Lessons Learned from Authoring Pluralsight Courses

Michael Hoffman gave a short talk about lessons learned from creating training courses. He discussed financial justification for creating courses, improving his own technical abilities and presentation skills, and engaging a wide audience. He covered topics like course selection focusing on being an expert in the topic, depth of content, and excitement for the topic. For course content, he recommended focusing on verbs and tasks, just-in-time learning, whether to script, leading into demos, consistent terminology, keeping video moving. When recording, he advised keeping distractions minimal, breaking up demos, avoiding breathing noises, choosing recording equipment, and editing content.