The eLearning Coach Podcast

If you're feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, this episode gives you practical advice so you can start today.

Marketers use strategies, tactics, and technologies that can transform the work of L&D teams and individuals

Ed Tech specialist, Matt Campbell, explains how to start a career in Educational Technology, the varied roles, and the most important skills.

Can an AI tool generate accurate and interesting podcasts for learning? Listen, react, and leave a comment.

David Kelly explains why developing leadership skills in L&D is important for people at every level of an organization and in any role.

Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to start or improve a quality management program in your organization.

If you're feeling lost regarding what you need to learn about AI, this AI literacy framework maps out the areas of knowledge and skills.

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.

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.

The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.

Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability.

In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.

What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.

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.

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.

Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.

In this episode, we're exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use without programming.

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.

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).

For an industry that is steeped in technology, our quality assurance practice is subpar. In this episode, you'll find out how to improve the quality of your eLearning.

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.

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.

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.

Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Dawn Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs.

Information is ubiquitous and complex. In this episode, we discuss ways to create understanding from raw information.

Instructional design is evolving into learning experience design or LXD. We discuss the benefits for learners and learning professionals.

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.

Accessible design and inclusive design are one of those things that once you learn about it, you can’t turn back. That's because changing your design habits is not only easy, it has a big impact on the lives of others and it benefits everyone.

This will be the decade of maturation for the learning industry, where we apply relevant research findings from the learning sciences.

In this conversation, we discuss how to use chatbots to engage people in interactive activities that support learning and behavior change.

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.

In this episode, the authors of Microlearning Short and Sweet clarify misunderstandings about microlearning and provide best practices for planning and designing it.

Do you ever find yourself wishing you could come up with more creative ideas? In this episode, you'll learn proven ways to develop your creativity.

John Sweller, who formulated cognitive load theory, explains how instructional designers can design more effective learning experiences.

Did you ever wonder if learners understand the instructional graphics you design? Research shows there is quite a discrepancy between what designers intend and what learners interpret. In this episode, we discuss this issue with professor Elizabeth Boling.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Research shows that appropriate humor in the instructional setting can set the stage for a fun attitude toward learning. It can enhance interest, build rapport and heighten attention. In this conversation, Mark explains techniques for speaking and writing with humor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The future is now. I’m talking about the fact that software we use every day is based on artificial intelligence algorithms and the trend is growing. How will you be using AI in the future? Will you benefit from automation? Will you design AI software for learning? Will you be training AI agents?

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.

In this episode, I speak with Donald Taylor about the old and new ways of the Learning and Development team and the key to a successful learning technology implementation.

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.

Testing expert, Michael Rodriguez, PhD, gives advice, guidance and guidelines for effective test design and writing better test items.

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.