FOSSA 101, Session 1

Imagine your New Learning Thing is out and launching. Maybe a course, maybe a website, maybe another project. Exciting! High fives all round.

Except, imagine this next: right after the launch, you lose a quarter of your learners. 25%. If you were to launch your New Learning Thing in a room of one hundred people, imagine watching twenty-five of them walk out of that room the moment you walk on stage and unveil your Thing.

Wouldn't you want to know why? Wouldn't you want to do something to bring them back?

Now, there could be dozens of reasons why your New Learning Thing doesn't reach someone. Here at FOSSA, I want to focus on five of them - five problems that I know Learning Things face in the digital world. There must be more, but these are the five I want to tell you about.

I also want to tell you a little bit about the learners who have problems with Learning Things for these five reasons.

And finally - I want to give you suggestions for five experiments, five things to try. After you try them, maybe you'll start building your Learning Things differently, or fixing the Things you built already, or helping others build better Learning Things which try to solve these five problems.

So - ready to try and bring learners back to your New Learning Thing?

First, let's hear what they have to say.

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