Thread by @Bazzaruto

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've written extensively about it.

If you want to learn about educational design, here's a start 👇

There are 5 areas to be familiar with:

∙ Basic Learning Concepts
∙ Beginner'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

curiouslionlearning.com/how-do-i-teach…

2/ Beginner's Mindset

Perhaps the single-most valuable service we offer.

Use a Beginner'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.

curiouslionlearning.com/5-steps-for-cr…

4/ Developing Training Material

This post chronicles the mistakes I've made learning the business of course creation.

Follow the 9 steps to avoid wasting time and money on content that isn't going to deliver the transformation you promise.

curiouslionlearning.com/training-mater…

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 😁) types of groups in your course.

curiouslionlearning.com/why-group-lear…

And this one gathers my research and experience on HOW to create a transformational group learning experience

curiouslionlearning.com/how-to-design-…

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'd love to talk more about YOUR course idea...

@khemaridh as promised, sir