Lessons from Duolingo - How to Make Learning Hard Things Easy

Lessons from Duolingo - How to Make Learning Hard Things Easy

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Lessons from Duolingo - How to Make Learning Hard Things Easy

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 What is Duolingo
  3. 3 Competition for users time
  4. 4 Learning curve
  5. 5 Metrics
  6. 6 Capitalization Crutch
  7. 7 Even the tiniest change in difficulty
  8. 8 What things actually help
  9. 9 A choice experiment
  10. 10 Measuring the right things
  11. 11 Measuring learning
  12. 12 Teach immediately satisfying
  13. 13 Practice not instruction
  14. 14 Disguise difficult concepts
  15. 15 Offer exposure in different contexts
  16. 16 Make things memorable
  17. 17 Difficulty scaffolding
  18. 18 Advice to games
  19. 19 Dont overwhelm users
  20. 20 Dont make users read
  21. 21 The utterly screwed test
  22. 22 Pacing mechanics
  23. 23 Motivational messages
  24. 24 The streak
  25. 25 Recap
  26. 26 Action Items
  27. 27 Questions

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