The Learning Hack podcast https://learninghackpodcast.com Meet the people and technologies that are building the future of learning Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:01:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://learninghackpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TLH-minilogo-150x150.png The Learning Hack podcast https://learninghackpodcast.com 32 32 GMoLS6E31 Leadership with Donald Clark https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e31-leadership-with-donald-clark/ https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e31-leadership-with-donald-clark/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:01:17 +0000 https://learninghackpodcast.com/?p=3592 [iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/30808403/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]

Theories and critiques of leadership learning: the attribution problem and its consequences.

This episode, the first of a new season, our sixth, focuses on leadership. Leadership, thought since ancient times to be critical to the destiny of nations, has long been a feature of military training and elite education. But its arrival as a staple of workplace training was relatively recent. Donald and John explore the work of the thinkers who, from the middle of the Twentieth Century onwards, developed theories and critiques of leadership learning.

 

  • 00:00:00 – Intro
  • 00:00:56 – Introducing Leadership
  • 00:09:26 – James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014)
  • 00:17:09 – Peter Drucker (1909-2005)
  • 00:25:58 – Paul Hersey (1931-2012) & Ken Blanchard
  • 00:36:19 – John Paul Kotter (1947–)
  • 00:49:00 – Henry Mintzberg (1939–)
  • 00:54:28 – Barbara Kellerman
  • 01:10:07 – Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946–)
  • 01:19:38 – Summing up

 

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]]> https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e31-leadership-with-donald-clark/feed/ 0 GMoLS6E0 – Private View of Season 6 with Donald Clark https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e0-private-view-of-season-6-with-donald-clark/ https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e0-private-view-of-season-6-with-donald-clark/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:07:03 +0000 https://learninghackpodcast.com/?p=3587 [iframe style=”border:none” src=”//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/30766688/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]

John and Donald preview the upcoming season of Great Mind on Learning.

The sixth season of Great Minds on Learning begins on Monday 15th April 2024. Ahead of the first episode, John and Donald preview the treats in store!

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]]> https://learninghackpodcast.com/gmols6e0-private-view-of-season-6-with-donald-clark/feed/ 0 LH #98 The Knower & The Known with Leonard Houx https://learninghackpodcast.com/lh-98-the-knower-the-known-with-leonard-houx/ https://learninghackpodcast.com/lh-98-the-knower-the-known-with-leonard-houx/#respond Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:02:08 +0000 https://learninghackpodcast.com/?p=3583 An award-winning learning designer reflects on 30 episodes of our sister podcast, Great Minds on Learning.

This episode features a deep dive into the history of learning theory with Leonard Houx, Director of Learning Design at the Cambridge Education Group. Host John Helmer and Houx embark on an intellectual journey through the evolution of educational philosophy, touching on the contributions of ancient Greeks, German idealists, and the foundational concepts of modern education systems.

  • 00:00:00 – Start
  • 00:00:36 – Intro
  • 00:03:12 – Reflections on Great Minds on Learning
  • 00:10:22 – The Greeks
  • 00:39:02 – Separating the knower from the known
  • 00:53:28 – The German Idealists
  • 01:10:47 – Hegel & recognition
  • 01:20:07 – Previewing next season of Great Minds on Learning
  • 01:32:19 – End

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Don Taylor is a well-recognised commentator and thinker in the fields of workplace learning and supporting technologies. He speaks world-wide, and has chaired the Learning Technologies Conference in London since 2000. His annual L&D Global Sentiment Survey, started in 2014, provides a unique perspective on L&D trends from over 100 countries, asking the question, what’s going to be hot in L&D? No surprise, perhaps, that the answer this year was AI. But the scale of the vote for AI was unprecedented, and raises serious questions about the future of L&D.

  • 00:00 – Start
  • 01:06 – Intro
  • 03:39 – An unprecedented survey result
  • 06:07 – Has any other tech ever dominated the survey quite so much?
  • 08:42 – How has the sentiment about AI changed over time?
  • 21:13 – Are we on the verge of a ‘correction’ to AI enthusiasm?
  • 28:37 – What does the survey tell us about L&D challenges?
  • 32:27 – With all the focus on AI, what are we NOT focusing on?
  • 36:38 – Preview of Learning Technologies Ex & Conf, London
  • 45:56 – Who does Don draw inspiration from?
  • 51:30 – End

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We are living in a time of great uncertainty. Economies are still suffering the effects of Covid. Countries that are home to nearly half the world’s population will hold elections in 2024. Meanwhile the climate is going mad, and geopolitics seem balanced on a knife edge. How do we cope with all this uncertainty in our personal and working lives? Katherine Templar Lewis and Sam Conniff are uncertainty experts, who bring their learning in neuroscience, psychology, history and social entrepreneurship to bear in helping organizations and individuals improve uncertainty tolerance.

  • 0:00:00 – Start
  • 00:00:31 – Intro
  • 00:03:16 – Is uncertainty more than just a trend?
  • 00:12:23 – Where does all this uncertainty come from
  • 00:20:42 – How can we deal with uncertainty?
  • 00:30:09 – Is AI increasing uncertainty?
  • 00:38:22 – Be more pirate to profit from uncertainty
  • 00:44:45 – Practical advice for coping with uncertainty
  • 01:02:12 – End

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The latest advances in AI are highlighting human capabilities, and particularly shortcomings, in a way that causes us once again to re-evaluate what it is to be human. Rob Hubbard is Founder of LearningAge Solutions, an award-winning provider of digital learning services that practices what it calls human-centred learning. What exactly does that mean in the age of AI – and what does the future, for people who want to continue to work and provide value in the learning industries, look like?

  • 00:00 – Start
  • 00:31 – Intro
  • 03:06 – What does he mean by ‘Human-centred Learning’?
  • 11:13 – What is technology telling us about our strengths & weaknesses as humans?
  • 23:45 – Mindfulness and attention
  • 27:11 – Human thinking vs machine thinking
  • 31:00 – Dealing with the shortcomings of technology
  • 41:45 – Advice for employees in the new future of work
  • 52:16 – Who does he follow?
  • 57:41 – End

 

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The language of learning is charged with resonant abstract nouns that mobilize professionals around new ideas and concepts. But are these concepts really so new in all cases – and do they provide a focus for practical action? To what extent is the debate driven by the commercial imperatives of Learntech vendors rather than the real needs of employees and students? Peter Manniche Riber is Head of Digital Learning at Novo Nordisk, Europe’s most valuable company, and a formidable critic of this ‘buzzword bingo’. He talks to John Helmer about the language of learning. Does it help or hinder?

  • 00:00:00 – Start
  • 00:00:33 – Intro
  • 00:03:19 – Is the language we use in learning fit for purpose?
  • 00:09:06 – Peter’s Top 3 buzzword dislikes
  • 00:12:34 – Drilling into those top 3 buzzword hates
  • 00:26:17 – Digital Transformation
  • 00:36:35 – Gamification
  • 00:38:41 – GenAI and the language of learning
  • 00:49:51 – The language of L&D
  • 01:05:42 – End 

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We admire great improvisers in music (Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) while tending to be suspicious of leaders in business and government who seem to be ‘making it up as they go along’. But are we right to think that way? Berlin-based Belina Raffy runs a consultancy and training company that helps people in organisations develop improvisation ability. She’s lived in many different countries including the UK, and worked in Finance before finding her vocation as a learning person. Institutions she has studied at include Ithaca College New York, the Chinese University in Hong Kong and Cranfield School of Management. Does this peripatetic early life, we wanted to find out, perhaps hold the key to her skills as an improviser?

00:00 – Start
00:33 – Intro
03:10 – What use is improv to serious business people?
11:04 – How relevant are her exercises to the working situation?
21:27 – Leadership, improv and integrity
27:38 – Theoretical underpinnings of improv?
39:59 – Belina’s journey in learning
50:47 – End

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My guest this time on the Learning Hack thinks that it’s really important to know what problem you are trying to solve with AI in order to use it effectively for learning. The product has to come before the product. Egle Vinauskaite is the award-winning director of the learning innovation consultancy Nodes. Her expertise in learning, behavioural science, and technology has made her a sought-after edtech advisor by top startups and blue-chip companies. In this fascinating discussion, Egle describes how AI is ushering in entirely new ways of doing things in the world of learning and edtech.


00:33 – Intro
02:47 – What is ‘product mindset’?
11:22 – How well does the interface between buyers and sellers function?
22:17 – Generative AI and learning
40:01 – Egle’s journey in learning
46:56 – End

 

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Ethan Mollick: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick/

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The theory behind generative AI as a transformational tool for learning.

This episode, the last in the current season, was recorded at the Online Educa conference in Berlin and focuses on Generative AI. Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the learning world has been mesmerized by the potential benefits and dangers of this new form of AI. Unlike other forms, it can be accessed by non-technical people, in natural language conversations. Donald and John explore its roots in neuro-biological research, as well as the learning theory underpinning Donald’s belief that it is potentially the most powerful technology invented so far for learning.

00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:00 – Introducing Generative AI
00:11:30 – Dialogue & Conversation
00:24:59 – Language & Learning
00:37:33 – Interface
00:51:31 – Engagement & Personalization
00:54:36 – Delivery of Learning
01:01:00 – Q&A

 

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