Clark Quinn

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Bad research

Clark Quinn

How do you know what’s dubious research? There are lots of signals, more than I can cover in one post. However, a recent discovery serves as an example to illustrate some useful signals. I was trying to recall a paper I recently read, which suggested that reading is better than video for comprehending issues. Whether that’s true or not isn’t the issue.

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Don’t use AI unsupervised!

Clark Quinn

A recent post on LinkedIn dubbed me in. In it, the author was decrying a post by our platform host, which mentioned Learning Styles. The post, as with several others, asks experts to weigh in. Which, I’ll suggest, is a broken model. Here’s my take on why I say don’t use AI unsupervised. As a beginning, learning styles isn’t a thing.

Trust 149
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From platitudes to pragmatics

Clark Quinn

It’s easy to talk principle. (And I do. ;) Yet, there are pragmatics we have to deal with, as well. For instance, with ‘clients’ (internal or external), giving us their desired outcomes that are vague and unfocused. We generally don’t want to educate them about our business, yet we need more focused guidance. Particularly when it comes to designing meaningful practice.

Metrics 203
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Web 3.0 and system-generated content

Clark Quinn

Not quite 15 years ago, I proposed that Web 3.0 would be system- generated content. There was talk about the semantic web, where we started tagging things, even auto-tagging, and then operating on chunks by rules connecting tags, not hard wiring. I think, however, that we’ve reached a new interpretation of Web 3.0 and system-generated content.

Web 184
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A placebo effect?

Clark Quinn

I was thinking about what too often we see as elearning. That is, the usual content dump and knowledge test. There’s good reason to believe that it isn’t effective. So, why are we seeing it continue? Is it a placebo effect? I tend to view this as a superstition. That is, the belief that information presentation will lead to behavior change is held implicitly.

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The Role of a Storyboard?

Clark Quinn

In a recent conversation, the issue of storyboards came up. It was in the larger context of representations for content development. In particular, for communicating with stakeholders (read: clients ;). The concern was how do you communicate the content versus representing the experience. So, the open question is what is the role of a storyboard? So, there are (at least) several elements that are important in creating a learning experience.

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Tradeoffs in aesthetics

Clark Quinn

For the LDA debate this month, Ruth Clark talked to Matt Richter and I about aesthetics in learning. Ruth, you should know, is the co-author of eLearning and the Science of Instruction , amongst other books, a must-have which leverages Rich Mayer’s work on multimedia learning. Thus, she’s knowledgeable about what the research says. What emerged in the conversation was a problem about tradeoffs in aesthetics, that’s worth exploring.

Cognitive 168