A note before you dig in: E-Learning Lane is on hiatus. I’m not recording new episodes right now and don’t have a date for starting again, so this page is best treated as an archive. Everything that was published is still here, and the files in the archive section below are downloadable, so the episodes don’t depend on any platform staying put.
E-Learning Lane was a short-form podcast where I worked through one question at a time about learning design, technology integration, and training, along with the assumptions we carry into all of them. Most of the talk around educational technology runs on the vendor’s schedule rather than the practitioner’s: a tool launches or a trend spikes, and the conversation has moved on before anyone has had time to think it through. The show was a place to slow down on the questions that didn’t get much room there.
Episodes were recorded on the go, so the audio is informal and a bit rough around the edges. I kept it that way on purpose, since the point was honest thinking about the work we do as educators, designers, and trainers rather than a produced show. Some episodes dig into a specific tool or platform, while others sit with a broader question about why certain approaches to learning design stick and others don’t.
If you work in education, instructional design, or learning and development, and you have ever wished someone would just talk through a topic without the hype or the sales pitch, there are sixty-three episodes here worth digging through.
Listen
Two episodes are hosted here on the site rather than through the feed, so they will keep playing whatever happens to the podcast host.
The first episode, from August 2024, is a little over a minute and lays out what the show was for: short, unpolished episodes aimed at the questions that get skipped elsewhere.
A full-length episode, and a fair sample of what a typical one sounds like. TPACK describes how technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge intersect, and this episode works through what the model is useful for and where it stops helping as a planning tool.
Subscribe
For as long as the feed is up, E-Learning Lane is listed wherever you listen to podcasts. Here are a few of the most common places:
These listings depend on the podcast host that publishes the RSS feed, and I don’t plan to keep paying for that indefinitely. Once the subscription ends, the show will likely disappear from Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. The archive below doesn’t depend on anyone’s subscription, so if there are episodes you want to keep, download them from there.
The Archive
This is the permanent home for the show. Every episode is in the folder below, numbered and dated (E00 through E62) so the run reads in order. The purpose of keeping the files here rather than only on a streaming service is that they’re yours once downloaded, and they’ll still play offline after the listings are gone.
Get in Touch
The best episodes came from real questions, and I still like getting them. If something here connected with what you are working on, if you disagree with how I handled a topic, or if there is something you wish the show had covered, send it to licht.education@gmail.com. I cannot promise an episode in response, but the questions tend to find their way into the writing.
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