The eLearning Coach Podcast

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 educators.

Story coach and author, Lisa Cron, reveals how to transform your learning scenarios and vignettes into must-read stories. If you use stories in your instructional design and learning design practice, you'll want to listen.

Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Dawn Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs.

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 creating meaning through interactions.

Instructional design is evolving into learning experience design or LXD. We discuss the benefits for learners and learning professionals.

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 discuss the roles that instructional designers play in higher education and what it's like to work in that environment.

Once you understand accessible eLearning and inclusive design, you can’t turn back. Change your design habits to impact more lives.

Evidence informed learning design draws from cognitive psychology research. It focuses on applying learning science to instructional design.

In this conversation, we discuss how to use chatbots to engage people in interactive activities that support learning and behavior change.

How can you translate the in-person learning experience to an effective virtual classroom experience? In this episode, Cindy Huggett, virtual training expert, answers that question.

In this episode, the authors of Microlearning Short and Sweet clarify misunderstandings about microlearning and provide best practices for planning and designing it.

Do you ever wish you could improve your creativity? In this episode, you'll learn proven ways to generate more creative ideas.

John Sweller, who formulated cognitive load theory, explains how instructional designers can design more effective learning experiences.

Can we assume that people understand our intent in the instructional graphics that we use? Professor Elizabeth Boling says we should not be over confident.

In this conversation with author, game designer and start-up coach, Amy Jo Kim, we discuss how to apply game thinking to learning experience design.

If you are a new, experienced or aspiring manager, or if you want to understand your manager, you will benefit from this episode. In this session, I speak with Katy Tynan about the misconceptions people have about management, the best ways to manage a creative team, the relationship between leadership and management and much more.

You never know when you might need to show an eLearning portfolio. This episode will inspire you to create one or to make your current portfolio stand out.

Are you inadvertently believing learning myths? Are your best practices based on hearsay? In this episode, I speak with Clark Quinn about many of the myths, superstitions and misconceptions learning professionals may believe.

Research shows that appropriate humor can set instill a positive attitude toward learning. How can writing humor fit into learning design?

If you want to get the most out of your learning management system or if you want to purchase or research one, this interview will help you make a more informed decision.

If you are frustrated with the limited models available for instructional design, then you’ll be interested in this conversation with Cathy Moore. She is the creator of Action Mapping, a model of training design that focuses on improving workplace performance.

Tune in to this episode of The eLearning Coach podcast for some of my favorite gems from episodes in 2013. The topics include finding a job in instructional design, social media for learning, storytelling, cognitive architecture, and information graphics.

Designing the appropriate type of practice and providing effective feedback requires a lot of know-how. Patti Shank, PhD., has been studying the research on this topic and wrote a book about it.

What do narrators need in a script? What can we provide to ensure we support them to do their best. Do they want to be called narrators, voice actors, voice talent or voice artist? These questions and more are answered in this episode.

How will you be using AI in the future? Will you design AI agents for learning? Will you be training AI agents?