You always knew that your mind is a magician! Pledge, Turn, Prestige!! And it does it all in a fraction of a second!!! The Laws of Gestalt are all about our brain as an illusionist. In this Learning Lights Podcast,…
Category: General
Stuff that didn’t fit elsewhere.
Binod, Virality, and the Third Factor – The Psychology of Viral Content
If you spend time online, especially on Youtube/Twitter, you have already encountered the ubiquitous Binod. Binod might’ve begun as an honest mistake (someone writing a comment and then signing off with his name – when by some quirk of technology,…
No way out?! There always is. Talk.
Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide at the age of 34, and it has left most of us saddened and confused. – Saddened because a young life was cut short by his own hands, because he experienced a darkness that was…
The Creative Lounge :: Perfection vs. Creativity – the Destructive Chemistry between the Two.
The Clue: “Perfectionist” not “Perfect” The term is Perfectionist. It isn’t Perfect. As old as the quest for perfection is – if it had a success rate of even half-a-percent you’d expect hundreds of thousands of “perfects” around. We don’t…
IDCD, IDST, and REDAC courses – Next Session Announcements.
Please note: The IDCD Course: The IDCD Course starts its next session on October 14th: We are accepting registrations for the program now. If you are interested in enrolling for this session of IDCD, please go through the content outline…
Unexpected but Long Overdue – The eZine Springs back…
…as I take a break from the Sunday classes. This break was long overdue. I had been waiting for an year, perhaps two – but we humans tend to push ourselves to our limits before we give ourselves the much…
The Virtues of a Final Read-through of Content can only be understood when experienced!
One must, (and I repeat and capitalize MUST,) read through every bit of content that one writes. Unfortunately, it isn’t always possible – and only when it isn’t possible, only when one doesn’t do a review due to one or…
The Composer of elearning Content – The Programmer
Previous Posts in this series: The Anatomy of an eLearning Course The Creators of an eLearning Course An Enigma called the eLearning Project Manager The Mysterious Subject Matter Expert The Apparently Omnipotent Instructional Designer Instructional Design Reviewer – The Unsung…
Why Courses and Trainings Fail?
It isn’t uncommon for instructional designers and content developers to exist in a perpetually anxious state of mind. This happens because at any given point in time, one of their courses or training programs is either being reviewed by the…
The Spell Called Motivation – Weaving Magic for your Learners.
In all my training programs and courses, I visualize and use the essence of motivation as the discomfort-toggle, which can be used for sustaining learner motivation. This toggle helps you create and then remove the discomfort of “not-knowing”, and it…