by Julie Dirksen
Hey folks, There’s a free sample chapter of the book (Design For How People Learn) available here: https://usablelearning.com/the-book/sample-chapter/ It’s Chapter 8: Design for Motivation (In which we learn that we don’t always learn the right thing when we learn from experience, and that the elephant is a creature of habit) If you are a reader of this … Read more
A friend of mine just tweeted this a little while ago: Which means that YAY! The book is shipping! And it’s a whole week earlier than I thought! Which is great! Except that I’m not *quite* ready! But it’s still great! In my last post, I asked folks for ideas about promoting the book, and … Read more
Hmm, it’s three weeks until the book comes out, which is really, really exciting. I’m trying to figure out what to do on the blog in the run-up to publication date (November 21). If you have any ideas, let me know!
…at how sad I was to hear about Steve Jobs. I would not have expected to choke up about it, but I did. From XKCD: Eternal Flame
Check out this fantastic article on decision fatigue in the New York Times. It addresses a lot of things I’ve been interested in lately, like blood sugar levels and self-control. I think this is a really useful topic for learning folks to be aware of, because we frequently ask our learners to exert self-control to … Read more
I have a cover! And it’s available for pre-order on Amazon. Now I just have to finish writing the damn thing 🙂