Learning Well Podcast

Level Up! - Learning Well Ep. 8

In this episode, we discuss the differences between gamification and game theory. Then we dig deep into game theory and how we can apply it to any kind of learning that we’re designing. Listen to the end as we wrap up with a fun game.
Hosts: Miriam Taylor and Lonna Jobson
Guest: Becci Zwiers
Segment One: Types of Games and why do we use them.
Segment Two: Game Activities vs. Game Structure
Segment Three: White Hat and Black Hat Motivators
Segment Four: Value of social learning games
Segment Five:Let’s play a game!
 
Links: 
https://yukaichou.com/
Inno-Versity interview with Yu Kai Chou from a few years ago
Inno-Versity Game Theory ebook-2020
Inno-Versity narrative story about games-2021
Building a True Learning Experience Game Webinar

Pandemic Proofing Your Course - Learning Well Ep. 7

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Darryl Meekins who has extensive experience creating online experiences in higher ed. both in the US and abroad. He brings a unique respect for education as a gateway to opportunity with a practitioner's appreciation of the technicalities for creating high-quality online courses. Listen as we discuss the higher ed. landscape across the world and look at some practical ways to create engaging content that can be delivered in any modality.
 
Segment One:Introduction to Dr. Meekins and his background
Segment Two:Ways the pandemic has affected the higher education landscape and concerns with emergency learning. 
Segment Three:Specific practical suggestions to pandemic proof course content
Segment FourWhat are you learning well now? 
Dr. Darryl Meekins LinkedIn

Beyond Blended Learning: A Formula for Remote Learning Success - Learning Well Ep. 6

The Great Resignation, the Big Quit, remote work expectations, and the new hybrid workforce! These trends are rocking the American workplace landscape. As an L and D professional, are you struggling to provide effective learning experiences to a diverse workforce? Join us as we discuss these challenges and apply a simple formula to determine the best possible outcome.
 
Segment One:
HR Trends for 2022. Recruitment and retention in a remote work era.
L & D Reaction and Blended Learning Solutions
Segment Two:
Consider a different formula for determining the best modality for a remote workforce. 
N1 + N2+ T+ D=M 
N1-Needs of the company
N2-Needs of the learner
T-Tools
D-Design
=M-Modality 
Segment Three
Important considerations if blended learning is the correct outcome of the equation.
Apply different types of blended models Clayton Christensen Disruptive Innovation—Blended Learning Model
Understand the science behind in-person learning experiencePlacelessness and brain-to-brain synchrony
Segment Four
What are you learning well now in 2022? 
Listen to Lonna discuss her recent attempts to reflect more on what she is learning in the new year.

Learning Trends 2022 Pt. 2 - Learning Well Ep. 5

This episode isn’t what you think! Rather than rolling out the traditional new year trends or predictions conversation, we spend some time discussing what topics should be important to our industry in the upcoming year. 
Segment Topics:
Measuring learning and learning metrics
Personalized learning and associated topics
Social and collaborative learning
Immersive topics
The concept of NextGen learning
Links:
https://www.nextgenlearning.org/articles/vr-and-ar-designing-spaces-for-immersive-learning
https://www.verizon.com/about/news/educators-engage-students-immersive-learning-tools
 

Learning Trends 2022: An Interview with Peter Arashiro - Learning Well Ep. 4

Join us as we talk with Peter Arashiro, from the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. Peter is a long-time friend and we’ve worked on a variety of projects together over the years. We’re excited to explore 2 important Learning Trends we should be focusing on in 2022.
 
Segment Topics:
Designing with DEIJ lenses
Persona development
Chelsea Chandler - Associate Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence - Bowling Green State University
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in MOOCs: Mapping Goals from Proposal to Design - lead author
Rebecca Quintana
Yuanru Tan
Nicole Yang
DEIJ Lenses
Alternative text
Cynthia Bennett - post-doctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute
The Radical AI Podcast Interview
“It’s Complicated”: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Description in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability - lead author
Identity
 
AI/ML/NLP for designing learning experiences
Data and algorithms
Learning analytics
NLP and Content
Content knowledge acquisition at scale; becoming more efficient at producing prototypes and content
Brute force “learning”; or
Use NLP techniques to assist designers with
Summarizing large sets of text (think transcripts)
Identifying key concepts in text
Generating MCQ or other forms of assessment
Content generation and AI/ML in ID/LXD
Donald Clark - EdTech Entrepreneur, researcher, professor
Artificial intelligence for Learning: How to use AI to support employee development
CEO of WildFire Learning
Learning about NLP to gain insights about your learning experience/ID practice –
Position paper - Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data - lead author with Alexander Koller
TWIML (formerly this week in machine learning) podcast interview
 
 

Learning Experience Design? How Did We End Up Here And What Does That Term Even Mean? - Learning Well Ep. 3

Today we’re going to look at the term Learning Experience Designer. Where did that term even come from? What does it really mean? In order to figure this out, we’re first going to take a trip down memory lane discussing a short timeline of the L and D movement, discuss instructional design, and then unpack the term Learning Experience Designer. Make sure to stay to the end where we share our humorous holiday stories trying to explain to family what it is we do for a living.
 
Segment Topics:
Post WWII Timeline of the Learning and Development movement
4 Components of the term Learning Experience Designer
Learner Centric
Learning Science
UX/UI design
Design Thinking
Stories from the Well: Explaining your job to family and friends.
Links: https://www.mayscandyshop.com

Christmas Special - What To Buy Your Favorite L&D Professional - Learning Well

Join us for a fun conversation focused on gifts an L&D professional would like.
Below are links and/or descriptions of products found in the podcast.
Reading:
Think Again-Adam Grant
Creative Workshop by David Sherwin-80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Design Skills
eLearning designers handbook-Tim Slade—visual, nice graphics, simple—often use with writers to hlpe them better understand how things develop past the writing
Design for how people learn 2nd Edition-Julie Dirksen
Subscriptions:
Udemy
Coursera
LinkedIn Learning
Master classes
Conferences or virtual conferences
Creative Tools:
Apple pen  HP Pen
Sketch Paper
Faber Castell pencils
Graphics subscriptions
Adobe Stock
Istock photo
Planning and organization
Bullet journals
One Note planners with tablets, or
Sticky notes
Whiteboard markers
Sticky tabs
Smartsheets.com
                         
Other Gifts
Coffee
Kalamazoo Coffee Co.
Black Rifle Coffee
Schuill Coffee
Tea
Mug heaters
Ember mug
Under the desk bicycle elliptical
Rootless Handmade- the Etsy shop owned by our very own Lindsay
Rootless Handmade Instagram
 
 
*The links are provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by the Learning Well Podcast

Laying the Foundation: 4 Key Topics that Impact the Learning Industry (Part 2) - Learning Well Ep.2

Join us as we consider 3 more foundational topics to our industry. Today we’ll explore the “creative” in all of us, how technology impacts our industry, and the ever-increasing role of measurement, data, and analytics. Then we’re pleased to roll out the inaugural segment, “What are you Learning Now?” as we ask our hosts what new thing they’re learning now.
Segment Topics:
Creativity
Types of Creativity
Design
Relational
Written
Artistic
21st Century skill
Technology
Delivery tools
Productivity tools
Hardware
AI
Measurement/Data/Analytics
Elephant in the room
Where to start
What are you “learning well” now?

Laying the Foundation: 4 Key Topics that Impact the Learning Industry (Part 1) - Learning Well Ep.1

This episode examines a topic that is key to our industry-the science of learning. Join us as we explore the different fields of learning science and attempt to explain them in a simple yet accurate way. Along the way, we’ll explore the controversy over the difference between cognitive and neuroscience and have a laugh as we imagine a brouhaha, melee, scrum, or fist-a-cuffs between these scholarly doctors.
 
Segment Topics:
Neuroscience
Cognitive science
Psychology
Sociology
Linguistics
Consumer Science
Instructional Design
Links:
Helpful article from ATD that explains some of the differences between neuroscience and cognitive science.

What is the Learning Well? - Learning Well Ep. 0

In this short introductory episode, Miriam Taylor, Lonna Jobson, and Jerry Zandstra introduce you to the Learning Well, a podcast of Inno-Versity, where we take learning seriously, just not ourselves!  We invite you to join us as we explore the meaning behind our title and the format of the show.
Main Points:
Meet the hosts!
Explore the meaning behind our podcast
Depth of knowledge
Community gathering spot
Refreshing
Learn about the format
Final comments