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Why Starting With an Activity Beats Starting With Content
Flipping the usual course structure sounds counterintuitive. But when you start with an activity instead of content, learners arrive at the instruction…
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Stop Designing Courses Around Content Structure
You can build a course with well-organized content, clean navigation, and solid visuals, and still end up with something that doesn’t stick.…
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3 Ways to Define Interactive E-Learning
I hear “make it more interactive” constantly. But no one ever defines what that means. Once you understand the three main ways…
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4 Ways to Move Past Click and Read E-Learning
A common pattern in e-learning is to list what people need to know and then quiz them on it. That approach measures…
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Your Course Can’t Ask “Did That Make Sense?”
Real communication goes back and forth. Most e-learning doesn’t. Here’s how to build feedback and assessment into the course itself instead of…
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How to Build Training Objectives That Matter
Some courses need learners to prove they can do something. Others just need to build awareness. Here’s a simple framework for figuring…
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How Alien Abductions Make You a Better E-Learning Designer
Real-world content can actually work against your course. Here’s why flipping the scenario, even into something as odd as an alien abduction,…
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Four Reasons to Open Up Your Course Navigation
“We have to lock the course or people will just skip to the end.” Sound familiar? Locking navigation is a common default…
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The Assumptions That Wreck Your Course Design
Every course is built with some idea of who’s going to take it. The problem is that idea is often wrong. Getting…
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Help Your Client See E-Learning from a Different Perspective
When a client asks for an e-learning course, they usually describe what they’ve experienced as a learner. That almost always means click-and-read,…