Learning Well Podcast: Recent Episodes
MindSpring
Welcome to the Learning Well podcast where we take learning seriously, just not ourselves!
Join our hosts if you want to. . . • Dive deep into current trends and topics with an emphasis on the practitioner. • Gather with your community: join us as we learn from our amazing guests, and interact with us on our social media platforms. We’d love to address your concerns and questions in this podcast. • Be refreshed-Have fun with us! We often laugh at ourselves and sometimes poke fun at our industry as we share stories and practical tips.
Make sure to listen to episode 0 to find out more about us.
Join us as we talk with Grant Tucker Learning and Development Manager at Sonepar and Blayne Gregory Director of Consulting at MindSpring. We’ll begin by discussing Grant’s journey in the L&D world and his view of the industry through the lens of his current position. Then we’ll focus on a project Blayne and Grant worked on employing the consulting services of opportunity analysis and curriculum mapping.
Segment One: A journey to learning experience design
Segment Two: State of the Industry
Segment Three: Making use of an opportunity analysis and curriculum mapping
Segment Four: What are you learning well now?
Join Miriam Taylor and Dr. Jerry Zandstra as we discuss Learning Trends in the upcoming year!
We’ll discuss extended reality trends, upskilling/reskilling, and AI as well as several other trends.
- Segment One: Looking back at 2022. What were the popular trends and where do we see them now?
- Segment Two: Immersive Learning
- Segment Three: Trends related to Upskilling/reskilling
- Segment Four: Content is King–using AI to generate it
Articles referenced:* Training Industry 2023 Trends * 2023: Managing Training for a changing workplace * https://www.talentguard.com/blog/reskilling-upskilling-strategic-response-changing-skill-demands * elearning industry the future of work 2023 * LinkedIn learning workplace learning report 2023
MindSpring’s learning experts see learning in everything. Even our favorite Christmas movies! Come along for the ride and also hear our exciting plans as we move into Season 2 of the podcast in the new year.
Segment One: A Christmas Story-motivation can lead to powerful learning experiences.
Segment Two: It’s a Wonderful Life-don’t be distracted by the “shiny-new” when designing learning experiences.
Segment Three: Home Alone-fear is a powerful motivator. Applying creative thinking to learning.
Segment Four: Christmas Vacation-lessons learned through failure
Segment Five: Elf-self-directed learning is hard and requires help along the way
Segment Six: The Santa Clause-learning principles should inform on-boarding and improve the experience
Today Martha Lanaghen joins us to share ways to Clear Creative Hurdles. This isn’t just the traditional writer’s block conversation. In our world, there are all kinds of creative roles from choosing learning strategies, to design, to writing and beyond.
Join us to discover:
- What’s the difference between being stuck vs stumped?
- How to ask juicy questions?
- 7 fun and interesting ways to jump-start creativity no matter your role.
Make sure to download the handout Martha graciously provided as a reference.
Martha Lanaghen is an experienced operations executive accustomed to rapid-change, high-growth environments. She is successful in start-up and turnaround situations. She also has, extensive experience in customer and student lifecycle management (retention, engagement, win-back, and lifecycle experiences). Public speaker. Author.
Martha Lanaghen can be found on LinkedIn and via email at Martha@SparrowGroup.biz
In this episode, we take a deeper dive into Immersive technologies. Join us as Adam Navis takes us on his journey of discovering, understanding, and teaching others XR technologies. Beginning with the creation of 3D objects Adam explains how those objects relate to VR and eventually AR technologies. He’ll also share the best use cases and some first steps for implementation within your organization. Finally, we’ll briefly discuss the proprietary software MindSpring uses and sells to develop these learning experiences.
Adam Navis is a Solutions Architect for MindSpring specifically serving our clients that deliver their learning through XR technologies.
Segment One: Building 3D objects
Segment Two: Development of VR using 3D
Segment Three: AR technologies
Segment Four: What are you learning well now?
It’s October! In this episode, we’re going to discuss an L&D topic that is scary to many. Immersive technology–VR/AR/MX feels scary for a variety of reasons but it doesn’t need to! Join us as we gain a better understanding of these tools, and how to create, evaluate and measure when designing immersive learning experiences. We’re joined by our favorite guest host Dr. Jerry Zandstra and his encouraging breakdown of this topic will leave you feeling reassured and definitely not scared!
Segment One: Definitions, State of the Industry, and Barriers
Segment Two: Approaches
Segment Three: Designing for a non-linear experience, evaluation, and ROI
Segment Four: What are you Learning Well now?
MindSpring Examples of recent XR projects
Today we explore the landscape of in-person learning as more organizations return to the office. In this episode, I’m joined by 2 experts who share some new and innovative ideas you can use to keep your ILT or vILT experiences fresh.
Segment One:
- Current Industry Trends
Segment Two:
- Creative ILT design strategies
- Managing vILT well
- Other digitally infused design strategies
Segment Three:
- What are you learning well now?
In this episode, Miriam climbs on her soapbox as we discuss a culture of learning. It’s oft aspired to but rarely achieved in the organizations we work in. We’ll spend some time defining what it is and then talk through ways to improve the learning culture no matter what circumstances you’re working in. Last, we’ll discuss 5 very practical ways to build a culture of learning.
Segments: Segment One: What is a Culture of Learning
- Defining it
- Understanding its importance
Segment Two: How to Improve a Culture of Learning
Segment Three: Practical Tips for Creating a Culture of Learning
Segment Four: Measuring a Culture of Learning
Resources: Articles Referenced
Building a Culture of Learning: The Foundation of a Successful Organization
Harvard Business Review: 4 Ways to Create a Culture of Learning on Your Team
Building a culture of learning at work
How To Build A Culture Of Learning
In this episode, we discuss how to implement podcasting as a learning solution within your organization. We’re joined by the genius behind our Learning Well podcast, our producer, Jeff Helmus. We talk about everything from the technology needed to get it up and running to planning, writing, and interviewing guests. Along the way, Jeff will share some of his favorite podcasts and we’ll talk about what we all hate–listening to our own voice.
Segment One: Getting started
- Equipment: hardware and software
- Simple and more sophisticated equipment
- Keeping it entertaining
Segment Two: Learning from others
- Podcasts we love and why
- Podcasts we love to hate
Segment Three: Marketing and release schedules
- How to market for an internal audience vs an external one
- What is the best release schedule
Segment Four: What are you Learning Well Now?
There’s been a lot of buzz about our Learning ScoreCard! In this short episode, we answer some of the most common questions asked about our new software tool that allows you to measure the true ROI of your learning initiatives.
In this episode, we’ll discuss the exciting outcome of a 2-year project of Dr. Jerry Zandstra and others at MindSpring. The Learning ScoreCard is a software tool that measures the true ROI of your learning initiatives and displays the insights in a unique easy-to-understand dashboard.
Segment One: An Overview of the Industry Landscape
Segment Two: Weaknesses and gaps in current industry offerings
Segment Three: The Learning ScoreCard
Segment Four: ROI resources, articles and books
Ahh, summer! slowing down, backyard BBQs and the beach. This is our second podcast episode where we discuss a book we highly recommend for a summer beach read. Millennials, Goldfish, and Other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths and Superstitions is about 3 years old but the content is timeless and the format highly qualifies it as an easy book to read at the beach.
Ahh, summer! slowing down, backyard BBQ’s and the beach. Join us on this episode as we discuss a book we highly recommend as a summer beach read. We’ll discuss the very popular Think Again by Adam Grant especially as it relates to creating learning communities that are willing to re-think to become lifelong learners.
Segments: Segment One: Individual Re-Thinking: Updating our own view
Segment Two: Interpersonal Re-thinking: Opening others' minds
Segment Three: Collective Re-thinking: Creating communities of lifelong learners
Segment Four: Accolades, dissenting opinions and questions we still have
This episode explores 3 specific areas of writing that can be simplified in order to make learning experiences more easily accessible to all learners. We’ll explore word choice, syntax and cognitive load and the power of descriptive language in our writing.
Segment One:
Word Choice: Why the word you choose matters
- Nouns: Anglo-Saxon vs. Latinate - Helpful resource
- Verbs: Use strong ones
Segment Two: Syntax and Cognitive Load: Why putting words in the correct order matters
Segment Three: Show, Don’t Tell: Why stories and descriptive examples matter - Helpful resource
Join us as we talk brain science with Dr. Linda Haveman. Not only is she imminently qualified, she makes this complicated subject interesting and provides practical down-to-earth tips to apply to our learning experiences.
Segment One: The difference between neuroscience and cognitive science
Segment Two: Understanding the parts of the brain and how they function
Segment Three: How the brain processes information and its impact on learning
Segment Four: How neurodesign can impact workplace health and safety
Content outline Neuroscience –Neuro = nerves/nervous system; science = systematic study; inner workings of the brain – cellular, functional, molecular, evolutionary, behavioral.
Cognitive science – study of emotions, perception, memory, knowledge, language and judgment. It involves many other sciences including neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, etc.
Biology of learning
- Neurons: 100 billion nerve cells
- cell body,
- dendrites, receives signals
- axon (transmits signals)
- myelin sheath - speed of signals by myelin sheath
Brain stem
- Controls most of body – breath, heart rate, sleep/wake
Limbic system
- Amygdala – emotions and memories generated, rage, fear, pleasure, short-term memory (however, memories are scattered all over the brain)
- Hippocampus – converts short term to long term memory
- Thalamus – senses – relays motor and sensory signals (except small) to the cerebral cortex
Frontal Cortex – executive processing, planning behavior, expressions, decisions, moderating social behavior
White matter -- gets color for the myelin sheath – that which insulates the axon
Cerebral cortex -- gray matter
Learning
- 70% hands-on (many employees do not just want a job aid, need to actually do the work)
- 20% social learning
- 10% formal – while small percent, critical to gain new information
- Must hear it, see it, question it, discuss it, and do it (teach it)
Memory stages
- Encoding – more attention, intake
- Storage
- Retrieval (go from amygdala to hippocampus for processing).
Content needs to be relevant and chunked
- 2-4 chunks at a time, drawing on a person’s memory, using questions to structure a mental model with
- Speed of talk – we can hear 400-500 words/minute. If the facilitator speaks slowly, minds get bored and wander
- Spacing effect (1885 by Hermann Ebbinghaus) == practice opportunities are spaced over time
- Give listeners a chance to internalize information every 8 minutes
- Job aides
- Retention – question of the day for review/practice (EM)
- Pop quizzes in the middle of training – neuron model, executive brain …
Choice of words are important. Biech in The Art and Science of Training notes that a single word can influence our physical and emotional stress. Whether they are positive or negative words, the changes can be noted on an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scan. Increased activity occurs in the amygdala and hormones and neurotransmitters are released.
Relief of brain overload
- Stress hormones killing your brain
- Relax – interconnected regions suddenly become quite active (behind your forehead and toward the middle of your brain).
- LT memory relies on use of new information and transferred into the workplace. If not transferred, it will be pruned.
Work Environment
Green space, outdoors
-
Get into the woods
-
12% decrease in cortisol; 7% decrease in nervous system; 6% lowering of heart rate
Persons living near green spaces were the equivalent of getting a 20K raise
Room color:
- Color green – focus like a magnifying glass
- Blue = alert and aroused (suppresses melatonin hormone)
Room Size:
- Cathedral effect – focus on the gist of the problem
- Lower ceiling – focus on the details
People who spend less time on work statistically do their jobs more effectively than people who spend more time.
- Break every 90 minutes
- Moderate stress good
- Procrastination Is fueled by an attempt to avoid adverse feelings
Do activity at higher energy time of day
Exercise – or walk around your office – not matter the size – move
Naps in midafternoon – no longer than 30 minutes
Groups that excel (Medina)
Able to read each other’s cues
Take turns in conversation
Have more women
Books:
Andreatta, B. (2019). Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Learn and Master any Skill
Andreatta, B. (2017). Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success.
Beich,E. (2016). The Art and Science of Training.
Jesen, E. & McConchie, Liesl. (2020). Brain Based Learning (3rd ed.).
Medina, J. (2021). Brain Rules for Work
In this episode we discuss how we can apply good principles of psychology, sociology and consumer science to the remote learning experiences we are now designing. Join us as we get a better understanding of these 3 sciences and discuss practical ways to improve our learning design for remote workers. Listen to the end as Jeff and Jerry have to make a high-stakes decision about a mid-afternoon snack as they apply consumer science principles.
Segment One: Psychology
Segment Two: Sociology
Segment Three: Consumer Science
Links referenced:
5 Trends Disrupting Learning and Development in 2022
In this roundtable conversation, we discuss learning with several visual and graphic designers. We find out how their backgrounds bring a fresh and interesting perspective to learning design. They also offer some great ideas for L and D managers to best make use of these types of designers.
Segments: Segment One: Introduction and Background
- Participants background
- Why designers are attracted to the learning industry
Segment Two: How strong visual design creates better learning experiences
Segment Three: UX Fundamentals
Segment Four: What are you learning well now?
In this episode, we talk to two design experts about the role design plays in learning. We interview Jeff Joanisse-Chief Creative Officer and Ryan Klotz Director of Development/Creative Director.
Segments: Segment One: Introductions and Background Segment Two: Discussion of Design and Learning
We think differently about design and even though it means different things to all of us the goal is a successful learning experience.
Discussion/Interview questions
- What does the word design mean in your world? Design is universal
- determine the type of learning experience
- examples
- unpack the elements
- What kinds of design is there in the world that you live in?
- What types of design projects do you typically work on?
- How do you go about determing who your audience is?
- How does the audience inform your design?
- Design for Know, Believe, Do
- How do you design for knowledge change
- How do you design for belief or attitude change
- How do you design for skills change
- How does design impact a users motivation?
- How can it kill it?
- How can it motivate and engage?
Segment Three: What are you Learning Well now?
We’ve gathered a group of avid gamers to join us in this episode. We’ll discuss White and Black Hat motivators and what those look like in the games we love. Come for the discussion and be inspired to add more motivational elements to your learning design. Stay for the game tips and life hacks offered at the end in our What are you Learning Well now segment.
Segments: Segment One: Introductions and our favorite games Participants:
Andrea Mikulenas, Austin Bowles, Cade Wilson, Eric Balut, Nathan Pastrick, Producer Extraordinaire-Jeff Helmus
Segment Two: White Hat Motivators
- Development and Accomplishment
- Empowerment of Creativity and Feedback
- Social Influence and Relatedness
- Epic Meaning and Calling
Black Hat Motivators
- Ownership and Posession
- Scarcity and Impatience
- Unpredictability and Curiousity
- Loss and Avoidance
Segment Three: Application of these Principles
Segment Four: What are you Learning Well now Topic resources mentioned in this segment:
Gardening:
- TV: Gardeners' World (BBC): https://www.gardenersworld.com/
- TV: Big Dreams Small Spaces (BBC): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8006786/
- Podcast: Joe Gardener Podcast: https://joegardener.com/podcasts/
- Youtube: Canadian Permaculture Legacy: https://www.youtube.com/c/CanadianPermacultureLegacy
- Book: Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7356490-edible-landscaping
- Reddit: r/NativePlantGardening https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/
- Reddit: r/NoLawns: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawns/
BBC Gardeners World Magazine-gardenersworld.com
Big Dreams, Small Spaces (TV Series 2014–2017) - IMDb
Gardening Podcast | Organic Gardener | joe gardener®
Canadian Permaculture Legacy
Edible Landscaping
Additional Resources Game Links
Dungeons and Dragons website
Matthew Volville Youtube-Running D & D is fun
Cade’s board game suggestions you may not be familiar with
Dead of winter
King of Tokyo
Blood Rage
Pokemon Go Friend codes from Eric and Andrea
Eric: 246938484283
Andrea: 2605 5819 4756
We’ve gathered a group of avid gamers to join us in this episode. We’ll discuss White and Black Hat motivators and what those look like in the games we love. Come for the discussion and be inspired to add more motivational elements to your learning design. Stay for the game tips and life hacks offered at the end in our What are you Learning Well now segment.
Segments: Segment One: Introductions and our favorite games Participants:
Andrea Mikulenas, Austin Bowles, Cade Wilson, Eric Balut, Nathan Pastrick, Producer Extraordinaire-Jeff Helmus
Segment Two: White Hat Motivators
- Development and Accomplishment
- Empowerment of Creativity and Feedback
- Social Influence and Relatedness
- Epic Meaning and Calling
Black Hat Motivators
- Ownership and Posession
- Scarcity and Impatience
- Unpredictability and Curiousity
- Loss and Avoidance
Segment Three: Application of these Principles
Segment Four: What are you Learning Well now Topic resources mentioned in this segment:
Gardening:
- TV: Gardeners' World (BBC): https://www.gardenersworld.com/
- TV: Big Dreams Small Spaces (BBC): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8006786/
- Podcast: Joe Gardener Podcast: https://joegardener.com/podcasts/
- Youtube: Canadian Permaculture Legacy: https://www.youtube.com/c/CanadianPermacultureLegacy
- Book: Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7356490-edible-landscaping
- Reddit: r/NativePlantGardening https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/
- Reddit: r/NoLawns: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawns/
BBC Gardeners World Magazine-gardenersworld.com
Big Dreams, Small Spaces (TV Series 2014–2017) - IMDb
Gardening Podcast | Organic Gardener | joe gardener®
Canadian Permaculture Legacy
Edible Landscaping
Additional Resources Game Links
Dungeons and Dragons website
Matthew Volville Youtube-Running D & D is fun
Cade’s board game suggestions you may not be familiar with
Dead of winter
King of Tokyo
Blood Rage
Pokemon Go Friend codes from Eric and Andrea
Eric: 246938484283
Andrea: 2605 5819 4756
In this episode, we discuss the differences between gamification and game theory. Then we dig deep into game theory and how we can apply it to any kind of learning that we’re designing. Listen to the end as we wrap up with a fun game.
Hosts: Miriam Taylor and Lonna Jobson
Guest: Becci Zwiers
Segment One: Types of Games and why do we use them. Segment Two: Game Activities vs. Game Structure Segment Three: White Hat and Black Hat Motivators Segment Four: Value of social learning games Segment Five: Let’s play a game!
Links: https://yukaichou.com/
Inno-Versity interview with Yu Kai Chou from a few years ago
Inno-Versity Game Theory ebook-2020
Inno-Versity narrative story about games-2021
Building a True Learning Experience Game Webinar
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Darryl Meekins who has extensive experience creating online experiences in higher ed. both in the US and abroad. He brings a unique respect for education as a gateway to opportunity with a practitioner's appreciation of the technicalities for creating high-quality online courses. Listen as we discuss the higher ed. landscape across the world and look at some practical ways to create engaging content that can be delivered in any modality.
Segment One: Introduction to Dr. Meekins and his background Segment Two: Ways the pandemic has affected the higher education landscape and concerns with emergency learning. Segment Three: Specific practical suggestions to pandemic proof course content Segment Four What are you learning well now?
Dr. Darryl Meekins LinkedIn
The Great Resignation, the Big Quit, remote work expectations, and the new hybrid workforce! These trends are rocking the American workplace landscape. As an L and D professional, are you struggling to provide effective learning experiences to a diverse workforce? Join us as we discuss these challenges and apply a simple formula to determine the best possible outcome.
Segment One:
- HR Trends for 2022. Recruitment and retention in a remote work era.
- L & D Reaction and Blended Learning Solutions
Segment Two:
Consider a different formula for determining the best modality for a remote workforce.
N1 + N2+ T+ D=M
- N1-Needs of the company
- N2-Needs of the learner
- T-Tools
- D-Design
- =M-Modality
Segment Three
Important considerations if blended learning is the correct outcome of the equation.
- Apply different types of blended models
- Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation—Blended Learning Model
- Understand the science behind in-person learning experience
- Placelessness and brain-to-brain synchrony
Segment Four
What are you learning well now in 2022?
Listen to Lonna discuss her recent attempts to reflect more on what she is learning in the new year.
This episode isn’t what you think! Rather than rolling out the traditional new year trends or predictions conversation, we spend some time discussing what topics should be important to our industry in the upcoming year.
Segment Topics:
- Measuring learning and learning metrics
- Personalized learning and associated topics
- Social and collaborative learning
- Immersive topics
- The concept of NextGen learning
Links:
https://www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/vr-and-ar-designing-spaces-for-immersive-learning
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/educators-engage-students-immersive-learning-tools
Join us as we talk with Peter Arashiro, from the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. Peter is a long-time friend and we’ve worked on a variety of projects together over the years. We’re excited to explore 2 important Learning Trends we should be focusing on in 2022.
Segment Topics: Designing with DEIJ lenses
- Persona development
- Chelsea Chandler - Associate Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence - Bowling Green State University
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in MOOCs: Mapping Goals from Proposal to Design - lead author
- Rebecca Quintana
- Yuanru Tan
- Nicole Yang
- DEIJ Lenses
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in MOOCs: Mapping Goals from Proposal to Design - lead author
- Alternative text
- Cynthia Bennett - post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute
- The Radical AI Podcast Interview
- “It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Description in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability - lead author
- Identity
- Cynthia Bennett - post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute
- Chelsea Chandler - Associate Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence - Bowling Green State University
AI/ML/NLP for designing learning experiences
- Data and algorithms
- Learning analytics
- NLP and Content
- Content knowledge acquisition at scale; becoming more efficient at producing prototypes and content
- Brute force “learning”; or
- Use NLP techniques to assist designers with
- Summarizing large sets of text (think transcripts)
- Identifying key concepts in text
- Generating MCQ or other forms of assessment
- Content generation and AI/ML in ID/LXD
- Donald Clark - EdTech Entrepreneur, researcher, professor
- Artificial intelligence for Learning: How to use AI to support employee development
- CEO of WildFire Learning
- Learning about NLP to gain insights about your learning experience/ID practice –
- Position paper - Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data - lead author with Alexander Koller
- TWIML (formerly this week in machine learning) podcast interview
- Donald Clark - EdTech Entrepreneur, researcher, professor
Today we’re going to look at the term Learning Experience Designer. Where did that term even come from? What does it really mean? In order to figure this out, we’re first going to take a trip down memory lane discussing a short timeline of the L and D movement, discuss instructional design, and then unpack the term Learning Experience Designer. Make sure to stay to the end where we share our humorous holiday stories trying to explain to family what it is we do for a living.
Segment Topics:
- Post WWII Timeline of the Learning and Development movement
- 4 Components of the term Learning Experience Designer
- Learner Centric
- Learning Science
- UX/UI design
- Design Thinking
- Stories from the Well: Explaining your job to family and friends.
Links: https://www.mayscandyshop.com
Join us for a fun conversation focused on gifts an L&D professional would like.
Below are links and/or descriptions of products found in the podcast.
Reading:
Think Again-Adam Grant
Creative Workshop by David Sherwin-80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
eLearning designers handbook-Tim Slade—visual, nice graphics, simple—often use with writers to hlpe them better understand how things develop past the writing
Design for how people learn 2nd Edition-Julie Dirksen
Subscriptions:
- Udemy
- Coursera
- LinkedIn Learning
- Master classes
- Conferences or virtual conferences
Creative Tools:
- Apple pen HP Pen
- Sketch Paper
- Faber Castell pencils
Graphics subscriptions
- Adobe Stock
- Istock photo
Planning and organization
- Bullet journals
- One Note planners with tablets, or
- Sticky notes
- Whiteboard markers
- Sticky tabs
- Smartsheets.com
Other Gifts
Coffee
- Kalamazoo Coffee Co.
- Black Rifle Coffee
- Schuill Coffee
Tea
- Mug heaters
- Ember mug
Under the desk bicycle elliptical
Rootless Handmade- the Etsy shop owned by our very own Lindsay
Rootless Handmade Instagram
*The links are provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Learning Well Podcast
Join us as we consider 3 more foundational topics to our industry. Today we’ll explore the “creative” in all of us, how technology impacts our industry, and the ever-increasing role of measurement, data, and analytics. Then we’re pleased to roll out the inaugural segment, “What are you Learning Now?” as we ask our hosts what new thing they’re learning now.
Segment Topics:
- Creativity
- Types of Creativity
- Design
- Relational
- Written
- Artistic
- 21st Century skill
- Types of Creativity
- Technology
- Delivery tools
- Productivity tools
- Hardware
- AI
- Measurement/Data/Analytics
- Elephant in the room
- Where to start
- What are you “learning well” now?
This episode examines a topic that is key to our industry-the science of learning. Join us as we explore the different fields of learning science and attempt to explain them in a simple yet accurate way. Along the way, we’ll explore the controversy over the difference between cognitive and neuroscience and have a laugh as we imagine a brouhaha, melee, scrum, or fist-a-cuffs between these scholarly doctors.
Segment Topics:
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Linguistics
- Consumer Science
- Instructional Design
Links:
Helpful article from ATD that explains some of the differences between neuroscience and cognitive science.
In this short introductory episode, Miriam Taylor, Lonna Jobson, and Jerry Zandstra introduce you to the Learning Well, a podcast of Inno-Versity, where we take learning seriously, just not ourselves! We invite you to join us as we explore the meaning behind our title and the format of the show.
Main Points:
- Meet the hosts!
- Explore the meaning behind our podcast
- Depth of knowledge
- Community gathering spot
- Refreshing
- Learn about the format
- Final comments