The eLearning Coach Podcast

The eLearning Coach Podcast

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.

Episodes

ELC 088: How to Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners

April 11, 2025 • 35 mins
If you're feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, this episode gives you practical advice so you can start today.
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ELC 087: Steal From Marketing to Improve Your Training

February 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Marketers use strategies, tactics, and technologies that can transform the work of L&D teams and individuals
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ELC 086: Educational Technology: Surprising Careers You Didn’t Expect

December 16, 2024 • 25 mins
Ed Tech specialist, Matt Campbell, explains how to start a career in Educational Technology, the varied roles, and the most important skills.
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ELC 085: Generating AI Podcasts for Learning

October 27, 2024 • 20 mins
Can an AI tool generate accurate and interesting podcasts for learning? Listen, react, and leave a comment.
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ELC 084: How to Develop Leadership Skills for Any Role in L&D

August 7, 2024 • 29 mins
David Kelly explains why developing leadership skills in L&D is important for people at every level of an organization and in any role.
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ELC 083: Quality Management: It’s More Than Missing Commas

June 7, 2024 • 30 mins
Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to start or improve a quality management program in your organization.
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ELC 082: A Blueprint for AI Literacy in Learning and Development

December 15, 2023 • 28 mins
If you're feeling lost regarding what you need to learn about AI, this AI literacy framework maps out the areas of knowledge and skills.
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ELC 081: Focusing On Behavior Change in Instructional Design

October 5, 2023 • 31 mins
If you don't have the right strategy or tool to solve a problem, consider looking at ways to affect behavior change. In this episode, Julie Dirksen explains how to apply a behavior change model to instructional design.
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ELC 080: Use Data and Analytics to Level Up Your Instructional Design

July 23, 2023 • 33 mins
Using data and analytics for instructional design may seem difficult. But Megan Torrance explains it in simple terms. Listen in to level up your ID skills.
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ELC 079: The Updated Accidental Instructional Designer

May 17, 2023 • 33 mins
The Accidental Instructional Designer has a second edition! Author Cammy Bean provides the big picture view of the learning and development industry.
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ELC 078: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 2

April 29, 2023 • 23 mins
Usability of learning designs should include ease of use as well as instructional effectiveness. In this episode, we discuss many aspects of usability.
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ELC 077: How to Get Feedback from Learners to Improve Your Designs Part 1

April 6, 2023 • 27 mins
In this episode, two researchers discuss how LXD adopts and adapts methods to improve the usability and outcomes of learning design.
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ELC 076: How to Get Started with Data-Driven Learning Design

February 1, 2023 • 26 mins
What about gathering audience data before you start to design? Lori Niles-Hofmann explains how.
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ELC 075 Finding a Career Path in Instructional Design

December 6, 2022 • 15 mins
In this solo episode, I talk about the diversity of career paths in instructional design for people who are trying to break into the field.
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ELC 074: Creating Effective Surveys for Instructional Design

August 9, 2022 • 36 mins
When you create surveys for instructional design do you use a process that will get the most accurate results? In this episode, I explore survey design with forms specialist, Caroline Jarrett.
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ELC 073: Using The Jobs To Be Done Framework In Learning Design

June 20, 2022 • 29 mins
Jobs To Be Done can help you address the functional, emotional and social aspects of learning.
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ELC 072: The Wonderful World of No Code Tools

March 22, 2022 • 41 mins
In this episode, we’re exploring the wonderful world of no code tools. These are powerful apps that you can use without programming.
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ELC 071: Learning is the New Business Strategy

February 7, 2022 • 36 mins
We’re living in a time of exploding change and disruption. I speak with Brandon Carson who shows how Learning and Development can lead the way through the digital age where learning is the new business strategy.
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ELC 070: Conversation Design for the Voice User Interface

December 9, 2021 • 29 mins
A future skill for instructional designers is designing for voice controls. I speak with Myra Roldan about conversation design for the voice user interface (VUI).
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ELC 069: Set Yourself Up to Create Quality eLearning

September 17, 2021 • 33 mins
The quality assurance practices in the elearning industry are subpar. Hadiya Nuriddin explains how to improve the quality of your eLearning.
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