The Learning Hack podcast
What are the significant innovations shaping the future of learning? How is digital technology and scientific discovery changing the way we learn, train, teach and educate? Join John Helmer in conversation with the people who are visioning and actively creating that future. Published fortnightly (don't forget to subscribe!).
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
LH #78 The L&D Handbook with Michelle Parry-Slater
Michelle Parry-Slater is Learning & Development Director of Kairos Modern Learning, and author of the Learning And Development Handbook. This guide for learning practitioners is realistic about the o…
00:34:09 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
LH #77 Podcasts for Learning with Adam Lacey
People use podcasts to gain information and knowledge, about a huge variety of things, in their downtime. Organisations and institutions have been slow to leverage this powerful source of potential t…
00:41:59 |
Mon 20 Mar 2023
LH #76 Bonus: Donald H. Taylor & David Wilson
At the Learning Technologies France show in Paris this February, John talked to two of the industry's leading commentators, who both released significant pieces of research at the show. The L&D Globa…
00:57:10 |
Mon 13 Mar 2023
LH #75 Under Thirties Assemble with Dinye Hernanda
A passion for learning brought Dinye Hernada, she says, from a muddy school field in Indonesia to the boardrooms of Germany's top companies. With a double masters in international management, she beg…
00:42:54 |
Mon 06 Mar 2023
LH #74 Ethical Learning with Alexander Fahie
Ethical Angel is a company that brings together learners in need of development opportunities with charities and good causes in need of the practical skills they are developing. John talks to the com…
00:42:55 |
Mon 20 Feb 2023
LH #73 The Leading Edge with Gustaf Nordbäck
Leadership learning is perhaps the most prestitigious and well-funded of training staples. In a changing world, it has become democratized in recent years, and now embraces a more progressive (some w…
00:49:56 |
Mon 06 Feb 2023
LH #72 The University in the Future, with Stephen Downes
Stephen Downes is a prominent speaker and writer in the field of educational technology and learning, known for his work on open educational resources, digital learning, and the development of the MO…
01:06:04 |
Mon 23 Jan 2023
LH #71 Climate: Will We Ever Learn? with Robert Nicholls
'We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator' (António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General speaking at COP 27). Successive COPs have revealed a lack of will amon…
00:39:17 |
Mon 28 Nov 2022
LH #70 VR Gets Real with Lynda Joy Gerry, Sophie Costin
Empathy is a big word in learning. We want to have more of it, so learning professionals are increasingly charged with helping to promote and somehow inculcate it in their learners. But the efficacy …
00:40:53 |
Mon 14 Nov 2022
Bonus episode Jane Bozarth - repeat
Learning Hack is on a mid-season break but here's another chance to hear one our most downloaded episodes. John talks to Dr. Jane Bozarth, Director of Research at The Learning Guild, about how the…
00:48:42 |
Mon 31 Oct 2022
LH #69 Does Workflow Learning Work? with David James
New research says that while workflow learning is thought to be the most effective way of learning by employees, neither L&D or the learners themselves have the time to implement it. What is going on…
00:49:03 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
LH #68 Rich Talk with Rebecca Rolland
Children often ask challenging questions, but according to John's guest this time, we should see these as valuable opportunities for learning. Dr Rebecca Rolland is a speech pathologist and education…
00:42:01 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
LH #67 The Adaptive Edge with Andy Wooler
Adaptive learning has been bubbling under for a while in learning technologies, but it’s never quite broken through. Now that the technology to implement it, particularly AI, is maturing, and both in…
00:48:59 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
LH #66 Is L&D Too Inward-Looking? with Nigel Paine
Dr. Nigel Paine is co-presenter of Learning Now TV and From Scratch Podcast (with Martin Couzins) and has been involved in corporate learning for over 20 years. Among many career highlights he was he…
00:47:37 |
Mon 05 Sep 2022
Bonus episode: The Curious CLO with Stefaan van Hooydonk (repeat)
John talks to Stefaan van Hooydonk, Founder of the Global Curiosity Institute. Stefaan has lived, worked and studied all over the world, in a learning career spanning three decades. He has held numer…
00:50:06 |
Mon 22 Aug 2022
Bonus episode: Dyslexic Tech
This time the feed is given over to an episode from one of our favourite podcasts, The Death of E-learning. In this episode, the team talk to their colleague at Learning Pool, Paul Stoner, about an a…
00:53:13 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
LH #65 Start Me Up with Serena Gonsalves-Fersch
In a world where content about almost anything you may need to learn is readily available online, what should be the role of organisational L&D? Probably not its present one, which is all too often a…
00:42:37 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
LH #64 Changing Jobs with Nick Jones
With job vacancies at record levels, wages on the rise after having been stalled for many years and the so-called great resignation underway, workers face a labour market changed beyond recognition b…
00:39:55 |
Tue 05 Jul 2022
LH #63 Georgia On My Mind with Tracy Capaldi-Drewett
In this episode, John talks to Tracy Capaldi Drewett, Executive Director at International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, about a programme ICPS launched in February 2022 to train Georgian diplomat…
00:39:16 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
LH #62 Can Hybrid Work? with Laura Lee-Gibbs
The return of workers to offices in the UK had stalled for the first time since restrictions were lifted at the start of the year, and may well have plateaued. Hybrid working is with us, it seems, fo…
00:44:21 |
Mon 06 Jun 2022
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