Free Live Workshop — June 24, 2026

Your students will watch a 40-minute video
about a forgotten sandwich.
They won't finish your 5-minute module.

This isn't a technology problem. It isn't motivation. It isn't "this generation." It's an architecture problem — and there's a structure that fixes it.

Learn it in 45 minutes. Apply it before your next class.

Register for June 24
Tuesday, June 24 · 2:00 PM ET
45 minutes · Live on Zoom
Free to attend

You're not losing your students to laziness.

The same students who check out after three minutes of your lecture will sit through a 90-minute documentary about medieval bread. The difference isn't the subject matter. It isn't effort. It isn't even the technology.

It's the structure underneath the content. Creator-led content is engineered to keep attention open. Most academic and professional content is engineered to deliver information. Those are fundamentally different goals — and only one of them keeps people in the room.

What Most Sessions Do
Announce the topic. Deliver the content. Wait for engagement that never comes.
What the Curiosity Loop Does
Open a question your audience needs answered. Make finishing the session feel like resolution.
The Result Without It
Black boxes on Zoom. Checked-out faces in the room. Content that was covered but not learned.
The Result With It
Students who stay because they need to know what comes next. Learning that actually sticks.

In 45 minutes you will walk away with a framework you can use immediately.

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Identify the exact moment attention breaks in your content Understand why the engagement gap happens and where in your session it lives
02
Apply the four-part Curiosity Loop structure Hook, Gap, Payoff, Re-hook — the same mechanics that keep people watching YouTube for hours
03
Transform one of your own topics in real time Live Content Surgery — bring your most challenging subject and watch it change in the room
04
Leave with a tool you can use before your next class The More Learnable Planning Sheet — a structured one-pager for building loops into any session

This is a live, interactive session — not a recording. The workshop itself is built using the framework it teaches. You will experience the Curiosity Loop before we explain it.

This workshop is for you if:

You are good at your subject but frustrated your students aren't getting it the way they should
You have felt the gap between how students engage with YouTube and how they engage with your content
You want a structural fix — not another list of tips to remember and forget
You are open to thinking about content delivery differently than you were trained to
This is not for: people looking for quick motivation hacks, one-off activities to drop into existing slides, or anyone who believes the engagement problem belongs to the students.

Rated 4.88 out of 5 by OLC Innovate attendees.

4.88
Average session rating
OLC Innovate 2026 — Make Learning More "Learnable"
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I loved the micro moments. It really made me think about specific problems, and it made me stick with the session!

★★★★★ — OLC Innovate Attendee
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Fantastic educational presentation — so many practical tips. Did a great job explaining this info in digestible chunks. Lots of ideas on how to use these strategies at my college.

★★★★★ — OLC Innovate Attendee
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I left with clear takeaways about how to keep learners more emotionally and cognitively engaged in my content.

★★★★★ — OLC Innovate Attendee
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Excellent! Good pacing. Walking us through your ideas with the microbursts is genius!

★★★★★ — OLC Innovate Attendee

Everything you need to know.

Date Tuesday, June 24, 2026
Time 2:00 PM ET
Length 45 minutes
Format Live on Zoom
Cost Free
Bring One topic you've struggled to make land with your audience

Spots are limited to keep the session genuinely interactive.

No recording will be distributed. What happens in the room stays useful only if you're in the room.

Register Now — June 24

The engagement gap is real.
The fix is learnable.

In 45 minutes you will have a framework you can apply before your next class. Not a list of ideas to think about. A structure you can use.

Register for June 24