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Christy Tucker

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Learning Experience Design Consultant

Christy Tucker is a learning experience design consultant with 20 years of experience helping people learn. She specializes in using scenario-based learning to engage audiences and promote skill transfer to real-world environments. She has created training for clients including the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE), Cisco, FIRST, and NAFSA: Association of International Educators. Christy has been blogging about instructional design and elearning for over 15 years and is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events.

166: The Future Isn’t Flashier—It’s Smarter: Christy Tucker on Building Learning That Sticks
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July 21, 2025

166: The Future Isn’t Flashier—It’s Smarter: Christy Tucker on Building Learning That Sticks

In this episode of EdUp L&D, Holly Owens welcomes back Christy Tucker, a seasoned expert in instructional design and scenario-based learning. They discuss Christy's journey from K-12 education to corporate training, the nuances of scenario-based learning, common pitfalls in instructional design, and the evolving role of AI in the field. Christy shares valuable insights on how to effectively implement branching scenarios and the importance of aligning practice with real-world skills. The conversa...
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74: From Band Teacher to Freelance Learning Experience Design, and Top 100 Influencer, Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, Syniad Learning
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Feb. 2, 2023

74: From Band Teacher to Freelance Learning Experience Design, and Top 100 Influencer, Christy Tucker, Learning Experience Design Consultant, Syniad Learning

Overview In this episode, I got to chat with the amazing, nerdy, fun, and resourceful Christy Tucker! Once I listed to Luke Hobson’s episode with Christy I knew I needed to have her on EdUp EdTech. We talk about Christy’s journey from band teacher to freelance ID. Yes, she is a transitioned teacher too! You even get to learn about how she came up with her business’s name and the name of her first viral blog post. Oh, and Christy was named one of the Top 100 Learning Influencers by Eduflow. What ...
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