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Thinking on learning design
Short essays on instructional design, compliance training, healthcare eLearning, and the psychology of how people actually learn at work.
Articulate Rise
Making Rise work harder
Four essays on why most Rise courses underperform - and what to do about it.
Rise Courses Don't Have to Look Like Rise Courses
Every Rise course looks the same. That's a design choice, not a platform limitation.
The Rise Content Dump
A Word document in Rise blocks isn't training. It's a document wearing a costume.
Why Your Rise Course Gets Abandoned at Lesson 3
The learner's brain figured out the pattern. That's why they stopped paying attention.
Rise Is Not the Problem
The L&D community debates whether Rise is 'good enough.' They're asking the wrong question.
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The Click-Next Audit
Pull the analytics. The drop-off point is where learning stopped and clicking started. That's where the redesign begins.
Designing for the Night Shift
Most training is designed for alert people at desks. Most healthcare work happens when people are tired. That disconnect is a design failure.
Aged Care Doesn't Need More Content
The sector has more mandatory modules than almost anyone. The problem isn't volume - it's that nobody designed them to work.
The Onboarding Gap
New nurses forget most of their induction by week two. The problem isn't their memory - it's how we designed the first fortnight.
The Audit Trail Problem
Your LMS says 100% completion. Your incident reports say otherwise. When 'completed' doesn't mean 'learned'.
Microlearning Isn't Just Shorter Slides
Healthcare keeps confusing 'shorter' with 'micro'. Real microlearning is a fundamentally different design approach.
Your Clinical Scenarios Aren't Scenarios
Most healthcare 'scenario-based learning' is a multiple choice quiz wearing a costume. Real scenarios force decisions.
The SME Trap
Your subject matter expert knows too much. That's not an asset - it's the reason your training has three paragraphs on every slide.
White Space Is Not Wasted Space
The most powerful design element costs nothing, takes up space, and makes clients nervous. It's not empty. It's working.
Icons Are Not Decoration
Every icon is either reducing thinking or adding to it. Most are doing the wrong one.
What Your Compliance Training Is Actually Teaching
The hidden curriculum behind every click-next module. Hint: it's not what you think.
Nobody Reads the Second Slide
Where attention actually goes in a presentation, and what it means for your eLearning design.
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