In today's podcast, I take a step into the brain science of why it's important to engage our students in more than just the curriculum. People are complex creatures, and the brain requires stimulation in complex ways. If we just focus on delivering the basic information we are missing out on big opportunities to create lasting impact through engaging the brain's rewards systems.

Learning Design Secrets

Hacking Happy Hormones to Improve Learning

In today's podcast I talk about teaching the learner who doesn't want to learn: teaching the unteachable. Sometimes students are forced to be in class, or they need to learn something they just don't want to learn. How do we as learning designers get past the learner's lack of desire or their contempt for the curriculum and still make an impact in their lives?

Designing to Teach the Unteachable!

While a lot of aspect of quarantine was NOT fun I feel like it did help online learning take a couple of leaps forward. In today's podcast, I talk about what I learned with doing a blended classroom and what we can continue to do to help our students learn most effectively.

Why haven't we always done Blended Classrooms!?!

Sometimes in our efforts to be amazing Learning Designers we take on too much and overwhelm our capacity to the point that we are no longer effective. In today's podcast, I talk about how to help you as a designer not get too overwhelmed so that you can use your full cognitive capacity for the learner!

What learning design and airplane oxygen masks have in common...

My Learning and Development department was in a bad place for a little while because none of our clients wanted to work with us. This was due to a lack of trust and a prevailing smug attitude. When we decided to find a better workflow that would align with our clients everything changed for us.

How we gained trust though adopting Agile Scrum!

Too often we are asked to make a solution to a problem that has not been fully assessed. This leads to abandoned projects, low morale, and underserved learners. Today I talk about avoiding this with the steps of a proper needs assessment.

Whats the old saying: if you fail to plan you plan to fail?

I don't think bragging has ever gone well for me. So I shouldn't be surprised that when I bragged about how many books I had read, I received some humbling but beneficial advice.

When bragging about my accomplishments helped me learn the faults of my accomplishments!

I know tragedy is a constant in this world, but knowing that doesn't make it easier. What can make it a little easier is employing emotional intelligence for yourself and others around you. In today's podcast, I talk about how I observed my wife helping her mother through a family tragedy by subconsciously employing emotional intelligence strategies.

What I learned during a family tragedy...

I recently ran into a bit of a training block with my curriculum, but some advice from a good book helped me through it. Today I talk about a great way to help you mix up your training to get out of, the all to common, instructional rut!

Getting out of a training rut in the RIGHT way!

I love the Holidays! And this year we had to get creative and hold our holiday parties online. In this week's podcast, I talk about 2 online parties that really stood out and how I am going to adopt what I loved from those parties into my learning design!

How fun Holiday Parties inspire better online learning!

I may be wrong but I think the days of coming into a job with specific software knowledge are numbered... It's not about knowing a specific software, it's about knowing how to learn new software fast and well. Because even the software we do know how to use can change overnight. In this podcast, I give 7 strategies on how to be good at learning new software.

How to learn ANY new software, and why it's important to your learning design career!

It is difficult to connect to online learners BUT it is not impossible. In today's podcast I talk about how to find out more than just the demographics of your online learners so that you can connect to your learners to help them feel like the learning is for them!

How do you REALLY get know your online learners?

Habit making and breaking is a big part of learning design. Today I talk about what I have done to break bad habits and build good ones, and how these strategies can be used in learning design.

Changing Habits and Motivation with ONE WORD!

My boss asked: "what have you done wrong when doing a virtual training?" I wish I could say nothing... Heck, I wish I could say it was only a few things! In today's podcast I talk about the list me and my friend at work came up with of things we have done wrong in virtual trainings.

The list I came up with when my boss asked: "So far, what have you done wrong?"

Recently I was helping my daughter learn to ride a Ripstik, however our practice sessions were interrupted and I had to leave. When I came back she had learned how to ride it on her own! Today I talk about what we can do to help our learns thrive on their own with well designed deliberate practice!

I just got replaced by a garbage can!...and I couldn't be more proud!

Welcome to Learning Design Secrets! My name is Seth Warburton and this podcast is where we answer the question: How can we create the most impactful, life changing, educational experiences through learning design.

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