Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2007

The most popular subjects in 2006 are almost entirely vocational, with English the one exception in the top ten. I was interested to ponder how such a policy would go down in the UK where, by and large, people study whatever takes their fancy, however obviously this accords with national economic goals.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2008

2006, a meta-analysis of 96 studies) refutes Nielsen's point. , which discussed Jakob Nielsen's rather negative views on the efficacy of e-learning, Tom Werner of Brandon-Hall brought some interesting research to my attention: The research (Sitzmann et al., It's the instructional method, not the delivery medium, that makes the difference.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

If you're looking for a book, you'd do well to try Learning in Real Time by the impressively monikered Jonathan Finkelstein (Jossey-Bass, 2006). However, even this small step requires support, whether that's coaching from an experienced failitator, a formal training programme or a book, perhaps all three.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2008

That the learning preferences of Gen Y (described by Barking Robot in 2006 as interactive, student-centred, authentic, collaborative and on-demand) are, in fact, what we all want and always have.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I'm writing from Online Educa 2006 in Berlin. The focus of the major presentations at Online Educa 2006 (George Siemens, Jay Cross, etc.)was, This is the second time I've been to this event and if this current experience creates as great an impression on me as the first then I will have indeed learned something profound.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2006

Smith (Learning Circuits, 2006). I'm not averse to this medium, but communication is obviously limited to text and you have a hell of a job as a tutor controlling the discussion. I was interested, therefore, to read Synchronous Discussion in Online Courses: A Pedagogical Strategy for Taming the Chat Beast By Craig W.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2006

What will you remember most about 2006? Learning Circuit's big questions for December are: 1. For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 19, 2006

Anyway, next week I have to get up on time because I'm speaking at Learning Technologies 2006, the conference that always gets in first. It seems only days since Xmas and I haven't yet got used to waking up in the dark and having to work.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

2006: Apple goes Intel. First 64-bit computers. 2004: First affordable digital SLRs. PCI Express cards introduced. Release of Playstation Portable and Nintendo DS. 2005: First dual-core chips. Birth of YouTube. M/S launch XBox 360. Playstation III and Nintendo Wii. 2007: Windows Vista. Anyone's guess what happens in the next 30 years.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

As we enter 2006, there are something like 30 million blogs like this one, with more than 30 thousand being discovered daily. And that's not a bad way to start 2006. More importantly, you don't have the opportunity to publish your own thoughts and opinions, to become a provider as well as a recipient.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2007

On the other hand, I am not completely unaware of what is happening in the world around me and so I was interested to meet, in Boston, a true m-learning enthusiast in the shape of David Metcalf and to walk away with a free copy of his book, mLearning (HRD Press, 2006), one of the few available on the subject.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

I was amused by how Clark, Nguyen and Sweller refer to learning styles in their book Efficiency in Learning (Pfeiffer, 2006): "Learning styles are one type of unproductive instructional mythology pervasive in the training profession. Unfortunately, he gets distracted by learning styles, which only complicates the issue.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2007

I brought a few books with me to see if I could make a dent in my pile of 'to reads' but I have only managed one - Don Tapscott's Wikinomics (Portfolio Books, 2006). I may be on holiday but we're doing no visiting today and I'm not one for sitting by the pool for hours.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 2, 2007

Still basking in the official recognition of my exceptional happiness (see It's official - e-learning makes you happy ), I was particularly interested in the Happiness and Economics feature in the Economist of December 23rd 2006. They gain in rank at the expense of their free time.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2007

Brent Schenkler points to the latest data on social networking sites, which shows how Facebook has grown by 270% since June 2006, putting it in a clear second place behind MySpace, which also grew but only(!) I am obviously not alone in my aspirations.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2007

It's a while (some ten years in fact) since I had to manage any really major e-learning development projects that involved a client and a team of more than two, so this is not my main priority, but I felt I had to dig deeper to see what might have changed.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 27, 2007

Now I don't know if the train journeys to London are getting slower or I'm reading faster, but I managed to get through The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning by Wick, Pollock, Jefferson and Flanagan (Pfeiffer, 2006) in the time it took to travel 60 miles.

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