Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

and came up with a very simple answer: E-learning, in its many and varied forms, is suitable for any learning activity which does not have to be conducted face-to-fac e. As an informal developmental activity, e.g. webinars including presentations and discussions. As a developmental activity initiated by the learner.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yet for many people, the greatest insights come not through ‘learning to’ but by ‘learning from’ our day-to-day work activities. Our survival did not depend upon exposing ourselves to organised, pre-planned packets of information. Our survival depended upon chaotic, reactive information-gathering experiences.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

With the increasing awareness of the importance of informal learning, in all its guises, it is not surprising, therefore, that learning professionals should seek to broaden their scope by enriching their blends with coaching, practical work assignments, performance support materials and so on.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

The book provides you with fundamental principles that you can apply to any content creation activity as well as practical information relating to specific content types. Digital learning content takes a wide variety of forms, including tutorials, scenarios, podcasts, screencasts, videos, slideshows, quizzes and reference materials.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. You concentrate hard and hope that some of what you read or hear will stick.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When, at the end of a course, the instructor handed out a reading list, web links or information about further courses, they were acting as curator – just like in a museum, where the curator selects from the wide range of exhibits in the museum's collection and organises these to make a fulfilling experience for the museum's visitors.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

For those of us who have spent a number of years working in online learning, the idea that a group can collaborate asynchronously (not in real-time) on a learning activity is rather taken for granted - not so much 'old hat' as just nothing novel. All very good, but the model remained synchronous = social and asynchronous = individual.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

When I started blogging, I saw it primarily as an activity for personal reflection, a way of clarifying and externalising my thoughts. My crime, by the way, was to suggest that you beware who's selling informal learning. And when you start blogging that's pretty well all you can do, because it takes time to attract readers.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a facilitated learning intervention, interactions can be planned to occur alongside the use of learning materials, through group activities in a classroom, debriefs in a virtual classroom, forum discussions, practical group assignments, coaching sessions, and so on.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

November Profile of a learning architect: Darren Owen Shepherd accused of sensationalist claptrap Beware who's selling informal learning * Blending is a continuum Want to write? The Big Question: how to assess informal learning Can self-study be social? Get on a train Why does learning content seem so much more exciting on an iPad?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 11, 2011

Whatever the arguments about how best we resolve these issues, prolonged periods of lower levels of economic activity will have an effect on l&d as on everyone else: In the public sector , the spending cuts required to pay off national debt will mean that management will be looking critically at all non-essential expenditure.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I have no doubt at all that technology affords learners many advantages - it brings them closer to millions of fellow learners, it provides access to a wealth of information - but I do doubt how meaningful learning can be when you're sat at the computer itself.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Actually, I was probably much more a learning architect than a training specialist, because I was encouraged to play an active role in just about all aspects of learning and development at work, but training was the word we used back then and I was OK with that, because that was the norm.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Performance support is not extensive but necessary information is available on the company’s intranet. For this profile we turn to Rob Bartlett from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. Performance support is not extensive but necessary information is available on the company’s intranet. For this profile, we turn to Rob Bartlett, from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 17, 2011

I wanted to know whether Saba, one of the most successful of the big LMSs, could reinvent itself to accommodate informal learning. There is some overlap: both types of platforms can deliver resources and both can support certain types of learning activities. But the nature of those resources and activities is typically very different.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To learn successfully, it requires us as human beings to exchange information, give and receive feedback, share perspectives, engage together in practical activities, support each other through the bad times and get together to celebrate our successes. Learning is a very human experience. People need people.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

They expect it because they have grown accustomed to finding whatever information they need at the click of a mouse from Google, YouTube and Wikipedia. Controlling where you learn: Having to travel to a central location for training is sometimes necessary, but is typically an expensive and time-consuming activity.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 18, 2010

You'll find more information about it here. The tool indicates that you should engage closely with these stakeholders and try to actively influence their response. The tool suggests that you keep learners informed. Karen Spillane alerted me to the following tool for stakeholder analysis. It's hard to argue with this.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

His leaning is towards rich blends, going beyond the typical classroom plus e-learning mix to include both formal and informal elements. Sebastian is a big fan of asynchronous group activities, centred around Shell’s Moodle platform. So it’s called informal learning or on-the-job learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 9, 2010

Rather than presenting the learner with the information and then testing it, you ask challenging questions which force the learner to draw on prior knowledge and skills to try and figure things out for themselves. Informational material becomes something that the learner accesses as and when they need it.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. You concentrate hard and hope that some of what you read or hear will stick.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

Modularity implies a more granular structure - activities and resources must be provided in much smaller chunks. Modular structures are not only more flexible, they also provide improved results, because learners are so often overloaded by lengthy courses and resources.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Jane talks about the way in which social media can be deployed to support informal learning, but the focus here is on the course, and the way social media tools can be used before, during and after. This is not a book that spends a lot of time developing a theory of social learning; this is highly practical stuff, and the better for it.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2010

So, what has all this activity achieved? Twitter is definitely accelerating the spread of useful information across the learning community and this has to be a good thing. I’m concerned that we’re all becoming very good at passing interesting information on from one to another, but not actually reading and reflecting on any of it.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To learn successfully, it requires us as human beings to exchange information, give and receive feedback, share perspectives, engage together in practical activities, support each other through the bad times and get together to celebrate our successes. Learning is a very human experience. People need people.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

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’. In Dick’s view “it is almost an oxymoron to try and control informal learning.”

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Here are a few quotes to whet your appetite: "Multi-tasking might look impressive, but it's often just a muddle-headed displacement activity." " "The cost of time lost recovering from informational interruptions is $1bn." The article collects some fascinating opinions and data.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

" Now I've met Rob Chapman and he's both a nice guy and a successful businessman, but well-informed he certainly is not. Where Rob is most clearly ill-informed is in the way he characterises e-learning as exclusively a self-study activity, conducted in isolation.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

And up until now it has not been discouraged - in fact we've regarded learning with trainers/teachers, subject experts or peers as our default option, whether formal and off-job, one-to-one on-the-job or completely informally.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

No ability to gather global management information, including costs. To embed best practice processes in all l&d activities across the company. Charles is also a member of The internet Time Alliance, a think-tank of leading practitioners helping organisations ‘work smarter’ through informal and social learning.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 14, 2009

Its owner can solve problems more effectively and is more likely to retain information. 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. A lot more often.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

What the BBC team accomplished was to take an informal, peer-learning approach and fold it into a formal l&d intervention. Technology is helping to transform our view of learning, as it both supports and highlights the role of informal learning. This is still a vital role, however.

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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). Now l&d people have lots of reasons not to like e-learning, so we have to be careful about taking their opinions too much to heart.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2008

At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets — so long as the learner already has the conceptual framework in place to make sense of the facts. informal learning using web 2.0 E-learning is not necessarily perceived by the user as just another goal-orientated web activity.

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