The Ding-O-Meter Ding Learning

Getting your first job has never been trickier. Businesses are increasingly concerned they don't understand Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and school leavers are increasingly mistrustful of the traditional value propositions that businesses offer



Fortunately, people like Derek Plewes from Youthfully are on hand to help. In this episode, Derek explains how he has designed the Youthfully coaching experience to help graduates find their intrinsic motivation, while also preparing them effectively for the workplace.



Music credit: "The Builder" by Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)

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Duration plays a key role in learning design. If a learning experience is too long, learners will get bored. But if it’s too short, it can produce anxiety and strategic learning. In this episode, Phil and I examine how designing short, purposeful learning ‘sprints’ can help learners overcome procrastination by making something quickly. We'll also discuss the Kick About, a fortnightly sprint-based creative challenge that has been running for nearly four years.

January is the season for trends. In this episode Phil and Tony confront the issue of trends head on and question the extent to which learning design should be influenced by trends. We’ll be
looking at how the trend of personalised learning paths might actually be working against the need to professionalise learners. We’ll also be talking about microlearning, slow learning, and the value of detoxing from technology altogether.

In corporate training, a learning experience is much more likely to work if it aligns with the existing culture of the business. But how do you do this? Marisa Knowles from the People Untapped agency has done this a lot, and in this episode she shares her top tips and advice for designing into a company's culture and values.

We're proud to introduce our new Thinking Tools series - a collection of bite-sized deep dives into learning theories. In this episode, we're looking at Cognitive Load Theory and why it's such a useful tool for learning designers.

The strategic value of learning design is not yet widely recognised. In this episode, data specialist Penelope Bellegarde explains how learning design can help businesses make better use of their data. We examine what good looks like in terms of data-driven learning, and what kind of training programmes can help businesses use their data more effectively to learn and adapt.