Learning Experience Leader
Education Podcasts
The Learning Experience Leader Podcast is a project devoted to design, leadership, and the psychology of learning. The aim of the show is to help you expand your perspective of learning design through conversations with innovative professionals and scholars across the world. Every other week a different practitioner or researcher shares insights from their work and experience to bring a more holistic view on how learning happens and what we can do to create amazing learning experiences through design and leadership. If you are interested in how people learn and how you can be more effective in helping others grow and develop, then this podcast is for you.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
The Learning Experience Leader Podcast is a project devoted to design, leadership, and the psychology of learning. The aim of the show is to help you expand your perspective of learning design through conversations with innovative professionals and scholars across the world. Every other week a different practitioner or researcher shares insights from their work and experience to bring a more holistic view on how learning happens and what we can do to create amazing learning experiences through design and leadership. If you are interested in how people learn and how you can be more effective in helping others grow and develop, then this podcast is for you.
Twitter:
@greg_s_williams
Language:
English
Episodes
75// Evaluation and the Judgement of "What Is" against "What Should Be" with Dr. David Williams
12/28/2021
Today’s guest is my father Dr. David Williams. Dr. Williams is an emeritus professor from the Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University where he conducted and studied evaluations of teaching and learning in various settings. He currently serves as a missionary with his wife Denise for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints.
Today we discuss:
Resources
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VEGkVJMQYoJRX2SP4iSEVd8wqYtaRvRQ/view?usp=sharingSeven...
Duration:01:27:29
Bonus: Measuring the Outcomes of Learning Programs
12/14/2021
Today's show is a solo episode in which Greg gives an audio version of a mini-research study he conducted this year.
Check out the article here, and don't miss all the resources listed at the end!
https://uxdesign.cc/solving-the-greatest-challenge-to-measuring-organizational-outcomes-of-learning-programs-5e4677a78ca7
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Duration:00:31:14
74 // Building Your Career Using Product Management Tools with Aaron Airmet and Ash Roberts
11/30/2021
Aaron Airmet and Ash Roberts join me again, but this time to talk about career development using PM tools and mindsets. Together they host Path into Product, a podcast for college students or professionals considering a career as a product manager but don't know where to start. Both Aaron and Ash are currently working as Product Managers at Weave Communications and have previous experience working with and in learning design environments.
Today we...
Duration:00:47:05
73 // A Product Manager Mindset with Aaron Airmet and Ash Roberts
11/16/2021
Today’s guests are Aaron Airmet and Ash Roberts. Together they host Path into Product, a podcast for college students or professionals considering a career as a product manager but don't know where to start. Both Aaron and Ash are currently working as Product Managers at Weave Communications and have previous experience working with and in learning design environments.
Today we...
Duration:00:45:54
Book Review - Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning with Dr. Bryan Tanner
11/2/2021
Today I’m joined with Bryan Tanner, a recent PhD graduate from BYU’s Instructional Psychology and Technology department. He has a professional background in K-12, higher ed, and corporate instruction. Bryan is an avid reader of biographies and business nonfiction and our discussion today is all about this book.
From the book description: "To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different...
Duration:01:06:23
72 // Using Constraints to Build a Micro Learning Product with Kate Udalova
10/19/2021
Kate is a marketer turned L&D expert, microlearning addict, and founder and product leader at 7taps, a micro-learning technology tool we dig into here in the episode.
Today we...
Duration:00:43:08
71 // Narrative Distance and Homiletics for Instructional Design with Dr. Stephan Taeger
10/5/2021
Dr. Stephan Taeger is a religious educator and an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University’s Department of Ancient Scripture. He has authored or co-authored chapters and articles in various instructional design, educational, and/or theological venues. Dr. Taeger’s research interests include homiletics and narrative instructional design.
Today we...
Duration:00:52:31
70 // Design Thinking and Getting Learner Perspective with Laura Fletcher
9/21/2021
Laura Fletcher is a Senior Program Manager for Leadership Development at Salesforce where she designs and manages programs that improve performance and engagement. Prior to joining Salesforce, she was the Manager of Instructional Design at Bottom-Line Performance, where she led a team that designed and developed award-winning learning solutions. Laura co-authored the book, "Design Thinking for Training and Development," published by ATD Press in 2020 which we’ll get into in this...
Duration:00:50:42
69 // What is Old is New Again with Guy W. Wallace
9/7/2021
Today’s guest is Guy W. Wallace. Guy is a Performance Analyst and Instructional Architect – and has been designing and developing performance-based instruction and training content since 1979. Guy has been consulting since 1982 and has served 80+ consulting clients, primarily in the Fortune 500.
Guy's work has won a host of awards and he has authored over 90 articles, 16 books, and 4500+ blog posts. He has presented professionally over 125 times. You can check out the tremendous resources...
Duration:00:52:03
68 // Bad Bosses and Developing Leaders with Yolanda Fraction
8/24/2021
Yolanda is the founder and owner of Lumiere Learning Experiences and the host of The L&D Lounge, a podcast show, and virtual gathering space. Yolanda seeks to use learning and development as a strategic tool to create behavioral change and improve on-the-job performance. She is especially passionate about crafting best-in-class leadership development programs to support high potentials, emerging leaders, and people managers. Over the past 15 years, she has worked with a large variety of...
Duration:00:40:33
67 // Learning Objectives as Value Exchange with Moritz Philip Recke and Stefano Perna
8/10/2021
Today’s guests are Moritz Philip Recke and Stefano Perna. Moritz is a media technology engineer and develops transformative tools for education. He does research in the field of learning design and is co-founder of https://learningdesign.tools.
Stefano is a designer and educator working at the intersections of technology, media, and humanities. He is a learning design researcher and co-founder of https://learningdesign.tools.
Today we talk all about learning objectives,...
Duration:00:45:44
Book Review - Design Thinking for Training and Development with Mandy Lambert
7/27/2021
Today I’m joined by Mandy Lambert, an instructional designer interning at Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) and our discussion is all about the book Design Thinking for Training and Development by Sharon Boller and Laura Fletcher. From the back of the book:
"When training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning...
Duration:00:49:13
66 // Value Paths, Orientation, and the UX of Onboarding to New Products with Samuel Hulick
7/13/2021
Samuel is the person behind UserOnboard.com, which provides tips and tricks for user onboarding in the form of critiques of popular web app onboarding examples. Samuel has worked with UX and User Onboarding for companies like Spotify, Audible, Intuit, and Khan Academy, and a host of others. He's also working on something new at ValuePaths.com, a growth framework for reliably and sustainably generating revenue.
Today we talk...
Duration:00:45:55
65 // Identifying Your Values with LCDR Chaplain Ryan Williams
6/29/2021
Today’s guest is Lieutenant Commander Ryan Williams of the US Navy. Before joining the Navy he enlisted in the US Air Force where he served as a member of The Band of the Golden West and later he served as a staff chaplain at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Additionally, he served as a Staff Chaplain at St. Mark’s Hospital and the Salt Lake City VA hospital. Ryan’s Navy Chaplain Corps service has included assignments with the Marines, Clinical Staff Chaplain at Naval Medical Center in San Diego,...
Duration:00:43:10
64 // Reframing Conflict and Helpfulness with Heather Gilmartin Adams
6/15/2021
Heather is a senior consultant at RedThread Research. Trained in conflict resolution and organizational development, Heather has spent the past ten years in various capacities at organizational culture and mindset change consultancies as well as the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Today we talk about:
Resources:
👉 ReadThread Research Paper - Humanizing Learning research
👉 Episode 26: The Outward Mindset with Sam Whitney
👉 Episode 49: Positive Deviance and Facilitating...
Duration:00:44:22
Update - Moving Platforms and a BIG thank you
6/9/2021
Hey everyone! I wanted to provide a very brief update about the hosting of the show. I’m moving the podcast to a new podcasting service and am keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t lose any of you in the process.
What does this mean for you?
Moving to Buzzsprout means better show notes and access to resources for you, it appears to include tags and chapter headings which if your podcast service supports it should make it easier for you to scan or reference parts of episodes after the...
Duration:00:01:56
63 // Using Agile to Push Past Perfection with Megan Torrance
6/1/2021
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data, and ultimately performance. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI. Megan is the author of multiple books, including Agile for Instructional Designers which will talk about...
Duration:00:52:50
62 // Examples of Designing Learning Experiences using Agile Project Management with Alyssa Erickson
5/18/2021
While earning her master’s degree in Instructional Psychology & Technology at BYU, Alyssa worked on instructional design projects and teams in university, K-12, and corporate settings. Her work at BYU Independent Study introduced her to how Agile principles can be applied and adapted to instructional design, which became the subject of her master’s thesis. She currently works as a Learning Experience Designer at Qualtrics in the world of sales enablement.
Today we talk about:
👉 Agile and...
Duration:01:00:34
61 // Growing Your Career from Designer to Learning Leader with Dr. Cara North
5/4/2021
Dr. Cara North is a learning & Development leader, speaker, and researcher and currently works as the Operations Training Manager at Silfex, inc. Her previous experience includes learning experience design work at Ohio State University and Amazon and President of the Columbus Ohio chapter of ATD.
Today we talk about:
Resources
👉 Nuzzle - social media aggregator
👉 Feedly - blog post aggregator
👉 Buffer - social media publisher
👉 Cara’s job ID and resources posting texting number -...
Duration:00:48:42
60 // Designing Experiences Part 3 - Story and Services with Dr. Bob Rossman & Dr. Mat Duerden
4/20/2021
Today’s episode is the third and final part of an extended conversation about experience design with Dr. Bob Rossman and Dr. Mat Duerden. If you haven’t heard the first and second episodes in this mini-series, I recommend you go back and check those out. The focus of this conversation is on the third section of the book Designing Experiences, which my guests co-authored.
Today we talk about:
👉 The role of story and corporate strategy in experience design
👉 How services and experiences...
Duration:00:28:47