Let’s talk learning design impact. No I mean out-of-this-world impact. Sal Kahn and his team are on a mission to deliver a world-class education to anyone anywhere in the world.  Wait for it….for free. Kahn Academy shares 12-minute lessons on a wide variety of topics using a screen video recorder and pen-writer. Beyond the talk [...]

Hemingway once wrote a six-word story. He called it his best work ever. Someone asked me today, “What do you do?” I replied, “I get people to do X.” Client says, “We need [target audience] to do X.” Learning Strategist replies: 1/  What is the target audience doing now relative to X? 2/  What will [...]

Recently, I was speaking with a Designer venting about the lack of reaction she received when she presented a comprehensive learning design plan to her clients. “They said they’d think about and get back to me. That’s it! I worked on this for weeks!”  I asked what she did to get buy-in. She said that during [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve seen plenty of elearning orientations that are mostly page-turners or text-laden. Here’s an awesome example of an orientation that puts the viewer “inside of the experience.” Forget about telling “the how-to” or “this is what you learn” to someone. What about placing the participant  INTO the story. Why tell them what they will [...]