The eLearning Coach Podcast
Connie Malamed, founder of Mastering Instructional Design and publisher of The eLearning Coach, hosts interviews with expert researchers, designers, developers, authors, and professors. The podcast provides strategies for effective learning design and helps people build and grow instructional design skills.
Episodes
ELC 093: What really motivates us? Self-Determination Theory Explained
I speak with Matt Richter about Self-Determination Theory, a powerful framework for understanding human motivation. We explore the three universal psychological needs at the heart of the theory, how to apply SDT principles to your work and life, and how managers can create environments that support rather than undermine motivation.
ELC 092: Beyond Productivity: A More Ambitious Vision for AI
Phil Hardman joins the conversation to discuss an ambitious vision for AI. How you can use AI to make you better at what you do, not just faster. With AI superpowers, you can innovate new types of solutions to workplace performance problems.
ELC 091: Rethinking How We Support Frontline Workers
Learn to design best-fit solutions that support and enable frontline workers to help them perform their best.
ELC 090: The Evolution of Learning and Development in an AI-Powered World
What is the future of AI in Learning and Development? How will the role of learning designer evolve? Get a big-picture view in this episode.
ELC 089: Building The Skills-Based Organization: A Data-Driven Approach
Learn what it takes to build a skills-based organization, why valid people data matters, and how L&D can lead this transformation in today’s evolving workplace.
ELC 088: How to Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners
If you're feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, this episode gives you practical advice so you can start today.
ELC 087: Steal From Marketing to Improve Your Training
Marketers use strategies, tactics, and technologies that can transform the work of L&D teams and individuals
ELC 086: Educational Technology: Surprising Careers You Didn’t Expect
Ed Tech specialist, Matt Campbell, explains how to start a career in Educational Technology, the varied roles, and the most important skills.
ELC 085: Generating AI Podcasts for Learning
Can an AI tool generate accurate and interesting podcasts for learning? Listen, react, and leave a comment.
ELC 084: How to Develop Leadership Skills for Any Role in L&D
David Kelly explains why developing leadership skills in L&D is important for people at every level of an organization and in any role.
ELC 083: Quality Management: It’s More Than Missing Commas
Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to start or improve a quality management program in your organization.
ELC 082: A Blueprint for AI Literacy in Learning and Development
Do you feel lost or confused about what you need to learn when it comes to AI? In this episode, we explore an AI Literacy framework developed by Stella Lee, Ph.D. We discuss the areas most suitable for learning designers to explore and some of the competencies in this model.
ELC 081: Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design
If you don't have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen explains how to apply a behavior change model to instructional design.
ELC 080: Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design
Using data and analytics for instructional design may seem difficult. But Megan Torrance explains it in simple terms. Listen in to level up your ID skills.
ELC 079: The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer
The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.
ELC 078: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2
Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability.
ELC 077: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 1
In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.
ELC 076: How to Get Started with Data-Driven Learning Design
What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.
ELC 075 Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design
In this solo episode, I talk about the diversity of career paths in instructional design for people who are trying to break into the field.
ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design
When you create surveys for instructional design do you use a process that will get the most accurate results? In this episode, I explore survey design with forms specialist, Caroline Jarrett.
ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design
Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.
ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use without programming.
ELC 071: Learning is the New Business Strategy
We’re living in a time of exploding change and disruption. I speak with Brandon Carson who shows how Learning and Development can lead the way through the digital age where learning is the new business strategy.
ELC 070: Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface
A future skill for instructional designers is designing for voice controls. I speak with Myra Roldan about conversation design for the voice user interface (VUI).
ELC 069: Set Yourself Up to Create Quality eLearning
The quality assurance practices in the elearning industry are subpar. Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to improve the quality of your eLearning.
ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design
I speak with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner about the big ideas in their book, Learning to Make a Difference. They share ways that we can live and learn intentionally in a social learning context.
ELC 067: Educating the New Instructional Designer
How should instructors and professors educate instructional designers to meet the needs of the modern workplace? This episode focuses on the challenges and solutions facing instructional design educators.
ELC 066: Best Of | How to Write Compelling Stories
Story coach and author, Lisa Cron, reveals how to transform your learning scenarios and vignettes into must-read stories. If you use stories in your instructional design and learning design practice, you'll want to listen.
ELC 065: Pro Tips For Working With Subject Matter Experts
Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Dawn Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs.
ELC 064: How to Create Meaning From A Torrent of Information
Every day, we engage in sense-making from a torrent of information. And we attempt to help others construct meaning in the learning experiences we design and provide. This episode delves into creating meaning through interactions.
ELC 063: The Evolution To Learning Experience Design
Instructional design is evolving into learning experience design or LXD. We discuss the benefits for learners and learning professionals.
ELC 062: Starting An Instructional Design Career in Higher Education
Have you ever considered starting a learning design career in higher education? Have you wondered if academia is the best fit for your preferences and interests? In this episode, Peter Shea and I discuss the roles that instructional designers play in higher education and what it's like to work in that environment.
ELC 061: Getting Started With Inclusive Design
Once you understand accessible eLearning and inclusive design, you can’t turn back. Change your design habits to impact more lives.
ELC 060: How to Practice Evidence-Informed Learning Design
Evidence informed learning design draws from cognitive psychology research. It focuses on applying learning science to instructional design.
ELC 059: How Chatbots Can Support and Enhance Learning
In this conversation, we discuss how to use chatbots to engage people in interactive activities that support learning and behavior change.
ELC 058 Virtual Training is Much More Than a Presentation
How can you translate the in-person learning experience to an effective virtual classroom experience? In this episode, Cindy Huggett, virtual training expert, answers that question.
ELC 057: How To Plan And Design Microlearning
In this episode, the authors of Microlearning Short and Sweet clarify misunderstandings about microlearning and provide best practices for planning and designing it.
ELC 056: How To Develop Your Creativity
Do you ever wish you could improve your creativity? In this episode, you'll learn proven ways to generate more creative ideas.
ELC 055: What You Need to Know About Cognitive Load
John Sweller, who formulated cognitive load theory, explains how instructional designers can design more effective learning experiences.
ELC 054: Do learners understand your instructional graphics?
Can we assume that people understand our intent in the instructional graphics that we use? Professor Elizabeth Boling says we should not be over confident.
ELC 053: Creating Long-term Engagement with Game Thinking
In this conversation with author, game designer and start-up coach, Amy Jo Kim, we discuss how to apply game thinking to learning experience design.
ELC 052: The Story of Becoming a Great Manager
If you are a new, experienced or aspiring manager, or if you want to understand your manager, you will benefit from this episode. In this session, I speak with Katy Tynan about the misconceptions people have about management, the best ways to manage a creative team, the relationship between leadership and management and much more.
ELC 051: Tips and Tools for Creating an eLearning Portfolio
You never know when you might need to show an eLearning portfolio.This episode will inspire you to create one or to make your current portfolio stand out.
ELC 050: Learning Myths You Might Believe
Are you inadvertently believing learning myths? Are your best practices based on hearsay? In this episode, I speak with Clark Quinn about many of the myths, superstitions and misconceptions learning professionals may believe.
ELC 049: How to ‘Find Funny’ When Speaking, Writing and Installing Mufflers
Research shows that appropriate humor can set instill a positive attitude toward learning. How can writing humor fit into learning design?
ELC 048: The Strategic Use of Learning Management Systems
If you want to get the most out of your learning management system or if you want to purchase or research one, this interview will help you make a more informed decision.
ELC 047: The Action Mapping Alternative
If you are frustrated with the limited models available for instructional design, then you’ll be interested in this conversation with Cathy Moore. She is the creator of Action Mapping, a model of training design that focuses on improving workplace performance.
ELC 046: Best Podcast Gems Of 2013
Tune in to this episode of The eLearning Coach podcast for some of my favorite gems from episodes in 2013. The topics include finding a job in instructional design, social media for learning, storytelling, cognitive architecture, and information graphics.
ELC 045: The Art And Science Of Practice And Feedback
Designing the appropriate type of practice and providing effective feedback requires a lot of know-how. Patti Shank, PhD., has been studying the research on this topic and wrote a book about it.
ELC 044: Behind The Scenes With Three Voice Actors/Artists
What do narrators need in a script? What can we provide to ensure we support them to do their best. Do they want to be called narrators, voice actors, voice talent or voice artist? These questions and more are answered in this episode.
ELC 043: Will you design intelligent agents in the future?
How will you be using AI in the future? Will you design AI agents for learning? Will you be training AI agents?
ELC 042: The Power and Practice of Digital Curation
Digital curation is emerging as a sound strategy in learning experience design to replace or enhance courses. Find out how to be successful at curation.
ELC 041: Technology Implementations Are About People
Learning technology implementations for learning and development are complex. I speak with Donald Taylor about how to make them a success.
ELC 040: How To Improve Your Skills And Products With Design Critiques
Design critiques, whether formal or informal, are an important tool to have in your toolbox. When they focus on the goal of meeting your objectives they may provide some of the most valuable feedback you can get.
ELC 039: How To Plan, Design and Write Tests
Testing expert, Michael Rodriguez, PhD, gives advice, guidance and guidelines for effective test design and writing better test items.
ELC 038: Learning Games, What Works And What Doesn’t
Do you want to design learning games or improve your skills, but you're not sure where to go? I suggest listening to the learning game guru, Karl Kapp.
ELC 037: Applying Agile Principles To eLearning Projects
Many instructional designers are moving away from traditional L&D methods. We discuss how to apply Agile principles to eLearning.
ELC 036: Strategies For Effective Online Instruction
Does technology rewire our brains? Can we use technology to enhance memory? We discuss strategies for effective online instruction.
ELC 035: There’s More Than One Way To Storyboard
In this episode, I speak with Kevin Thorn about eLearning storyboards. We compare our process for how to make elearning storyboards.
ELC 034: Psychology, Behavior and Design
To change behavior, performance and attitudes, we must spend more time and effort thinking about the psychology of the audience.
ELC 033: Mapping Experiences To Improve Design
How often do we look at the actions, thoughts and feelings of learners over time to better understand what they experience? In this episode I interview Jim Kalbach, about diagramming to understand experience.
ELC 032: Learning Myths and Misconceptions
You could be basing instructional strategies on learning myths. Find out if you're unintentionally accepting learning misconceptions.
ELC 031: How To Do Course Evaluations The Right Way
Course evaluations should provide the instructional designer with feedback for improvement. Instead, they often provide useless information.
ELC 030: Strategies for Organizing Instructional Content
Organizing instructional content to facilitate learning and for easy access is a crucial part of instructional design. Here's how.
ELC 029: Social Learning Is A Way Of Life
Use social media to improve learning through collaboration, sharing knowledge and staying current in learning and development.
ELC 028: Make Accessibility Part Of Your Design Process
You may think that accessible eLearning design is only for people with disabilities. Actually, accessible learning designs are for diverse groups, such as people who are limited to using low bandwidth, people who may not be fluent in the language, as well as people who are using a mobile phone to access the Internet.
In this conversation with accessibility and usability specialists Sarah Horton a
ELC 027: Microinteractions: Designing The Small Details
When designing interactions, attending to the small details can make a big difference. Listen to Dan Saffer talk about microinteractions.
ELC 026: Looking Into The Future Of Instructional Technology
Are you curious about the future of instructional technology and learning? These professors follow the trends and issues in our field—from the latest technologies to new research.
ELC 025: Insights For Designing Blended Learning
Jennifer Hofmann, author of What Works in Talent Development: Blended Learning, offers guidance on how to design blended learning.
ELC 024: All About eLearning Authoring Tools
If you want to know anything about eLearning authoring tools, ask eLearning Joe. He is adept at explaining eLearning development tools.
ELC 023: Why You Should Show Your Work
In this interview with Jane Bozarth, we discuss the benefits of showing or narrating your work to the individual, one's colleagues and the organization.
ELC 022: All About Digital Badges
Digital badges may become increasingly important in workplace learning and higher ed. What do learning professionals need to know?
ELC 021: An Expanded View Of Mobile Learning
We know that mobile learning is more than eLearning on a phone. But what is mobile learning? Learn how you can use mobile learning.
ELC 020: How To Avoid Clicky-Clicky-Bling-Bling
Does your audience complain about boring eLearning or eLearning that is all glitz and no substance? Then listen to this.
ELC 019: Shifting To Learning Environments
Find out how to design a learning environment to fulfill a specific need. These have the potential for providing a rich and broad learning experience.
ELC 018: Designing Awesome Game Experiences
If you're interested in learning games or gamification, you'll like this insightful interview with the author of Playful Design, John Ferrera.
ELC 017: The Limitless Possibilities of xAPI (Tin Can)
xAPI allows learning designers to track diverse types of data, whereas SCORM is limited to around four data points.
ELC 016: Strategies That Improve The Interface To Learning
If you're looking for strategies to improve learner engagement, you'll want to listen to this interview with Dorian Peters.
ELC 015: Don’t Fear The Data
Ellen Wagner Ph.D., explains big data and learning analytics and how it can be leveraged to improve learning and development and higher ed.
ELC 014: Are you getting any better?
The learning industry isn’t improving as quickly as many practitioners would like. Closing the feedback loop will help us improve.
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