Adventures in Learning Design
A series of conversations about ideas, principles, research and practice. Join the LearnJam team as they explore how to make learning more effective and enjoyable, whether it's in the workplace, in school, university or at home.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 20
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
S02 EP05: ILXD Dimensions – Interactions
Martin Bloomfield joins us again for yet another fascinating foray into neurodiversity and learning design. We discuss the differences between learning ‘input’ and what ‘output’ is expected from lear…
S02 EP04: ILXD Dimensions – The Materials
Michelle Mangal talks to LearnJam about why representation matters in learning resources, how to do justice to learners’ complex identities, and how good teachers can make learning materials interest…
S02 EP03: ILXD Dimensions – The Environment
How can a learner's environment – physical or digital – affect the inclusivity of learning design (ILXD)? Special guest Runna Badwan talks to us about the need to adapt techniques and approaches for …
S02 EP02: ILXD Dimensions – The Learner
In this episode, we explore one very important factor in inclusive learning design (ILXD) – the learners themselves.
Special guest Martin Bloomfield talks to us about the unspoken norms and assumptio…
S02 EP01 – Welcome to Season 2!
We reflect on some highlights from the first year of the Adventures in Learning Design podcast and look ahead to what's coming up in Season 2. Plus, Tim has an announcement to make...
Find out more a…
EP. 14 - Learning through text messages
In this episode we have a scintillating conversation with Rachel Nemeth, CEO of New York-based startup Opus. Opus is a digital platform that delivers text message courses to deskless workers, and Lea…
EP. 13 - Storyboarding
One of the key tools we use to design online courses is storyboarding. It involves getting all of the people who are involved in the development of the online course together to create a visual map o…
EP. 12 - Inclusive Learning Design
Tim and Laurie talk to fellow LearnJammers Laura Patsko and Lucy Williams about an Innovate UK project we are working on to develop and share best practices in inclusive online learning.
In our conve…
EP. 11 - Agile
In this episode, Tim and Laurie speak to Jo Sayers, fellow co-founder of LearnJam, about how (and why) he uses Agile product development methodologies to develop digital learning products and solutio…
EP. 10 - Research
In this episode Tim and Laurie talk to Laura Patsko about how she carried out the research that led to the creation of our evidence-informed learning design principles.
Laura is a language and pedago…
EP. 09 - Motivation
Motivation is one of the most important learning design principles – but also one of the most difficult to design for. Lots of the things we need to learn aren't intrinsically motivating, especially …
EP. 08 - Innovation
In this episode Tim and Laurie speak to fellow LearnJam co-founder, Nick Robinson. As well as his LearnJam work, Nick does a lot of executive coaching and training with a focus on innovation and crea…
EP. 07 - Dyslexia and Learning Design
In this episode we talk to Martin Bloomfield. Martin is a trainer at York Associates where he helps individuals develop skills to improve communication across cultures. He has visiting lecturer posit…
EP. 06 - Our Learning Design process
In this episode we unpack the stages we go through in our Learning Design process, we confront our lack of building expertise, and Laurie coins the phrase "cathedral of learning".
Hosted by Laurie Ha…
EP. 05 - Positive framing in Learning Design
In this episode, we chat to LearnJam's Learning Designer, Katy Asbury. Katy tells us the story of a particularly horrendous hike that she did in New Zealand and how, subsequently, she was able to ref…
*Short contributor shoutout*
In this short shoutout Laurie and Tim invite you to get in touch with questions or observations about your own Learning Design practice.
Maybe you currently don't identify as a Learning Designer but…
EP. 04 - Design thinking
In this episode, we talk about design thinking; what it is, how it works, and how we use it in our own projects, including how we applied it to develop a prototype of a chatbot that the world wasn't …
EP. 03 - Our Learning Design Principles
In this episode we talk about our three research-based Learning Design principles, Laurie shares a recent confrontation with an enraged optometrist around a less than optimal digital learning experie…
EP. 02 - What does a Learning Designer do?
In this episode, we talk about how you need to tell your clients they're wrong sometimes, and we somehow managed to compare a Learning Designer to a film director.
Hosted by Laurie Harrison and Tim G…
EP. 01 - What is Learning Design?
In this episode, we talk about the futility of asking people what they want, and we somehow managed to clumsily compare Learning Design to both music and medicine.
Hosted by Laurie Harrison and Tim G…