Learning Design Secrets

It's a New Year with new learning that needs to be designed! In today's podcast I talk about the 3 things that you need to consider for all the learning you design!

Its the last day of 2019 and I am taking a step back and thinking about what will learning design look like for me and my learners in 2020 and what we can do to reach our 2020 vision!

Microlearning is a buzzword, but does it describe an instructional strategy or just a way to package learning. In todays podcast I talk about how it is sometime both...

Subject matter experts are a GREAT resource, but they can also be a HUGE pain... In todays podcast I talk about how whether an expert is easy to work with or hard to work with depends on YOU!

It's important to know the fundamental rules of learning science BUT what happens when you have competing information! In today's podcast I talk about my search for the right rules and how to know which ones to follow...

Rules are meant to be broken!... But when? What determines when to break a rule? In todays podcast I talk about how I wanted to be creative and break rules but I had to learn when that was good to do, and when it isn't...

Learning in a classroom is only effective if the students stay engaged. A lot of that engagement comes from our learning design! In today's podcast I talk about 6 engagement modifiers for classroom teaching... NOTE: these can be also applied to elearning as well!

As learning designers we need to set a new standard! Educational articles with little, to no, learning design should not be what defines our field of work... It should be engaging, understandable, impactful, learner centered designed education! In today's podcast I talk about my frustrations with educational articles and a few ways I would change them.

Stakeholders and subject matter experts LOVE their products, and their craft, so naturally they think they know how to train on it. They don't realize they have the CURSE OF KNOWLEDGE and that is the number one cause of horrible trainings. In this podcast I talk about what to do with clients who try to tell you how to design your learning.

Sometimes all you need is a little bit of education to change your entire life!... But if that education is not designed in an approachable way it could pass you by and your life will remain the same... Check out today's podcast on designing learning that is approachable!

Its funny how far off our learners can get when we don't have well defined outcomes. In this podcast I talk about how poor learning outcomes is like being a BOWL in a China shop and how your effort shoudl be more than half FAST! ;)

When creating learning content we focus on what our visuals are communicating but what about the space around it, what is that communicating. In this podcast I talk about how I learned about how everything presented to the learner must FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE!

One of the greatest tools in our tool belt is simplicity, we just have to be dedicated to using it! Thats because, honestly, it's not simple to make learning objects more simple...

Secret 3

In this podcast you will hear how I once made a common personalization mistake and what I do today to avoid that mistake but still make content that is personalized! Secret 2

Welcome to Learning Design Secrets! My name is Seth Warburton and this podcast is where we answer the question: How can we create impactful learning experiences that change lives, through learning design. In this episode I talk about my origins into Learning Design. -