Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

Yes, not totally pleased about the provider, but I have yet to find a tool with better industrial strength outlining. It’s just cleaner for me than alternatives. I’ve switched to use this as my search engine, as it’s less-tracking, and provides good results. So the first two tools I use are for writing: 1.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2022

Yes, there are entailments – governance, strategy, engineering – but the alternative is that lingering legacy content that’s out of date but no one can deal with. It’s the tactical step of a strategic goal to provide support for people to successfully meet their needs. That’s the top level focus.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This should be coupled with providing development of writing good search strings and evaluating search outcomes. The alternative, digitizing unaligned practices, can only hinder improvement to be a successful organization. First, we should be looking at all the levels of organizational alignment.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

It’s not about testing knowledge, but ability to apply that knowledge to choose between alternative courses of action. We reinforce practice with content that guides performance and provides feedback. It can be mini-scenarios (better multiple choice), branching, or sims, but it’s about ‘do’, not know.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Trying to point out why it’s appealing, showing why they’re wrong, and providing alternative approaches that are sounder. Amongst the publications by Jane Bozarth for the research library of the eLearning Guild, there are several myths-related compendiums. And, immodestly, I wrote a whole book about myths!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Such a question has a story context, a precipitating situation, and then alternative decisions. And the alternatives are ways learners go wrong, not silly or obviously incorrect choices). When you do so, you can provide an immersive experience. I suggest that your questions should be like this, but are there more?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2018

His definition sounded like alternate reality, as in alternate reality games. At core, to me, it’s about providing either deep practice or information at the ‘teachable moment’ Both are doable and valuable. Another aspect is of interest to me, too. And these could be learning experiences too.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2013

An interesting other cut is that you can do something contextual for any or all of these areas as well: you could provide a contextually relevant or local directory of mentors for formal social or collaborators for performance support. What I’m doing here is revising the way I cut through the space.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 1, 2019

Or, of course, people could market alternative process certifications. For your courses, if you provide them as a product or service? It appears this is what Quality Matters does, for instance, at least K12 and higher ed. It appears IACET does this for continuing education certification. Would an organization certification matter?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Sugrue first proposed a simpler taxonomy, and also an alternative that was just performance. Now, you can’t provide all the situations, you you need to choose the right ones that will help facilitate abstraction and transfer.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

I don’t completely align with their approach, but that’s ok, and I regularly cite their lead as a person who’s provided sage advice about doing good learning design. It makes much more sense, for instance, to have a default be to have separate feedback for each wrong answer than the alternative.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Whether it’s because of when you are, providing specific information, or where you are, using location characteristics, this is likely to be the most valuable opportunity. Here I’m thinking alternate reality games or augmented reality (whether it’s voiceover, visual overlays, what have you).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I can wish that the providers in the US would work and play together a little bit more! There may be better alternatives, but getting consistently behind one standard makes the investment amortize effectively. Establishing the consistent use of a standard can help build a powerful, and valuable, ecosystem.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In elearning, we create introductions and concept presentations, we portray examples, and we make interactivities that provide practice. The alternative, however, is still uncertain. I think there are potential problems with the label, so let me make them clear. What we do is create content. Fingers crossed.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I can wish that the providers in the US would work and play together a little bit more! There may be better alternatives, but getting consistently behind one standard makes the investment amortize effectively. Establishing the consistent use of a standard can help build a powerful, and valuable, ecosystem.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 20, 2018

As an alternative, they could be looking at longer term approaches that help them get their workforce more intrinsically engaged. When you provide meaningful work with enablement to succeed, you’re aligning the elements to succeed. Smart is ‘in the moment’, wise is looking at the bigger picture.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2018

Authoring tools, in general, are oriented on a ‘page’ metaphor; they’re designed to provide a sequence of pages. The critical element is being faced with a decision about an action to take, then apply the knowledge to discriminate between the alternatives, and make a decision. So here’re some thoughts on tools.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2015

Examples need to show a context, the barriers, and how the content model provides guidance about how to succeed (and when it won’t). Nonsensical alternatives to the right answer. Yet too often I see arbitrary lists of information accompanied by a rote knowledge test. As if that’s gonna stick. Undistinguished feedback.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2012

Chapter 7 talks about Applying Gamification to Problem Solving and helps explain how serious games provide deep practice. And Chapter 9 provides valuable guidance about the design process itself. Chapter 8 maps gamification on to different learning domains such as declarative, procedural, affective, and more.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 21, 2016

The alternatives were ‘providing what’s asked for’ (e.g. Now, the alternatives were not totally orthogonal (e.g. The third question was looking at the feedback provided. It’s nice (and I admit somewhat surprising) that almost 40% are actually providing feedback that addresses each wrong answer.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2016

In preparation for the upcoming FocusOn Learning Conference, where I’ll be running a workshop about cognitive science for L&D, not just for learning but also for mobile and performance support, I was thinking about how context can be leveraged to provide more optimal learning and performance. And there’s an alternative.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2011

If the performance support is just providing rote information so that the learner doesn’t have to look it up, that’s ok. But if, instead, the performance support is interactive decision support, the system could, and should, provide the model that’s guiding the decisions as well as the recommendations.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 24, 2012

I see augmenting formal learning as one, providing performance support as a second, social media as a 3rd area, and the unique mobile contribution of context-sensitive support as a 4th area. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) don’t have to be social, but can be. In this case I’m looking at the 4 C’s by work categories.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 2, 2015

While it is possible to make alternatives available that represent different decisions, sometimes there are nuances that require us to respond in richer ways. An alternative is to have the learner evaluate themselves. So allow me to do that now. What they then could do was listen to a model response as well as their response.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2013

Principles of good practice include meaningful decisions, alternatives that represent reliable misconceptions, relevant contexts, believable dialog, and more. Aligning and evaluating the assessment, and providing scrutable justification for the assessment attributes (e.g. Writing good assessments is hard.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 8, 2014

Make sure that the challenge is sufficient, too, by having alternatives that are seductive unless you really understand. Contextualize it, and exaggerate the context (in appropriate ways) to raise the level of interest and importance to be closer to the level of engagement that will be involved in live performance.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last week, I posted about a model where a system could provide a sage who looks at the events of your life and provides support. an alternate reality game) if it’s not occurring at a sufficient rate in real life, but the goal is to match the learning development plan to the rate at which we effectively learn.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2010

GPS), and we can design capabilities that provide us content and computations power. When linked with augmented reality, we can start having alternate reality games. On top of that, we can have ubiquitous connectivity, we can connect to sensors that can recognize the world (e.g. cameras) and our context (e.g. What am I confounding?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 14, 2015

So many bad practices – info-dump and knowledge-test classes, no alternative to courses, lack of measuring impact – mean that L&D is out of touch with the information age. I feel so strongly that I wrote a book about it.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2016

This is very necessary for me! :) And, importantly, the processes in nature provide a counter-balance to the artificial processes we put in place to breed plants and animals. Thus, just the existence of these alternate paths (between cars and backpacking) means to me a higher likelihood of preserving the environment.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2017

I’m all for self-driving vehicles, because the alternative is pretty bad (tho’ could we do better in driver training or licensing, like in Germany?). We still haven’t achieved the integration of separate pattern-matching, and exception handling, that our own cognitive processor provides. But I want my human doctor in the loop.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

While the intention was not to provide coverage of learning science, several points emerged at one point or another as research-based outcomes to be desired. Is learning engineering an alternative to instructional design? For one, the value of models in learning. Another was, of course, the value of spacing practice.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Even if it offers you alternatives, or you specify preferences like ‘no toll roads’, the underlying reasoning isn’t clear. Sure, it should be able to be shut off or customized, but the processing going on provides an opportunity for learning to happen in new and meaningful ways.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In your working life, how have you learnt effectively from experience, please provide an example if possible? In your working life, how have you learnt effectively from people, please provide an example if possible? I was asked by a colleague to answer some questions for a project on how to learn. I read, a lot.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To do so, let me provide some context. The alternative, where providers will be able to throttle or even bar certain types of data will stifle innovation. And, as long as we’re talking the net, I’m going to do something I don’t usually do here; I’m going to take a position on something besides learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 10, 2012

And, if you’re doing this across massive populations of learners, and is possible across institutions, or with really big organizations, you’re talking the ‘big data’ phenomena that will provide the necessary quantities to start generating lots of these outcomes.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

If nothing else, it might get someone to ask what I mean and provide an opportunity to open up the discussion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than open to an alternate suggestion, but in the interim, I’m going to keep playing with this.

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