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If you’ve ever been on an IDLance project, chances are good Allie York was at the helm, keeping everything on time, on budget, and on point.
Allie is a Lead Project & Program Manager and owner of York and Yours: Creative Education Solutions, and she knows what it takes to keep complex learning projects moving without letting the details (or the people!) fall through the cracks.
Join us as Allie shares practical project management tips freelancers can use to set expectations, stay organized, communicate clearly, and keep projects moving smoothly from kickoff to close.
Curious about agentic coding but not quite sure what it is (or what you’d actually do with it)?
Join special guest Kortney Ross for a beginner-friendly introduction to building with Cursor. She’ll walk us through what agentic coding looks like in practice, how it can fit into your workflow, and what becomes possible when AI does a little more than just answer your prompts.
No coding wizardry or black magic required!
Come check out Jerson's new plugin for designing courses in Godot!
Godot is a free, open-source game engine, and Jerson's plugin makes it possible to create eLearning with a player skin, menu system, course viewer, and more!
Learn how to install the plugin and then how to use it to build your first course in Godot.
Come see what our FEAST cadets have been up to!
Get a peek inside our 24-week program for freelance instructional designers, meet the IDLance team, see what we’ve covered so far, and get your freelance questions answered during a mini Mission Control Live session.
Rise makes it easy to build beautiful courses, but a few thoughtful design choices can take them from pretty good to ooh, who made this?
Join Jen Grimes, IDLance’s Director of Visual Design (aka the person responsible for making our client deliverables look so dang good), for a practical session on elevating your Rise designs.
Jen will share some of her favorite ways to work within Rise’s constraints, make smarter visual choices, and give your courses a little more OOMPH.
Thinking about making the move into Learning & Development but not quite sure how to turn your existing experience into an actual job?
Join Holly Owens for a practical conversation about making the career switch, whether you're coming from teaching or another field entirely. She’ll share job-search tips, ways to position the skills you already have, and some of the things she wishes more career changers knew before jumping into the hunt.
You’ll also leave with a handy template/checklist to help you put it all into action.
Your Learner Is Not a Brain in a Vat: Nervous System Aware Design in Learning Science
Ever notice how learning science treats learners like a brain floating in a jar? No body, no nervous system, no autonomy?
That's not a fluke of bad practice. It's baked into classical neuroscience, the brain as an isolated processor model that shaped decades of how we think about learning. AI is only deepening our mind-body split.
Join us for this session with Christin Light, founder of Light LXD. Christin has been teaching technology since the ripe old age of 8. Christin now designs learning experiences for AI and technical enablement for Fortune 500 clients, reaching over 1.5M learners in fifteen languages along the way.
Christin's making the case for expanding UDL to design for the whole person, nervous system included, and why that matters more than ever as AI reshapes almost everything.
Expect a hands-on, interactive session (you'll be doing, not just listening).