My learning adventure of the year: the first LinkedIn Learning course

Sometimes learning adventures start unexpectedly and sometimes you find areas of learning where you didn't dare to look before. I hate listening to myself or watching videos of myself. Stupid if you want to record an online course for LinkedIn, isn't it? But I know from experience that where I feel resistance, there is often an exciting learning adventure waiting for me. So I just did it anyway.

Here you can check out my course “Recherchieren und schreiben mit generativer KI”: https://www.dhirubhai.net/learning/recherchieren-und-schreiben-mit-generativer-ki

This is what I learned:

1. Conveying information using only your voice is not easy: I tell you, standing in a recording studio for the first time and recording your own course is scary. And then you have to give 150% with every recording so that everything comes across to the learners.
2. I want to be better at all of this: in the recording booth, I decided that it was time to tackle a subject area that had been on my list for a while. Speech training and stage presence. That's why I'm all the more pleased to have found a wonderful tandem partner for this learning adventure for the next year. More on that soon.
3. And that fits in perfectly with Learning 3: an online course is a team effort. Yes, I designed and recorded it, but on the other hand, many people on LinkedIn made sure that it sounds and looks like something. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

Bernhard Sommer, my producer, coached me through it in an incredibly sympathetic way. The collaboration was really great. Thank you again for always giving me, a complete beginner, the feeling that I was on the right track! And like me, Bernhard never stops learning. That's why I asked him three learning adventure questions.

3 questions for Bernhard Sommer, LinkedIn Learning Producer

1. What makes learning an adventure for you?

Bernhard Sommer: I find it really exciting that so many terms that describe cognitive processes involve “physical” activities - from beGREIFEN to verSTEHEN and aufFASSEN to überREI?EN. And not only in German, but also in other languages. Everything points to the fact that learning is not just a matter for the mind, but that a broad world of experience needs to be involved. This makes the design of learning content an adventure for me, because the way in which learning content is presented can make all the difference. If you don't feel addressed by the learning content, then you won't learn anything. You have to be able to relate to your own experience in order to really internalize something.

2. Is your job sometimes adventurous?

Bernhard Sommer: Sometimes we work as “amateur actors” to create our courses. This can be in the form of recorded scenes or speaking voices to get the content across vividly. I have already played a mentee, a cyber security officer and a stressed employee. It can be quite adventurous ??

3. If you could choose something to learn overnight, what would it be?

Bernhard Sommer: If I could learn something new overnight, it would probably be singing. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly musical, but singing would be a skill I would love to have. Of course, it takes talent, but I've often heard that it's still something you can learn or practise.

By the way, I am happy to receive feedback on the course. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail.

Here you can check out my course “Recherchieren und schreiben mit generativer KI”: https://www.dhirubhai.net/learning/recherchieren-und-schreiben-mit-generativer-ki