In this podcast episode, Rustica interviews Bodo Hoenen, an entrepreneur and founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that is leveraging technology to improve education and learning opportunities for underprivileged children around the world. Bodo shares his inspiring stories of working in refugee camps and his innovative approach to solving complex social challenges using technology. He is a thought leader in education, technology and social entrepreneurship, and is widely recognised as a prolific writer and speaker. The conversation touches on the limitations of current learning pathways and LMS content delivery and how Bodo is creating a "Google Maps for learning" that enables people to learn for jobs that don't even exist yet.

Best moments:

• A heart-warming story of how Bodo helped his daughter regain movement in her paralysed arm, by building her a brain-controlled exoskeleton in just five months with no medical or technical knowledge, and without any experience!
• How collective intelligence could solve the World's greatest challenges.
• Move over LMS, Google Maps for learning is here!

About the Guest:

Bodo is a renowned entrepreneur, business consultant, and speaker who has dedicated his career to driving positive change in the world. He is the founder of Nolej, and Dev4X a social enterprise that uses technology to improve access to education and learning opportunities for children in underprivileged communities worldwide.

Through his work with Dev4X, Bodo has demonstrated a deep commitment to using technology for good and empowering individuals and communities to achieve their full potential. In addition to his work with Dev4X, Bodo is also a prolific writer and speaker, sharing his insights and perspectives with audiences worldwide.

About the host:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and CEO and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations and held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, happiness, hope, and compelling futures.

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb on LinkedIn

Connect with Bodo Hoenen on LinkedIn

Learn more about Dev4X and the brain-controlled exoskeleton Bodo built

Learn more about Nolej

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Summary:

Rustica invited the CEO and Founder of HowNow (The Intelligent Learning Platform) Nelson Sivalingam back to the Learning 3.0 podcast to share his new book, Learning at Speed. In his book, he shares the nine fundamentals of creating a learning strategy on just one page, and he breaks down each of those building blocks in this insightful episode!

Tune in to find out why Nelson believes L&D teams should adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset!

Best Moments:

“When you embed learning within existing habits, you reduce the friction for someone to be able to access the learning they need”

“Having an entrepreneurial mindset helps understand business, which helps L&D perform better”

About the guest:

In 2016, Nelson co-founded (and still currently is) the CEO at the educational technology company HowNow, disrupting the way in which digital learning is delivered and knowledge is monetised. He has been recognised by Virgin Media Business as one of the top 30 young innovative founders in the UK as well as one of the top Asian Stars in Tech by KPMG. He is a thought-leader on Startups and Tech contributing to publications such The Guardian, The Telegraph and Startups.co.uk, he was featured in Bloomberg's documentary on Entrepreneurial Mindset and is now the author of his very first book.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, CEO and Founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry. Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor.

Rustica has worked with a number of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, Tertiary Education Commission, and many more.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, bringing joy, hope, and compelling futures.

In this episode we discuss:

• The inspiration behind Nelson’s first book - Learning at Speed
• Why Nelson believes the fastest learner wins by going through exponential change
• Does L&D need to adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset?
• Nelson’s 9 fundamentals of an L&D strategy you can create on one page

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn

Get a copy of Nelson’s book - Learning at Speed - with 20% off (Use code KOGANPAGE20) at checkout.

Connect with Nelson on LinkedIn

Learn more about HowNow

Tune in to hear Nelson's latest Ask Me Anything podcast episode!

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Former Evangelist and current Director of Sales at Rustici, Chris Tompkins is my latest guest on the Learning 3.0 podcast. You definitely read that right, Chris’s first role at Rustici was ‘Evangelist’, a role he describes as explaining inherently complex software solutions to normal people. Now as Director of Sales he leads the business team to teach their customers about the latest in eLearning technology and to uphold learning standards.

Rustici helps elearning companies play nicely together. As the world’s leading eLearning standard experts, Rustici provide the tools and knowledge to help companies create, distribute, manage and play eLearning-compliant content.

Tune in to the episode to hear Chris’s captivating explanation as to why SCORM is not dead yet!

About the guest:

Known amongst his team as an innovative ping-pong player, bird expert and snowboarder, Chris has been at Rustici for over ten years. As Director of Sales Chris spends his days chatting with customers from around the globe to help tailor Rustici products to their needs, and he leads the business team, even though their sales process isn’t typical.

About your host Rustica Lamb:

Rustica is a learning designer, LMS consultant, edupreneur, facilitator, and founder of Bloom Learning Technologies (2012). She is one of New Zealand’s best-known learning and development personalities, a trusted L&D advisor, and a well-respected leader in the industry.

Rustica has 25+ years of experience as an L&D Manager, eLearning designer, senior instructional designer, capability advisor, SAP trainer, facilitator, project manager, and mentor. She designs learning experiences and spaces which are engaging, affirming, empowering, and inspiring.

Rustica has worked internally and externally with a number and range of organisations, including Westpac, ANZ, Ministry of Health, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Ministry of Justice, Telecom, Vodafone, Green Cross Health, Warehouse Group, Powerco, ScreenGuild, Tertiary Education Commision, Health Promotion Agency and many more.. She held the position of Vice President for the New Zealand Association of Training and Development (NZATD) from 2012 to 2015 and was the NZATD Practitioner of the Year in 2012.

In 2021 she was awarded her Masters in Technological Futures at the Tech Futures Lab. She is currently working on several tech projects, including www.findalms.io and an Augmented Reality Game that will eventually teach English to refugee children in camps around the world, brining joy, happiness, hope and opportunity.

In this episode we discuss:

• What is SCORM and common misconceptions about it
• Is SCORM dead? (find out why Chris certainly doesn’t think so and how he changed Rustica’s mind!)
• What is Cmi5, and what are the benefits?
• Use cases for each of the standards

Podcast Resources:

Connect with your host, Rustica Lamb, on LinkedIn

Connect with Chris Tompkins on LinkedIn

Learn more about Rustici

Learn more about www.findalms.io

Visit the Scorm.com standards website

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