Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A recent article in The Economist entitled Learning difficulties describes a paradox of educational research which is that when you present information in a way that looks easy to learn it often has the opposite effect.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2018

So, forget using web conferencing for delivering content - video, web articles and podcasts are far more practical, flexible and accessible. And, as a group experience - in itself much less flexible than things that learners do on their own - it simply must be highly interactive.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2011

According to an article in last Saturday's Guardian , research conducted at Columbia University and reported in Science Magazine shows just how much people have come to rely on the internet as 'an external memory source that we can access at any time'. In one experiment, participants were given pieces of information to type into a computer.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

An interesting article in the Technology Quarterly of The Economist, The net generation, unplugged , challenges whether there really is a new generation that has been shaped by new media technologies and which therefore sees the world in a different way and acts accordingly. In other words, these desires may well be universal.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Chris Anderson’s article The web is dead: long live the internet , in the August edition of Wired magazine, has attracted a lot of attention, including mine, but for many the title of the article would mean very little.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Here are some other interesting snippets from the article: Prospects (US figures): Employment is expected to jump by 50,500 jobs, or more than 23 per cent, to 267,000 jobs by 2018, the Labor Department reports. That's good news for all of you out there who fell foul of the recession. Activity level: Average.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

An article, The Myth of Multitasking , in this month’s Management Today magazine, adds to the backlash against the frenetic task switching that has become so common in the past few years, as more and more communication channels open up alongside new mobile technologies. The article collects some fascinating opinions and data.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2010

In a fascinating Economist article, The Lazy Medium: How people really watch television , we discover once again how rapid changes in technology are only slowly reflected in meaningful changes in behaviour.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

On the other hand, several users commented that they would have been just as happy with a simple briefing, perhaps even a web article or a PDF file. They were impressed by the animations and video game-like features.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the first in this series of two articles, Making the case for content curation , I described why content curation is such a valuable ingredient in a strategy for workplace learning. This time I’ll suggest a process that you can follow to provide an effective curation service to a population of employees in your organisation.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I''m not referring to virtual classrooms, online content such as web articles and videos, or any form of social media. I''m referring to those interactive self-study materials which employees sit and complete on their own (if they can''t get someone else to do it for them).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 26, 2010

In a rare training-related article in People Management magazine, Evaluating Performance Gain from Training , my attention was drawn to an interesting study conducted by training outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool , with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2010

As the article points out, Obama "joined a long tradition of grumbling about new technologies and new forms of media.” Apparently - and you'll never believe this - Socrates objected to the spread of writing because it would cause people to rely on written texts rather than their memory.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 15, 2009

The Economist ran an interesting article this week on the relationship between the number of participants in a competition and the motivation of the competitors. It seems that the more competitors are taking part, the less motivated we are and therefore the less well we do.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Digital online content, including web articles, videos, screencasts, podcasts, slide shows Performance support material for access on-demand. In a multi-player context, as a life-like and immersive way for learners to practise collaborative tasks such as handling emergencies.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Your search doesn't lead you to slide shows full of bullet points and multiple-choice questions, but to blogs, Wikipedia articles, screencasts and lots and lots of videos. If you want to know about, say, photography - one of my current interests - the first thing you do is go to Google and YouTube.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 16, 2013

These can take the form of web articles, videos, PDFs or whatever is necessary. A series of more in-depth scenarios tackling ever more challenging but realistic situations, ideally directly relevant to your particular job role. An element of gamification here might add something.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2012

But I don't see why it shouldn't be possible for everything else (the web articles, videos, software demos, PDFs, decision aids, wikis, forums and the like) to be handled through whatever intranet software an organisation has - SharePoint or something similar. But, of courser, we already have those platforms and they continue to play a role.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I was fascinated to read an article in this week''s Economist on Massive Open Online Forces , looking at some of the economic effects of the rise of online education. In particular the following caught my eye: The market for instructors will also be transformed.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2010

My exact reasons for stating this are detailed here in my article entitled Holy Grail or Empty Vessel? Donald responded as follows: The reason the numbers differ so much is that Broad and Newstrom cite the Baldwin and Ford (1988) research paper, which in turn cites an article written by Georgenson (1982).

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 23, 2012

Stephen Downes pointed out an article in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Neus Capdeferro and Margarida Romero entitled Are online learners frustrated with collaborative learning experiences? This caught my attention because I'm a great believer in and keen user of this approach.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I’ve started copying the clippings for each book to separate notes in Evernote, from where they can be accessed easily for incorporation in blog postings and articles. And talking of Evernote, that’s where I fulfil the second of Erasmus’ recommendations.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

An article in The Economist of November 6th entitled " Oh, grow up ", highlighted the way that blogging has entered the mainstream and explored the positive and negative implications of this. Probably not the case with edublogging, but there are times!

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Clive on Learning

JULY 15, 2010

A recent article in The Economist, The evolving blogosphere , clarified for me how blogs have changed over the past five years and where they now sit amongst the panoply of social media applications.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Viv Cole drew my attention on his From the Coleface blog to an interesting article by Des Woods and Henry Marsden published recently in the UK's Training Journal called How Professionals Learn (sorry, but you'll have to pay for the download).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 25, 2009

I don't mean anything academic and heavy; just collecting interesting material around a particular topic from a wide variety of sources and combining this with my own ideas and reflections to form the basis for a new piece of work - an article, a presentation, a course, a book. The biggest change for me has been the use of Evernote.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

In their article Cognitive Fitness for the Harvard Business Review, Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts make the following recommendations to managers if they are to attain the highest levels of ‘cognitive fitness’: Work hard at play: participate in games and activities, particularly those involving some risk.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 21, 2008

I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). So, I dipped into all 22 articles.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 8, 2009

An article - I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told - in this week's Economist, emphasises just how important it is to relieve poverty if we are to achieve equality of opportunity in education. " According to the article "working memory is crucial for comprehending languages, for reading and for solving problems."

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This week's Economist carried an interesting article about the use of video games at school.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 6, 2009

In yet another Economist article with an angle on Gen Y, The Rypple Effect reveals another way in which enterprises can adapt Web 2.0 As the article makes clear: Rypple may not be perfect, but it is certainly better than antediluvian annual or semi-annual performance reviews.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Phil Green alerted me to this amusing image which originates from a JISC InfoNET article Approaches to course design with technology. Of course it isn’t that amusing because it’s really rather sad. I don’t blame the sponsors and others who commission learning interventions for this state of affairs, because they don’t know any better.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Nick's essays have the character of major feature articles. Donald Clark goes quiet for months then has the inspiration for a new series and belts them out at one a day, like a part works. Others, such as Nick Shackleton-Jones , post only when they have something significant to say.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

In this article, I will argue for the latter: plain, simple English, written by friendly, considerate people who want to help people learn. We could use them to show how knowledgeable and articulate we are or we could put ourselves in the learner’s shoes and communicate in a way that makes their job much easier.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

On-demand approaches To support on-demand learning Shell has its own wiki, with 70,000 users and more than 40,000 articles. He is author of five books, of which three have been co-authored, and has written over 30 articles and book reviews. He is also a certified retail salesman and has done a great deal of acting alongside his career.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In the meantime, there's a job to be done, and that's far better achieved through access to videos, PDFs, forums, blogs and simple web articles. While there is still a need for formally-packaged courses, these are for special occasions, when we or our employers require some formal record of achievement (or at least of participation).

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

On the other hand, my latest book, Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide , was schemed out in such a way that it could be constructed piece by piece from magazine articles and online guides, published on a regular schedule with tight deadlines.

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