Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2009

You wouldn't hire an interior designer only to inform.them that you've already chosen all the colour schemes and furnishings; you wouldn't engage an accountant and then explain to them the way you wanted them to process your figures; you wouldn't employ a fitness trainer and then tell them what to include in your workout; you wouldn't buy a dog and then insist on doing all the barking.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2009

I’ve been having a play with this little tool from i3Logic. It acts as an Articulate plug-in, allowing customers, reviewers and subject-experts to make comments on Articulate projects that are in development or early stages of implementation. The comments are stored in a simple database on the server of your choice. By allowing collaboration in testing, CommentCatcher does a good job of bridging the gap between desktop and online authoring tools.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Last night I saw Malcolm Gladwell speaking at the Brighton Dome. I’ve read The Tipping Point , and currently have Outliers on my pile of books to read, so I was keen to see how Gladwell shaped up as a speaker. I wasn’t disappointed. He spoke for one hour without visual aids and with no more than a cursory glimpse at his notes. He was the very epitome of calm, confidence and charm.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2009

Thanks to Jim Potts of the Defence Academy, who drew this cartoon while I was ranting about pop psychology learning theories at the British Institute of Learning and Development conference last Thursday:

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

Rule 12: We are powerful and natural explorers. Now be honest. You didn't expect I'd see this through to the end, now did you? Well I'm glad I did, because rule 12 is such a good one. As usual, some extracts: "We are natural explorers, even if the habit sometimes stings us. The tendency is so strong, it is capable of turning us into lifelong learners.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2009

Rule 11: Male and female brains are different In chapter 11 of Brain Rules, John Medina enters that domain that wise people usually find it safer to avoid - gender differences. I am no more comfortable with this issue than John and have no intention of leaving myself wide open to all sorts of unnecessary confrontation. So I'll just pass on some highlights: "Men's and women's brains are different structurally and biochemically - but we don't know if those differences have significance.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

Last week I did something I do very rarely. I completed an e-learning programme, as a student, not as an e-learning specialist running their eye over someone else's work. At least that was the situation at the time. A few days later, having had the chance to reflect on the experience, I can't resist making a few comments. I'm not going to tell you what the programme was or who it was made by. but I will say it was a compulsory piece of training, completion of which was required if I was to be ab

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