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Friday Finds
Fresh ideas, practical tools, and marketing-inspired thinking for people who design learning.
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I'm still not a fan of looking out the window at 5:30 and seeing what looks like midnight. But there's a bright spot on the horizon. Both kids will be home from college for Thanksgiving break next week!
In the meantime, I've got some good stuff for you this week. A Storyline vs. Claude showdown with some surprising results, a fresh look at what makes practice work, four L&D prompts worth saving, and a little science that might have you rhyming your next training message. (You've been warned! 😁)
Thanks for reading!
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🎵 Today I'm listening to Elia Giulianni. She is my Orange Theory coach how cool is that?! |
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🏆 BEST FIND
Claude vs. Storyline: Is It Time to Break Up?
Is it time to cancel your Storyline subscription? The debate is heating up, and Marie-Jo Leroux decided to put it to the test.
She built the same training game twice: once in Storyline and once with Claude. The results? Four hours versus just 26 minutes. And Claude didn't just make something pretty. It even produced a working SCORM package.
But speed isn't everything. Marie-Jo also compares quality, cost, control, and how easy each tool is to share and maintain.
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💡 IDEA
Practice Makes Perfect. Except When It Doesn't.
Adding a quiz to your course doesn't mean you've added good practice.
A new meta-analysis of more than 7,300 learners found that retrieval practice, spacing, and mixing different types of problems can all help. But how you use them matters.
Think about a phishing course. Asking “Should you click a suspicious link?” is easy. Giving someone a realistic email and asking what they'd do next? Now they're practicing a decision they'll face at work.
Take a look at your next learning activity. Does it make people use what they know, or just pick the obvious answer?
Good practice makes people think. A checkbox doesn't.
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Also supported by Neovation
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🛠️ TOOL
Four L&D Prompts Worth Stealing
Before you build another course, make sure training is the answer.
Matt Furness and the team at Click Culture have four free resources worth saving. Two are handy AI tools for your prompt library. The others help you ask better questions before you build.
- Why Won't They Just Do As I Say?
Find out what's blocking a change in behavior.
- Learning Performance Partner Diagnostic
See where your team acts like a true business partner and where it still takes orders.
- SessionSmith
Turn a rough idea into a workshop plan using Claude.
- STICKIE — Check your learning design against the science of behavior change.
I'd start with the first one. Because making the wrong training faster still makes it the wrong training.
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🎲 WILDCARD
If It Rhymes, It Must Be True. Right?
"Before you reply, verify."
Catchy, isn't it? There's a reason a line like that feels right, even before you stop to think about it.
It's called the rhyme-as-reason effect. In studies, people rated rhyming sayings as more true than versions with the same meaning but no rhyme. When words are easy to process, our brains can mistake that ease for truth.
For L&D, that's a fun idea to test in a safety tip or training campaign. Just don't trade clear advice for a clever rhyme.
Want to catch your own brain in the act? Try this free, two-minute quiz with 12 sayings.
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The Bottom Line
A fast build isn't always good training. A quiz isn't always good practice. And a catchy rhyme isn't always true.
This week's challenge:
Pick one idea from this issue and put it to the test. Hit reply and tell me what you tried and how it went. I'd love to hear about it!
Have a great weekend!
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