Great Minds on Learning
Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Aristotle to the present day.
© John Helmer 2021
- Update frequency
- every 15 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
GMoLS5E26 German Idealists with Donald Clark
How German philosophy created the modern education system. Why is education the way it is? Why does the bell ring to signal the end of a lesson? Who invented teacher training? Why do universities c…
01:09:46 |
Mon 09 Oct 2023
GMoLS5E25 Evaluation with Donald Clark
In this episode, the first of a new season, we look at a group of thinkers who have focused on how we should evaluate the impact of the learning. Beginning with Donald L Kirkpatrick in the 1950s, the…
01:13:57 |
Mon 25 Sep 2023
GMoLS4E24 Internet As Knowledge with Donald Clark
The Internet and the World Wide Web have revolutionised the way knowledge is produced, mediated and consumed. This episode focuses on a group of entrepreneurs who have given us the online tools and p…
01:00:27 |
Mon 24 Apr 2023
GMoLS4E23 Technology Delivery with Donald Clark
During the Covid lockdowns of recent years, online technology became practically the only way of delivering learning. But a long road has brought us to such a place. This episode covers the theorists…
01:12:55 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
GMoLS4E22 Social Constructivists with Donald Clark
Social constructivism had its origins in the thought of Karl Marx. However, it became a strong influence on educationalists in the capitalist West during the latter half of the 20th Century, and thin…
01:12:31 |
Mon 27 Mar 2023
GMoLS4E21 Utilitarians/Happiness with Donald Clark
This episode focuses on happiness. Utilitarianism is a strand in philosophy that says the greatest happiness of the greatest number should guide our judgment in all things – including education. But …
00:51:34 |
Mon 27 Feb 2023
GMoLS4E20 Religious Educators with Donald Clark
This episode covers a sizeable sweep of history, from the perhaps misnamed Dark Ages and the Islamic Golden Age, on through the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment. As the Christian and Islami…
00:58:05 |
Mon 13 Feb 2023
GMoLS4E19 AI Learning with Donald Clark
Once the stuff of science fiction, Artificial Intelligence is now a part of everyday life. But the story of how it came into being is not often told. This episode reveals its roots in neuropsychology…
01:09:05 |
Sun 29 Jan 2023
GMoLS3E18 Extended Mind with Donald Clark
This episode was recorded live at the Online Educa Conference in Berlin and explores ideas of The Extended Mind. Where do our thoughts live? And if, as some theorists contend, they do not observe phy…
01:00:27 |
Mon 05 Dec 2022
GMoLS3E17 Religious Leaders with Donald Clark
This episode features a group of people who were not writers, philosophers, psychologists or learning theorists in any usual sense of the term. Nevertheless, their influence on learning has been prof…
01:02:57 |
Mon 21 Nov 2022
GMoLS3E16 Gamification with Donald Clark
All humans play games of one type and another. Philosophers and psychologists have seen play as an integral to our nature as human animals. Harnessing the power of this instinctual drive for the purp…
01:00:51 |
Mon 07 Nov 2022
GMoLS3 Bonus episode: What Did We Learn? with Carl Crisostomo
GMoL is on a mid-season break, but in this bonus episode without Donald Clark, John discusses the series so far with Carl Chrisostomo. Under his social media alias of Carllearns, Carl has been 'learn…
00:25:30 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
GMoLS3E15 Evolutionists with Donald Clark
This episode explores the impact of what has been called the most important idea in human history, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. A powerful idea, still to this day controversial in some quarters, its…
01:07:15 |
Mon 10 Oct 2022
GMoLS3E14 VR & Metaverse with Donald Clark
When Mark Zuckerberg announced the renaming of his company from Facebook to Meta in 2021, he provoked a surge of interest in this new thing, the Metaverse. But virtual worlds are nothing new, and peo…
01:04:35 |
Mon 26 Sep 2022
GMoL S3E13 Learning Styles with Donald Clark
This group of theorists focused on the easily observable fact that all learners are not the same, and attempted to systematise those differences according to learner preferences. With the best of int…
01:04:07 |
Mon 12 Sep 2022
GMoL S2E12 Greeks with Donald Clark
At the very origin of our ideas of about learning, as well so much else that defines our culture, lies the extraordinary flowering of thought and discovery centred on Athens from the fifth to the sec…
01:14:51 |
Tue 03 May 2022
GMoL S2E11 Informal Learning with Donald Clark
This episode’s thinkers were driven by a common belief that while practically all the attention and money in training and education is lavished on formal interventions, informal means of learning acc…
01:03:49 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Workflow Learning with Donald Clark
Workflow learning, or 'learning in the flow of work' as it is often called, is a hot topic these days. In a world where technology delivers fast, personalized information at the point of need, does i…
01:15:35 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Affective Learning with Donald Clark
The issue of emotion is something often downplayed or even omitted altogether in accounts of how people learn and how they can best be supported in learning. And yet it turns out to be critically imp…
00:57:16 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Social/Team Learning with Donald Clark
In the late twentieth century organizations embraced the information age and team-working became a more important aspect of workplaces. Along with this change went a shift in learning theory away fro…
01:03:17 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
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