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title: "Creating Passionate Users: A Crash Course in Learning Theory"
url: https://campbell-online.com/blog/2006/01/12/creating-passionate-users-a-crash-course-in-learning-theory/
description: "If you ever have to teach anyone anything–as part of your job, on a volunteer basis, for any reason at all–or if you ever give presentations, or write user documentation."
published: 2006-01-12
updated: 2006-01-12
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# Creating Passionate Users: A Crash Course in Learning Theory

Published 2006-01-12

January 12, 2006 · [Technical communications](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/technical-communications/) · [Instructional design](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/instructional-design/) · [Knowledge work](https://campbell-online.com/blog/category/knowledge-work/)

If you ever have to teach anyone anything–as part of your job, on a volunteer basis, for any reason at all–or if you ever give presentations, or write user documentation, you could do worse than spend fifteen minutes with this blog post:

> …[H]ere’s a crash course on some of our favorite learning techniques gleaned from cognitive science, learning theory, neuroscience, psychology, and entertainment (including game design). Much of it is based around courses I designed and taught at UCLA Extension’s New Media/Entertainment Studies department…
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> This is *not* a comprehensive look at the state of learning theory today, but it does include almost everything we think about in creating our books. And although it’s geared toward blogs/writing virtually everything in here applies regardless of how you deliver the learning–you can easily adapt it to presentations, user documentation, or classroom learning.

[Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory](http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in.html)

Related:

- [Crash Course in Learning - Summary](http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/01/crash_course_in_1.html)
- [(Summary PDF file - 500K)](http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/files/crashCourseInLearning.pdf)

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