@TisForTraining 314: Colorado’s Switzerland

Tonight Maurice Coleman was joined by Jill Hurst-Wahl, Paul Signorelli, and Pat Wagner.  With Pat retiring from her consulting practice at year’s end, we are continuing to ask her about career and background.

We began our conversation with a question about the Office for Open Network, a research group she formed with her spouse.  Besides research, she connected people who needed information to an information source. Over time, Pat built a Rolodex™ of over 5000 people through this work. It was, in essence, an open marketplace of ideas.

Pat worked to meet the client at the point of need and that led to a lot of conversation! And that led to MORE conversation and it was delightful!

We’re thankful for the time with Pat and the conversation. She’s an excellent storyteller and is a person full of wisdom. You will definitely learn from this episode!

In two weeks on July 14, we’ll be talking about the conferences we’ve attended thus far in 2022. Join us for what will definitely be a lively exchange!

@TisForTraining 313: Cover Your Assets

Today Jill Hurst-Wahl, Tom Haymes, Diane Huckabay, Paul Signorelli, Maurice Coleman, and Henry Mensch gathered to talk to Clark Quinn about his new book, Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design From Instructional to Transformational. Clark recently offered the following intro to the book on his Learnlets blog:

Learning Experience Design is, as author Clark Quinn puts it, about “the elegant integration of learning science with engagement”. While there are increasing resources available on the learning science side, the other side is somewhat neglected. Having written one of the books on the learning science side, Clark has undertaken to write the other half. The book is grounded in his early experience writing learning games, then researching cognition and engagement, and ongoing exploration and application of learning, technology, and design to creating solutions and strategies. It covers the underlying principles including surprise, story, and emotion and pulls them together to create a coherent approach. The book also covers not just the principles, but the implications for both learning elements and a design process. With concise prose and concrete examples, this book provides the framework to take your learning experience designs from instructional to transformational!

We talked about some of the myths of learning science, as well as ways of making learning meaningful. Clark focused on the emotional experience of the learners. That emotional experience helps the learning to occur. Of course, the topic of storytelling came up and its role in learning, as well as starting with the end in mind.

Clark’s book, Make It Meaningful, is available wherever you purchase your books, including Amazon (paid link) and independent booksellers.

You can listen to this episode on TalkShoe or wherever you get your podcast episodes.

@TisForTraining 312: Don’t Bury the Lead (under bad design)

Maurice Coleman and Tom Haymes talked about Tom’s “25 Books Every Technologist Should Read,” which sparked a conversation about education norms, bad design, and other topics. Find the list on Tom’s website,  ideaspaces.net.