Online learning tends to fail when the traditional lecture format is re-packaged over Zoom. To keep students engaged in the digital environment, learning has to be much more participatory and collaborative. That’s where mastermind groups come by making learning community-driven and giving participants the weekly accountability they need to stick to their goals. Zoom Breakout […]
Life has increasingly gone online. We increasingly work from home, shop online, and converse over social networks. Meanwhile, for anyone hoping to learn new skills or expertise in different fields, the internet has you covered. Courses abound, on any subject and at varying lengths, costs, and degrees of difficulty. The development of artificial intelligence is […]
The rise of artificial intelligence has paradoxically increased our hunger for authentic human experiences. The nature of being a creator is changing fast. A recent announcement by Meta confirms that they plan to flood Facebook and Instagram with AI-generated creator bots that exist on the platform the same way as human users do — the […]
Everybody at some point has to learn how to do a job or skill. Large and small companies alike must train employees, and modern creators and course designers have to think about the best methods for imbuing students with knowledge. This is what Rapid Instructional Design aims to do—make instructors and teachers more effective. It […]
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Stories are how we explain how things work, how we make decision, how we justify our decisions, how we persuade others, how we understand our place in the world, create our identities, and define and teach social values.” – Dr. Pamela Rutledge, […]
There’s a learning curve to most activities. Things start off difficult and become easier with practice. They can often become so easy that you can do them on autopilot.
I get emails all the time about with questions about how to make online courses and teach online. So many people dream of getting rich selling online courses, possibly because there are so many ads on social media networks advertising how to get rich making online courses. But the reality of being an online course […]
Since the beginning of time, people have been learning through mythological stories that help them understand who they are, where they belong in the community, and how they can make their contribution to the world. As the pace of technological innovation and cultural change accelerates today, we desperately need a new generation of storytellers who […]
Are you interested in improving how you market and sell your product or services? Or how you can better communicate the value of your professional skills and expertise? Then I want to share with you the brilliant 5-step formula that Richard Branson used to build his global Virgin Empire. He used this branding formula to […]
In this age of information overload, the ability to captivate people’s attention with a good story is an essential skill to develop to be heard in all the noise. I have been fascinated by storytelling and telling stories ever since I first encountered Joseph Campbell’s PBS series on The Power of Myth when I was […]
