How To Streamline Your Course For Optimized Learning (Rebecca Cuevas)

Episode summary: How do you create an exciting and dynamic online course that provides a laser-focused and streamlined online learning experience for your students? Rebecca Cuevas is the expert who will help you set up your course so that students can actually learn from it. And even better, she’ll show you a method for designing your course that's fast, easy, and fun!      In this episode, our hosts Danny Iny and Abe Crystal will take a closer look at Rebecca's course “Streamline Your Course Creation,” which helps online course creators design transformative learning experiences. Rebecca is the recipient of multiple Federal scholarships for international study and brings a creative, multi-cultural perspective to her work. While pursuing her goal to light up the planet, one mind at a time, Rebecca perfected a method that makes course design simple, even for first-time course creators - and today she’s sharing all her top strategies with our listeners. In this episode we discuss:How tripping over digital whiteboards gave Rebecca the idea of taking her face-to-face training to the online world.Although she has diversified offerings, Rebecca’s wish for scalability led to the creation of a very guided practice-focused course --- an evergreen course. How digital flipbooks eliminate navigation challenges while keeping interactivity and engagement with the students.Why do minimizing downloads help students to use the note-taking method of their preferred choice and enhance the learning experience?Danny’s and Abe’s debrief after the interview“The difference between a course and some other kind of digital product is that in order for it to work, people have to actually learn from it.” – Rebecca CuevasRebecca CuevasGuest Bio: Rebecca Cuevas is the CEO and founder of Learn and Get Smarter where she teaches busy creative experts and entrepreneurs how to create online courses. She’s been an educator her whole career and holds a BA in English from Harvard University, as well as two Masters Degrees in Education.     For fifteen years, Rebecca designed and delivered award-winning education programs for public utilities in Southern California, impacting over 150,000 students with hands-on learning experiences relating to water and energy conservation. A recipient of multiple Federal scholarships for international study, she brings a creative, multi-cultural perspective to her work in educational consulting, instructional design, and curriculum development.     Her new course, Streamlined Course Creation, will help you outline YOUR course and plan all your lessons, in as little as a weekend, using learning design best practices.Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:Mirasee To learn more, check out Rebecca's webinar at https://www.learnandgetsmarter.com/results/Ruzuku Credits:Guest - Rebecca CuevasHosts - Danny Iny & Abe Crystal Producer - Cynthia Lamb Executive producer - Danny InyAssembled by - Michi LantzAudio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher MartinAudio Post Production by Post Office SoundMusic soundscape: Chad Michael SnavelyIf you don't want to miss future episodes of Course  Lab, please subscribe to Apple podcasts or Spotify or wherever you're listening right now. And if you liked the show, please leave us a starred review. It's the best way to help us get these ideas to more people.If you have a question for Course Lab, put the show title in the subject line and send it to podcasts@mirasee.comMusic and SFX credits: Track Title: Bossa BBArtist Name(s): MarieWriter Name: Chelsea McGoughPublisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSTrack Title: Carousel LightsArtist Name(s): Chelsea McGoughWriter Name: Chelsea McGoughWriter Name: Matthew WigtonPublisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONPublisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONSTrack Title: GraceArtist Name(s): ShimmerWriter Name: Matthew WigtonPublisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONTrack Title: Coo CoosArtist Name(s): Dresden, The FlamingoWriter Name: Matthew WigtonPublisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTIONEpisode transcript: How To Streamline Your Course For Optimized Learning (Rebecca Cuevas): [00:00:00] : Mirasee. See many people are promoting how great online courses are as selling a digital product. But the difference between a course and some other kind of digital products is that in order for it to work, people have to actually learn from it. Hello and welcome to your course lab. The show, the TCS course creators like you how to make better online courses. I made Crystal, the founder of residue and I'm here with my co host Danny, any the founder and Ceo of Mercy. In each episode we showcase of course and course creator who's doing something really interesting with their course. Our guest today is Rebecca quit us. Rebecca is the Ceo and founder of learn and get smart ink where she teaches busy creative experts and entrepreneurs to create online courses. Rebecca, Welcome to Corsica. Hey, hey Danny, it's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Absolute. So we'd love to get started by having you get this kind of the big picture. So what is the 30,000 ft view of your work, your expertise and and how you came to this wild world of online courses? I came to this world of online courses from the world of offline courses And I've been an educator for my entire career. And around 2007 I started every classroom I went into, I was tripping over these digital whiteboards and I started thinking it would be great to take my effective face to face trainings and put them online. But when I tried that, I did what most people do as a first step, which is take something that works well in the offline space and digitize it and put it online. And I discovered that it just really didn't create the same level of engagement that I was expecting and that I want to provide. So I went back to school for a second Masters in instructional technology. My first one is in curriculum development and I struggled really a lot for seven years to still solve that problem. How do you create engagement...