The eLearning Coach Podcast

Interviewing your learners can have a big impact on the success of the learning experiences you design. Upgrade your interview skills here.

Best techniques, practices and tools for content curation, a skill for the 21st century.

Listen as Tom Kuhlmann discusses common issues eLearning designers and developers face and how to overcome them.

Learn how to plan, design and create information graphics you can use when designing infographics for learning.

The goal of an explanation is to make a concept more clear. Learn how to make yours better from the author of The Art of Explanation.

How do we help companies create engaged employees? How do we improve the connections they feel? Dan Pontefact has answers to these questions.

By understanding more about learning and the brain, you can create more effective learning experiences.

Are you using outdated research when you design learning experiences? In this podcast, Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D., uncovers some of the mysteries surrounding learning and the brain.

Susan has a knack for explaining complex processes in simple everyday language. She helps people and organizations learn about and apply research in psychology and brain science to understand, predict, and direct human behavior.

Her most recent book is, How to Get People to Do Stuff. She is also the author of these other books (see links in RESOURCES below):

* 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People

* 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

* Neuro Web Design

We discuss:

* How many chunks of information can learners hold in mind?

* Do you need to understand your audience's mental models and schemas?

* Is there such a thing as a learning style?

* Why is it important to organize information?

* What are memory traces and how do they work?

* What are the best ways to help learners retain information?

* Why do people remember anecdotes better than data?

* How important is visual design to the learning experience?

* Why are people addicted to seeking information?

TIME: Around 30 minutes

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RESOURCES:

* Susan Weinschenk Institute

* The Brain Lady Blog

* How to Get People to Do Stuff

* 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People

* 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

* Neuro Web Design

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How to adapt in-person classroom training to a virtual learning experience.

Are you wondering how to transform in-person training to a virtual classroom? Do you want to improve the effectiveness of your webinars? If so, you'll want advice from online event expert and speaker coach, Karen Hyder. In this podcast, Karen shares ways to keep your audience attentive and engaged. And she explains how you can minimize the endless issues that can bog down virtual events by never going it alone.

We discuss:

* Drivers for moving from face-to-face training to virtual classrooms and webinars

* Types of internal resistance you might get

* How to overcome resistance

* Advice for being a first-time producer

* What's best? Telephony or VOIP

* How learners respond to a virtual classroom environment

* Two best practices for adapting classroom content for virtual

* Roles required for producing a virtual event

* Is the producer the wizard behind the curtain?

* Best practices for being a producer

* How to read your virtual audience

* How to use social media in the virtual classroom/webinar

* The most common mistake to avoid

What tips do you have for making virtual learning experiences a success? Answer in the Comments below.

TIME: 20 minutes

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RESOURCES:

* Contact Karen at: Kaleidoscope Training and Consulting

* Webinar Best Practices: Interview with Karen Hyder

 

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