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Hear thought-provoking insights into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the learning and development (L&D) in our latest episode of "The Learning Curve". Host Kenny welcomes Adam Barty, Managing Director of Revium, a leading boutique digital consulting firm specialising in innovative technological solutions. Together, they embark on an insightful discussion exploring AI's transformative potential and its implications for businesses and individuals alike.
Adam shares his journey into AI, highlighting the importance of staying ahead of technological advancements, and discusses practical applications and strategies for leveraging AI's benefits in L&D. Kenny and Adam shed light on breakthroughs in large language models, democratizing access to AI technologies and paving the way for further innovation in areas such as video content creation and personalisation.
Join us to explore the practical implications and challenges of integrating AI into learning strategies, offering valuable insights and advice for organisations considering AI adoption. From introductory sessions and policy development to workshops and pilot projects, learn how embracing AI can propel organizations forward in the ever-evolving landscape of L&D. Don't miss out on this engaging discussion that promises to reshape your understanding of AI's role in shaping the future of learning.
💬 About the podcast guest:
Adam Barty is the Managing Director of Digital & AI Consultancy Revium and the Co-founder of fintech startup HelpPay. As a recognised thought leader in digital and AI, Adam provides strategic guidance and insights. With a team of around 50 skilled experts, he works with a suite of corporate clients providing guidance and practical expertise across the digital spectrum.
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This episode of The Learning Curve with Kenny focuses on the importance of soft skills in the age of AI, featuring an interview with Matthew Doig, CEO and Founder of Growthcave. Matthew delves into the shifts, challenges and transformations brought about by AI, highlighting the need for both companies and individuals to prioritise soft skills for success amidst technological advancements.
Within our organisations, we need to look more than just what benefits AI will bring us, but also at the people using the AI. In discussion the discussions, Matthew helps Kenny explore the emergence of new job opportunities in areas where AI falls short, highlighting the indispensable role of human capabilities.
Matthew identifies essential skills, termed ‘power skills’ for navigating the evolving technological landscape effectively: critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, adaptability, and emotional intelligence. The discussion prompts reflection on what organisations can do to support individuals in honing these uniquely human skills. Tune in to this fascinating episode to find out more.
💬 About the podcast guest:
Matthew Doig is a Human Potential Practitioner who has spent over two decades helping individuals and organisations reach their full potential. As the Founder and CEO of Growth Cave, a Human Potential Development company, he enables people to make the personal and professional transformations necessary to thrive in the Digital Age.
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The latest episode of The Learning Curve with Kenny features an exciting special guest. Assel Mussagaliyeva-Tang, founder and chief learning officer of EDUTech Future, provides customised education, training, consulting, and coaching programmes for individuals and organisations. Together with Kenny, Assel delves into the topic of future skills.
Assel sets out how important it is for companies to help their employees develop the skills needed to build meaningful careers for tomorrow. Crucially, these are the human-centric skills that can’t be acquired by machines. Assel also highlights the value of mentorship and urges companies to embrace a broader view of assessment, engage employees on a daily basis, and create career pathways by defining core skills rather than limited job descriptions, which can lead to greater employee satisfaction and productivity.
Given the ongoing digitalisation, future-ready skills are the key to innovation for companies seeking to keep abreast of new technological developments. Don't miss this episode!
💬 About the podcast guest:
Assel Mussagaliyeva-Tang has many years of experience in education, technology, and international development. As the founder and chief learning officer of EDUTech Future, Assel provides customised training programmes for individuals and organizations. Assel is a certified Microsoft in Education Global Training Partner and Asia-Pacific Learning Partner, delivering bespoke EdTech trainings and offering L&D consulting and mentorship programmes for corporates.
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Catch the latest episode of The Learning Curve for fascinating insights into the diverse training needed to crew large cargo ships. Devesh Gautam, L&D Superintendent at OSM Thome Group, takes Kenny on a voyage through what we can learn from the safety and cross-functional training required for life at sea.
In the maritime industry, safety training is of utmost importance. It covers a wide range of topics, including fire-fighting, medical assistance, and basic survival skills. All crew members, regardless of their role, are required to undergo mandatory training and obtain a certificate of competency, setting standards for all countries. Navigating the seas of knowledge is complex. We discover how virtual reality (VR) training simulates incidents on a ship. Microlearning helps crew members.
The unique and mandatory training requirements in the international shipping industry offer many lessons for enterprise learning more widely. Don’t miss this episode!
💬 About the podcast guest:
Devesh Gautam, L&D Superintendent, spent many years sailing merchant ships and served as a Chief Engineer. Having transitioned to a shore-based role, he is now responsible for managing Learning & Development activities in India and Europe as part of OSM Thome Group.
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Join us for a fascinating interview with William Thomas, the Principal Executive Onboarding Partner at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Learn about the importance of a shared corporate culture, as Kenny dives into the topic of hybrid onboarding at a global company on the very forefront of the cloud computing industry.
William shares his insights gained from onboarding processes at AWS, highlighting the importance of learning during a new starter's first three months and Amazon's approach to shared leadership values. Discover how Amazon's leadership principles shape the 'Amazonian' identity and are actively applied in everyday conversations and actions. They not only define how Amazon operates and how leaders lead, but also prioritise the customer in decision-making.
The interview also highlights the significance of affinity groups within Amazon, which unite people with shared interests across different business units, fostering a sense of community. This insightful episode of the Learning Curve is not to be missed!
💬 About the podcast guest:
William Thomas, PhD, is the Principal Executive Onboarding Partner at Amazon Web Services in Singapore. He helps new executives across the region bring their talents seamlessly into the AWS culture by working with them and other stakeholders throughout the AWS onboarding process.
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The accessibility and affordability of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) training looks set to enhance the way businesses and corporations approach learning and development. No longer limited to government agencies like NASA, these cutting-edge technologies are now accessible to a wider audience of learners.
In this fascinating episode of The Learning Curve, Kenny sits down with Peter Clowes, the visionary founder of MAXART, a prominent VR/AR training technology company. Together, they explore the valuable lessons that learning and development managers can glean from the rigorous training of astronauts.
NASA's use of ground-breaking technologies and their unwavering investment in highly skilled individuals provide us with a captivating glimpse into the boundless potential of enterprise learning. Specifically, organisations must prioritise enhancing remote training capabilities and recognise the immense value of interdisciplinary skills.
💬 About the podcast guest:
Peter is the CEO and founder of MAXART, one of Australia's leading VR/AR training technology companies. He is also the director and co-founder of Raytracer, a space and defence-focused SME that developed a world-first Neutral Buoyancy VR technology.
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How can organisations best promote their employees' mental well-being? Remote working and the challenges of the digital era have thrown up a new set of challenges. In another thought-provoking episode of The Learning Curve, Kenny talks with Todd Morgan, CEO of Outside The Locker Room (OTLR).
As a charitable organisation, OTLR helps sporting clubs, schools and businesses across Australia change the game for mental health. Todd highlights the impact of technology on social connections and the rise of severe loneliness and poor mental health among employees who work remotely. But is it all bad?
There's an increased awareness of companies in investing in the mental well-being of their employees. Todd offers practical advice and highlights the potential for digitalisation offer a more accessible and scalable approach to mental health training. Implementing a Learning Management System (LMS), for example, can help companies deliver mental well-being education can also be a valuable tool for supporting individuals' mental health. Listen in to find out more.
💬 About the podcast guest:
Todd Morgan is the Chief Executive Officer of Outside The Locker Room, a charity providing mental health education and welfare support to communities across Australia.
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In this episode of the Learning Curve, Kenny explores the world of learning myths with guest Dr. Kuva Jacobs. They debunk popular learning myths in real-time on the podcast.
Commonly shared ideas about how people learn may not be entirely accurate. Kuva provides researched and analytical insights on learning theories like The Learning Pyramid and different learning styles, revealing there is more to the story.
Taking learning myths at face value can be damaging because they lack the full picture, even if they contain some valid messages. This podcast episode is a must-listen for L&D managers, learning experts, and enterprise learning professionals.
💬 About the podcast guest:
Kuva is a co-founder of Emergent Learning, a specialist learning consultancy that assists organisations to build capability, improve performance and solve complex business problems by applying evidence-based approaches derived from the learning sciences. Kuva has a PhD in mathematics and manages the Learning Myth Busters group on LinkedIn.
Kuva`s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuvaj/
The LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14108260
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What does it actually take to create high quality content? Arne Benoist takes us on the journey of it’s creation.
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Having determined that better E-learining content can only happen by starting at the roots, we look at what we should expect from this next generation of e-learning creators. Bianca Ruby founder, CEO of oppidia and author discusses her insight and vision on the where the evolution of e-learning creators is headed.
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In our first ever double header podcast with Shae Wissel, mulit-talent and CEO of Deardyslexic, and Malte Arends, resident blended learning guru, we explore how learing disabilities can be positively impacted by digitalization.
Shae`s recommendation within this episode:
www.deardyslexic.comMaltes recommendation within this episode:
https://www.looop.co/the-ld-disruption-playbook
https://www.learningguild.com/insights/250/less-content-more-learner-an-overview-of-learning-experience-design/ -
How is digitalization of Child and Adult Education taking place? What is the current situation and what does the future hold? These and more questions will be discussed between Hester and Kenny.
Driven by her deep desire to shape the future of Education along her experience of helping open two 42 Campuses make Hester the perfect discussion partner.
Hester`s article recommendation within this episode:
· New education as critical infrastructure to create jobs in a post-Covid, digital world
· Life-ready learning in a classroom size of 1
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A podcast discussing the use of Learning Analytics and how these can help business make their training more effective
With his extensive experience in guiding the technical vision of companies, Wolfram Jost, Board Member and CTO of imc AG helps us to understand what impact Learing Analytics has in asking the critical questions surrounding L & D within businesses.
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A podcast to help you open your mind to critically approachthe implementation of a Learning Management System (LMS).
With his extensive experience in guiding companies throughtheir digital transformation, David Patterson, director Learning Light, helpsus to identify how companies can select the right LMS for their e-learningneeds.
David`s book recommendation within this episode:https://amzn.to/35uUUnV -
Having covered methodology and the technology behind learning we now combine both in our podcast on Learing Culture vs. Learning Analytics. Bringing more than 15 years of experience in the field and hosting his own podcasts, David James give us his take on what he calls “the flawed equation”.
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With part one and two of our podcast going through a progression from “How to make e-learning entertaining” and the second podcast looking into “Gamification” as a methodology we now turn to technology in the form of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR). Joining the podcast will be the VR hero and CEO of Hololux (https://hololux.de/) Christian Glessner. Christian is leading the charge into the applications of VR and AR together with prominent industry leaders. Christian impart his vision and understanding of what he considers to be then “next level of communication”.
You can also watch the podcast recording in Virtual Reality. Please click here: https://youtu.be/pKC5CzlpZTk
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Following up on the first “E-Learning Brunch” podcast and “How to make e-learning entertaining” host Kenny turns to “Gamification”. Guest and Gamification Hero Roman Rackwitz takes us on deep dive in the Gamification sea of knowledge. Roman has already established himself as one of the goto personalities in Gamification and provides Kenny with a completely new and engrossing vision of gamification (Hint: That is why the episode exploded to 60 min instead of the usual 30 min)
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Cartoons in Learning
In the first episode “E-Learning Brunch”, host Kenny will find out how to make e-learning entertaining. Therefore, he talks with Olaf Encke, founder of Inkarnatoons (inkarnatoons.com). Inkarnatoons is specialized in illustrations, animations, and cartoons for different media. Kenny already has worked with Olaf during different e-learning projects. Olaf explains the difference between illustrations, animations, and cartoons. He points out the advantages of these formats compared to real characters and gives some tips for the use of illustrations and animations in learning.
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"E-Learning Brunch" is the official podcast of imc – a leading e-learning provider. Host Kenny talks with experts and influencers about current learning trends. Listen trailer!
