The eLearning Coach Podcast

Connie Malamed: Learning Experience Consultant, International Speaker
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The eLearning Coach Podcast

Connie Malamed, from The eLearning Coach site, shares fresh ideas and actionable tips for success with creating online and mobile learning experiences. Listen to interviews with expert designers, developers, authors and professors who provide strategies for both learning architects and educators. If you have a passion for instructional design, cognitive psychology, visual communication, social media learning, mLearning, and related topics, this podcast is for you.

Episodes

  1. 12/17/2024

    ELC 086: Educational Technology: Surprising Careers You Didn’t Expect

    There are many paths into an instructional design career. Educational technology may be a lesser known way to enter the field. Matt Campbell explains the roles for instructional designers and related careers in educational technology. Matt Campbell is an Ed Tech specialist who has spent most of the past 15 years in different leadership roles in education. After starting out as a high school teacher, he spent nine years as a leader at Pearson in the Higher Education division, three years as Chief Product Officer at the Housman Institute. He most recently was Senior Director of Instructional Design at McGraw Hill, where his team of over 100 was responsible for the digital development of all K12 products. Matt also runs EdTech Expertz Inc., a consulting company that helps PreK-12, Higher Ed, and Learning & Development companies successfully navigate Ed Tech markets. He provides product strategy, executes on digital course management and creation, and delivers training. WE DISCUSS: * How to define educational technology * Where ed tech people work (Spoiler Alert: There are a lot of places!) * The roles ed tech professionals play * How to become an educational technology consultant or contractor * The difference in roles between ed tech in corporate and in universities * How saturated the ed tech market is with career changers * How can a person making a career move to ed tech stand out * The specific skills one needs for a career in educational technology * How to pick up skills in areas where you may not have access, such as LMS admins. * Current and future ed tech trends * What to learn first—instructional science, ID process, or tools * How to demonstrate ed tech skills to potential employers TIME: 25 minutes TRANSCRIPT: [Download not found] RESOURCES: * EdTech Expertz: Matt's company * Connect with Matt on LinkedIn * Starting an Instructional Design Career in Higher Education * How to Build an Instructional Design Portfolio

    26 min

  2. 10/27/2024

    ELC 085: Generating AI Podcasts for Learning

    There's a lot of talk about how Google NotebookLM can generate an AI podcast or an audio overview of a topic in conversational form using two AI voices. You provide or link to the source material. If you are unfamiliar with NotebookLM, it's an artificial intelligence research assistant that you can use to assist with learning. It will synthesize multiple sources of information and generate it in different formats like study guides, FAQs and audio overviews. You can read more about it at Five Easy Ways Instructional Designers Can Use NotebookLM. In this episode, I thought you might like to hear and react to two short audio overviews generated by NotebookLM. A few cautionary notes. If you plan to use NotebookLM, there may be inaccuracies. I don't know what happens to the content you upload. And Google advises to avoid uploading documents you don't have the applicable rights to. Certainly, check with your workplace, clients and subject matter experts before uploading anything. The first audio overview concerns designing abstract graphics like diagrams and graphs, so that they can be more easily understood. I uploaded a chapter from my book, Visual Language for Designers. THE CONTENTS: * What GoogleLM is and how it works * How to generate an AI podcast (audio overview) * You'll hear two different audio overviews * My reaction to the audio overviews: were they accurate? What are the pros and cons? * Type of content that might work best at this stage of AI * Add your reactions in the Comments below TIME: 20 minutes TRANSCRIPT: Download the [Download not found] RESOURCES: * Google NotebookLM * Five Easy Ways Instructional Designers Can Use NotebookLM * Introducing NotebookLM

    21 min

  3. 08/07/2024

    ELC 084: How to Develop Leadership Skills for Any Role in L&D

    When you think about leadership and the traits of leaders, do you typically think about people with responsibility and authority at the top of an organization? In this episode, I speak with David Kelly, Chairman of the Learning Guild. He explains why developing leadership skills in Learning and Development, is a solid career strategy for people at every level of an organization and in any role. We discuss his eBook, Nine Core behavioral Traits Learning Leaders Should Cultivate. And we discuss how to go about doing this. As Chairman of the Learning Guild, David Kelly thinks a lot about learning leadership. In his job, he explores the convergence of learning and technology and has a profound commitment to transforming workplaces and enriching lives through innovative learning strategies. With over two decades of experience in learning and performance leadership, and consulting, he brings his passion to life in his work, building events and resources with the Guild and as a dynamic speaker and writer, inspiring others to view their work through a fresh, technology-enhanced lens. WE DISCUSS: * The inspiration for writing an eBook about learning leadership * A better way to define leadership * The difference between leadership as a set of behaviors versus innate characteristics * Observations about leadership in Learning and Development * Building leadership skills as a career growth strategy * The importance of having a yearly Learning Leaders conference. * The top nine behavioral traits of successful leaders from David's perspective * Most important leadership behaviors for L&D * Leadership skills that may be the hardest to achieve * How to improve your skills at being a visionary * How to improve your decision-making skills TIME: 30 minutes TRANSCRIPT: Download [Download not found] RESOURCES * Nine Core Behavioral Traits Learning Leaders Should Cultivate by David Kelly * David Kelly's Curated Content: Every week David offers you the best of the learning web * The Learning Guild * Learning Leaders Conference * How to Develop Your Creativity: Somewhat related podcast episode Improve your ID skills with articles, tips and resources delivered to your Inbox once a month.

    29 min
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Connie Malamed, from The eLearning Coach site, shares fresh ideas and actionable tips for success with creating online and mobile learning experiences. Listen to interviews with expert designers, developers, authors and professors who provide strategies for both learning architects and educators. If you have a passion for instructional design, cognitive psychology, visual communication, social media learning, mLearning, and related topics, this podcast is for you.

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  • Creator
    Connie Malamed: Learning Experience Consultant, International Speaker
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2024
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    Copyright ©2023 Connie Malamed
  • Show Website
    The eLearning Coach Podcast

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