Magic EdTech

JUNE 19, 2025

It’s said about every new platform, every new idea, and every new tool. True AI literacy isn’t about banning or blindly adopting; it’s teaching learners how to ask great questions, vet information, and draw conclusions. These are the core ingredients for any school or district serious about sustainable change. The good news?

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

DevLearn had about 4,000 attendees this year, so it’s the biggest conference I’ve ever attended. Karl answered a number of questions about games and gamification, and he showed a few samples. Think about not just how to do the same things you’re doing, but how to change what you’re doing.

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SweetRush

APRIL 14, 2025

SweetRushs Transformational Design Standards provide 8 lenses to evaluate learning experience design to ensure that it brings about learner transformation. One of the most common is accommodating differences of opinion between subject matter experts (often senior leaders) and L&D stakeholders about what should be taught to whom.

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OpenSesame

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s What You Need to Know About Cultural Intelligence (CQ) The post Managing Global Teams? Here’s What You Need to Know About Cultural Intelligence (CQ) appeared first on OpenSesame: Online training today for the skills you need tomorrow. Managing Global Teams?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 17, 2025

It pulls together topics he’s previously written about like games and learning in 3D into a practical focus on how to use these approaches. In keeping with the ideas in the book about surprises and Easter eggs, I staged my photo with some of my family’s card, board, and RPG games. Can you identify every game in the photo?

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Hurix Digital

MAY 4, 2025

Thus, take some time to think about what specific knowledge or skills you want learners to gain after taking this course. To learn more about Hurix Digitals innovative solutions, click here. Those goals tell students what they can expect to learn during the course. Also, ask yourself questions like, What are the desired results?

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 10, 2025

I share these links about once a month here on my blog. The recent history of AI in 32 otters Ethan Mollick shows the progression of AI image and video generation with iterations of a prompt about otters using wifi on a plane. As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 24, 2025

Think about your options and what you could do. Reflect and think about what happened. This isn’t just about saving time. The idea for this post came from a question someone asked me about depicting abstract concepts. I’d love to hear your about your questions and challenges too!

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We spent most of our time talking about tools for drafting and building branching scenarios: Twine Google Forms Miro BranchTrack ChatMapper. Betty and I also talked about the process for creating branching scenarios, working with SMEs, and other helpful resources. We discussed the pros and cons and when each tool would make sense.

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Learning Rebels

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As always, the Coffee Chat group was full of honest insights about their challenges. Curious about how your peers are navigating these changes? HBR wrote an excellent article about “How to Embrace Change Using Emotional Intelligence. But here’s the kicker: it’s not just about communication.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While we often think about training and elearning in terms of “seat time,” that’s not a good measure for branching scenarios. Example 3: The chat simulation I built earlier this year is also about 50 passages, comparable to the large branching scenario. One of the biggest considerations is the size of the scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 26, 2022

While there were other discussions about how to encourage adoption of xAPI, get the right data, and present it in a way that helps guide decisions, I got something very specific out of the conversation. We do have limitations that we can’t necessarily change, but our beliefs about those limitations are within our control.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 25, 2022

This came up in a discussion on LinkedIn about whether visual appeal leads to better learning outcomes. (h/t h/t Sarah Mercier) While this isn’t about learning, it’s about usability–and that is important in how people perceive and interact with elearning.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 9, 2022

We talked about everything freelance: knowing when to start, time tracking, finding clients, creating an LLC, pricing projects, making sure clients are the right fit, and more. Questions answered about everything freelance. On my ID careers page, I list a number of past posts about consulting, freelancing, and remote work.

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Upside Learning

APRIL 24, 2025

Its not just about launch dayits about setting up a learning experience that learners want to return to. It’s about integrating impact into the DNA of all learning initiativesnot an afterthought. Phase 4: Launching and Learning Starting Strong and Listening Early An impactful launch combines clarity with excitement.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 21, 2023

Is that really the best way to communicate with learners about the goals of training? Use focusing objectives, not learning objectives I agree that we should tell learners what training is about. Focusing objectives help learners know what training is about and what’s important. No, I think we can do better.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

Because sustaining learning impact isn’t just about what’s delivered, it’s also about what’s heard, felt, and experienced by the learners themselves. One-on-one interviews with learners, especially from different roles or business units, help uncover nuanced stories about how learning is (or isn’t) landing in the real world.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Over the past few years, I’ve gotten several questions about nonbinary pronouns and gender diversity in scenarios. Sometimes, people ask about using “gender neutral” characters in scenarios like in this question. We’re talking about specific individuals, we should get their pronouns right.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Their goal is to make learning about money simple, covering topics that arent taught in most schools like budgeting, investing, financial strategies, insurance, and estate planning. And along the way, if you have any questions about making your course a reality, were always here to help ! Give LearnDash a try in our demo !

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, Tracy Parish did a great job talking about how elearning isn’t supposed to be fun, it’s supposed to be torture. I’ve forgotten the actual title I was given, but the topic was about how you should add more bullet points to your elearning. The best ones really lean into whatever terrible topic it is.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I wrote about 30 new blog posts this year and updated about 20 older posts. How to Learn about Learning Science. How do you learn about learning science? This was a follow-up post from a Twitter debate about whether and how research is relevant to the work of instructional designers and corporate training professionals.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I have also recorded several conversations about instructional design careers, freelancing, and other topics. We spent most of our time talking about tools for drafting and building branching scenarios: Twine, Google Forms, Miro, BranchTrack, ChatMapper. We talked about branching scenarios and Choose Your Own Adventure stories.

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Upside Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This perspective naturally extends to skilling new managers, where the challenge is not just about providing initial training but ensuring ongoing development and scalable support. Much has been written about, and investments made in leadership. A systematic approach is necessary. Leadership development is big business.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We talked about my transition from band teacher to freelance LXD consultant. Holly asked about the “feast or famine” cycle in freelancing, and I talked about strategies to address that. We talk about Christy’s journey from band teacher to freelance ID. Yes, she is a transitioned teacher too!

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Last week, an ID asked me about my writing process. Lots of text here–need to think about what needs to be included and how Looks like lots of changing to plain language Make a list of all terms used: need to create a glossary for terms and acronyms Note picture of [something from the course].

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Get specific about what the behavior is and what it looks or sounds like. Ask about mistakes Once you have the details on the desired behavior, ask your SME about mistakes. Ask about consequences Then, ask about the consequences of those mistakes. Where I really disagree is about writing the scenario itself.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I recently got a question from a reader about how long a branching scenario should be. That means you’re probably looking at about 3 times the length it would be for linear content. Instead of 45 minutes, you’d need about 135 minutes of audio. Interested in reading more about this topic? Looking for more?

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 3, 2023

Hear Bela Gaytan, Kayleen Holt, Bridget Brown, Devin Torres and others speak about inclusive learning. This is about what information you need to get from SMEs (context, decisions, misconceptions, consequences, models for good performance). So, first, let’s talk about the structure of a mini-scenario.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

else-if:$score >= 5)[''Not bad'' You pushed back on some of the stakeholder feedback, but you could have done more to educate your stakeholder about good instructional design. You can educate stakeholders about the rationale behind your design decisions rather than accepting every suggestion. More on Twine.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

While most of the the presentations, webinars, and podcast interviews that I do relate to scenario-based learning , I have also spoken with multiple groups about instructional design careers and freelancing. This post is a collection of all of my presentations and podcasts about instructional design careers and freelancing.

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