The Learning Rabbithole

Exploring Cohort-Based LearningIn this episode, I'm joined by my friend Christie DeCarolis, learning experience designer extraordinaire and delight of a human being. We go into a rabbithole about cohort learning and its impact on education. We discuss how cohort structures enhance engagement and community, and how these principles can be applied to customer education.Key Topics:Christie's journey from teaching to customer educationBenefits of cohort learning: structure and engagementStrategies for asynchronous coursesPersonalization and community buildingChallenges and opportunities in fostering communityResources:Christie's Blog & Newsletter

In this episode, I go into the rabbithole of my struggles with belonging, perfectionism, and leadership. I explain why I love Claude so much (read: it doesn't get mad when I ask lots of questions). And somewhere throughout the 30 minutes of me ranting into a microphone, I share some practical tips on overcoming perfectionist tendencies and leveraging AI for authentic self-expression and effective collaboration.P.S. Riverside made me a chapters list!00:00 Introduction to Perfectionism and Belonging02:15 Personal Experiences with Perfectionism04:49 The Role of AI in Overcoming Perfectionism07:15 Belonging in Professional Spaces10:05 Navigating Career Challenges and Self-Doubt12:27 Claude as a Supportive Tool14:57 Creative Collaboration with AI17:45 Iterative Learning and Project Management20:14 Practical Applications of AI in Instructional Design22:54 Conclusion and Future Reflections

It's a teaser episode in which I shamelessly beg for podcast reviews. Shamelessly! Beg! Please!

In this episode, I sit in my bedroom closet and rant into a microphone about a busy week, including reflections on feedback at the gym (system, friend, coach) and online presentations for CEdMA and IDTX events. Check out the full IDTX26 playlist on YouTube!

In this episode, my good friend Tricia teaches me why I should wear headphones next time I record (sorry for the audio issues, friends). We chat about her experience in moving from Res Life and a curriculum development educational background to working in SaaS, the challenges that get in our way in corporate education, and why you should apply good graphic design principles to your resume. ResourcesMy collab with Christie DeCarolis about landing an ID job in SaaSConnect with Tricia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tricia-timney/

Welcome to me vs. me, aka a reflection of what I shared on the recent Secret Society of the Instrucitonal Designer podcast. I'm still figuring out where to put transcripts, but pretty sure it's not supposed to be in "episode notes" (this space).

I'm still figuring this out. Here's the transcript, semi-edited!# The Learning Rabbithole: Podcast IntroductionClea Mahoney: [00:00:00] All right, so here we are. I thought I recorded, uh, an episode. Apparently I didn't. I'm very clearly figuring all of this out as I go along and I'm kind of sad about it because that was a really good intro. But you know what? Sometimes retakes are better. Let's go. Okay, this is your podcast introduction to the Learning Rabbit Hole.It is something that I, Clea, am doing as a side passion project. I don't wanna spend a lot of time on it. I don't even wanna follow a set schedule. Basically I'm not gonna follow all of that advice that's out there about how to get good at podcasting 'cause that's not my goal.The world is full of podcasts. Many of them are good, many of them are polished and edited and have fancy music and fancy speakers, and this is not gonna be that. So if you are hoping for that, uh, thank you for listening and goodbye. If you're still [00:01:00] here, then I hope you'll join me in upcoming episodes.I hope that the title is available for me. I came up with it while driving my child to daycare, and it was inspired by working with my team at Rewst. So shout outs to Lauren and Eddie. Very often when we're chatting one-on-one or as a team, almost inevitably we'll get to this point where one of us will go, Ooh, I thought of something, but don't wanna go down a rabbit hole.Uh, we care very much about education, work, training, instructional design, the stuff that we do. And, you know, sometimes we can't go down those rabbit holes because we gotta get back to work and do those things, accomplish those projects. But I want this podcast to be about making time for those rabbit holes.Sometimes those rabbit holes will be learning about learning. So gong very [00:02:00] metacognition in terms of instructional design and how we as human beings learn and, you know, what does AI mean for all of that? Um, this is not gonna be a podcast dedicated solely to ai, but I'm sure we'll touch on it like everyone has to these days.Sometimes it'll just be me ranting or rambling into a microphone, uh, about whatever rabbit hole I'm excited to take you down. And sometimes it'll be me speaking with guests about a rabbit hole of their choosing a rabbit hole that in some way, even tangentially, has to do with adult learning instructional design.Training, customer education, higher education, uh, anything about how we learn and yeah, what helps us refine that craft and just get excited about learning. I think there's a lot of doom and gloom in the world. Um, and while I [00:03:00] might rant sometimes, I don't want this to be a doom and gloom podcast. I want it to be one where we nerd out about learning, uh, learning about learning, chatting about instructional design, um, maybe even chatting about compliance courses, which can be super boring, right?But maybe there's an episode there about how we make them. Hopefully this recording works and I hope that you'll join me for the next episode, whether it's me or whether it's with a guest. Can't wait to take you down the learning rabbit hole with me.