Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Well, it’s been a bit of a saga, but there are some new developments about my forthcoming: Designing mLearning: Tapping Into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance. It’s the usual good news/bad news scenario, but only mildly. First, for the bad news. The book, which I’d been told would be available “around&# January, will be available around January, if you agree that February counts.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

My Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche is a clever guy. In preparation for an event, he makes a blog post to organize his thoughts. I like his thinking, so I’ll let him introduce my post: Next week, at our Working Smarter event hosted by Tulser in Maastricht, NL, we will have a series of short sessions on selected topics. Each Principal of the Internet Time Alliance has three topics of 20 minutes to be discussed in small groups.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2010

In the course of the past month, I’ve attended (and spoken at) 4 conferences: DevLearn, WCET, VSS, and Online Educa. Each was from a different area: DevLearn is mostly corporate, WCET is largely higher ed, VSS is mostly K12, and Online Educa is more academic (and European). As a consequence, I’ve had a somewhat biased (mostly US) but reasonably broad exposure to the state of the industry.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I’ve talked before about how mobile ‘ accessorizes ‘ the brain. Well, here I am in Europe, and I’m suffering brain damage. In short, the situation with cross-border data access is inexcusable. It’s been several years since I lasted traveled overseas, and since then I’ve become increasingly mobile-enabled. I’ve got navigation apps, information apps, map apps, and app apps (ok, well maybe not that last one).

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

The other day, my colleague Jane Hart wrote an interesting post comparing getting comfortable with learning in the real world to the experience of learning a new language. In my recent experience visiting my aunt in München and then family friends in a small village outside Bayreuth, I had a chance to experience the intermediate stages of transitioning from one language, really one culture, to another.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As my colleagues Harold and Jane have done, I thought I’d capture my learning journey that led me to the Internet Time Alliance. I started out seeing the connection between computers and learning as an undergraduate, and designed my own degree. My first job out of college was designing and programming educational computer games, which led me back to graduate school and a Ph.D. in applied cognitive science to find out how to design learning solutions better.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s time for me to formally announce that the site for my forthcoming mobile learning book, Designing mLearning , is now live and ready to visit. On it, you’ll find the ‘about the book’ info, the gracious endorsements from some truly great and kind people, and more. I’ll be speaking about the ideas quite a bit in the coming months.

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