Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan has more than 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment, and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning, so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI. TorranceLearning hosts the xAPI Learning Cohort, a free, virtual 12-week learning-by-doing opportunity where teams form on the fly and create proof-of-concept xAPI projects.

Megan is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and two ATD TD at Work publications: Agile and LLAMA for ISD Project Management and Making Sense of xAPI. She is a frequent speaker at conferences nationwide. TorranceLearning projects have won several Brandon Hall Group awards, the 2014 xAPI Hyperdrive contest at DevLearn, and back-to-back Learning Guild DemoFest Best-in-Show awards in 2016/2017 with xAPI projects. TorranceLearning is a 2018 Michigan 50 Companies to Watch.

A graduate of Cornell University with a degree in communication and an MBA, and an eCornell Facilitator in the Women’s leadership curriculum, Megan lives and works near Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Introduction
Part 1. The Foundations
1. Why Should Instructional Designers Care?
2. Getting Started With Definitions
3. Data Specifications in Workplace Learning
4. Unique Learning Metrics
5. A Little Bit of Statistics
Part 2. Designing for Data
6. A Framework for Using Learning Data
7. Make a Plan for Gathering and Using Data
8. Form Your Hypothesis and Specify Data Needs
9. Identify Data Sources
10. Build in Data Capture
11. Store the Data
12. Iterate on the Data and the Analysis
13. Communicate and Visualize the Data
14. Build Scale and Maturity
Acknowledgments
Resources and References
Index
About the Author