Writing

Thoughts on Learning,
Design, and Practice

Reflections on instructional design, the doctoral journey, and life in between.

Learning Design

Designing for Transfer: Why Most Training Fails Before It Starts

Transfer of learning is the whole point of training — and where most of it quietly fails. Not because the content is wrong, but because the conditions for transfer were never designed in.

September 20266 min read

Instructional Design

ADDIE Isn't Dead — It Just Needs Better Friends

Every few years someone declares ADDIE obsolete. And every time, practitioners keep quietly using it — because the underlying logic is sound. The problem isn't the model. It's what the model gets used without.

August 20265 min read

Experience Design

What Game Design Taught Me About Learning Design

Building a game in Unreal Engine has been one of the most clarifying experiences of my career — because game design and learning design are solving the same fundamental problem from opposite directions.

July 20267 min read

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