John Helmer

The Learning Hack podcast

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John Helmer

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GMoL47 Learning in a Post-Literate World 01.09.2026 58:27

Schools, universities and training departments took shape in the age of mass printing initiated by Guttenberg and others in the Sixteenth Century CE. Jeff Jarvis, In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (2023), argues that this development opened a parenthesis (or bracket) which closed with the rapid spread of internet technologies in or around the year 2000. We...

GMoL46 How Creative People Learn 17.08.2026 1:24:03

Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has anything to teach the rest of us. In this episode, Donald Clark and...

GMoL45 Sport and Learning with Donald Clark 03.08.2026 1:10:01

What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching. Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data. Opening Season 8, John Helmer and Donald Clark ask what education and workplace learning can learn from sport. From constraints-led practice and Moneyball...

LH122 The Changing Shape of Work with Josh Bersin 12.01.2026 51:07

The year ahead for learning, skills and work As organisations head into 2026, Josh Bersin returns to The Learning Hack to make sense of what is really changing in work, skills and learning. Drawing on his latest research and global advisory work, Josh explains why AI has crossed a threshold, how jobs are being reshaped...

GMoLS7E44 AI Learning and the Global South 15.12.2025 1:17:39

Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early techno-utopian experiments, the ethics wars around AI, and newer perspectives rooted in language, power, and lived experience. From Negroponte and Mitra to...

GMoL S7E43 Wellbeing with Donald Clark 14.07.2025 1:26:59

What is the good life—and can we measure it?

GMoL S7E42 Organizational Learning with Donald Clark 30.06.2025 1:18:51

Learning at Scale, from Theory to Action

GMoL S7E41 Schoolmen with Donald Clark 16.06.2025 1:16:39

The surprising modernity of medieval minds

GMoLS7E40 Critics of Higher Education with Donald Clark 02.06.2025 1:26:13

Who is higher education really serving?

GMoLS7E39: Critical Pedagogues with Donald Clark 19.05.2025 1:56:09

Education's Ideological Battleground

GMoLS7E38 Early Computing with Donald Clark 06.05.2025 1:35:21

From Babbage to Turing: the roots of AI

Great Minds on Learning – Question Time 21.11.2024 0:58

Send in your questions for the Great Minds on Learning Q&A! Donald Clark and John Helmer will answer them at Online Educa Conference in Berlin, which will be recorded for a podcast episode to be issued before Christmas 2024. Email them in to or...

GMoLS7E37 Question Time 21.11.2024 0:58

Great Mind on Learning Q&A