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Do you have an online course?

I want to tell you a little about learning architecture.

My agency partners with content experts to help them create courses, and I& #39;ve written extensively about it.

If you want to learn about educational design, here& #39;s a start

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There are 5 areas to be familiar with:

∙ Basic Learning Concepts
∙ Beginner& #39;s Mindset
∙ Designing Your Course
∙ Developing Training Material
∙ Group Learning

Going to skip the long tweetstorm and provide a list of resources for you to digest in your own time.

1/ Basic Learning Concepts

This post covers core concepts you should know:

∙ pattern recognition
∙ prior knowledge
∙ principles over facts
∙ motivation
∙ deliberate practice & retrieval
∙ scaffolding, and
∙ spaced repetition https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-do-i-teach-my-employees-ocustomers-this-topic/">https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-do-i-...

How Do I Teach My People This Topic? | Curious Lion

With a deeper understanding of how humans learn, we can formulate first principles for how we can teach, and learn better.

https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-do-i-teach-my-employees-ocustomers-this-topic/

2/ Beginner& #39;s Mindset

Perhaps the single-most valuable service we offer.

Use a Beginner& #39;s Mindset to examine your topic.

Talk to someone who is truly a beginner.

Teach them what you know & have them ask questions.

Document your answers to those questions.

3/ Designing Your Course

This post dives deep into our process for creating courses at Curious Lion.

It also includes an eBook version with templates for Course Mapping and Scripting. https://curiouslionlearning.com/5-steps-for-creating-digital-training/">https://curiouslionlearning.com/5-steps-f...

5 Steps for Creating Online Learning - Are You Missing Any? | Curious Lion

Everything you need to know to create custom online learning in 5 easy steps, with examples and guidance from 15+ years of research and experience.

https://curiouslionlearning.com/5-steps-for-creating-digital-training/

4/ Developing Training Material

This post chronicles the mistakes I& #39;ve made learning the business of course creation.

Follow the 9 steps to avoid wasting time and money on content that isn& #39;t going to deliver the transformation you promise. https://curiouslionlearning.com/training-material-development/">https://curiouslionlearning.com/training-...

A Complete Guide to Training Material Development | Curious Lion

Training material development is a process fraught with differing opinions and gut instinct. In this article, we distill 15 years of experience in training material development into 9 concise steps.

https://curiouslionlearning.com/training-material-development/

5/ Group Learning

Finally, any course worth taking these days has a community element.

I wrote a two-part series on group learning to guide you here.

This first post looks at why you need two (actually 3

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Why You Need These Two Groups to Power Group Learning

Group learning is the best way to learn a complex skill, but for a learning experience to be transformational, you need two distinct kinds of groups for students to belong to.

https://curiouslionlearning.com/why-group-learning/

And this one gathers my research and experience on HOW to create a transformational group learning experience https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-to-design-group-learning/">https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-to-de...

How to Design Transformational Group Learning | Curious Lion

With an appreciation of why group learning works and why you need both Destination and Journey Groups in a learning experience, how do you optimize group learning to deliver on the promise of...

https://curiouslionlearning.com/how-to-design-group-learning/

If you want to go deeper, spend time understanding how we learn.

Great learning design is learner-centered.

Popular books:

∙ Ultralearning - @ScottHYoung
∙ @PeakTheBook - Anders Ericsson
∙ The First 20 Hours - @joshkaufman
∙ Make It Stick - Peter Brown

And if you want to go EVEN deeper, reply to this thread.

I& #39;d love to talk more about YOUR course idea...

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