Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

E-learning is rocket science - rapid tools and processes serve to de-professionalise the field. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same poor result. Today's e-learning is marginally useful. An LMS is just an e-learning vending machine. Blended learning is so often blended training.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2009

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for January asks what are your challenges, plans and predictions for 2009? Predictions Of all the forces for change (Gen Y, new thinking about learning, pressures to respond quickly to needs, new tools, new devices, etc.) When there are days left over you do your own thing.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

In 2009 I predicted : Most of the cool stuff (informal learning, social media, games and sims, mobile learning) will have to stay on the back burner, because management will simply not be interested in experimenting. In 2009 I predicted : Classroom training will be decimated. only one will matter and that is surviving the downturn.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

It soon also became clear that blogging had become the domain of a select bunch of die-hard enthusiasts and was never going to become a tool for the masses, for whom Facebook status updates and tweets are more than adequate forms of expression. As a result, I came to the conclusion in 2009 that blogging is journalism , pure and simple.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2010

Try mixing self-study with virtual classrooms and collaborative activities using forums and other asynchronous tools. Attendance at external conferences, workshops and events has decreased the most, with a quarter (26%) of organisations using it less.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Although I have decades of experience using (and at one stage designing) more sophisticated e-learning authoring tools - you know, the highly configurable ones with their own scripting languages - I now find myself turning more and more often to the so-called rapid development tools.

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