The eLearning Coach Podcast

Digital curation is emerging as a sound strategy in learning experience design to replace or enhance courses. Find out how to be successful at curation.

Learning technology implementations for learning and development are complex. I speak with Donald Taylor about how to make them a success.

Design critiques, whether formal or informal, are an important tool to have in your toolbox. When they focus on the goal of meeting your objectives they may provide some of the most valuable feedback you can get.

Testing expert, Michael Rodriguez, PhD, gives advice, guidance and guidelines for effective test design and writing better test items.

Do you want to design learning games or improve your skills, but you're not sure where to go? I suggest listening to the learning game guru, Karl Kapp.

Many instructional designers are moving away from traditional L&D methods. We discuss how to apply Agile principles to eLearning.

Does technology rewire our brains? Can we use technology to enhance memory? We discuss strategies for effective online instruction.

In this episode, I speak with Kevin Thorn about eLearning storyboards. We compare our process for how to make elearning storyboards.

To change behavior, performance and attitudes, we must spend more time and effort thinking about the psychology of the audience.

How often do we look at the actions, thoughts and feelings of learners over time to better understand what they experience? In this episode I interview Jim Kalbach, about diagramming to understand experience.

You could be basing instructional strategies on learning myths. Find out if you're unintentionally accepting learning misconceptions.

Course evaluations should provide the instructional designer with feedback for improvement. Instead, they often provide useless information.

Organizing instructional content to facilitate learning and for easy access is a crucial part of instructional design. Here's how.

Use social media to improve learning through collaboration, sharing knowledge and staying current in learning and development.

You may think that accessible eLearning design is only for people with disabilities. Actually, accessible learning designs are for diverse groups, such as people who are limited to using low bandwidth, people who may not be fluent in the language, as well as people who are using a mobile phone to access the Internet. In this conversation with accessibility and usability specialists Sarah Horton an...

When designing interactions, attending to the small details can make a big difference. Listen to Dan Saffer talk about microinteractions.

Are you curious about the future of instructional technology and learning? These professors follow the trends and issues in our field—from the latest technologies to new research.

Jennifer Hofmann, author of What Works in Talent Development: Blended Learning, offers guidance on how to design blended learning.

If you want to know anything about eLearning authoring tools, ask eLearning Joe. He is adept at explaining eLearning development tools.

In this interview with Jane Bozarth, we discuss the benefits of showing or narrating your work to the individual, one's colleagues and the organization.

Digital badges may become increasingly important in workplace learning and higher ed. What do learning professionals need to know?

We know that mobile learning is more than eLearning on a phone. But what is mobile learning? Learn how you can use mobile learning.

Does your audience complain about boring eLearning or eLearning that is all glitz and no substance? Then listen to this.

Find out how to design a learning environment to fulfill a specific need. These have the potential for providing a rich and broad learning experience.

If you're interested in learning games or gamification, you'll like this insightful interview with the author of Playful Design, John Ferrera.