Yin Yak™
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Yin Yak is a quiet spark in a noisy world, a podcast where ideas wander, worlds collide, and learning finds its rhythm. Hosted by Yin Kreher, each episode explores unexpected intersections across education, design, tech, and human behavior — sharing spicy insights, curious questions, and mic-drop moments you’ll want to carry with you.
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The podcast covers a wide range of topics including education methodologies, design thinking, technological innovations, and human behavior. For example, the first episode delves into muscle memory in high-pressure situations, comparing training in figure skating to clinical responses in healthcare, highlighting the value of learning that prepares individuals for unexpected challenges.
Yin Yak is a quiet spark in a noisy world, a podcast where ideas wander, worlds collide, and learning finds its rhythm. Hosted by Yin Kreher, each episode explores unexpected intersections across education, design, tech, and human behavior — sharing spicy insights, curious questions, and mic-drop moments you’ll want to carry with you.
In this episode of Yin Yak, we dig into a question a lot of designers, educators, and leaders are quietly wrestling with:
If AI can deliver knowledge and hold real conversations with learners, what’s left for us to design?
To explore this, I’m joined by Eric Newman, Associate Director of Academic Innovation at Boston University. Eric has been shaping some of BU’s most forward-thinking programs—including the Online MBA that Forbes called one of the most disruptive in higher ed.
We yak about:
How AI study buddies and dialogic AI shift the role of instructional designers
What RAG-powered learning means for content, context, and practice
Why “knowledge delivery” is no longer the design challenge
The rise of AI-enabled practice
What a new course design playbook looks like and what stays human
Along the way, we dive into prompting, AI fluency, meaningful constraints, low-stakes practice, and why good design still matters more than ever.
If you're an instructional designer, learning strategist, educator, or just someone curious about the future of learning, this one’s for you.
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