Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2023

I believe that the difference starts with objectives; you can’t make a meaningful experience if you don’t have learners acquiring relevant new skills (not just an information dump). From there, there are nuances on designing individual practice activities, and then aggregated into practice s (that is, putting practices together).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. She actively shares her expertise and insights.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We also start looking at informal learning, the continual innovation. It starts where if there’s network usage, it’s not org-originated, through some units having a system, to having an organizational focus on communication, and then actively facilitating social learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2021

We award it to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning. She has written extensively about learning and development and has been active on social media for many years. The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross, is an annual presentation.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

Seeking is about information coming in, that is, what you’re looking for and the feeds you track. First of all there’s the ‘as needed’ searches for specific information. On LinkedIn, a while ago I actively removed all my follows on my connections, and only retained ones for folks I trust.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I became an enthusiast and active participant. I want to yell “it’s dead, what you hear are no longer valid opinions” I get that it’s hard, and lots of folks are still there, but… It had become, and I hear that it continues to be, an increasing swamp of bad information. How do I know? Not a good source!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 6, 2021

The next level is an information architecture or interface design that is structured to meet those needs. . Those semantic structures are then rendered as an information design with navigation or interface design. The five levels, in order, are: The original objectives and user needs.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 28, 2022

Specifically, how do we engage people already actively designing? You also need some new information: why this is necessary for the learners , and why experts find it interesting enough to study. Learning Experience Design (LXD), I argue, is the elegant integration of learning science with engagement.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2023

We know that activating relevant knowledge is important cognitively, but I suggest that it won’t stick as well unless you’ve piqued their awareness. That is, you could make a dramatic story of saving someone because of the information you have, or the bad outcomes from not having it. So here I ponder comic openings.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2014

The notion is that we need to redefine curriculum as a way to get away from a content base, and start moving to an activity base. We’re more likely to remember information we’ve had to process rather than information we’ve just been presented with. Fingers crossed ;).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2023

Thus, I posit that it takes humans to write the introduction to learning experiences, to set the ‘ hook ‘ Similarly, it takes humans to make practice activities (aka assessment) that have an engaging context, appropriate challenge, and naturally embed the task. We need to address these elements in our learning experiences.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2014

In thinking through how to design courses that lead to both engaging experiences and meaningful outcomes, I’ve been working on the component activities. In typical approaches, you’d be presenting conceptual information (e.g. a decision tree), or a checklist, or something that requires them to use the information.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2019

He had been touting the value of Informal Learning, and realized he was doing it alone. When Jay passed away, we determined to honor his ideas by recognizing those who continue to carry the banner for informal learning. She’s active in social media, for instance.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

Yes, we look to engage multiple senses, but for comprehending and encoding information. We design meaningful active practice not because any generation needs it, but because it’s better aligned with how our brains learn at pretty much any age. We reinforce practice with content that guides performance and provides feedback.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The point is that retrieving information from memory and doing things with it increases the likelihood of learning. ” I’ve always advocated for applying the information, doing something with it. What would be a series of activities that would develop understanding. considering how it would be applied in practice.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

Informal learning isn’t our job. That’s learning too, and there is a role for active facilitation of best principles. That’s learning too, and there is a role for active facilitation of best principles. Informal learning is the key to innovation, and innovation is a necessary differentiation.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2019

And that’s about rethinking training to be about transformative experience design, performance support to be included, and informal learning to be also addressed. The thing I like is the way she’s characterized different activities. That’s intellectricity ! This is a framework that ties it together nicely.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

One was so-called ‘brain training’, in this case activating right-left brain simultaneously. It’s pretty horrific to think of VR being used to present information (like attending a PowerPoint presentation in 2nd Life, which happened); to do it on such a flawed concept is doubly scary. The post Death to Zombies!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

In my own words: LDA Press, an imprint of the Learning & Development Accelerator, is a boutique publisher focusing on evidence-informed titles that fill needed gaps in the literature while offering authors the relationship they deserve. Also, we’re actively soliciting additional needed works.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2020

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Andrew is determined that learning and development should be an integral part of business activity.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2018

recognizing what facilitates informal learning in the short term (the ‘solve this’ type of problem-solving’). facilitating long-term informal learning by practices and tools suites. fostering a culture where innovation thrives. We’ll see if this tactic works to generate conversations and then new thinking.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 3, 2016

Still, mindmaps capture structural information in a visual way, that supports tapping into our powerful visual processing system. You can add information to them; as a visual tool, you can add extra graphical information, like tables or charts, to augment the map. And the links can be plain or directional.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2018

Instead our thinking is really patterns of activation across neurons. So, we activate patterns. And, typically, if we’re addressing higher-level thinking than motor reactions (think: decisions about actions), we’re activating complex combinations of patterns. However, we don’t address individual neurons.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2019

Instead, however, of the experiences being mediated by a computer interface, instead activities are inserted into the players experience. The information and decisions the player takes are mediated by real world interfaces, but distributed, not concentrated in one interface. A colleague built a whole engine for this!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2015

When we learn on our own, we need to address what information we want coming in and how we process it. To me there are two main components: what you actively seek, and what comes to you. What you actively seek really is your searching abilities. Then, you also want to set up a stream of information that comes to you.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You have to actively reprocess the information, extracting structure through outlines or networks, and paraphrasing what you hear instead of parroting it. You need to be actively engaged. So, take notes that reprocess the information presented. This is the real value of note taking. Yet that’s not a bad thing!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2016

To start with, Harold’s model is oriented around coping with the information flow as a component of learning. Then, the information is processed, by either or both of representation or active experimentation. Finally, information is shared, either broadcast through some form of post, or sent to a specific target.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2016

While it’s easy to say that the role of formal learning wanes, and the role of informal learning ramps up, what are the types of support we might look to? The underlying point is that as individuals gather expertise the value of formal learning drops, and the value of informal learning increases. Ok, but what does that mean ?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2021

So, too, would be Michael Allen’s SAM (Successive Approximation Model) and CCAF (Context-Challenge-Activity-Feedback). Social (more the informal). Harold Jarche’s Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) , for instance, is a brand for a framework. They’re ways to package up good ideas. And of course, t0 take ownership.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I’m trying to be concrete about different types of activities you might do in the Sense section as I think representations such as diagrams are valuable but very different than active application via prototyping and testing. (And And yes, I’m really stretching to keep the alliteration of the R’s.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

One is rather subtle as yet, but will be profound, and that is the ability to track more activity, mine more data, and gain more insights. The ability to stay more tightly coupled with colleagues, sharing information and collaborating, has really become mainstream in our lives, and is going to have a big impact on our organizations.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

with sufficient depth to develop models), using a cognitive task analysis process to get the objectives, align the processing activities to the type of learning objective, developing appropriate materials and rich simulations, testing the learning and using feedback to refine the product, all before final release.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2013

The point is to characterize the relationship between underpinning infrastructure and mechanisms to support availability for formal and informal learning. Ultimately, these activities can or will be tracked through standards such as SCORM for formal learning or the new experience API (xAPI) for informal learning.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2014

That means using information about where you are, when you are, which way you’re looking, temperature or barometric pressure, or even your own state: blood pressure, blood sugar, galvanic skin response, or whatever else skin sensors can detect. In the case of mobile, one of the unique opportunities is contextualization.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Let me spin it another way: I do not think we should be shooting for an information dump and knowledge test. You end up with what cognitive scientists call ‘inert knowledge’ You’ll learn it and pass a test on it, but when it’s relevant in practice it won’t even get activated!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2014

I’ve argued in the past for a more active learning, and I think the argument for pure instructivism sets up a straw man (Feuerzeig argued for guided discovery back in ’85!). I’m pushing a very activity-based pedagogy (and curriculum).

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Here, an individual might actively practice, have mixed initiative dialogs, or even work with others or tools to develop an outcome or update some existing shared resources. Now, if the system uses this information to do something different than under other circumstances, we’re contextualizing what we do.

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