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

Learning Education History

Update frequency: every 15 days
Average duration: 66 minutes
Episodes: 49
Years Active: 2021 - 2025

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Assessors with Donald Clark

Darwin's discoveries and the growth of mass education in the 19th Century set the stage for a quest to measure and assess human intelligence. But that quest has often seemed quixotic: marred by poor …

01:17:07 | Mon 31 Jan 2022

The Enlightenment with Donald Clark

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its thinkers believed in individual liberty, religious tol…

01:15:11 | Mon 06 Dec 2021

Online Educators with Donald Clark

From blackboards to interactive whiteboards, learning has always made use of technology. But with the advent of computers and then the internet, learning theory entered a new phase from the late 20th…

01:07:10 | Mon 22 Nov 2021

Moralists with Donald Clark

Learning has always had a moral dimension. In pre-enlightenment times religion played a big role in deciding what and how people should learn, but by the 20th Century much of that influence had waned…

01:09:04 | Mon 08 Nov 2021

Pragmatism & Practice with Donald Clark

'We're now beginning to unpack what is really good for learners and teaching' says Donald Clark, 'and it's not what we thought it was.' Learning Theory over the ages has concentrated largely on th…

00:59:33 | Mon 11 Oct 2021

Instructionalists with Donald Clark

In this episode, Donald and John discuss a group of theorists who mostly focused directly on instructional design, and who between them created a body of work which is canonical to the practice of le…

01:08:25 | Mon 27 Sep 2021

The Behaviourists with Donald Clark

In this first episode of the first season of Great Minds on Learning, Donald Clark discusses the Behaviorists, a group of theorists who, starting with Pavlov in the early part of the 20th Century, di…

01:00:37 | Mon 13 Sep 2021

Great Mind on Learning: The Cognitivists (repeat)

Another chance to hear the inaugural episode of Great Minds on Learning, which was originally aired back in March 2021 to considerable acclaim. In this series, Donald Clark – the internationally fa…

00:52:20 | Mon 30 Aug 2021