The eLearning Coach Podcast
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The eLearning Coach Podcast
Connie Malamed is founder of Mastering Instructional Design and publisher of The eLearning Coach. She helps people learn, build and grow instructional design skills. Listen to interviews with expert designers, developers, authors, and professors who provide strategies for effective learning design....
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ELC 088: How to Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners
If you're feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, this episode gives you practical advice so you can start today.

ELC 087: Steal From Marketing to Improve Your Training
Marketers use strategies, tactics, and technologies that can transform the work of L&D teams and individuals

ELC 086: Educational Technology: Surprising Careers You Didn’t Expect
Ed Tech specialist, Matt Campbell, explains how to start a career in Educational Technology, the varied roles, and the most important skills.

ELC 085: Generating AI Podcasts for Learning
Can an AI tool generate accurate and interesting podcasts for learning? Listen, react, and leave a comment.

ELC 084: How to Develop Leadership Skills for Any Role in L&D
David Kelly explains why developing leadership skills in L&D is important for people at every level of an organization and in any role.

ELC 083: Quality Management: It’s More Than Missing Commas
Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to start or improve a quality management program in your organization.

ELC 082: A Blueprint for AI Literacy in Learning and Development
If you're feeling lost regarding what you need to learn about AI, this AI literacy framework maps out the areas of knowledge and skills.

ELC 081: Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design
If you don't have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen ex...

ELC 080: Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design
Using data and analytics for instructional design may seem difficult. But Megan Torrance explains it in simple terms. Listen in to level up your ID sk...

ELC 079: The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer
The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.

ELC 078: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2
Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability...

ELC 077: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 1
In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.

ELC 076: How to Get Started with Data-Driven Learning Design
What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.

ELC 075 Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design
In this solo episode, I talk about the diversity of career paths in instructional design for people who are trying to break into the field.

ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design
When you create surveys for instructional design do you use a process that will get the most accurate results? In this episode, I explore survey desig...

ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design
Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.

ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use without programming.

ELC 071: Learning is the New Business Strategy
We’re living in a time of exploding change and disruption. I speak with Brandon Carson who shows how Learning and Development can lead the way through...

ELC 070: Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface
A future skill for instructional designers is designing for voice controls. I speak with Myra Roldan about conversation design for the voice user inte...

ELC 069: Set Yourself Up to Create Quality eLearning
The quality assurance practices in the elearning industry are subpar. Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to improve the quality of your eLearning.

ELC 068: Applying Social Learning Theory To Learning Design
I speak with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner about the big ideas in their book, Learning to Make a Difference. They share ways that we can live and...

ELC 067: Educating the New Instructional Designer
How should instructors and professors educate instructional designers to meet the needs of the modern workplace? This episode focuses on the challenge...

ELC 066: Best Of | How to Write Compelling Stories
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 i...

ELC 065: Pro Tips For Working With Subject Matter Experts
Subject Matter Experts or SMEs are indispensable in learning design. Diane Elkins and Dawn Mahoney provide strategies for dealing with SMEs.

ELC 064: How to Create Meaning From A Torrent of Information
Information is ubiquitous and complex. In this episode, we discuss ways to create understanding from raw information.

ELC 063: The Evolution To Learning Experience Design
Instructional design is evolving into learning experience design or LXD. We discuss the benefits for learners and learning professionals.

ELC 062: Starting An Instructional Design Career in Higher Education
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...

ELC 061: Getting Started With Inclusive Design
Once you understand accessible eLearning and inclusive design, you can’t turn back. Change your design habits to impact more lives.

ELC 060: How to Practice Evidence-Informed Learning Design
Evidence informed learning design draws from cognitive psychology research. It focuses on applying learning science to instructional design.

ELC 059: How Chatbots Can Support and Enhance Learning
In this conversation, we discuss how to use chatbots to engage people in interactive activities that support learning and behavior change.

ELC 058 Virtual Training is Much More Than a Presentation
How can you translate the in-person learning experience to an effective virtual classroom experience? In this episode, Cindy Huggett, virtual training...

ELC 057: How To Plan And Design Microlearning
In this episode, the authors of Microlearning Short and Sweet clarify misunderstandings about microlearning and provide best practices for planning an...

ELC 056: How To Develop Your Creativity
Do you ever wish you could improve your creativity? In this episode, you'll learn proven ways to generate more creative ideas.

ELC 055: What You Need to Know About Cognitive Load
John Sweller, who formulated cognitive load theory, explains how instructional designers can design more effective learning experiences.

ELC 054: Do learners understand your instructional graphics?
Can we assume that people understand our intent in the instructional graphics that we use? Professor Elizabeth Boling says we should not be over confi...

ELC 053: Creating Long-term Engagement with Game Thinking
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.

ELC 052: The Story of Becoming a Great Manager
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 s...

ELC 051: Tips and Tools for Creating an eLearning Portfolio
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...

ELC 050: Learning Myths You Might Believe
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...

ELC 049: How to ‘Find Funny’ When Speaking, Writing and Installing Mufflers
Research shows that appropriate humor can set instill a positive attitude toward learning. How can writing humor fit into learning design?