The Learning Hack podcast

What are the significant innovations shaping the future of learning?
How is digital technology and scientific discovery changing the way we learn, train, teach and educate?

Hosted ByJohn Helmer

Latest Episodes

TI02 5 Foundational SF Authors You’ve Never Heard Of

Every genre has a shadow canon — the writers who don’t make the syllabus, don’t sell out on Amazon, and rarely get the Netflix series. In science fiction, that shadow canon is where some of the most intellectually adventurous, politically serious and formally daring...

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TI01 Amazing Stories Is 100!

A hundred years ago this spring, a magazine called Amazing Stories hit the newsstands and — almost by accident — gave a name and a shape to the genre we now call science fiction. Its publisher, Hugo Gernsback, was an immigrant electrical engineer, visionary...

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TI00 Welcome to The Tech Imaginarium

In 1983, Isaac Asimov predicted that computers would let every person learn what they wanted, in their own time, at their own speed. Forty years on, that vision is more or less the world we live in. So what else might science fiction have...

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LH130 Learning Technologies London 2026 Show Special

Augmented Workforce, Learning at the Frontline and the Destiny of L&D. For a long stretch, you could skip Learning Technologies for a year and miss almost nothing. Not this year. AI has stopped being something L&D is piloting and started being something the field...

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LH129 Ripping Scorm with Mike Alcock

Your organisation has probably spent years building a learning library. Courses, videos, SCORM files, PDFs — hundreds of them, living in the LMS or scattered across SharePoint. You can enrol in them. You can sit through them. What you can’t do is ask them...

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LH128 Crossing the Divide with Lars Hyland

What does it take to change how an industry works — and what happens when it doesn’t change fast enough? Lars Hyland has been asking that question for thirty years, from the early days of interactive multimedia through nearly a decade leading EMEA for...

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