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This is I'm Learning Out Loud, a newsletter about an instructional designer who is trying to create and launch an online course while documenting it along the way.
Hey there, I’m Laraine.
In late September 2021, like many other people, I quit my job (shout out to The Great Resignation). The reason was to finally start my freelance design biz and try out self-employment.
What I didn’t know at the time was for the next few months, I would get hit with a perfect storm of career burnout, pandemic languishing, winter blues, and millennial existential dread.
Fortunately, as a designer, I know progress work is key. Although the ride has been rough, it has forced me to do some much-needed reflection and personal work.
With spring upon us, I feel motivation has been coming back to town and I’m ready to start my next creative pursuit. This is what I’d like to share with you today:
For the next while, I’ll be creating an online course. Here’s the fun part: I’m going to document and share my entire experience as it’s going down.
My intention with this project is threefold;
Test the Learning In Public method as a learning design strategy.
Test if learning strategies used in corporate training and tech boot camps are also effective in online course design.
Explore the world of online learning and massive open online courses (MOOCs). If I want to help fix education, it makes sense to tackle that where most people go to learn—on the internet.
You can find my field notes here on my Substack and Twitter. Thanks for subscribing and coming along for the ride :)