The Learning Hack podcast: Recent Episodes
John Helmer
What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching. Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data. Opening Season 8, John Helmer and Donald Clark ask what education and workplace learning can learn from sport. From constraints-led practice and Moneyball...
The year ahead for learning, skills and work As organisations head into 2026, Josh Bersin returns to The Learning Hack to make sense of what is really changing in work, skills and learning. Drawing on his latest research and global advisory work, Josh explains why AI has crossed a threshold, how jobs are being reshaped...
Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early techno-utopian experiments, the ethics wars around AI, and newer perspectives rooted in language, power, and lived experience. From Negroponte and Mitra to...
Send in your questions for the Great Minds on Learning Q&A! Donald Clark and John Helmer will answer them at Online Educa Conference in Berlin, which will be recorded for a podcast episode to be issued before Christmas 2024. Email them in to or...
Second of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
First of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning.
Theories and critiques of leadership learning: the attribution problem and its consequences.
Why is learning evaluation so often a case of 'looking for clues at the scene of the crime'?
A 2.5 thousand-mile roadtrip across 7 countries, delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
What skills and qualifications do you need to get ahead as a learning professional in today's world?
A widely discredited branch of learning theory that still has adherents. Was there something it got right?