‘We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator’ (António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General speaking at COP 27). Successive COPs have revealed a lack of will among the world’s governments to make commitments that they’ll actually stick by. So increasingly, people who aren’t in government feel it’s…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/25074276/height/100/width//thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/3295136/custom-color/87A93A” height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen]   This episode features a group of people who were not writers, philosophers, psychologists or learning theorists in any usual sense of the term. Nevertheless, their influence on learning has been profound and long-lasting. They were the religious leaders who founded four of the…

    Empathy is a big word in learning. We want to have more of it, so learning professionals are increasingly charged with helping to promote and somehow inculcate it in their learners. But the efficacy of programmes designed to do that thing has been highly questionable. In this episode we look in depth at…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24919404/height/100/width//thumbnail/no/render-playlist/no/theme/custom/tdest_id/3295136/custom-color/87A93A” height=”100″ width=”100%” scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen]   All humans play games of one type and another. Philosophers and psychologists have seen play as an integral to our nature as human animals. Harnessing the power of this instinctual drive for the purposes of learning has been a perennial theme over the…

Learning Hack is on a mid-season break but here’s another chance to hear one our most downloaded episodes.   John talks to Dr. Jane Bozarth, Director of Research at The Learning Guild, about how the rise of digital technology is changing expectations about the sort of skills and qualifications a learning professional should have in…

Learning Hack is on a mid-season break but here’s another chance to hear one our most downloaded episodes.   John talks to Dr. Jane Bozarth, Director of Research at The Learning Guild, about how the rise of digital technology is changing expectations about the sort of skills and qualifications a learning professional should have in…