The ”We Should Be Journalists” Episode

The LDA Podcast: An Exploration of Evidence-Informed Approaches to Learning and Development

In our fifth episode, we go long… maybe too long! 😜 But, we got on a roll. We have lots of guests, a heated debate, and more.

In Segment One, we go meta. We discuss why we should actually be negative. In other words, why it’s good to debunk, challenge, question, and even attack ideas. We discuss the pros and cons and why many in our field are so adverse to negativity.

In Segment Two, Will conducts two separate interviews. In both, he explores whether we should do more investigative journalism in the L&D field. How can we ensure we are indeed doing all the right things?

The first is with Ryan Watkins, co-host of the Parsing Science podcast and a professor in Educational Technology Leadership at George Washington University. Ryan also has an amazing website at We Share Science.

The second is with Truth in Learning friend, Julie Dirksen. Julie is a research to practice guru. She is the author of DESIGN FOR HOW PEOPLE LEARN. Check out her cool website, Usable Learning.

‎In Segment Three, we each share our top three research-based learning facts. What should we design into our learning programs to make them most effective.

And, of course, we end with the Best and the Worst of the week.

‎We also referenced several times an article Will wrote called Donald Kirkpatrick was NOT the Originator of the Four-Level Model of Learning Evaluation. This one could possibly change your life!

‎Matt mentions Self-Determination Theory, a model for why we do what we do. Here is a link to an article he wrote on How Learners Are Motivated. You can also learn a ton about motivation and specifically the model here, at the Center for Self-Determination Theory.

We mention Mike Taylor and his wonderfully info-packed website. Here is the link… https://mike-taylor.org.