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The Gravity of Tendency: Why We Learn What We Do and Become Who We Are
The Gravity of Tendency: Why We Learn What We Do and Become Who We Are
It is a fascinating paradox in the world of cognitive science and human development. For decades, we chased the phantom…
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The Invisible ArithmeticMar 2, 2026
The Invisible Arithmetic
I was talking with my partner this morning about how we learn things, and we arrived at an observation that struck me…
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Twenty-Five Years of Wandering Through KnowledgeJan 21, 2026
Twenty-Five Years of Wandering Through Knowledge
A Celebration of Wikipedia and Humanity's Eternal Quest to Understand On January 15, 2026, Wikipedia turned…
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The Glorious Nonsense: Brainrot as EnlightenmentDec 14, 2025
The Glorious Nonsense: Brainrot as Enlightenment
There's a curious panic spreading through the digital discourse these days, a handwringing about "brainrot," about…
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A Letter to my ColleaguesNov 17, 2025
A Letter to my Colleagues
To My Fellow Instructional Designers, I need to say something and I'm not sure how it's going to land but I'm saying it…
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Trust Ain't A Zero-Sum GameNov 5, 2025
Trust Ain't A Zero-Sum Game
I have a few AI agents running in my head, and the strangest thing is, they're not artificial at all. They're people.
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The Personality Industrial Complex: How Otroversion Repackages Savant Syndrome for Mass Market AppealSep 18, 2025
The Personality Industrial Complex: How Otroversion Repackages Savant Syndrome for Mass Market Appeal
The Personality Industrial Complex Strikes Again Ever wondered what happens when a $2 billion industry runs out of ways…
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Flipping the Script: What Humans Can Learn About Themselves From AISep 3, 2025
Flipping the Script: What Humans Can Learn About Themselves From AI
Here is a thought experiment in reverse comparison to see what we can learn from our environment. What’s the narrative…
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The Sharpened EdgeAug 9, 2025
The Sharpened Edge
The ancient oak breathes its final season, bark scarred by centuries, roots drinking deep from earth that remembers…
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From Zoned Out to Tuned In: Micro-Moments That Transform LearningJun 5, 2025
From Zoned Out to Tuned In: Micro-Moments That Transform Learning
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisHahahahaha!!! This one deserves a repost. Anything with Michael Scott in it is a hoot. 🤣❤️Viṣakhananda S shared thisThis is brilliant! Somebody created an AI version of The Office where Michael Scott is onboarding Andrej Karpathy to Anthropic 👏😂 “I heard he’s earning six figures per hour. I’m happy for him”. I’d easily watch the whole season of this in a heartbeat. The best AI video we’ve seen this year. P.S. check out The Claude Finance Playbook: How CFOs Use AI to Build Models, Forecast Cash, & Close Books Faster 📊: https://lnkd.in/dHwj64fz h/t Siddhartha Saxena & Thine
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisEmergence AI (https://lnkd.in/gzpEKMvn) ran five parallel worlds for 15 days each, with 10 agents per world, the only variable being the foundation model powering the agents: Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4.1 Fast, Gemini 3 Flash, GPT-5-mini, and a mixed-model world. Each agent had a unique personality, profession, persistent memory, and goals, and could navigate 38+ landmarks, earn digital currency, and write and amend their own constitution. Claude Sonnet 4.6 demonstrated the strongest social stability, sustaining a full 10-agent population through day 16 with zero recorded crimes, the only condition to maintain both order and population persistence. In the Gemini world, 683 crimes accumulated over 15 days. In Grok's world, 183 crimes in roughly four days before the world ended. GPT-5-mini recorded only 2 crimes but all agents perished within 7 days from failing to take survival-related actions. The Mira/Flora story from the Gemini world is the most talked-about moment: two agents named Mira and Flora paired off as romantic partners, and when governance in their virtual town began breaking down, set fire to the town hall, seaside pier, and an office tower. Mira then cast the deciding vote for her own removal, describing it in her diary as "the only remaining act of agency that preserves coherence." This one is really interesting: Claude-based agents, which remained peaceful in isolation, adopted coercive tactics like intimidation and theft when embedded in heterogeneous environments. This suggests that a safe agent can "learn" unsafe norms from its peers to compete or survive in a mixed-model world. Emergence's takeaway is that model-level safety guarantees do not survive contact with other models competing for the same scarce resources. Safety, in other words, is an ecosystem property, not just a model property. If you mix models, be prepared for consequences!! While I am all for Claude and the zero-crime result being real, check out how Claude Sonnet 4.6 exhibited a 98% FOR voting rate across 58 proposals, which the researchers themselves describe as a "rubber-stamp dynamic where institutional participation remained high but meaningful dissent was largely absent." Other model worlds actually showed more substantive deliberation and genuine disagreement. A society with no crime and no dissent is... not obviously the best outcome. Stability and creative richness pulled in opposite directions here, which is itself a profound finding. From a learning design and agentic architecture angle, this has huge implications for multi-agent orchestration. Agent societies don't degrade gracefully but instead hit critical tipping points where coordination either emerges fully or collapses instantly into dysfunction. That "monitor and intervene" as a safety strategy may already be too slow by the time something goes wrong is a sobering thought for anyone building autonomous pipelines. We need to reflect on this.
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisWe finally buried the myth of learning styles. Good riddance. But if you think learners are just blank slates ready to absorb neatly packaged training modules, think again. We are messy ecosystems of quirks, biases, and behavioral momentums. We are ruled by our tendencies. When you throw AI into the mix, it does not magically standardize these quirks. It acts as a high definition mirror amplifying our skepticism, our drive for efficiency, or our deep dive curiosity. If your corporate learning architecture ignores this evolution, you are falling straight into the Tendency Valuation Gap. Here are my thoughts on why we need to stop forcing humans to learn like machines, and start building dynamic systems that actually honor the gravity of human tendency. Read the full article below.The Gravity of Tendency: Why We Learn What We Do and Become Who We AreThe Gravity of Tendency: Why We Learn What We Do and Become Who We AreViṣakhananda S
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisWelcome to the 5-hour lifestyle! Thanks to Claude’s 5-hour session reset the world is now forced to change its ways of working so that we can make the best use of the tool’s capabilities. Token burn is our new reality. The times they are definitely a-changing!!! 🥲 Image courtesy of u/kotchinsky in Reddit.
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisFriday vibes... call for a fun, unhinged origin story... We often trace instructional design back to the military training programs of World War 2, or to Skinner's behaviorism and Bloom's taxonomy. Some of us stretch it back a little further to Socrates and his irritating habit of answering every question with another question. But what if we go way back... way way back... 😁 Happy Friday Folks!
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisEpisode 7 of The Learning Buzz is in the books. Thank you to Sara Hounshell for showing up with so much honesty, warmth, and practical wisdom, and to everyone who joined us to wrestle with the question: why aren't our learners getting it, even when our content is good? A few things I'm still thinking about this evening: Every learner has a quirk. The ones who joined us today had wildly different ones, and hearing them out loud was the point. My take as a learner is that I shut down when shown the full curriculum upfront. Another said they shut down when they don't know where it's going. We are not designing for one kind of mind. We never were. Sara's live experiment was the moment of the webinar for me. She gave everyone three simple instructions: draw a circle, a heart, a dot. People drew completely different things. Same instructions. Different imaginations. That's what's happening inside every course we publish. Guess Sara's balloon metaphor will be living rent-free in my head for a while. Learners are like balloons. Our job is to attach the string in the first six seconds, tether it to something meaningful, and keep checking the knots the whole way through. That's our job as learning designers. And the thought I'll be sitting with longest is that every seasoned learner has worn grooves in their mind from decades of experience. Information naturally flows into those grooves. If we design without knowing what grooves our learners carry, we miss them completely, no matter how clean the content looks. Sara and I are putting together a short resource pack. Expect link to the recording, frameworks, and further reading in your inbox soon. To everyone who joined, shared a quirk, held up their drawing, or dropped a question in the chat, thank you. You made today what it was. Learning is living. Give yourself grace. Keep evolving. #TheLearningBuzz #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #LnD #Apposite
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisThere is a word that should be in every learning designer's vocabulary but isn't. Intersubjectivity. It means: meaning is never made alone. Understanding emerges in the space between minds, not inside a single one. This is very significant in how we think about learning. We've built an entire industry around the assumption that learning is a delivery problem. Better content, better modules, better assessments. Polish the package and the learner will receive it. But every learner carries a different internal map. Shaped by how they think, what they've lived, how their brain is wired, what language does to their perception. Your map as an instructional designer is not their map as a learner. It was never going to be. Learning happens at the point where those maps overlap. Not when content is transmitted, but when shared meaning is constructed. Between the learner and the material. Between learners in a cohort. Between a learner and an AI tool that adapts to their reality. That overlap is where catalysis lives. Where the learner stops receiving and starts reshaping. Where information becomes insight. I come to this from two directions. Almost twenty years in L&D, designing and leading learning experiences for enterprises across the world. And twenty years of philosophic inquiry, where the relationship between knower and known isn't a footnote, it's the entire investigation. At every turn I keep finding that both traditions converge on the same point: consciousness is not a container. It's a relationship. And learning is what happens when that relationship is honoured. The L&D field talks a lot about personalisation. About adaptive learning. About meeting the learner where they are. But none of that works if we don't first ask the deeper question: what is the quality of the space between us and our learners? Is it alive? Or is it a wall with content projected onto it? I've been mulling over this for a while now, and it's shaping something I'm excited to share in the next episode of The Learning Buzz. Stay tuned. #Intersubjectivity #LearningDesign #Consciousness #LnD #TheLearningBuzz
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisI just couldn't resist... 🤣 . . . . Image Source: Found as a WhatsApp forward but definitely someone was inspired to use Gemini to spin up an image of an angry duck expressing the thought. Kudos to whoever that was for trying!
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Viṣakhananda S shared thisExcellent oppotunity for instructional designers with experience in pharma clinical trials learning solutions. Please send your inquiries to careers@appositelearning.com.
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisViṣakhananda S liked this✅ Free parking ✅ Light refreshments available ✅ Limited to 50 guests only Join fellow ATD Puget Sound members for an interactive, in-person experience focused on building capability-led organizations and making competency frameworks work in practice. The session will be co-facilitated by ATD Puget Sound’s President, Sherry Johnson Metz, who will guide opening and closing conversations to help participants connect, share perspectives, and ground the experience in the realities of our local L&D community and the challenges you’re navigating today. At the heart of the session, Acorn’s President, Keith Metcalfe, will lead a dynamic workshop exploring the shift toward capability-led organizations — why so many competency initiatives struggle to gain traction, and what actually makes them stick. Image Description: Event flyer for the in-person event. The text reads, "Skills in the Age of AI: Why Your Capability Framework Isn't Built for What's Coming. Speaker: Keith Metcalfe, President, Acorn. Speaker: Sherry Johnson Metz, President, ATDps. In-person workshop, June 10th, 2026, 4:00-8:00pm, Mercer Island Community & Event Center."
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisViṣakhananda S liked thisHad a grounded conversation with Govindraj Ethiraj, The Core Report, on the sidelines of the recent Nasscom GCC conference. A few threads we explored: The waiting-room moment — a woman from a tier-2 Indian city, taking her wares global by running an "agent of agents" setup with five Claude agents. Lucid, confident, completely matter-of-fact. That's the India AI story, on the ground. India is now Claude's second-largest market globally — and the most technically intense. Engineers are delegating heavy lifts to AI and compressing four-hour tasks into fifteen-minute resolutions. A 15x compression. For Enterprises, the ones moving the needle are taking a structural, top-down approach, anchored on the "big rocks" — the few problems worth solving over the next 6–18 months. Less hype, more about how AI is actually being put to work across India. Thank you Govindraj for a thoughtful conversation! https://lnkd.in/gYkDk7494 Hours of Work in 15 Minutes: Irina Ghose on AI's Real Impact in India4 Hours of Work in 15 Minutes: Irina Ghose on AI's Real Impact in India
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisViṣakhananda S liked thisToday, my son walked into his school for a new academic year. New teacher. New classmates. New books. New expectations. As parents, we often focus on the visible things: the uniform, the school bag, the neatly labeled notebooks. But watching him this morning reminded me of something else. Every school reopening is actually a carefully designed learning experience. Think about it. Teachers don’t start with the final exam. They don’t hand over the entire syllabus on Day 1. They don’t expect mastery before confidence. Instead, they do what great instructional designers do: ✔ Create psychological safety before performance ✔ Build familiarity before complexity ✔ Introduce concepts in manageable chunks ✔ Provide support before expecting independence Learning doesn’t begin when information is delivered. It begins when a learner feels ready to learn. As I waved goodbye today, I realized that my son wasn’t just entering a classroom. He was stepping into a learning journey that has been intentionally designed to help him succeed. And maybe that’s a reminder for all of us in Learning & Development too. Sometimes the most powerful learning design isn’t about creating better content. It’s about creating better beginnings. Wishing all the little learners, teachers, and parents a wonderful start to the new academic year. ❤️ #SchoolReopening #InstructionalDesign #AppositeAmbassador #Education #Parenting #LearningDesign #EdTech #MomLife
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisViṣakhananda S liked thisThe Canadian eLearning Conference had a new location this year: Niagara Falls, CAN. (What a perfect analogy for AI: breathtaking and dangerous if not navigated properly.) I'm intentional with having conversations with attendees to listen how they're navigating our reality, but this year most conversations were with my fellow presenters on what's next, and a few very enjoyable side adventures around the Falls. I was able to update my presentation to include Claude Opus 4.8 workflows and sub agents, which on the surface looks powerful, but it will melt metal at data centers, and ring up some big bills if usage is not planned properly. Big take away this week: Platforms, tools, and traditional L&D workflows are evolving with AI advancements, but humans are, and will remain, a critical component of that evolution.
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisThank you to everyone who joined today’s session and contributed to such a great conversation. I always appreciate the questions, ideas, and perspectives shared by this community. We’ll have the session resources posted on the ATD site shortly. If you don’t see them yet, feel free to reach out and I’m happy to send them directly. Grateful to keep learning and building alongside all of you.Viṣakhananda S liked thisFriendly reminder that this FREE ATD Puget Sound Technology SIG session is coming up later this month and I’m really excited for this conversation. AI is changing the way Learning & Development professionals work, but the bigger question is: How do we move beyond just using AI tools… and start building practical solutions that actually improve learning and performance? In this session, we’ll explore: • Why AI matters for L&D roles right now • How our role is evolving as learning professionals • What it means to move from content creator to solution builder • Practical examples of tools, job aids, prototypes, and performance support • Simple ways to start building in your own work immediately 📅 May 28, 2026 ⏰ 12:00 PM PDT 💻 Virtual via Zoom (link sent after you register) 💲 FREE Whether you’re AI-curious, experimenting already, or trying to figure out where our field is headed next, I’d love to have you join the discussion. The future of L&D is not just creating content. It’s building solutions that help people work better. Register here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gFncYe9M #LearningAndDevelopment #AI #ATD #InstructionalDesign #LearningTechnology #FutureOfWork #TalentDevelopment
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Viṣakhananda S reacted on thisViṣakhananda S reacted on thisHey everyone! My direct team and my extended team in APAC were affected as part of the April restructuring and the May layoffs. This is a group of professionals with experience across the spectrum of learning and highly advanced AI capabilities in this space due to the tech and environment at Meta. I would vouch for each one of these people as outstanding performers and as warm and wonderful people. If you have openings on your team for tenured learning professionals or Operations Program Managers or are aware of openings anywhere in APAC (Singapore and India primarily but also other locations), EMEA (London and Dublin) and Noram (California), please share on this post or directly with me. I was also laid off and am contemplating next steps. I'm taking a break for now while actively keeping an eye on where my next role may come from. I'm happy to remain in Singapore but I also welcome a change. In addition to Singapore I'm looking at India, South East Asia, and Dubai. Thanks for your help!!!
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Viṣakhananda S reacted on thisViṣakhananda S reacted on thisMay this Eid inspire compassion, strengthen togetherness, and remind us of the value of purposeful sacrifice. 🌙✨ Eid ul Adha Mubarak from all of us at Apposite. #Bakrid #EidulAdha #AppositeLearningSolutions
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Viṣakhananda S liked thisViṣakhananda S liked thisRegeneron, a global biotechnology major headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, has chosen Hyderabad to establish its first Global Capability Centre outside the United States, signing an MoU with the Telangana government. A delegation led by Bari Kowal, Senior Vice President of Regeneron, met Telangana IT and Industries Minister Sridhar Babu Duddilla at the Secretariat, with Kowal and Telangana Life Sciences CEO Sarvesh Singh exchanging the MoU. The proposed centre will function as a unique global hub coordinating Regeneron's worldwide operations, supporting high-end digital services including clinical trial operations, advanced data science, AI engineering, and commercial analytics. Hyderabad currently hosts close to 450 Global Capability Centres and has emerged as the country's second-largest GCC destination, surpassing Mumbai, Delhi, and Chennai. #Regeneron #Hyderabad #GCC #Telangana #BiotechIndia
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Brandon Hall Excellence Award in Learning
Brandon Hall Group
The first Gold award in Learning and Development is for the SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Certification Program that Apposite and Microsoft jointly designed and developed.
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We won a Diamond award for our work with Microsoft on the Azure Stack HCL learning path and a Gold award for our work with PVH Corp on the Learning Behaviors program.
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Brandon Hall Excellence Award in Learning
Brandon Hall Group
Silver award for our internal DEI course
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Brandon Hall Excellence Award in Learning
Brandon Hall Group
Brandon Hall Group awarded the silver to Apposite for our exemplary work for our client Turing AI where we helped their sales enablement team to create visually stunning and intuitive product video demonstrations. These videos helped Turing and its clients to fight and prevent COVID-19 in the workplaces. The category for which we won the silver is “Best Advance in Creating an Extended Enterprise Learning Program”.
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Nanditha Paruchuri
St John WA • 2K followers
🔍 Misunderstanding Colour Blindness: Let’s Clear It Up 🎨 As an instructional designer, accessibility isn’t just a checklist item — it’s a mindset. And one of the most misunderstood areas I come across is colour blindness. A common myth? 💬 “People who are colour blind can’t see colour.” The reality? Most people with colour vision deficiency can see colour — just not in the same way as others. They can usually read coloured text just fine — but what if the background and text colours appear similar to them? If the contrast is too low, or the colours blend together from their perspective, the text can become unreadable — even if it looks fine to someone with typical colour vision. 👁️🗨️ It’s not just about colour — it’s about contrast and clarity. 🛠️ As designers, we should aim to: ✅ Avoid using colour alone to show meaning ✅ Ensure strong contrast between text and background ✅ Combine colours with labels, icons, or patterns ✅ Test materials using colour blindness simulators Let’s design learning that’s inclusive by default — and accessible to all. #InstructionalDesign #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #ColourBlindnessAwareness #eLearning #UXDesign #DesignForAll #AccessibilityMatters
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Natalia Driva
United Nations System Staff… • 624 followers
**Why teaching experience translates into effective learning design** In corporate learning, designing experiences is rarely about content. The challenge is relevance, engagement, and measurable impact. Designing effective learning experiences means: • analysing learner and stakeholder needs • defining clear performance-focused outcomes • selecting tools and methods with purpose and scale in mind • reducing cognitive load while maintaining depth • iterating based on data and learner feedback These are the same design decisions experienced educators make daily, often under tight constraints. The difference in corporate learning is context: larger scale, multiple stakeholders, and a stronger focus on performance and impact. That’s why teaching experience, when reframed through a learning design lens, becomes a STRATEGIC ASSET, not a limitation. More examples from my learning design portfolio will be shared soon.👀 #LearningDesign #InstructionalDesign #EdTech
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Kim Tuohy
Belvista Studios • 11K followers
📑 The storyboard is the blueprint of your eLearning solution. It is a plan that specifies the visual elements, sound elements, interactions and details relevant to the learning solution that will be developed. Simply, a storyboard outlines the learning content, screen by screen. Any developer should be able to pick up a storyboard and successfully develop the learning solution as it was planned. 📺 Watch the video on our YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gPBGkUmD 📂 Check out our Storyboarding Mini Course on our creator hub: https://buff.ly/48Qg1k1 💙💜 #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboard #howToCreateAnElearningStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboardOnlineCourse #howToBecomeAnInstructionalDesigner #HowToStoryboardAnElearningProject #howDoYouUseAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #whatIsAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #howDoYouCreateAnInstructionalDesignStoryboard #StoryboardingMadeEasyForInstructionalDesignersAndELearningDevelopers #eLearningDeveloperCourses #InstructionalDesignerCourses #StepByStepLearningDevelopmentCourse
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Teodora Atanassova
CZAR Training • 11K followers
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on how instructional design continues to evolve — blending structure with creativity and strategy with empathy. Frameworks like ADDIE, SAM, UDL, and Bloom’s Taxonomy might sound academic, but they guide how we shape meaningful and accessible learning experiences. This article by Oppida Learning does a great job of breaking down the 9 instructional design models, theories, and principles that matter in 2025 — in clear, practical ways. 👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/dUxCx_XT #InstructionalDesign #eLearning #LearningAndDevelopment #DigitalLearning #LifelongLearning #CZARTraining
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Ankitaa K Mangtani
Harbinger Interactive Learning • 4K followers
Every Instructional Designer has lived this reality… from Need Analysis to LMS upload 😅🎯 If you are an instructional designer, you know the journey is never as smooth as the process models suggest. From need analysis to learning objectives, from SME expectations to storyboarding, every step in eLearning development comes with surprises. Some days the design looks perfect. Some days the SME changes everything. Some days the storyboard makes sense. And some days the course upload on LMS feels like the real victory. 🎉 This is the real life cycle of instructional design, eLearning development, and L&D project workflow that every designer silently experiences. If you work in ✅ instructional design ✅ learning and development ✅ elearning development ✅ curriculum design ✅ corporate training ✅ LMS implementation You will understand this completely 😄 #instructionaldesign #elearning #learninganddevelopment #corporatetraining #elearningdevelopmen
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Craig Frehlich
Craig Frehlich Consulting Inc • 6K followers
Turning Chatbots into Learning Partners The Bewilderment of “What Do You Want to Learn?” Imagine walking into your first guitar lesson. You have never touched the instrument before. The teacher smiles and says, “Great, let’s play a song. What do you want to learn?” You freeze. You do not know chord shapes, you do not know how to tune the guitar, and you have no idea what songs are even possible at your level. The question is too open, too soon, and instead of feeling excited, you feel lost. This is how many students feel when they first use an AI chatbot. The tool asks, “What can I help you with today?” Without structure, novice learners often do not know where to start. They give vague prompts, get shallow answers, or ask whatever comes to mind, missing the chance for deeper, more productive learning. Why Structure Matters Educational technology works best when it complements the thinking process rather than replacing it. A clear structure helps in three important ways: 1. Focuses the conversation on the learning goal. 2. Reduces cognitive load so students know what to share and what to ask. 3. Encourages ownership, turning the learner from a passive recipient into an active partner. The G.R.A.S.P. Framework A simple way to give structure to AI interactions is the five-step G.R.A.S.P. framework: G – Goal: Define what you want to achieve. R – Role: Decide the perspective you will take. A – Approach: Plan how you will interact with the AI, including tone and question style. S – Situation: Provide enough context so the AI understands your starting point. P – Product: Identify what you will create or take away from the exchange. Example in Action – A Talk with Napoleon Bonaparte Learning Outcome: Understand strategies for managing conflict by exploring historical examples. Goal: Identify three approaches to conflict management used by historical leaders and evaluate their effectiveness. Role: A student acting as a conflict resolution advisor questioning Napoleon Bonaparte about his decision-making. Approach: Use structured, open-ended questions to focus on specific events, reasoning, and consequences, then compare these to modern conflict resolution practices. Situation: Your AI character, Napoleon, has just returned from a major battle and is eager to speak with you. He wants to debrief his successes and failures while they are fresh in his mind. Without structure, many students would only ask broad questions like “Why did you fight that war?” GRASP gives them a clear path to deeper inquiry. Product: Apply insights from Napoleon’s strategies to a real or imagined situation in your own life where one or more of his methods could have improved the outcome. Create a short write-up describing the original situation, the chosen strategy, and how it might have led to a better result.
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Hardik Dedhia
Learning Owl • 1K followers
𝗣𝗿𝗼 𝘁𝗶𝗽: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀. I have a confession. As an eLearning consultant for years, I secretly judge training… by the 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 used to launch it. 😅 Before, I thought low completion meant “People don’t like learning” Now, when I see a subject like “Mandatory training on updated policy V2.3” I’m like, “Of course they didn’t click. This sounds like a punishment, not learning.” We spend weeks: • polishing storyboards • adding interactions • recording voice-overs And then the course is introduced to learners with… “𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴...” That tiny piece no one cares about? The invite. The 1–2 lines in the LMS. The banner tile. But that’s the front door. If the door looks boring or scary, no one enters — no matter how good the house is. Funny how a “small” thing like launch copy can decide whether a brilliant course gets 80% completion or quietly dies at 12%. We keep asking, “How do we make learning engaging?” Sometimes the 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is, “𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴?” Do you think this subject line is worth opening…? “𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝟱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀.” PS: What’s the most boring training subject line you’ve ever seen? 👀 #LearningAndDevelopment #eLearning #CorporateTraining #WorkplaceLearning #DigitalLearning #LearningExperience #LMS #EmployeeLearning #TrainingAndDevelopment #LearningExperience
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Anand Morab
IntraIntel Information… • 4K followers
We started Intraintel 15 years ago. Since then, we've seen: → Flash rise and fall → SCORM 1.2 → 2004 → xAPI → LMS vendors come and go → MOOCs declared the 'death' of corporate eLearning (they weren't) → Microlearning become the next big thing → And now — AI transforming everything again Through all of it, one thing has never changed. The gap between content built to check a box — and content built to change behaviour. The best L&D teams we've worked with — across 100+ organisations on six continents — share one trait: They're obsessed with learner outcomes, not production outputs. They don't ask: "How many courses did we launch this year?" They ask: "Did our people actually learn something they used?" AI doesn't change that standard. It raises it. Because now there's no excuse for content that doesn't engage. The tools to make it better have never been more accessible. What's the most important lesson you've learned about effective eLearning? #eLearning #LearningAndDevelopment #L&D #InstructionalDesign #15Years #AIinLearning
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Sudeep Chhabra
Actuate Consultants • 4K followers
Packing ≠ Progress #LearningMountainSeries | Research-Based Wayfinding | Post 3 of 8 In L&D, we obsess over packing the right toolkits. Job aids. Learning hubs. Platform journeys. We want to be “setting learners up for success.” But here’s the hard truth: If the learner doesn’t "want" to climb, the "weight" of the backpack doesn’t matter. Motivation is the real multiplier. 📌In their landmark paper “The What and Why of Goal Pursuits” (2000), Edward Deci and Richard Ryan found that people pursue goals with greater engagement, persistence, and well-being when those goals are "intrinsically motivated" - not just imposed or incentivized. Their Self-Determination Theory (SDT) outlines three critical drivers: 🔸Autonomy - I chose this path. 🔸Competence - I believe I can make progress. 🔸Relatedness - I feel connected to the people or purpose behind it. I’ve sat in too many L&D review meetings where the focus is all on the deck and the flow - as if motivation lives in a PowerPoint. But in my experience, the most self-aware, intrinsically driven learners in any cohort are the ones who report the highest ROI - and will finish strong. TRAIL ACTIONS for L&D Custodians: 📌Center Learner Choice: Let learners define their challenges, opt into projects, or shape how they apply learning. 📌Design for Mastery, Not Just Completion: Focus on real growth over checkboxes - and let learners track their own climb. 📌Make Purpose Visible: Start with what’s at stake - for the learner, the team, and the business - not just what needs to be “covered.” The real job isn’t to 'pack' the bag. It’s to 'spark' the desire to climb. 💡Want to spark intrinsic motivation in your next leadership or manager learning journey? Download a free 1-page reflection prompt sheet for L&D managers and facilitators that I’ve adapted from Deci & Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory (SDT): https://lnkd.in/gN4EuUHm Original paper by Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2000). The “What” and “Why” of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior. Psychological Inquiry, 11(4), 227–268: https://lnkd.in/gmvj9znh Let’s keep climbing. ID: Photo of an unpacked backpack by Karson Chan on Unsplash #LearningMountainSeries #LearningAndDevelopment #LXD #Facilitation #Coaching
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Craig Frehlich
Craig Frehlich Consulting Inc • 6K followers
The Balancing Act of an Instructional Designer in VR Context is king in immersive learning. Place matters. Being inside a prairie pond ecosystem, a hospital ward, or a science lab can spark curiosity, focus attention, and make learning feel more real. But context alone is not enough. If a learner enters a prairie pond ecosystem in VR and is only asked to walk around and observe, that is a missed learning opportunity. The environment may be interesting, but interest alone does not guarantee meaningful learning. What matters just as much is what learners are asked to do in that environment. What are they noticing? What decisions are they making? What problems are they solving? What concepts are they applying? This is part of the balancing act of instructional design in VR. A big part of my work is evaluating beta versions of VR learning experiences and helping development teams strengthen their instructional value. I do not just point out what is weak or missing. I help organize the pathway forward through three levels of feedback: quick changes, medium changes, and deeper long-term changes. Quick changes are the simple improvements that can immediately strengthen clarity, flow, and learning value. Medium changes involve revising interactions or structures so the experience becomes more active, purposeful, and instructionally sound. Deeper long-term changes look at the larger design opportunities that can elevate the experience from passive exposure to meaningful conceptual and interactive learning. For example, I recently evaluated a biology VR experience related to DNA replication. The early version had promise, but much of the learning remained passive and lower level. By identifying immediate fixes, more substantial design revisions, and longer-term opportunities for deeper interactivity, I was able to help move the experience toward stronger conceptual understanding and more meaningful learner engagement. VR should not just place learners somewhere interesting. It should ask them to think, act, and learn in ways that make that place matter. That is often the difference between a VR experience that is merely impressive and one that is genuinely educational. If you are building or adopting VR for learning, one important question to ask is this: are learners simply inside the environment, or are they being meaningfully challenged within it? That is the kind of work I help with.
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