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Hosted by John Helmer · education · EN · 53 episodes
Internationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Aristotle to the present day.© John Helmer 2021
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Signup to Generate a PitchInternationally respected author, blogger and learning expert, Donald Clark joins John Helmer of the Learning Hack podcast to discuss the history of thought and theorising about learning. The inspired, the enduring, the wacked-out weird and the just plain wrong, from Aristotle to the present day.© John Helmer 2021
Great Minds on Learning is hosted by John Helmer. The show has published 53 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "GMoL47 Learning in a Post-Literate World" (1 September 2026, 58 minutes), "GMoL46 How Creative People Learn" (17 August 2026, 84 minutes), and "GMoL45 Sport and Learning with Donald Clark" (3 August 2026, 70 minutes).
Great Minds on Learning publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 73 minutes across 53 episodes.
Booking probability for Great Minds on Learning is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Great Minds on Learning requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Great Minds on Learning's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Great Minds on Learning are Universities & Colleges. Great Minds on Learning has an education audience.
John Helmer hosts Great Minds on Learning, an education show with 53 episodes published.
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Episode #47
Schools, universities and training departments took shape in the age of mass printing initiated by Guttenberg and others in the Sixteenth Century CE. Jeff Jarvis, In The Gutenberg Parenthesis (2023), argues that this...
Episode #46
Nobody is born into the world already able to design a brochure, cut a dress, light a photoshoot or shred on the guitar. All of it has to be learned. The question this episode asks is how, and whether the answer has...
Episode #45
What education and workplace learning can take from sports coaching. Modern sports coaching has abandoned the drilling of isolated techniques in favour of practice that is variable, contextual and informed by data...
Episode #44
Recorded live at Online Educa Berlin, this episode of Great Minds on Learning explores AI and the Global South through history, hard lessons, and contemporary debate. John Helmer and Donald Clark examine early...
Episode #43
In this final episode before the summer break, Donald Clark and John Helmer explore the rise of happiness and wellbeing as central themes in psychology, education, and policy. From Seligman's Positive Psychology to...
Episode #42
Learning at Scale, from Theory to Action. This episode explores the thinkers who shaped organizational learning —how institutions learn, adapt, and evolve. From Herbert Simon's decision theory to Argyris and Schön's...
Episode #41
The surprising modernity of medieval minds. This episode explores the medieval thinkers known as the Schoolmen—philosophers who fused logic, faith, and classical learning to shape what would become the modern...
Episode #40
Who is higher education really serving? In this episode of Great Minds on Learning, John Helmer and Donald Clark examine prominent critics of higher education. Economist Bryan Caplan, linguist and activist Noam Chomsky...
Episode #39
Education's Ideological Battleground. Education is never entirely neutral. In our own time it has been increasingly seen as deeply ideological. However, whose ideology is being promoted – and does unpicking one set of...
Episode #38
From Babbage to Turing: the roots of AI. In this first episode of Season 7, Donald Clark and John Helmer trace the roots of modern computing and AI through six foundational figures—Babbage, Lovelace, Hollerith, Bush...
Episode #37
Revisiting Learning Theories: Insights and Challenges for the Future In this special live episode of Great Minds on Learning, recorded at Online Educa Berlin 2024, Donald Clark and John Helmer tackle listener questions...
Episode #37
Send in your questions for the Great Minds on Learning Q&A! Donald Clark and John Helmer will answer them at Online Educa Conference in Berlin, which will be recorded for a podcast episode to be issued before Christmas...
Episode #36
Deconstructing Continental Philosophy's Impact on Modern Education. At the end of the 19th Century, a split in Philosophy emerged that persists today. The Analytic tradition, led by Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein...
Episode #35
Learning in the post-Freudian age At the beginning of the 20th Century, fundamental assumptions about the nature of the mind and how it learns were completely overturned by a new set of ideas. Pre-eminent among the...
Episode #34
Is the mind flatter than we thought? This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the 'Performance Journey Goes Dutch' conference in Ermelo, The Netherlands, organised by Xpertise Learning. Donald and John...
Episode #34
Is the mind flatter than we thought? This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the 'Performance Journey Goes Dutch' conference in Ermelo, The Netherlands, organised by Xpertise Learning. Donald and John...
Great Minds on Learning
Second of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning. Last time, Donald and John discussed how writing was invented in the ancient world. This time the focus moves to the 20th...
Episode #32
First of a two-part series on the invention of writing and the impact of literacy on learning. Our ability to learn from written texts is something we take for granted. But like every other technology that humans use...
Episode #31
Theories and critiques of leadership learning: the attribution problem and its consequences. This episode, the first of a new season, our sixth, focuses on leadership. Leadership, thought since ancient times to be...
Great Minds on Learning
John and Donald preview the upcoming season of Great Mind on Learning. The sixth season of Great Minds on Learning begins on Monday 15th April 2024. Ahead of the first episode, John and Donald preview the treats in...
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