Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2018

Someone pointed me to a microlearning post, wondering if I agreed with their somewhat skeptical take on the article. And I don’t mean microlearning as a whole, that’s another issue ; it’s articles like this one that I’m complaining about.). And I did agree with the skepticism. Not happening. .

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2018

An interesting article I came across brings up an interesting issue: how do we do complex thinking? The article says that our brains are limited in thinking about complex situations. The article says that our brains are limited in thinking about complex situations. Another short-cut that the article cites is diagrams.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The particular issue (as several of us do that) was the anonymity of the poster. There’s a cite, and it turns out that article goes down a rabbit hole of cascading web cites, ultimately leading to the now retracted claim, which isn’t really even in the data! For context, it quickly got noticed amongst my colleagues.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 8, 2020

Oddly, midway through the post, the article starts saying those of us who expect a good rebuttal won’t like the argument. On the other hand, there’re clear pointers to research that’s looked deeply into and across this issue. Yet this seems to be taken as support for learning styles??!? In short, no evidence at all.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2014

We’ve already received the first request for an article on the Serious eLearning Manifesto , and it sparked a realization. And I don’t want to address the issues (yet), what we want to have happen is to get the debate started. More, we hope you’ll find a way to follow them, and join your colleagues in signing on.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2017

So here are my responses to the issue of how to ‘monetize’ engagement, and how it relates to the effectiveness of learning. So the first issue was how to justify the extra investment engagement would entail. Which is the other issue: a claim that engagement doesn’t equal better learning. Even if it should be.).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2018

One asked about meta-learning (learning to learn), in the particular situation of courses with a variety of expertise levels, and getting into issues of learner responsibility. The article misses some nuances, of course (and the author acknowledged this).

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

An additional issue is that the contents of said portal should be open, in the sense that all users should be able to contribute their curated or created resources, and the resources can be in any format: video, audio, document, even interactive. Federate the portal and search over all the sources of resources, not some subset.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

An article on how Apple’s iPhone was designed caused me to reflect. I remember one time, the AI architect and the software engineer came in asking me to resolve an issue. But I continue my decades long fascination with design, to the extent that it’s a whole category for my posts!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2018

Looking at last year’s post , I see I’ve switched from Google to DuckDuckGo (privacy issues), and from Skype to Zoom (functionality). Articles, columns, books. It’s a fun and valuable exercise, so as usual I’ll weigh in with mine (in no particular order). Or for requests for colleagues.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I like it when I can help clarify concepts, leading to tighter design, as well as raise the full spectrum of issues leading to more comprehensive strategies. I’d also agreed to do a number of chapters in books and articles, so as soon as the book manuscript was done, I had to scramble to meet my other deadlines.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2017

As a famous article once had it: phenotypic plasticity triumphs over genotypic plasticity (in short, our human advantage has gained via our ability to adapt individually and learn from each other, not through species evolution). AR) is the real opportunity to do something interesting, and I’ll buy it, but we’re a long way away.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2018

I recently wrote on the ethics of L&D, and I note that I didn’t address one issue. In that article, I did say: That means we practice ethically, and responsibly. Yet, it’s very clear that it’s still a problem. In short, I’m talking about plagiarism and attribution. And it needs to be said.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2015

Skype: the Internet Time Alliance maintains a Skype channel where we regularly discuss issues, and ask and answer each other’s questions. Microsoft Word: My writing tool for longer posts, articles, and of course books, and writing is a powerful force for organizing my thoughts, and a great way to share them and get feedback.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Based on the principles from our CLO article on the topic, we’re intending to make it a real hands-on, wrestling with the issues, talking about specifics, and bolstering the discussion with data from close to 200 respondents to the survey that was associated with the article.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

An article I recently read talked about a guy who builds spy gear, and near the end he talked about some things that started me thinking about an extension of that for all mobile, not just wearables. Interesting ethical issues come in. I recently wrote about wearables , where I focused on form factor and information channels.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Seriously, I’m excited about the opportunity, because I’ve been on the stump for mobile for years, and think the market is right for mobile to finally contribute to organizational performance like I’ve believed since I wrote an article on the topic back in 2001. What are your hot-button issues?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Each also has flaws, in my mind, which illustrate some issues about education. As was pointed out by Lisa Chamberlin and Tracy Parish in an article , this can be problematic. Each share running large numbers of students, and laudable goals.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Another issue is how far to share. And the end result, when the business advantage isn’t threatened, could and should be shared through articles or webinars or conference presentations. Basically, you need to be working in a Learning Organization , where the elements are aligned to facilitate optimal engagement.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Cross Platform issue/ lack of standards – html 5 not standard yet but if it were would be great but there will be, of course, resistance by software companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. I wrote an article on this topic and another is coming out soon in Learning Solutions Magazine. to meet individual’s needs better.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 6, 2011

One of the issues is, for me, where you want to learn, and where you don’t. There’s also the issue of how the Sage on the Side would operate? I want to unpack that a bit. As a definitely curious individual (in both senses, I suppose :), there’s far too much of interest for me to be able to focus on it all.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

First, the impact: for some organizations it appears mostly an issue of scale, trying to do more with less, but for others it’s more cataclysmic; layoffs, no ability to secure capital for activity, no new business. &#. Heavy topic, but appropriate for the times. I’ll answer two-fold: myself, and what I see for clients.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2011

As I detailed in an article , issues included granularity and tagging vocabulary.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 11, 2009

Reading an article in Game Developer about some of the Bay Area history of the video game industry has made me reflective. While I’ve not been in the thick of it, I’ve quietly continued to work, think, and write on the issue (thanks to clients, my book , and the eLearning Guild ’s research reports).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 30, 2019

After my previous article on direct instruction versus guided discovery, some discussion mentioned Engelmann’s Direct Instruction (DI). I was worried about the intersection of many responses a minute and more complex tasks, though it appears that’s an issue that has been addressed. So what’s going on?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 30, 2020

I think it revolves around the issue of just what’s in an image. In the previous article, I provided some questions to ask yourself. My post earlier this week on the images processed 60K faster prompted some discussion (over on LinkedIn ;). And there appears to be some debate about the topic. So let’s unpack that.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 29, 2010

This idea is intriguing, because it avoids download issues and data plans, but still ensures that the opportunity is there for elearning content. I’ve been sensitized to international mobile issues from a variety of channels. The interesting issue in the post is how to use mobile devices to support learning.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 8, 2007

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Of interest in the article is a series of studies he did looking at what led to better outputs from groups, and they debunked a number of obvious factors including the above issue of intelligence. In that study, a diverse group of lower intelligence produces better outputs than a group of relatively homogenous smart folks.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 27, 2017

As an aside, I’ve written separate articles on L&D innovation recently for both CLO magazine and the Litmos blog so you can check those out, too. Which again is an issue of safety (which is why I advocate that leaders ‘work out loud’, and it’s a core element of Edmondson’s Teaming ; see below).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 10, 2009

There’re some issues that are unresolved, but leave me curious. One of the consequences has been the call for open access publishing, essentially that articles are submitted, reviewed, and published online, with anyone being able to view the outcomes. Whether academic publishing will continue is an interesting issue.

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