How forgetting works
Why we forget, and what actually slows it down. Move the controls and watch the curve move: spacing, testing, sleep and depth of encoding, modelled on the numbers from the research.
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AI tutors in course design: scaffolding, not shortcuts
An AI assistant can be the tutor your self-paced course never had, or a machine for skipping the thinking. The difference is design.
July 2026 · 5 min read
Beyond the smile sheet: measuring what learners actually kept
Completion rates and satisfaction scores tell you a course was tolerated. Here's how to find out whether it worked.
June 2026 · 5 min read
Scenario-based learning: decisions beat descriptions
People don't fail because they couldn't recite the process. They fail at the moment of decision, so that's the moment to rehearse.
May 2026 · 4 min read
Working with SMEs: extracting the 20% that matters
Subject-matter experts don't hand you a course. They hand you everything they know, and the design job is subtraction.
April 2026 · 4 min read
From storyboard to Storyline: what actually happens in a build
Clients often picture eLearning development as typing the content into the tool. The real work sits in the decisions made before that.
March 2026 · 5 min read
Constructive alignment: the quiet discipline behind courses that work
If the outcome, the activity and the assessment don't point at the same thing, learners optimise for the assessment and the outcome loses.
February 2026 · 4 min read
Build levels, explained: how to scope interactivity
“Make it interactive” is the most expensive sentence in eLearning, because it can mean almost anything. Build levels fix that.
January 2026 · 5 min read
Video in eLearning: when to film, when to animate, when to skip it
Video is the most expensive sentence you can produce. Spend it where seeing genuinely beats reading.
December 2025 · 5 min read
Accessibility isn't a checklist: it's a design constraint
Treating accessibility as a final QA pass is how you end up retrofitting the most interactive parts of your course, badly.
November 2025 · 4 min read
Microlearning that fits real workdays
Nobody has an hour. Everyone has eleven minutes on a break, a commute, a gap between meetings. Design for the time people have.
October 2025 · 4 min read
Why your compliance training keeps failing (and what to do about it)
Mandatory training has a reputation, and it's earned. But the failure is rarely the policy. It's the order you present it in.
September 2025 · 5 min read
Clinically accurate is not the same as boring
There's a stubborn belief that serious clinical content has to look serious, meaning grey, dense and joyless. It's wrong.
August 2025 · 4 min read