{"id":29693,"date":"2018-08-01T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingweb.trainingindustry.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=29693"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:23:48","slug":"the-business-of-learning-episode-six-the-learner-experience","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/trainingindustry.com\/articles\/learning-technologies\/the-business-of-learning-episode-six-the-learner-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business of Learning, Episode 6: The Learner Experience"},"author":27,"featured_media":29695,"template":"","tags":[2592,2524,2853,2766],"class_list":["post-29693","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-learner-experience","tag-learning-experience","tag-learning-experience-platform","tag-podcast","global_topic_tax-learning-technologies"],"acf":{"sponsored":false,"gated":true,"gated_content_type":"file","file_attachment":35566,"gated_content":"","form_instruction_header":"To download an e-book with perspectives on e-learning, please fill out the form below:","pardot_html_embed":"[hubspot type=\"form\" portal=\"47185625\" id=\"7f79af79-26dd-4d12-afc7-8c9dddbde0ba\" version=\"v4\"]","author_override":true,"author_name":"Training Industry, Inc.","author_image":"","author_bio":"","excerpt":"The \u201clearner experience\u201d has become a bit of an industry buzzword, coming to us from the software development industry\u2019s concept of the user experience, or UX. But what does it really mean to provide a good learner experience?","main_content":"The \u201clearner experience\u201d has become a bit of an industry buzzword, coming to us from the software development industry\u2019s concept of the user experience, or UX. But what does it really mean to provide a good learner experience?\r\n\r\nAnd not just what does it mean, but then how do we go about creating a good learner experience, and how do we know what's good?\u00a0 To dig into this topic, we talked to Sam Herring, vice president and general manager of Intrepid by VitalSource, and Dr. Tom Tonkin,\u00a0principal of thought leadership and advisory services at Cornerstone OnDemand.\r\n\r\nListen Now:\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Episode Six: The Learner Experience\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/buz8b-e4218b?from=pb6admin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;skin=1&amp;pfauth=&amp;btn-skin=107\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe>","full_width":false,"content_band":null,"tice_sponsors":"","custom_dfp_keywords":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Business of Learning, Episode 6: The Learner Experience - Training Industry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Training Industry - by Sarah Gallo. 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