Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past week I’ve been heavily involved in helping to judge this year’s E-Learning Awards. I used to have a role in administrating them, but I never got to see any of the entries. Last year and this I’ve been on the panels for several of the categories and it’s been a real eye-opener. First and foremost, the experience has lifted my spirits. I get so much flack from trainers about boring e-learning that nobody wants to do, that sometimes I despair that we’ll ever get it right.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In a series of posts on the Onlignment blog that has run throughout 2012, I have endeavoured to explain how transformation can take place in workplace learning and development. I started the series by setting out the need for transformation. I then set out a vision for workplace learning and development that is: aligned economical scalable flexible engaging and powerful I moved on to look at some of the changes that can be made to realise this vision, expressed as six shifts: from generic to tai

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2012

I remember many years ago being told of the important difference between process and content. It was applied in that context to managers, the inference being that management is a process that can be applied to any domain. In other words, if you’re a good manager, then you can do a good job wherever you’re asked to apply your skills, whether that’s a school, a hospital, a retail chain or an engineering company.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week I wrote about the first of the new directions in self-study e-learning that I had noticed - the use of social interactions. Today I explore another - the use of scrolling pages to replace the slide to slide mechanism that dominates so much e-learning. Sometime back in the mists of time, when Jakob Nielsen was establishing his web usability standards, it became received wisdom that web users dislike scrolling - far better to present information in small chunks that appear 'above

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