Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2012

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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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Instrumentality · The Last Post In October 2005, I wrote my first post for the Clive on Learning. It was called Bringing e-learning into the twentieth Century. We're now 20 years into that new century and I'd like to think that, thanks a great deal to coronavirus and repeated lockdowns, we now have a pretty good idea of what advantages we can gain by learning online.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. So dominant in fact, that those tasked with devising and assembling technology-based learning solutions have been called instructional designers ever since. As a result, it is easy to believe that there is only one valid approach to teaching on a computer and instruction is it.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

In my last post, I argued that, although face-to-face learning has been the default since the dawn of time, online learning has changed everything. As we have discovered over the past few weeks, online learning is scalable, flexible, accessible to all but a small minority, economical, environmentally advantageous and, of course, socially distant. What’s not to like?

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APRIL 3, 2020

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

No Regrets is a tale of love and learning, produced in 2014 to accompany my book More Than Blended Learning. It tells the tale of two young people who meet up in Brighton as they begin training in their new jobs. As the week progresses, they reflect on their contrasting learning experiences, highlighting from a learner's perspective what good and bad looks like in the design of learning solutions.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This video follows on from ' Do we still need e-learning? ' It goes back through the 40-year history of e-learning to show that it was at its most promising in the early days, when there was a strong desire to deliver a personalised instructional experience. There are now few, if any, technical obstacles to achieving those goals, as the latest authoring platforms provide increasing adaptive capabilities.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As learning professionals, it is our lot to try our best to be persuasive, whether we’re trying to convince stakeholders to go with what we believe will be the best solution to their problem, persuade learners and their managers to engage with our interventions, or sell learners on a new way of working. You could say we were in the persuasion business.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 29, 2019

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MAY 20, 2019

Imagine if you had to satisfy not one set of customers but two. Both were demanding, and each was looking for quite different things. Well, such is the lot of the learning professional. Not only do you have to provide a great service to your clients, business sponsors and key stakeholders, you also have to deliver satisfying experiences to your end users – the learners.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2019

In their book Transfer of Training, Mary Broad and John Newstrom estimated that merely 10% of the dollars spent on training resulted in actual and lasting behavioural change. And that’s obviously not enough. They did some research into who it was that made the biggest impact on transfer of learning. They found that the greatest difference was made by the learner’s manager in setting expectations before the experience and then following up after.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2019

When we think of a great learning experience with digital content, we tend to think of the way that the content itself is designed – how usable, relevant and engaging it is for learners. But the learning experience is much more than the content as we shall see. In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how the learner’s experience can be considerably enhanced by the systems and processes we use to deliver our content.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 22, 2019

Sound is a medium that matters. Your audience can listen to a podcast or a radio programme while they’re busy doing other things like walking, driving or keeping fit. You can add narration and sound effects to your animations and videos or leave it to music to set the mood. Sound is a medium the learning professional can master without the need for in-depth technical skills and professional tools.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2019

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In the past year, I have worked with clients on a number of projects in which the sole focus has been supporting employees in adapting to a change by providing resources that they could access at the point of need – a process that we normally call ‘performance support’. In a world of immediate access to information at any time of day and night and wherever you happen to be, we no longer expect to have to acquire all the knowledge required to do our jobs.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

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JANUARY 3, 2019

‘A rose by any other name would smell so sweet.’ So goes the the line from Romeo and Juliet, implying that the name you put to something is much less important than the characteristics of that thing. While this is certainly true of roses, it may not apply so well to people. Although Juliet certainly felt that it did not matter that Romeo’s family name was Montague, it certainly played a big part in his ultimate fate.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

As a learning professional, there is no more satisfying feeling than the knowledge that you have helped a person to grow in confidence. Those of us who are parents will have experienced this feeling as we supported our children in taking their first faltering steps. Similarly, as teachers, trainers, coaches and facilitators, we have the privilege to play a role as a reluctant public speaker makes their first appearance in front of an audience, an apprentice mechanic manages to fix a fault single

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Animation by Barry Sampson, Skills Journey

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JULY 2, 2018

If you work in learning media and do not believe in gender equality then this article is not for you. It may be you’re quite happy with how women and girls are generally portrayed in adverts, video games and films. It could be you’re comfortable with including a token woman in your productions, as long as she’s young and beautiful and only then as a sop to political correctness gone mad.

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MAY 1, 2018

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APRIL 28, 2018

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APRIL 27, 2018

In any project that involves the design and development of learning content, there are competing priorities which can be hard to reconcile. There are at least three key factors all competing for attention, and it's very difficult to concentrate on them all: Three considerations The first major consideration is the subject matter itself. How relevant is this to the target population?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

A computer is much more than a slide projector or a video player. Yes, it can do the work of those devices without breaking sweat but this is hardly what they were designed for. A computer is not fulfilling its potential by simply pulling in information from a data store and delivering it out to a screen and speakers. It has a powerful processor for a very good reason - so it can act on the input it receives from a user and configure an experience that is tailor-made to that user’s needs.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Over the past twelve months, micro-learning has quietly worked itself into my daily routine. Absolutely every day (I’m on a 360-day streak), I practise my French using the Duolingo app. Not quite so often (because it takes a lot of concentration), but still regularly, I do brain training using Peak. And the latest addition is KnowFast, which sends me a daily learning video covering anything from history to science to cookery.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I’ll cut straight to the point. To most learners and most learning professionals, digital learning is a way to meet requirements for knowledge. Even in its most contemporary forms – responsive, massive, open, mobile, point-of-need, video-based and gamified – the priority is still knowledge, whether that is of facts, concepts, principles, processes, rules, procedures or spatial positioning.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

At the time of writing, I am on my to speak at the eLearning Network’s annual conference in London. While I am looking forward to sharing my views on how learning and development professionals need to skill up to meet new challenges and to take advantage of new opportunities, I am enthusiastic to hear from the other keynote speaker, Pedro De Bruyckere, co-author, with Paul Kirschner and Casper Hulshof, of U rban Myths about Learning and Education.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Last week I attended a preview of this year’s Towards Maturity benchmark results, due for public release on November 5th (you can register for the launch webinar on this page ). In case you don’t know Towards Maturity, they were established in 2003 as a government-funded body to promote the use of learning technologies in workplace learning across the UK.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2015

As a learning professional, it’s absolutely vital when you’re taking a brief from a project sponsor that you ask the right questions and are persistent in making sure you get a clear and satisfactory answer. Here’s my list of essential questions: About the need 1. What goal is this intervention intended to support? It’s vital to identify the real underlying purpose of the proposed intervention.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2015

A while back I did something quite unusual. I completed a self-study e-learning programme, as a student, not as a consultant running their eye over someone else's work. Some time later, having had the chance to reflect on the experience, I can't resist making a few comments. I'm not going to tell you what the programme was or who it was made by. but I will say it was a compulsory piece of training, completion of which was required if I was to be able to go ahead with some work with a client.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2015

'One of the key differences between professions and other forms of occupation is the fact that professionals are bound by ethical codes. If they contravene these codes they are liable to be disbarred from the profession. Doctors sign a Hippocratic oath, which binds them to do no harm to their patients. Their patients’ interests take priority over those of government or their own opportunities to make financial gains.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 11, 2015

'First of all, before we get started, let me just clarify that I am not talking about e-learning in the broadest sense, encompassing live online sessions and all sorts of online collaboration. I prefer to refer to these as learning technologies, perhaps even ''digital learning''. No, what I’m referring to in this post is the use of interactive self-study materials, particularly in the workplace.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

'I’d never written a film script before. The nearest I’d got to so-called creative writing was penning the dialogue for interactive scenarios, so this was a brave move. To be honest, I was pushed hard by my colleague Asatuurs Keim, a film-maker with a passion for storytelling and someone who believes we have failed to realise the full potential of film as a vehicle for learning at work.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

'A few days ago, I sat down to write a post explaining why I thought stories were such a powerful tool for learning. In my research, I came across a post I originally published in 2005. Once I had got over the shock of realising that this post was a full ten years old, I decided to share it again, given I probably now have a very different audience.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2014

'The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development shot this movie at the Learning and Development Show in London in April. It previews a digital learning design workshop that I will be running in October and throughout 2015.

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JUNE 26, 2014

'I haven''t been posting much recently, mainly because every moment I''m not working for other people I''m spending on my new book. However, Learnnovators did manage to get me to hold forth on a wide range of different learning technology issues in this post just published.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 7, 2014

'Oppia is an open-source tool from Google which allows anyone to create interactive learning dialogues. Here''s Google''s explainer: There''s also a useful review at TechCrunch. I''ve had a look at several examples of Oppia dialogues and, to be honest, they are still pretty primitive. However, I like the idea. One reason why I''m so positive is because I''m so old I''ve seen this all before back in the 1980s.

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