The eLearning Coach Podcast
Join Connie Malamed from The eLearning Coach as she shares fresh ideas and actionable tips for creating engaging learning experiences of all kinds. Through interviews with expert designers, developers, authors, and professors, you’ll discover practical strategies to elevate your work as a learning designer or educator. If you’re passionate about instructional design, cognitive science, visual communication, and related topics, this podcast will inspire and guide you.
- Update frequency
- every 47 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 88
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design
I speak with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner about the big ideas in their book, Learning to Make a Difference. They share ways that we can live and learn intentionally in a social learning context…
00:36:51 |
Thu 13 May 2021
ELC 067: Educating the New Instructional Designer
How should instructors and professors educate instructional designers to meet the needs of the modern workplace? This episode focuses on the challenges and solutions facing instructional design educa…
00:30:53 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
ELC 066: Best Of | How to Write Compelling Stories
Lisa Cron, author of Wired For Story, is passionate about the power and value of stories for learning. In this conversation (recorded in 2013), Lisa will convince you that it is through stories tha…
00:31:09 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
ELC 065: Pro Tips For Working With Subject Matter Experts
Subject matter experts or SMEs are usually an indispensable part of a learning development team. Even though they are on the same team, however, the SME and the learning professional may be living …
00:42:15 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
ELC 064: How to Create Meaning From A Torrent of Information
Every day, we engage in sense-making from a torrent of information. And we attempt to help others construct meaning in the learning experiences we design and provide. This episode delves into creatin…
00:43:54 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
ELC 063: The Evolution To Learning Experience Design
Do you hear a lot about learning experience design (LXD) but aren't sure what it is? In this episode, we discuss the evolution of instructional design to learning experience design. We talk about w…
00:33:30 |
Fri 14 Aug 2020
ELC 062: Starting An Instructional Design Career in Higher Education
Have you ever considered starting a learning design career in higher education? Have you wondered if academia is the best fit for your preferences and interests? In this episode, Peter Shea and I d…
00:38:39 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
ELC 061: Getting Started With Inclusive Design
Once you understand accessible eLearning and inclusive design, you can’t turn back. That's because changing your design habits is not only easy, it has a big impact on the lives of others. A focus …
00:33:23 |
Thu 14 May 2020
ELC 060: How to Practice Evidence-Informed Learning Design
I am hoping that this will be the decade of maturation for the learning industry. Part of that maturation will involve applying evidence informed learning design drawn from cognitive psychology res…
00:25:11 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
ELC 059: How Chatbots Can Support and Enhance Learning
Vince Han says that part of the learning journey is a conversation. One way to have that conversation and to meet the needs of the modern workplace is with a chatbot programmed to engage people in …
00:27:46 |
Mon 30 Dec 2019
ELC 058 Virtual Training is Much More Than a Presentation
How can you translate the in-person learning experience to an effective virtual classroom? This episode answers that question. Author and virtual training expert, Cindy Huggett, clarifies the misco…
00:38:10 |
Sun 10 Nov 2019
ELC 057: How To Plan And Design Microlearning
Microlearning is a thing and it's coming to a workplace near you. Of all the trends and terms of the last few years, perhaps none have been as poorly defined as microlearning.
Karl Kapp, PhD, prof…
00:32:08 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
ELC 056: How To Develop Your Creativity
Do you ever find yourself wishing you could come up with more creative ideas? Do you think it's possible to improve your creativity? The guest for this episode, Brad Hokanson, will help you see tha…
00:33:35 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
ELC 055: What You Need to Know About Cognitive Load
If you are a learning professional or if you think of yourself as a product designer, one of the most important aspects of your work is understanding how people learn. Yet, many of us in the field …
00:36:47 |
Tue 23 Apr 2019
ELC 054: Do learners understand your instructional graphics?
Are we all a little over-confident about the graphics we use to promote learning? Today’s guest, Elizabeth Boling, has done research that demonstrates we are. We assume that people can understand ou…
00:30:22 |
Thu 21 Mar 2019
ELC 053: Creating Long-term Engagement with Game Thinking
Game Thinking Book Cover
As learning experience designers, we can borrow techniques for innovation from product design and game design. That's why I was eager to chat with Amy Jo Kim, who has writ…
00:42:15 |
Mon 07 Jan 2019
ELC 052: The Story of Becoming a Great Manager
If you are a new or experienced manager or an aspiring manager, this episode is for you. If you want to develop leadership skills, you'll find some relevant conversation here too. And if you want to…
00:36:01 |
Wed 14 Nov 2018
ELC 051: Tips and Tools for Creating an eLearning Portfolio
Life happens. You never know when you might need to show an eLearning portfolio. If you don't have one yet, this episode will demonstrate how valuable a portfolio can be. If you've been resisting, …
00:29:45 |
Wed 10 Oct 2018
ELC 050: Learning Myths You Might Believe
Are you inadvertently believing learning myths? Are your best practices based on hearsay? In this episode, I speak with Clark Quinn, Ph.D., about many of the myths, superstitions and misconceptions…
00:38:13 |
Wed 11 Jul 2018
ELC 049: How to ‘Find Funny’ When Speaking, Writing and Installing Mufflers
Mark Shatz, Ph.D., teaches educational psychology, statistics and a course on writing humor at the University of Ohio, Zanesville. He's a coauthor of the book, Comedy Writing Secrets. Can we apply …
00:32:11 |
Sat 02 Jun 2018
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