Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

They will receive ample demonstrations and examples. With this strategy, a subject expert presents information to the – largely passive – learner. When it comes to the inevitable exam, you will cram as much information as you can into some sort of temporary memory space to help you overcome this hurdle.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. His leaning is towards rich blends, going beyond the typical classroom plus e-learning mix to include both formal and informal elements. So it’s called informal learning or on-the-job learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Now e-learning's a big subject if you include all its many variants - formal and informal, synchronous and asynchronous and so on - and if you take into account all the issues relating to its management and marketing. Use activities that help the learner to relate the new material to what they already know.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. No ability to gather global management information, including costs. To embed best practice processes in all l&d activities across the company.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

The statistics suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day – almost half their waking lives - "engaging in media and communications activities" The article goes on: “However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

After all, unless they are actively engaged in some aspect of learning technologies, they probably see it as one hell of a threat (a topic I’ll be taking up in a future post). More importantly, we need many more great examples of highly engaging, adaptive and relevant materials that we can use as a model and an opinion shaper.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Throughout my new book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. What the BBC team accomplished was to take an informal, peer-learning approach and fold it into a formal l&d intervention. This is still a vital role, however.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 14, 2009

Its owner can solve problems more effectively and is more likely to retain information. A small degree of peer pressure would be a good example. Lots of people tell me that role-play is their least favourite learning activity for that very reason. Not surprisingly, people who experience chronic stress are sick more often.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

They will receive ample demonstrations and examples. With this strategy, a subject expert presents information to the – largely passive – learner. When it comes to the inevitable exam, you will cram as much information as you can into some sort of temporary memory space to help you overcome this hurdle.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. Harnessing informal learning There was an assumption that students would jump at the chance to use chat rooms and forums, however without active support and guidance such chat rooms were often ‘like the Marie Celeste’.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 6, 2008

As a reader of this blog you are a witness if not an active participant in the dramatic changes that we have seen over the last few years as a result of web 2.0 By 'examples' I mean case studies from users, sharing successes and lessons learned. technologies. When so many wonderful resources are available online, you'd have to agree.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

In other cases, the interactivity comes from the elements of the experience that accompany the learning materials, as part of a formal or informal blend. For example, non-interactive materials such as videos may be used as part of a workshop and backed up with discussion and other activities.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2008

E-learning is not necessarily perceived by the user as just another goal-orientated web activity. Ideas are important, but they need to be backed up by concrete examples; they also need to be thoroughly explored to ensure their validity and their relevance. E-learning: an oxymoron? Why it's not worth paying peanuts.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

Rather than 'tell and test', where you present information and then follow this up with a knowledge test, I prefer an inductive approach, where you build on the learner's prior knowledge and help them to connect with new concepts, principles, rules, etc. It's the sort of activity that a classroom teacher uses routinely.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

It seems likely to me that more credible reasons for our lack of close friends - at least among adults - are (1) the diminishing amount of discretionary time that we have available for social activity and (2) our increasing mobility, which sees our childhood friends scattered around the globe. You do have a choice.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. Learning and teaching activities aim to build lasting knowledge and skill. Better to provide the information only when it’s needed.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2009

The best way to capture attention is with an emotionally-arousing experience of some sort - perhaps an anecdote, a surprising fact, a scenario, an activity - that is relevant to the point you will be making. Rule 5: Repeat to remember The key point here is that information is remembered best when it is elaborate, meaningful and contextual.

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