May, 2012

Clive on Learning

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M-learning: What's the big deal?

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Just released is the eLearning Guild’s new report, Mobile Learning: The Time Is Now , put together by Clark Quinn, who really knows his stuff on this topic. If Clark says the time is now, it probably is. In fact it probably has been since the first iPhone was launched and certainly once we got the iPad. Before that, the very idea of mobile learning was a bit bizarre.

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Time to tame the HiPPO

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In the latest edition of Wired magazine I came across the term 'HiPPO' - the highest paid person's opinion. The term is widely used in web design and usability circles to refer to those people who have the final word on any design issue on the basis that they're the highest paid person in the room. Apparently, the evidence suggests that those dotcoms for which design decisions are made on the basis of some powerful person's opinion do much less well than those which base their decisions on data.

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When compliance is not enough

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Yesterday Tom Kuhlmann posted about Those Pesky Compliance Courses , making the point that compliance courses aren't usually performance based and therefore a 'course' is probably not what's really required; he recommends keeping them simple, putting a test up front so those who already know the rules can exempt themselves from the body of the material, and un-locking all the navigation, so no-one's forced to sit through something they don't need.

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What's the point in competency frameworks?

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One of my clients asked me recently, what is the point in competency frameworks? As far as he was concerned they just seemed to be getting in the way of his task of helping people to learn their jobs - just another bureaucratic corporate process which ate up time and gave back little in terms of real benefits. I sympathised with what he was saying, but felt uncomfortable with rubbishing what, for me, is one of the foundations of modern performance management.

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This house believes the only way is e-learning

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This was the motion I had to argue for in a debate last week at a conference of NHS pharmacists. I definitely got the short straw because it's impossible to defend an absolute. And of course e-learning is not the only way. I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning.

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Time to tame the HiPPO

Clive on Learning

In the latest edition of Wired magazine I came across the term 'HiPPO' - the highest paid person's opinion. The term is widely used in web design and usability circles to refer to those people who have the final word on any design issue on the basis that they're the highest paid person in the room. Apparently, the evidence suggests that those dotcoms for which design decisions are made on the basis of some powerful person's opinion do much less well than those which base their decisions on data.

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