At the very origin of our ideas of about learning, as well so much else that defines our culture, lies the extraordinary flowering of thought and discovery centred on Athens from the fifth to the second century BC. This episode takes us back to the very earliest group of thinkers this series will cover, the ancient Greeks. 1:02 - Introducing the Greeks 11:36 - Socrates  (c. 470–399 BC) 23:34 -Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) 34:06 - Aristotle (384–322 BC) 47:25 - Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) 53:57 - Euclid (c. 325 - c. 270 BC) 57:46 - Archimedes (c. 287 – c. 212 BC) 1:05:41 - Summing Up   The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Socrates bit.ly/2FQz0hH Plato bit.ly/386Cd96 Aristotle bit.ly/2tdGUzi Pythagoras, Euclid, Archimedes bit.ly/38hEL46   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

  This episode’s thinkers were driven by a common belief that while practically all the attention and money in training and education is lavished on formal interventions, informal means of learning account for a much larger proportion of what actually happens. How should this insight change our view of learning, and what role does technology play?   Donald and John discuss a movement that has come to seem more and more prescient as learning technology has developed, and whose ideas are becoming increasingly mainstream: informal learning.   1:03 - Introducing Informal Learning 3:58 - Victoria J. Marsick & Karen E Watkins 16:31 - Gloria Gery 27:39 - Jay Cross (1944-2015) 41:12 - Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (1934-2021) 54:25 - Summing Up The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Marsick bit.ly/3zTtvs6 Gery bit.ly/2Ws0qGP Cross bit.ly/32Vxsh6 Csikszentmihalyi bit.ly/2IpTXBA Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

  Workflow learning, or 'learning in the flow of work' as it is often called, is a hot topic these days. In a world where technology delivers fast, personalized information at the point of need, does it really make sense any longer to think of a course as the default unit of learning?   This episode explores theorists and practitioners who strove to take learning out of the classroom and the training suite and situate it in the site of performance itself.   Introducing Workflow Learning – 1:04 Guy W. Wallace - 8:35 Richard E. Clark – 15:01 Bob Mosher & Dr. Conrad Goddfredson – 31:19 Richard Thaler (1945- ) & Cass Sunstein (1954- ) – 41:46 Charles Jennings - 54:46 Summing Up – 1:04:17 The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html   Wallace http://bit.ly/3k9r4fY Clark http://bit.ly/3oqI1pj Mosher & Goddfredson http://bit.ly/3mDn1ZT Thaler & Sunstein http://bit.ly/3wvb7G2 Jennings http://bit.ly/3D5M9ir Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

  The issue of emotion is something often downplayed or even omitted altogether in accounts of how people learn and how they can best be supported in learning. And yet it turns out to be critically important. At a fundamental level, it is involved in how we encode, retain and access memories. It is also vital to engagement with learning. This episode focuses on theorists from Krathwohl to Shackleton-Jones who thought and wrote about affective learning.   0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Affective Learning 5:56 - David Reading Krathwohl (1921-2016) 12:02 - Antonio Damasio (1944- ) & Mary Helen Immordino-Yang 18:28 - George Philip Lakoff (1941- ) 24:59 - Jaak Panksepp (1943 – 2017) 32:19 - Daniel Kahneman (1934- ) & Amos Tversky (1937 - 1996) 40:32 - Nick Shackleton-Jones 45:20 – Summing up The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Krathwohl bit.ly/3mKKwlj Damasio & Immordino-Yang https://bit.ly/3pYPnRK Lakoff bit.ly/3GP8Pq3 Panksepp bit.ly/3EOOjEb Kahneman & Tversky bit.ly/3mNNVQ9 Shackleton-Jones bit.ly/3qcaaS0   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/   Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

  In the late twentieth century organizations embraced the information age and team-working became a more important aspect of workplaces. Along with this change went a shift in learning theory away from an exclusive focus on the individual. This episode looks at a group of theorists who explored learning within the context of teams, families, social networks and society as a whole.   ---------- 0:00 - Intro 1:02 - Social and Team Learning 3:41 - Meredith Belbin (1926- ) 17:15 - Eduardo Salas 25:29 - Étienne Wenger (1952- ) 33:32 - Julian Stodd 42:40 - Judith Harris (1938-2018) 52:48 - Summing up -----------   The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html   Belbin bit.ly/3bvfi9h Salas bit.ly/2xymumo Wenger bit.ly/2QRy2HY Stodd bit.ly/2QLNdCy Harris bit.ly/2SjwVSr   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/   Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

  Darwin's discoveries and the growth of mass education in the 19th Century set the stage for a quest to measure and assess human intelligence. But that quest has often seemed quixotic: marred by poor or non-existent science, skewed by commercial and political agendas, and marred, time and again, in Donald's view, by essentialism.   From eugenicist Sir Francis Galton to Daniel Goleman, who popularized emotional intelligence testing, this episode covers the theorists who cast a statistical and sytematizing eye on human differences.     0:00 - Intro 1:04 - The Assessors 4:29 - Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) 13:02 - Alfred Binet (1857 – 1911) & Theodore Simon (1873 – 1961) 23:18 - Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (1883-1971) 31:08 - Hans Eysenck (1916-1997) 39:48 - Howard Gardner (1943- ) 51:80 - Katherine Cook Briggs (1875-1968) & Isabel Briggs Myers (1897-1980) 59:01 - Daniel Goleman (1946- ) 1:08:31 - Summing up The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Galton bit.ly/3FQ1eWv Binet (&Simon) bit.ly/3oiYavg Burt bit.ly/3HbqxnL Eysenck bit.ly/2wXYA35 Gardner bit.ly/2ILjO73 Myers-Briggs bit.ly/2IRcnve Goleman bit.ly/3cUHML7   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/   Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its thinkers believed in individual liberty, religious tolerance, opposition to absolute monarchy and the dogmas of the Church, and an emphasis on the scientific method and the primacy of reason.   The Enlightenment overturned many then traditional ideas about politics, science, arts, law, economics and many other fields – but at the centre of their project was a slew of revolutionary ideas about learning. Donald pinpoints a group of enlightenment thinkers who had particularly interesting things to say about how we learn and how we ought to learn, many of which speak to central issues of our own time.   ---------- The Enlightenment & Learning – 1:02 John Locke (1632-1704) – 10:26 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) – 19:33 Adam Smith (1723-1790) – 34:02 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) – 43:15 Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) & Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – 1:00:58 Summing up – 1:09:48 ----------   The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html   Locke bit.ly/2tDzFAR Rousseau bit.ly/37rHEzq Smith bit.ly/2RvBM2F Wollstonecraft bit.ly/2tTi4Vq Edgeworths (2) bit.ly/2S1FM9Y   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/   Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

  From blackboards to interactive whiteboards, learning has always made use of technology. But with the advent of computers and then the internet, learning theory entered a new phase from the late 20th Century onwards – as thinkers grappled with the challenges of designing systems and content that could help people learn online. How could making programmable robots stimulate children to learn? What was the best way to combine media for learning – and how could you teach online without distracting or overloading learners? What were the rules for creating optimal learner experiences? These were the questions our online educators asked themselves.   ---------- 0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Introducing The Online Educators 8:43 - Seymour Aubrey Papert (1928 - 2016) 14:33 - Richard E. Mayer (1947 -) 24:32 - Clifford Nass (1958 - 2013) & Byron Reeves 35:10 Donald Norman (1935 - ) 44:53 - Jakob Neilsen (1957 - ) 58:06 - Summing up   The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html   Papert bit.ly/3c1oH8J Mayer bit.ly/34oKmF6 Nass & Reeves bit.ly/39UTXoo Norman bit.ly/2RBJ8Bk Nielsen bit.ly/3bggI7K   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/   Read Donald's latest book, Learning Experience Design https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Experience-Design-Create-Effective/dp/1398602620/ref=asc_df_1398602620/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=500792593882&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8463523561401709872&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006565&hvtargid=pla-1245069293197&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/   Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

Learning has always had a moral dimension. In pre-enlightenment times religion played a big role in deciding what and how people should learn, but by the 20th Century much of that influence had waned, and thinkers began to explore the ethical bases of learning in different ways. This episode covers a group of thinkers who explored the moral dimension of learning within different cultural contexts, and the increasing role of communications technology in those debates. 00:58 - Introducing the Moralists 6:52 - Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970) 16:54 - Lawrence Kohlberg (1927 - 1987) 27:51 - Mamie and Kenneth Clark (1917 - 1983) 35:05 - Jane Roland Martin (1929- ) 40:19 - Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980) 50:46 - Neil Postman (1931-2003) 59:26 - Summing up The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html Maslow bit.ly/2TAzb8z Kohlberg bit.ly/2wOWEK8 Clarks bit.ly/3xupR75 Martin bit.ly/38F18jN McLuhan bit.ly/2IGJamx Postman bit.ly/33g9Kg0 Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/ Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/ Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/

'We're now beginning to unpack what is really good for learners and teaching' says Donald Clark, 'and it's not what we thought it was.'   Learning Theory over the ages has concentrated largely on the 'front end' of the process: learning as an event and an experience. Less attention has been given to the back end, how one makes it stick. This episode concentrates on the people who explored these questions of practice and transfer, from William James to the present day.   What they discovered was a quite startling, counter-intuitive truth – one which has largely ignored by the educational establishment to date.   ---------- 00:56 - Introducing pragmatism & practice 04:51 - What’s the timeline? 05:47 - William James (1842 - 1910) 16:39 - John Dewey (1859-1952) 26:32 - K. Anders Ericsson (1947-2020) 36:37 - Robert A. Bjork (1939- ) & Elizabeth L. Bjork 43:41 - Henry L. Roediger III (1947-) and Jeffrey D. Karpicke 49:00 - Summing up ----------   Books mentioned in the discussion   Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning By Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger (III), Mark A. McDaniel · 2014 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Make_It_Stick/oneWAwAAQBAJ?hl=en   Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise By Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool · 2016 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Peak/eHfkCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0   The Blog that started it all: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2020/08/100-learning-theorists-2500-years-of.html   James bit.ly/2T2GntN Dewey bit.ly/37Z35ra Ericsson bit.ly/2PBrvR3 Bjork bit.ly/2PA9UZZ Karpicke & Roediger bit.ly/3uPhumZ   Contact Donald Twitter: @DonaldClark LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donald-clark-04553022/ Blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/   Contact John Helmer Twitter: @johnhelmer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhelmer/ Website: http://johnhelmerconsulting.com/   Download the new white paper from Learning Pool written by John Helmer & Ben Betts – Suite Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Learning Systems https://learningpool.com/suite-dreams/