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 researchers, designers, developers, authors, and professors who provide strategies for effective learning design.

Episodes

ELC 092: Beyond Productivity: A More Ambitious Vision for AI

July 5, 2026 • 42 mins
Phil Hardman joins the conversation to discuss an ambitious vision for AI. How you can use AI to make you better at what you do, not just faster. With AI superpowers, you can innovate new types of solutions to workplace performance problems.
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ELC 091: Rethinking How We Support Frontline Workers

May 29, 2026 • 37 mins
Learn to design best-fit solutions that support and enable frontline workers to help them perform their best.
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ELC 090: The Evolution of Learning and Development in an AI-Powered World

February 3, 2026 • 38 mins
What is the future of AI in Learning and Development? How will the role of learning designer evolve? Get a big-picture view in this episode.
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ELC 089: Building The Skills-Based Organization: A Data-Driven Approach

December 2, 2025 • 39 mins
Learn what it takes to build a skills-based organization, why valid people data matters, and how L&D can lead this transformation in today’s evolving workplace.
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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
Do you feel lost or confused about what you need to learn when it comes to AI? In this episode, we explore an AI Literacy framework developed by Stella Lee, Ph.D. We discuss the areas most suitable for learning designers to explore and some of the competencies in this model.
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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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