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80: Instructional Design Insights from a True IDOL, Dr. Robin Sargent, CEO, Founder, and President of IDOL Courses & IDOL Courses Academy

In this episode, I got to catch up with a real-life IDOL, Dr. Robin Sargent, Founder and CEO of IDOL courses, and President of IDOL Courses Academy. Robin is one of the most down-to-earth, innovative, and fun humans I’ve ever met. Her passion for helping others is truly extraordinary. I am a huge fan of hers and the community she has developed around her IDOL course offerings continues to grow.  Robin is doing BIG things in the Instructional Design world and I can’t wait to see what’s next! It’s time to grab those headphones and tune in to this amazing episode! Oh, and Robin has her own podcast, too. 

More About Dr. Robin Sargent

Robin Sargent Ph.D., an entrepreneur, instructional designer, author, and former professor, is recognized as an instructional design community leader. She is the Owner and Founder of IDOL courses, IDOL Talent, and VITAL courses. IDOL courses is the authorized trade school that serves clients through IDOL Talent while developing the next generation of creative learning designers. Business Insider heralds the IDOL courses Academy as "one of the best choices out there if you're serious about starting a career in corporate instructional design, but don't want to pay for a master's degree."

Earning her Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in instructional design and online learning, she has coached, mentored, and taught thousands of current and aspiring learning designers. Her dissertation was on the gamification of corporate training, and her vision is to create an IDOL world for all learners. 

Dr. Robin is also a former Director of Learning & Development for a billion-dollar staffing firm with over 17 years of corporate instructional design experience. She serves as a volunteer board member for DESIGNxHUMANITY, a design collective and apprenticeship program pairing experienced creatives with fresh faces to collaborate on real-world projects advocating for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. In addition, she started the IDOL World project to match non-profit organizations with access to instructional designers and free eLearning modules on relevant topics. 

Robin's book, The Do It Messy Approach is the book for instructional designers in search of a no-nonsense formula for creating engaging courses and training. Forget about wading through thousands of jargon-laced pages on learning theories or designing cookie cutter courses following a stale template. Welcome to the IDOL™ world of creative possibilities!

In a refreshingly entertaining step-by-step guide, Robin Sargent, Ph.D. shares everything you need to know to design instruction for corporate training on any topic. After teaching thousands of students how to design instruction through the IDOL™ courses Academy, Dr. Robin serves up 18 fun-size chapters to help you design your course blueprint while following a repeatable formula.

Thanks to this episode sponsor Wizeprep check out their MCAT Elite 515 and Study Pass Subscription that help you prepare and pass those important assessments. 

Be sure to connect with Robin on ⁠LinkedIn⁠ AND Follow IDOL on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Facebook⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, and ⁠LinkedIn⁠!

Thanks to this episode sponsor Wizeprep check out their MCAT Elite 515 and Study Pass Subscription that help you prepare and pass those important assessments. 

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Even the guy that hired me or I
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He said I almost didn't hire you
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because your resume was 12
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the first and only fate
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the Learning and Development
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instruction.
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Ed Tech, my name is Holly Owens,

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and I'm your host.
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excitement, because our
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Academy on the show Robin,
you're here.

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Welcome.
I'm here timing is divine.

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I think it's just the right time
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connect and I'm excited to be
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I'm excited to talk to you.
I have so many different

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questions.
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about you.
Tell us about your journey.

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How did you come to get to idle
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Tell us how you got into this
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space.
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short, but basically, I kind of
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topics.
I got a Bachelor's in Bible and

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theology with a minor in
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philosophy.
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couldn't get a job, I went right
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a master's degree in the same
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Studies, by the time I was done
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in the trash, I was so over it.
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programs in religion, but by the
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even though I got accepted, I
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know is Bible and Theology and I
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anymore and I'm not interested
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Tower, going from Bachelors to
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world.
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a assistant librarian at Shorty
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working, the university, even
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Bachelors, I was always a
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graduate research assistant.
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things.
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hey Robin, you know about
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that Interested in becoming an
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I said, oh, that's me, I'm
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I have a master's, not really
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interested in being an academic
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students by the age of 26 and it
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for the adult professional
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I loved it.
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who were continuing in their
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Getting Associate's degrees and
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degrees at Shorter University.
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careers, help them with
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faculty and staff at the City.
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them are luddites and that they
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That's a great her there.
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scared of it.
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raise their hands.
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side-by-side help on any type of
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always loved it.
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always loved technology, they're
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manager and was in charge of
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ground instruction into an
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that I also became the
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entire learning management
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one who built it, I also became
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online.
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Oh my gosh, I just loved it
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departments.
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I was like, what is this job?
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out, oh, it's called
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to be.
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also.
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program manager at a university,
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and bureaucracy and red tape.
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Loving technology and tools and
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like, and we could do this and
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all these different channels and
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corporate and you can get all
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you can just build instruction
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I mean, obviously, you're
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yada.
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driving motivation for me is,
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build and then also, the thing
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double your income, just right
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instructional design.
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help me back then and yeah, I
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Yeah, they're just nothing.
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because that was available back.
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still new it to user interface
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It was like just moving into
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application and so those are my
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nine months and I finally I'd
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Convince somebody to give me a
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job at a digital marketing
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then it's been turned over.
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announced its own thing, but
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job.
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the corporate instructional
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education than into corporate
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transitioning into corporate
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I was going from educator to
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resources.
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definitely a steep learning
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Oh yeah, I was trying to apply
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Like a CV instead of a resume.
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guess he was my boss.
He said I almost didn't hire you

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a bring you in here Robin
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forking pages long and well, I'm
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So you have to story to tell now
what a great journey for you.

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Do you have any particular like
education and related quotes

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that are your favorites that you
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that you go to your fur back to
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these different types of
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Your professional career.
I have one that I just pair it

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all the time.
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probably think it's my quote
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David meros because I just say
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And that is information is not
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It's a quote that summarizes.
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is in the arena of Education or
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that is deliberate practice and
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problems.
And complex tasks love it.

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That's a great quote to, that's,
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feel like sometimes, especially
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handed power points.
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a little bit more than this.
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fabulous.
You you know, you really have to

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think about how you're going to
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different things and I wouldn't
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Off the hook either.
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designer for Southern New
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it also applies to higher ed as
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They'll hand you a textbook and
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Expert in, here we go.
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in the a lot of it is
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Ya know, that you've been on
Luke's show and you've chatted

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with Lou cops and quite a bit so
you have thats new connection.

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Yeah, that's awesome.
After you I actually didn't

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know.
We were working for them because

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I was a freelancer.
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their lead Network instructional
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the campus.
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that he was there until
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Oh wow, interesting.
So it is a very small word.

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So tell us about idle courses
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All the things that you're doing
here and what you're offering,

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Offering to people is honestly,
it's amazing.

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I don't know how you do
everything that you do and all

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the resources, you put out, but
we want to hear all about it and

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just tell us all the things.
My first job in the corporate,

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as an instructional designer, I
found out from my team member

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that, oh, you can, you could be
a freelancer on the side and she

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introduced me and opened up the
world of instructional design

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freelancing in Seoul from my
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example, and I knew That at some
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run my own business.
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development business and it just
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didn't know you could make a
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I just I could be solopreneur
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run a business.
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assistant dean of students and I
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has, obviously, check that box.
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finally, and then what I decided
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finding that I was having To
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was having to train them in
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design, and animation
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subcontractors to get the type
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support my own clients at the
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Idol courses was an agency and
so I started supporting just for

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free online in a Facebook group
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work in train them up, it would
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Like, yes people could come and
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on their own.
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of people that I need to run my
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And it's just so funny how those
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I mean, it's an authorized trade
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to land their first second or
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design.
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different from where it started.
I definitely changed my focus

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from trying to train up people
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we're a trade school and then
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contractors for Idol Talent, the
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is the people that comment Idol
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He is all that I focus on and
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end-to-end.
What is their Journey?

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What are all the places that are
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can we remove some of that
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And so just thinking like that
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think that has really been, what
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school and program and really
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our students.
Yeah, and I imagine that you

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have a lot of Training teachers
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looking to get into
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say, probably if I just can't go
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I would say at least 80% of the
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are transitioning, teachers, the
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everywhere.
And I also include teachers, I

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don't just include secondary, I
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professors.
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Right, and staff.
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80%.
Some of the gripes, if you will

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are pretty similar on both
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want to make that career
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graphic designers, Healthcare
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Yeah, musicians audio Engineers,
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That's so cool.
I love it.

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I feel like covid propelled ID
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It's like, oh, what is this?
Our unique sounding role in,

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what do these people do?
I feel like before we were kind

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of just people didn't
understand, you know, having

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conversations with with my
family or my friends about what

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I do, they think I design
websites and I'm like, no that's

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not what I do.
So I really love that that a lot

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of people from different
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seeing the value of an ID roll.
It's amazing.

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Yeah, I've even had people
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didn't even have a bachelor's
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They were Valet and now they
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people the wrong way, but for

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me, I think that learning to
design instruction.

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You can learn it just like you
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draw.
You can learn how to design a

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course.
Weiss prep, revolutionizes

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studying to empower and enable
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Did you know, that 56 percent of
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at team-wise prep that is not

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in and have notes, mini video.
Lectures tips, tricks and

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I think that's very well said
and I agree with you 100%.

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So for the audience that may not
be aware, which if you were not

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aware of, I could all courses
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I don't know where you've been.
Tell us some of the unique

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things that you do it with these
experiences.

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Yeah.
So the first thing I would say

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that we are the first and only
state authorized vocational

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school for the Learning and
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What makes that incredibly
unique is that up until we

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became a trade school?
You Only get any types of

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credentials in instructional
design through a master's

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degree, a master's certificate,
or a PhD.

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And the fact that we have been
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school now, says that
instructional design is a trade

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that can be learned through
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practicum.
And yes, of course, you learn

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the theories and the models, and
all the foundational principles

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of instructional design.
But the focus for a trade

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school, Cool.
Is practical experience.

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Deliberate practice.
And then in addition, the other

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things that make us unique is
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principles are social learning
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What that means is that we have
a culture of support.

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We are obsessed with our people.
We have communities, we have

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ongoing mentorship, you get
lifetime access unlimited coach

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feedback on every single, Thing
that you want to submit to him

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as many times as you want to
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Yeah, it never goes away.
And then also, we have 32

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outside guest experts that come
in speak to our alumni and our

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current students every single
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And so, as you can imagine, we
started Idol courses Academy in

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July of 2019.
And so that library of guest

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expert, workshops has just grown
to.

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Yeah, I could imagine the list
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Have, yeah, yeah, it's pretty
insane fact that we offer access

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to tools, like, beyond all the
templates that you could need.

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We offer access to all the
assets, you would need to build

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courses, like stock assets,
stock video assets, icon packs,

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and on and on through and bottle
elements, you get access to

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several different subscriptions
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And so that also something
that's pretty unique about us.

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And then we also only hire for
our Tracked, roles in Idol

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Talent, Idol, courses, Academy
members, which means that people

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get paid experience
opportunities, right through our

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own school.
And then beyond that, there are

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many different credentials that
are offered through our program.

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It's a certificate from an
authorized school plus other

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digital credentials or badges.
If you will.

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I mean, the list goes on about
what makes us unique and I will

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see, I see your badges all the
time flowing on LinkedIn, like

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there.
Are the I see them at least once

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a day at least at the very
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Well I know you're probably ask
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Yeah later, but I definitely
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I think the trend has started a
while back and that is that

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people are starting to realize
that you can Propel your career

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forward and change careers
through certifications and

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badges and other credentials
that outside of Getting a

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four-year degree, two year,
master's degree or a PhD and you

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can do this by demonstrating
your skills, very specific

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skills because companies are
more interested and what you can

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demonstrate of your skills then
they are that you can write a

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paper in a grad program, right
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The recruiting and applicant
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actually connect to the backend
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E and Badger and these digital
credential platforms to search

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specifically for people that
have proven skills in the things

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that they are looking for.
Because they find that those

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people are more ready to work.
Oh my gosh, I love everything

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you're saying, just take that
you have on it and like when

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you're talking about the Ivory
Tower of like getting your

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bachelor's or Master's, I feel
like I realized that too late in

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life that I did need to continue
to do my education because we

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were in Academia.
So it's always about the next

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credential.
That's what the people respect,

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better, that's what the
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But really to me, and especially
like what you're seeing in the

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courses that I teach and will
that I talked to, it's about

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that.
Real-world Hands-On application

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of the skills and the knowledge.
100%.

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Yeah, learning is doing.
I think we will all agree on

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that and I mean that very
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Yeah, yeah, really it's that
simple learning is doing.

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We could definitely continue
this conversation for a really

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long time and I can go different
places, but I want to know

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what's coming up for you.
You've done so much in a very

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short amount of time was idle
courses and Idol Academy.

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It's coming up for you in the
next year.

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Got anything, big things planned
that you can share with the

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audience?
Oh yeah, I do actually saw last

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year my my book came out, the do
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Messy approach, a step by step
guide for instructional design,

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and online learning developers.
And that is literally a formula

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that people can use over and
over again to design their

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course, Blueprints and a walk
you through the entire thing.

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That book called my book baby.
I came up with the idea in

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December and I Released it to
the public of October last year

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and what that was was a
culmination of all the things

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that I have learned from
teaching people how to become

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instructional designers in
e-learning developers.

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Because our field is complex and
there are so many.

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Absolutely, you could say that
again, so many times and

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students, they are so many
questions and the answers, are

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it depends, it depends.
It depends, it depends, but what

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I found.
Found was a real struggle for

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students.
And what I really wanted to do

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to make it clear for them is the
actual design of the course like

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the writing of the instruction.
And if you start with abstract

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Design Concepts like learning
objectives, then that means that

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you are putting information at
the center instead of the

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problem or the task, I wrote the
book.

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You take them through exactly
how to design instruction step

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by step.
What's that whole problem that

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has to be solved right out a
full demonstration, right out

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the full application that shows
that somebody can solve the

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whole problem.
And then work backwards, what is

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the series of problems that they
can solve that lead up to them,

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being able to solve the whole
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Anyway, the point is, I wrote
this book and I have also.

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Now looking at the idol courses
Academy, And because it's been

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built on learner experience
design.

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That means that everything has
been very iterative.

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I started out, of course, the
Cameo as a beta.

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I mean, it was beta beta drain.
That was whipping it up as the

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students were show me what they
needed to learn and it was all

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just in time.
And after a couple of years,

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just like I said, you know, the
32 Guess workshops a year and

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all the just-in-time training
and the constant evolution of

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the Academy has brought us to a
place where it's time for a

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brand, new Academy 3.0 is what
I'm calling it.

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And this bad boy is the thing
that practices what we preach.

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So right now the idol courses
Academy includes on a videos, a

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ton of templates and all those
other kinds of things but it

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doesn't include the interactive
e-learning and the gamification

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that I'm obsessed with.
I actually wrote my PhD on

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gamification and Corporate
settings.

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And so Academy 3.0 is being
built right now and it is a

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fully interactive step-by-step
gamified version of our trade

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school based on the years of
learner input and experience

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that we have specifically
teaching instructional designers

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and e-learning developers and it
should be coming out by the

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September cohort of this year
and I cannot wait, I am just my

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gosh, I'm so excited.
A way to like just show sneak

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peeks of it.
The main content is built in

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Jeannie lie, which is a
phenomenal platform that just

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makes some really slick very
interactive, really cool things

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that you can do in it.
And then it'll be built on a

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gamified platform.
So that every action that a

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learner needs to take their
gaining points, they are getting

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surprises, Easter eggs are
popping up.

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There are badges that are being
released at certain points.

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It's there is extra content with
deadlines put on it, if they do

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extra credit and I can't wait.
I can't wait either.

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I can't wait to see some of the
previous.

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It's like when you're
anticipating a brand new movie

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that you really, really want to
see.

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And you just want to see the
trailer.

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Yeah.
Just want to get a piece of it.

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Love it.
Oh my gosh.

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Robin, you're doing amazing
stuff up.

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I can't tell you and I know that
the people that go through your

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Academy and your courses and
everything, they appreciate all

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the things that you do for them.
And there's thousands, there's

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got to be thousands of people
who've been positively impacted

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by all the you do.
I hear it from them and it has

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just completely changed my life
to be able to find the Learners

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that I get to serve, like, with
joy every morning and it really

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is a unique and special position
to be in.

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And, of course, I couldn't do it
without all of the mentors and

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all of the coaches.
I mean, when I started, it was

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just me.
But at this point, it's like the

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vision really has become a
collective thing.

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It is all of us working together
and getting lit up.

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By serving our next generation
of Creative Learning designers.

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Absolutely.
All right, so we've come to the

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final stages of the episode and
obviously this is not going to

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be the last time we checked
because there's so much more to

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talk about.
I have two final questions.

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Really is 3.
Did we miss anything?

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Is there anything else you'd
like to share with the audience?

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And then I want to know from
you.

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What does the future of
Education look like in the space

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anything that we missed?
Is that why you didn't get the

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share and then what's the
future?

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Well, I didn't, I don't know
that we missed anything unless

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you want me to go on and on
about anything that we already

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have a follow-up episode,
already in mind about

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entrepreneurship and starting
your own business and growing

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it, and all those different
things but I think that would be

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odd whole nother episode.
I love it, I love business and I

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love learning.
So I'm there for it does.

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Thank you both things change our
life after boiling impactful.

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So for me the future of
Education looks like a couple.

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Of different things.
I think that it does look like

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trade schools.
I think that there is a

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significant skills gap between
what people are learning in

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school.
And I mean, Traditional School

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like universities and colleges
and then what they actually need

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to be able to do on the job.
And so that is creating a

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significant skills gap between
those two areas and so I see

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more and more programs and I've
actually kind of seen a Bit of a

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come from higher ed.
So Kudos on those that are

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weaving more practicums and more
practical applications

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internships thinking about their
curriculum, as how does this

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apply to them being able to
solve real problems in the real

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world?
And I see that as being part of

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the future of Education, you can
even see it in one trick, which

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is one of those accredited
online MBA programs.

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But what does it do, right?
It is the completely new that,

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that is like a trade school.
I also see the future being

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enhanced by a lot of these
artificial intelligence tools

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that are available to us.
I think that it will help us as

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far as rapid development and the
rapid development has to happen

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because of the significant
changes in our technology that

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changes in the types of jobs
that are out there.

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And so I see more deliberate
Hands-On practice in education

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and being augmented by The
technology and the tools that

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are available.
Yeah, yes, I can't wait.

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I'm so excited I can't wait for
the future of all these things

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00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:16,300
but Robin, thank you so much for
coming on the show and chatting

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with me about all the wonderful
things that you're doing and

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00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,900
telling us about out of courses
and Idol Academy.

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00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:24,500
We can't wait to see what you do
next.

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00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,600
It's going to be awesome.
I don't know when you sleep

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00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,100
ma'am.
So, thanks again.

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For your time.
Thank you so much Holly.

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It's always a pleasure to come
and speak with you and share

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with your audience.
Yep, everything about idle

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courses and that of course has
Canada.

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00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,900
Me course is going to be in the
show notes where to connect with

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00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:47,500
Robin find all the wonderful
things she doing so.

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Check it out there.
You've been listening to another

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episode of Ed up edtech with
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You can follow Holly on
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00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,300
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Dr. Robin Nichole Sargent

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Robin Sargent PhD, is an entrepreneur, author of "The Do It Messy Approach: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructional Designers and Online Learning Developers (IDOLs)", instructional designer, and former professor, recognized as a leader in the instructional design community. She is the Owner and Founder of IDOL courses, IDOL Talent, and VITAL courses. IDOL courses is the trade school that serves clients through IDOL Talent while developing the next generation of creative learning designers. Business Insider heralds the IDOL courses AcademySM as "one of the best choices out there if you're serious about starting a career in corporate instructional design, but don't want to pay for a master's degree."

Earning her PhD in Education with a specialization in instructional design and online learning, she has coached, mentored, and taught thousands of current and aspiring learning designers. Her dissertation was on the gamification of corporate training, and her vision is to create an IDOL world for all learners.

Dr. Robin is also a former Director of Learning & Development for a billion-dollar staffing firm with over 17 years of corporate instructional design experience. She serves as a volunteer board member for DESIGNxHUMANITY, a design collective and apprenticeship program pairing experienced creatives with fresh faces to collaborate on real-world projects advocating for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. In addition, she started the IDOL World project to match non-profit organizations with access to instructional… Read More