This interview with Vincent Han is the start of a section of this series that focuses on chatbots and L&D. When I started to record this podcast series I didn’t expect so many of the interviews would be focused on chatbots.

The higher education sector has been using machine learning for some time, mostly to predict if students are at risk of dropping out of a program.

Ben Betts from HT2 Labs is back on the podcast in this interview. Ben is passionate about using social learning to build high-impact learning experiences. HT2 Labs are also the people behind Learning Locker, which is an open source learning record store for xAPI data.

A guide to what is microlearning.

For this interview I spoke with Marc Zao-Sanders, CEO of Filtered, a platform that makes learning recommendations. In our daily life, we see recommendation engines in action all around us, such as Spotify and Netflix. Recommendation engines and learning are a natural fit.

Content curation is important to the future of learning, however it's the not most important activity that L&D should be focused on.

This interview with Christopher Brinton from Zoomi is a great way to start this series on artificial intelligence and learning and development. The work that Zoomi is doing now is leading the application of AI in L&D.

At LearnX 2018 Robin did a series of short interviews with speakers and award winners. This series gives a great overview of trends that are happening in L&D in Australia at the moment.

Richard Wyles, the CEO of Totara Learn, and Robin talk about how open source learning platforms means learning platforms can be more flexible and customised to meet the needs of an evolving organisation.

Justin Sterns from Allens and Robin talk about using using human-centred design to rethink learning to meet the needs of employees.