[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…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24771294/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]   GMoL is on a mid-season break, but in this bonus episode without Donald Clark, John discusses the series so far with Carl Chrisostomo. Under his social media alias of Carllearns, Carl has been ‘learning out loud’ on his journey of discovery in learning…

  New research says that while workflow learning is thought to be the most effective way of learning by employees, neither L&D or the learners themselves have the time to implement it. What is going on here? To find out, John talked to David James, whose company sponsored the research. David has worked in People…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24631674/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 explores the impact of what has been called the most important idea in human history, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. A powerful idea, still to this day controversial in some quarters, its impact was felt far beyond the natural sciences where it was…

  Children often ask challenging questions, but according to John’s guest this time, we should see these as valuable opportunities for learning. Dr Rebecca Rolland is a speech pathologist and education lecturer whose recently published book, “The Art of Talking with Children”, gives parents and educators practical strategies for holding what she calls ‘rich ‘conversations’…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24480228/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]   When Mark Zuckerberg announced the renaming of his company from Facebook to Meta in 2021, he provoked a surge of interest in this new thing, the Metaverse. But virtual worlds are nothing new, and people have been learning in virtual worlds for over…

  Adaptive learning has been bubbling under for a while in learning technologies, but it’s never quite broken through. Now that the technology to implement it, particularly AI, is maturing, and both investment and adoption are on the increase, is it finally about to go mainstream? John talks to Andy Wooler, Senior VP, Product Management…

[iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24341310/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 group of theorists focused on the easily observable fact that all learners are not the same, and attempted to systematise those differences according to learner preferences. With the best of intentions (in most cases) they divided learners into discrete groups (e.g Visual,…