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December 1, 2025 13 mins

Your LMS has become Alcatraz and your learners are doing hard time for clicking too fast.

In this episode we read along with Chapter 9 and unpack how “tracking everything” + “forcing everything” turns a course into a digital prison. Timers. Locked slides. Pop-ups that scream “NO SKIPPING.” It’s the perfect storm of EBD.

Steve also shares his own epic failure where he built a course so controlled it basically needed a parole board.

If your progress bar is running the show, this one will hurt… and fix you.

One Big Thing: If your course feels like surveillance, no one’s learning.

Two Small Things: Stop forcing, start trusting. And remove one barrier today.

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