
Learning While Working Podcast
Listen to the Learning While Working podcast to hear how learning and development is transforming. The episodes are interviews with leading thinkers in learning. Common themes on the podcast include trends in eLearning and digital learning, performance driven instructional and learning design and learning data. Each podcast is packed with ideas, tips and insights about how to make learning at work succeed.
Latest episodes

Oct 5, 2017 • 23min
What Learning can learn from Marketing - No 29
Marketing is often focused on delivering messages that evoke particular emotions. Can learning campaigns use a similar approach? Mike Taylor from Mindset Digital talks about the lessons that Learning can adopt from Marketing.

Sep 20, 2017 • 22min
Content curation: Streams of learning - No 28
Stephen Walsh, co-founder of Anders Pink, joins Robin to talk about the biggest learning eco-system, which can benefit a company's learning resources and which is right at everyone's fingertips: the Internet. But as Stephen explains, careful content curation is key.

Aug 29, 2017 • 19min
Digital Workplaces And Collaboration - No. 27
Dr Melissa Bordogna returns to the Learning While Working podcast to discuss social learning and collaboration in the workplace. It's also worth listening to our previous discussion with Melissa on The Future of Work.

Aug 16, 2017 • 24min
What Does xAPI Mean For Instructional Designers? No. 26
Megan Torrance from TorranceLearning discusses xAPI and how it can bring instructional designers back to the roots of focusing on learning performance.

Jul 27, 2017 • 26min
The Future Of Learning: Why xAPI Is Important - No 25
Shelly Blake-Plock from Yet Analytics joins Robin on the podcast and talks about how xAPI's data recording reveals streams of experience in learning, and the broad scope of possibilities for the future of learning.

Jul 12, 2017 • 31min
Social Learning and xAPI Learning Systems - No. 24
What is social learning, and what new opportunities can be opened up when social learning is introduced to the workplace? On the Learning While Working podcast, Ben Betts from HT2 Labs dives into social learning and how it can be used with data analysis for more valuable learning outcomes.

Jun 21, 2017 • 30min
The eLearning eXperts - No. 23
What can digital marketing teach us about learning? Karen Moloney from The eLearning eXperts shares the surprising parallels that she has discovered between the two fields.

Jun 7, 2017 • 19min
Nick Stephenson: What is xapiapps? No. 22
Nick Stephenson from xapiapps discusses the benefits of data capture in getting the most out of the learning experience.

May 18, 2017 • 21min
The Future Of Work - No. 21
What happens if predictions that technology and automation will make jobs obsolete on a large scale in a few years turn out to be true? Dr Melissa Bordogna joins Robin on the podcast to discuss what role learning has in the jobs landscape of the future.

May 10, 2017 • 24min
xAPI And Totara - No. 20
Hamish Dewe from Orion Health joins the Learning While Working podcast to outline some of the practical applications of xAPI and Totara in a company with a global reach.