Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

According to Barking Robot (2006), Gen Y want learning to be interactive, student-centred, authentic, collaborative and on-demand. " I first became curious about the supposed differences between the expectations of the generations when I investigated what was known about the learning preferences of Gen Y.

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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). I particularly like this book because it appears to be primarily aimed at the academic world, where there is a richer tradition of collaborative online learning. This has been my experience too.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2008

2006, a meta-analysis of 96 studies) refutes Nielsen's point. If you want to provide tutorial support, you could do this face-to-face, by telephone, by email or by instant messaging. It's the instructional method, not the delivery medium, that makes the difference. are compared, there's little or no difference in outcomes.

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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

JANUARY 3, 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. 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.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

Steve provides lots of useful tips on ways to effectively scaffold the new entrant ('the apprentice') without being bogged down the whole time answering questions. The same survey showed that only a minority of managers were trained to support learning and development, so this book clearly has the potential for an audience.

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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. Sounds like common sense, but of course common sense is rarely common.

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