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29 Dec, 109 tweets, 28 min read
In the spirit of @threadapalooza, here are all my tweets on building courses, all in one place with 1 line summaries

Continually updating...

Everything I know about how to create a transformational online course

Let's go 👇
1/ The thread that started it all, a collection of my essays and checklists on the topic

2/ There are two stages to building a successful online course business - launch and your first students

They require mastering different skill sets

3/ Avoid the same mistakes I made over the last 15 years doing this

4/ Great online courses are not about the transfer of knowledge

They're about the transformation of students

5/ Let students uncover it

6/ The 5 non-negotiable ingredients for a transformational course

7/ The 9 overarching steps to creating an online course

8/ The Job to be Done is your course promise, your transformation - you must clarify this before doing anything

9/ In case you missed it, it's ALL about the transformation

10/ There are 4 types of groups you should consider having in your course

11/ The two main groups must have very different leaders

12/ Your students will learn a lot from you, but some may learn best from people only 1 step ahead of them

13/ Spend time understanding how working memory, active processing, and long term memory function

14/ The 4 most important things to consider when researching your course

15/ The 6 most important things to consider when designing your course

16/ The 3 most important things to consider when delivering your course

17/ Organize your course into modules that make up a Learning Sprint

18/ Capturing attention is the key to staking your claim on your student's working memory

19/ Knowing what emotion you want your students to feel is the key to capturing attention

(h/t @RobbieCrab)

20/ Video is a powerful medium for capturing attention. Use these multimedia principles to sprinkle learning magic in your video

21/ Capturing attention is the first of 4 factors for keeping students motivated

22/ Provide ways for students to tap into intrinsic motivation

23/ You definitely want motivated students

24/ How you organize content will influence pattern recognition for students

25/ Begin at the end and lead with why your student should care about your course

26/ Use Advance Organizers

27/ Advance Organizers are not the same as overviews

28/ Advance Organizers help students build on prior knowledge

29/ Stories are a great example of Advance Organizers

30/ Two suggestions for using Advance Organizers

31/ Two additional suggestions for using Advance Organizers

32/ Strive for getting your students to give you their WHY

33/ Pushed Consumption vs Pulled Consumption - offer both in your course

34/ Give students the means for monitoring their own progress

35/ Create trust in your learning experience and then create tension for learners to really move the needle

36/ Signpost your content to give students an outline to hang your ideas (and their notes) on

37/ The concept of Scaffolding has 3 components which should all be in your course

38/ Dig into your topic until you reach the first principles

39/ There is a difference between knowing the name of something and deeply understanding it

40/ You're learning every time you do something - not all your students will realize this

41/ Encourage your students to unlearn what they know and begin with an open mind

42/ 3 ways to promote active learning

43/ Include plenty of real-world practice and time for reflection

44/ Be ruthless with your content - students will remember 3-5 things at best

45/ Tell a story with your online course

46/ Always ascertain what your students already know about something

47/ There are 4 primary ways you can deliver your online course content

48/ The 8 principles of multimedia teaching

49/ The question to answer to arrive at a great learning outcome

50/ Remind your students that not only is it ok to make mistakes, it's encouraged

51/ Community unlocks peer-to-peer learning, the only truly scalable way you can transform thousands

52/ Think up many different ways your students can apply what you are teaching and prompt them to take action

53/ Be available for your students

54/ Bring all your energy to any student interaction

55/ Three examples of ways you can get students learning by doing

56/ Add checkpoints for students to measure or reflect on their progress

57/ Use peers, support and deadlines to move your students through their learning journey

58/ We learn best from each other - make this easy for your students

59/ Ideas for post-course support to ensure you're transforming students

60/ Combine words and images in your presented content in a thoughtful way

61/ A 3-step formula for your modules:

1) provide plenty of opps to reflect
2) show, don't tell, how it's done
3) give specific promotes to action

62/ Giving your students ways to reflect on their personal meaning for taking your course will help them see it as their journey, not yours

63/ Information is abundant, the guidance you provide is scarce

64/ Another timely reminder from The Dragon about the importance of doing

65/ Developing an online course is like writing a book, make sure you're writing the right book

66/ Encouraging personal reflection is the cheat code for personalizing your course for every student

67/ Each of your students has the ability to design their own transformation, you just need to guide them

68/ The 3 main components of a needs analysis

69/ Be aware of this trap as a course creator

70/ Questions to ask yourself when writing your online course

71/ Internalize these 6 assumptions about motivation for learning

72/ You have a ton of good content in the form of blogs, podcasts or old courses, here is how to evaluate them

73/ When coming up with new content, follow these 3 guidelines

74/ Identify concepts or experiences familiar to your students and draw comparisons to this in your content

75/ When designing a live session or a video, try stick to 3 main points

76/ Here are 3 ways we use working memory in learning something

77/ Trust me, it's worth your time getting your learning outcomes right

78/ The framework we use for learning outcomes at Curious Lion

79/ Another useful framework for learning outcomes is to make them SMART

80/ A checklist to use when you've finished the first draft of your online course

81/ The 4 questions to ask when measuring the ROI of your course

82/ Suggested questions for interviewing students, either for market research or in evaluating your ROI

83/ The 7 roles you need to fill if you want to build an online course business

84/ You need a Beginner's Mind to successfully create transformations for your students

85/ What do I mean by Beginner's Mind?

86/ Here is why it's so difficult for you to adopt a Beginner's Mind

87/ The 5 things you can expect from adopting a Beginner's Mind

88/ Identify the leaps of understanding that you now take for granted

89/ You never stop learning. Neither do your students. Think about how you can continue to support them once they've completed your course

90/ Imposter syndrome is real, but just remember to show up and be helpful - you know your shit

(h/t @mariepoulin)

91/ A case study in how to use mentors/peer supporters in your course

92/ Repetition is not a bad thing, just remember to change up the context

93/ A case study for a capstone event for your course

94/ Pay attention to the basics, your students don't take these for granted, you shouldn't either

95/ Uncover your hidden biases

96/ Consider the alternatives

97/ Recall the anchors you used when you first started learning that which you're an expert in now

98/ Don't worry about bells and whistles, focus on content and student experience

99/ Reasons why group learning works pt1

100/ Reasons why group learning works pt2

101/ Reasons why group learning works pt3

102/ Reasons why group learning works pt4

103/ Reasons why group learning works pt5

104/ Reasons why group learning works pt6

105/ Reasons why group learning works pt7

106/ Reasons why group learning works pt8

107/ Reasons why group learning works pt9

108/ Learning doesn't end... (and neither does this thread)

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Here are some ideas for questions
Clarification questions

– e.g., Could you give an example of…?
Implication and consequence questions

– e.g., What effect could that have?
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2/
Does your experience inform the student of each learning outcome at the appropriate time?
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