

The eLearning Coach Podcast
Connie Malamed: Helps people build stand-out careers in learning design.
Connie Malamed is founder of Mastering Instructional Design and publisher of The eLearning Coach. She helps people learn, build and grow instructional design skills. Listen to interviews with expert designers, developers, authors, and professors who provide strategies for effective learning design. If you have a passion for instructional design, cognitive psychology and visual communication, this podcast is for you.
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Nov 10, 2019 • 38min
ELC 058 Virtual Training is Much More Than a Presentation
How can you translate the in-person learning experience to an effective virtual classroom experience? In this episode, Cindy Huggett, virtual training expert, answers that question.

Oct 2, 2019 • 32min
ELC 057: How To Plan And Design Microlearning
In this episode, the authors of Microlearning Short and Sweet clarify misunderstandings about microlearning and provide best practices for planning and designing it.

Jun 5, 2019 • 34min
ELC 056: How To Develop Your Creativity
Do you ever wish you could improve your creativity? In this episode, you'll learn proven ways to generate more creative ideas.

Apr 23, 2019 • 37min
ELC 055: What You Need to Know About Cognitive Load
John Sweller, who formulated cognitive load theory, explains how instructional designers can design more effective learning experiences.

Mar 21, 2019 • 30min
ELC 054: Do learners understand your instructional graphics?
Can we assume that people understand our intent in the instructional graphics that we use? Professor Elizabeth Boling says we should not be over confident.

Jan 7, 2019 • 42min
ELC 053: Creating Long-term Engagement with Game Thinking
In this conversation with author, game designer and start-up coach, Amy Jo Kim, we discuss how to apply game thinking to learning experience design.

Nov 14, 2018 • 36min
ELC 052: The Story of Becoming a Great Manager
If you are a new, experienced or aspiring manager, or if you want to understand your manager, you will benefit from this episode. In this session, I speak with Katy Tynan about the misconceptions people have about management, the best ways to manage a creative team, the relationship between leadership and management and much more.

Oct 10, 2018 • 30min
ELC 051: Tips and Tools for Creating an eLearning Portfolio
You never know when you might need to show an eLearning portfolio.This episode will inspire you to create one or to make your current portfolio stand out.

Jul 11, 2018 • 38min
ELC 050: Learning Myths You Might Believe
Are you inadvertently believing learning myths? Are your best practices based on hearsay? In this episode, I speak with Clark Quinn about many of the myths, superstitions and misconceptions learning professionals may believe.

Jun 2, 2018 • 32min
ELC 049: How to ‘Find Funny’ When Speaking, Writing and Installing Mufflers
Research shows that appropriate humor can set instill a positive attitude toward learning. How can writing humor fit into learning design?