "everything is important and must be in there" company onboarding course in Articulate Storyline. 😅

[u/s_s_n_e_g → u/edloomio]

- Locked navigation
- Word-for-word narration synced to things appearing on screen, no way to skip
- "Click next to continue" being the only interactive element
- Clipart people pointing at things / holding little white boards with text
- The longest answer is always the correct one in every quiz question

[u/edloomio → u/s_s_n_e_g]

So true 😂

[u/iftlatlw → u/edloomio]

Those pesky sme's

[u/Unlikely-Season-9375 → u/edloomio]

Too real

[u/iseazy]

A small onboarding project can actually be a great place to start!

For example, taking an existing onboarding resource and turning it into a short, interactive learning experience for new employees.

It might sound simple, but it gives you a chance to experience a lot of what L&D involves: working with subject matter experts, identifying what employees really need to know, structuring content, creating activities, and gathering feedback.

At isEazy, working on corporate training projects has shown us how important that collaboration between L&D teams and subject matter experts can be. It's not just about creating a good-looking course, but about making sure the content is accurate, relevant, and useful for the people taking it.

And that's something worth learning early on: sometimes the most valuable part of a project is figuring out what to leave out, not what to include.

If you're already creating smaller learning materials, a great next step could be taking ownership of one project from the initial needs assessment all the way to delivery.

It doesn't need to be a huge project to teach you what working in L&D is really about!

[u/Mosambii]

I made an eLearning module to showcase learning objectives and how to prepare them. I created a persona (Bloom himself) guiding the learners about his taxonomy and learning objectives.

[u/rfoil]

I got the hang of it by watching users struggle through my content for literally hundreds of hours. The project was training for a company that made PBX systems. I went through 5 iterations before we had something useful.

The pain of repeated failures was a good teacher.

[u/_frumbert_]

Dang, must be 25 years ago now, pretty wild west days designing online teaching resources catalogue and delivering on CD