Leading Learning Podcast

Leading Learning co-host Jeff Cobb interviews Paul Gannon, founder and CEO of Thoughtcast Media, a digital marketing agency specializing in video content marketing. Highlighted free resource: the Market Insight Matrix  – a matrix that guides you through 3 stages of assessing your market: idea generation, idea verification, and idea testing with specific activities in each of those stages. Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode71. Don't miss out on Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD), a virtual conference created specifically for professionals in the business of continuing education and professional development. Thank you to YourMembership for being the sponsor of the Leading Learning podcast for the first quarter of 2017.  YourMembership’s learning management system (LMS) is specifically designed for professional education with a highly flexible and intuitive system that customizes the learning experience. YourMembership’s LMS seamlessly integrates with key systems to manage all of your educational content formats in one central location while providing powerful tools to create and deliver assessments, evaluations and learning communities.

Leading Learning co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele discuss a recent report in The Economist and other signs that lifelong learning is becoming a mainstream issue.  Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode70. Download of Chapter 1 of Leading the Learning Revolution available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/revolution. 

Celisa Steele (http://www.tagoras.com) interviews Jonathan Finkelstein, founder and CEO of the digital credential service provider, Credly. Be sure to check out Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD), a virtual conference designed specifically for professionals in the business of continuing education and professional development.  Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode69. 01:57 – Highlighted Resource - Exploring the Fringe: Flipping, Microcredentials, and MOOCs. 06:57 – What digital credentials are and their relationship to digital badges. 10:09 - The relationship between digital credentials and learning. 15:49 – Changes in how organizations are using digital credentials. 19:46 – What's on the horizon for digital credentials. 22:43 - How to get started with digital credentials. 26:26 – Overcoming barriers to implementation. Connect with Jonathan at @JEFinkelstein and/or @Credly Many thanks to YourMembership for sponsoring the podcast. YourMembership’s award-winning learning management system provides organizations with the means to manage all of their educational content formats in one central location, and also provides tools to create and deliver assessments, evaluations and learning communities.

Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb (http://www.tagoras.com) interview Jeff De Cagna, founder of Foresight First (http://foresightfirst.io/). Be sure to check out Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD), a virtual conference designed specifically for professionals in the business of continuing education and professional development.  Full show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode68. 02:01 – Highlighted Resource - Leading Learning Newsletter. 07:45 – We’ve reached a point/critical juncture with associations and non-profit organizations where we are seeing the confluence of future developments accelerating in pace, the transformation of our society, and we also now have a critical issue with the performance of boards. 10:24 - What is “foresight first,” and how is it like a “mobile first” approach/mindset? 14:50 – The role that learning plays in a “foresight first” approach. 19:04 – A discussion about the makeup of the boards and that we likely need to rethink who it is that we are looking for on boards – rather than experts, it’s important to have good learners. 23:32 - What’s different in a “foresight” driven board meeting/call/interaction from what you might expect in a traditional board interaction? 29:54 – Application/implication of“foresight first” attitude for learning professionals. Connect with Jeff through chat link: chat.center/foresightfirst Many thanks to YourMembership for sponsoring the podcast. YourMembership’s award-winning learning management system, CrowdWisdom, provides organizations with the means to manage all of their educational content formats in one central location, and also provides tools to create and deliver assessments, evaluations and learning communities.

What's a learning business and who is a learning business professional? Find out in this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast with Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb. Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode67. Get the Learning Business Maturity Model. Find out about Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD), and event designed specifically for professionals in the business of continuing education and professional development. 

Jeff Cobb interviews best-selling author Rohit Bhargava about his curation, curiosity, and his new book Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future. Show notes for this episode are available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode66.

Celisa Steele interviews Karl Kapp, author of The Gamification of Learning and Instruction and The Gamification Field Book. Show notes for this episode are available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode65 Find out more about Learning • Technology • Design™ (LTD) 2017, the virtual conference at which Karl will present on gamification at http://ltd.leadinglearning.com.

In this encore episode, Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele discuss 3 low-cost, high-impact areas for investing in your education business in the coming year. Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode6.

Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb discuss a range of free tools and resources - most available as digital downloads - to help you with formulating and executing strategy for your lifelong learning business. Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode64. A PDF download of the document discussed in this episode is available at http://www.tagoras.com/download/6903/

Leading Learning co-hosts Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele discuss major trends that impacted the market for lifelong learning in 2016 and offer predications about what we'll see in the year ahead. Show notes available at http://www.leadinglearning.com/episode62.