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Excerpts from the Thinkific Digital Learning Trends Report 2023

 According to the Thinkific Digital Learning Trends Report, in 2023, content- and course-creation has to be about the 3 Cs: Community, Convenience and Control. Community: Your community is your most valuable — and maybe most underused — asset. Engage with them early, often, and authentically, and they’ll (gladly) do a lot of work for you, from ideation and market research to lead generation and quality assurance. In order to scale your business, you need a direct line of communication to your community, so make sure how your learning products are hosted can support that kind of growth. Convenience: The content you create needs to be convenient, tailored to how and when your audience wants to consume it: short, sweet, and designed for mobile. Anticipate their needs through every step of their customer journey so that just before they find themselves asking “You know, a ______ would be super helpful right now,” they’re getting content from you that fills in that blank. Control:...

Critical thinking is great, but in a world full of information we need to learn 'critical ignoring'

 -Competition for our attention has accelerated over the past decade, which is why we need we need strategies to help us reclaim some cognitive space. -Critical thinking helps us to evaluate the information we come across, but it may not be enough in a digital world that contains more information than the world’s libraries combined. -This is why we also need to learn ‘critical ignoring’ – the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest our limited attentional capacities. Read more: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/critical-thinking-ignoring-brain/