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In this interview, Marcus and I talk about how he got into corporate L&D, comparing and contrasting academia and corporate ID, improving accessibility in learning and how to measure the success of a learning program in such a way that the business cares.
Here’s my favorite bit from the interview:
I've grew up with deaf parents and so that's always been front of mind for me. But when I actually went through the process of going to meetings with the accessibility team and then I went to a committee meeting with an accessibility council, it was very humbling. I heard how a screen reader actually reads out the content and it was just such a gating awful experience, and that was not in line with what I wanted the learners to experience. I wanted to create a very positive easy to use aesthetic experience that communicated the learning objectives and the goals of the program. Then going to the committee meeting, I just saw firsthand how people with like very different types of physical and cognitive limitations had to like pick up pieces of paper or to get to a podium to present on their next topic, and I I just remember sitting in the back of the room just like tears in my eyes because I had just been so off base and I was just so wrong about it. So I think that was something that just stuck with me and those are very easy things that you can build into an employee's development.
Nerd Out with Marcus Miers