Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

We reinforce practice with content that guides performance and provides feedback. There are developmental differences in working memory capacity and experience base, but everyone benefits from doing things, not passively consuming content. It does use multiple media, because we use the right media for the message.

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Design Cognitive Metrics Learning 245

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Of course, as I’ve said before, the folks that do this stuff (besides me, obviously) are really contributing to the benefit of our org. Well, two things, I think: one is to help raise awareness, the other is to provide support. The other is to provide scaffolding; support materials that help folks implement these competencies.

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Innovation Suite Culture Benefits 165

Clark Quinn

APRIL 5, 2022

Which suggests, looking back at my previous exploration of worked examples, that the very first thing to do is to provide worked examples if they’re new. The benefits of being able to more accurately target your interventions, at least in an adaptive system, suggest that the effort is worth it.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

Most importantly, perhaps, is also the benefit of spacing learning to increase the likelihood of it being available. One of the two posts opened with this statement: “The appetite of our employees is not the same therefore, we must not provide them the same bland food (for thought).” Instead, it was the presence of myths.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 2, 2021

There are clear benefits. You can also provide guidance for the elements, in a variety of ways. Atul Gawande has made the case for checklists in his The Checklist Manifesto. In this great book, he talks about his own inspiring efforts in the context of other high-risk/high-value endeavors such as flight and construction.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 27, 2016

So we can provide tools to support us in the moment, we can provide tools to help us work together, and we can develop people all slowly over time. In particular, we can provide tools to address gaps that emerge from our cognitive architecture. We can also provide policies about things we’re supposed to do.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 28, 2019

Slack: I work with a number of groups, and one in particular really benefits from the social interaction Slack provides between meetings. I’m not as good with it as I’d like, but it helps keep ideas from not getting explored.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The benefits from working out loud are many. Moreover, sharing your thinking gives you a second benefit in getting others’ input which can really improve the outcome. In addition, it gives others a couple of benefits. Execs need to be shown the benefit and encouraged to model the behavior too.

Behavior 184

Behavior Attitudes Diversity Training Culture 184

Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2020

The claim started like this: I know there is a huge camp of folks who say no one has learning styles and they provide all types of links of others who concur. Let me be clear about the claim, the problem, and a healthy approach. Then there are folks who say they do exist, and change of a period of time (as you age). A waste of time and money.

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Learning Styles Social Networks LinkedIn Director 251

Clark Quinn

MARCH 19, 2019

The thing is, being systematic about content has both short-term and long-term benefits. While that may seem off-putting, it’s actually a benefit. And, if you write good descriptions within those elements, you really provide a foundation that makes it difficult to do bad design.

Technology 145

Technology Diversity Training eLearning Strategy microlearning 145

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2016

I’ve participated in the efforts of an organization to achieve it, and can see the real benefits. provide answers. Spending cycles to optimize this, to develop the infrastructure and the culture, is an investment in a long term benefit to organizational success. And this is a ‘good thing’! collaborate.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 17, 2019

While individual results, such as the benefits of relearning, are valuable and easy to point to, it’s the extended body of work on topics that provides for longevity and applicability. (As well as integration of systems for a ubiquitous coaching environment, which generates many related topics.).

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Theory Research Cognitive Diversity Training 183

Clark Quinn

MAY 28, 2019

Someone pointed me to a post that touted the benefits of social learning. Get people showing what they’re doing (once it’s safe) enables long term benefits. This will start providing valuable content, and support the organization beginning to learn together. It’s that time again. And I’m a fan !

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Benefits : emphasize the WIIFM. Provide social connection tools. You’re providing decent advice (er, mostly ), but doing so through a myth-perpetuating framing. This isn’t just good practice? Expunge bias : ditto. Go where the talent is : use appropriate social media. Can you imagine? Include them.

Multitasking 163

Multitasking Diversity Training Social Media Pattern 163

Clark Quinn

MARCH 23, 2016

This is then viewed by peers and/or a mentor, who provide feedback to the learner. It’s very much the social cognition benefits I’ve talked about before, in creating and then getting feedback on that representation. The subsequent activity could be to revise the product, or move along to something else.

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Activities Cognitive Asynchronous Synchronous 0

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. Does the greater detail provide greater benefit? It means my 4 C’s become: content, compute, capture, and contextualize.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At whatever stage you’re at, there’s probably someone who would benefit from what you’ve learned. The point is to have others providing feedback on where you’re at. So, this has been my sensing and sharing, so I hope you’ll take the opportunity to provide feedback! What am I missing?

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Personal Learning Personal Personalization Cognitive 127

Clark Quinn

MAY 11, 2021

Further, there are real benefits to machine learning and even artificial intelligence. Instead, find the key affordances – what the technology uniquely provides – and match the capability to the need. We often fall prey to arguments that appear to be new, but really aren’t. Don’t get misled. Again, be skeptical.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

When you do so, you can provide an immersive experience. It would minimize the likelihood of guessing, and provide a richer basis for diagnosis and feedback. This has the additional benefit that learners are evaluating work with guidance, and can internalize the behavior to become a self-improving learner.

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Assessment Solution Cognitive Evalution 120

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Coaching also played a role in the case study Jane Bozarth provided. Instead of courses, the solution connected those with demonstrable skills to mentor those who could benefit. The solution includes continuous assessment, mobile performance support, and coaching. The issue was solving workplace problems.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2013

You play the role of the mentor, providing the magic aid for them to accomplish a goal that they know they need, but for a variety of reasons may have avoided. I think this book provides not only practical marketing advice, but also guidance for personal journeys and learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2020

And, other responsible individuals have provided unclear information about their value. How do we get people to stop viewing it as an imposition, but as a social obligation that benefits everyone? Now, there are some complicating factors in our current case. My friend suggested mixed messages in the media are a confounding factor.

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Statistics Exercise Behavior Conference 147

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 16, 2019

The idea is to find the minimal set of changes that will yield the maximal benefit. I’ve provided many resources about better learning design, from my 7 step program white paper to my deeper elearning series for Learnnovators. One idea, of course, is to replace it with some validated design process.

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Design Analysis eLearning Consultant Learning 146

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

These include augmenting our imperfect memory, the benefits of thinking out loud, the gains from understanding different media properties, the changes when information is to hand, the opportunities unleashed by crowd-sourcing, the implications for education, and the changes when you have continual connection to others.

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Cognitive Pattern Media Network 175

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To do so, let me provide some context. My point is that I’ve been leveraging the benefits of networks for a bloody long time. And while that’s created problems, it’s also enabled incredible benefits. I’ve been on the net since before there was a web. Way before. And now we depend on it.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

I’m still at the stage where I’m working with my acquisition editor, but he’s provided much guidance and support. If you do it right, and I try, you also are dependent on some colleagues who’ve stepped up to provide case studies or interviews for you.

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Case Study Support Social Quality 140

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The goal was to provide their learners opportunities to practice success skills. The point being, extending engagements with a few simple followups provides a much higher likelihood of improvement than just a one-off. I reckon the marginal extra investment yields a much bigger benefit. Does that make sense to you?

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Performance Support Picture eLearning Strategy Version 126

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2016

You can only teach meta-learning on top of real goals, and we (should) have those in schools, so it’s the ideal place and arguably the best contribution schools can provide in this rapidly changing environment. And we’re really not seeing anywhere near the uptake that would benefit our efforts.

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Library Pedagogy Search Learning 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2010

In thinking about the benefits of adding social to formal learning for a presentation I’ll be giving, I realized that the main reason to extend social activities into formal learning is for the additional processing it provides. While there is processing individually, social interaction provides more opportunities.

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Social Social Media Articulate Exercise 160

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Some were very clearly uniquely innovative new ideas that would benefit the firm. and provided live feedback. How are you providing meaningful learning experiences? A representative of the firm heard the presentations (through Skype!) He was very good, citing all the positives and asking a few questions.

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Diversity Training Skype Pedagogy Learning 181

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I think there are two parts: helping people define the situation, and then providing them with skills to address it. Even online, having them share their initial thoughts, and then see some other discussion would be valuable to get some of the benefits of social interaction.

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Compliance Training Compliance Roles Harassment Training 172

Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2017

This one was presented around higher education innovation (a topic I’ve some familiarity with ;), so it provided a good basis for me to explore the story. That is, there has to be a way to deliver this new advance, and it has to be coupled with a way to capitalize on the benefits.

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Innovation PDF Player Environment 101

Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2019

For another, you can benefit from a clear understanding of your current state. Coaching : here we provide the lightest weight support that will keep momentum. Through experience, I’ve found there are several ways to make progress. You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you are!

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Change eLearning Guild DevLearn Coaching 158

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2016

So for the first one, they wanted some feedback on their design, and we arranged that I’d investigate a representative sample and provide feedback. This didn’t take any investment in travel, but of course this feedback only points out what’s wrong, and doesn’t really provide mechanisms to improve.

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Brain Examples Sample Consulting 100

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The claim was that if you trusted to human sensing, you’d be only able to track what’s become common knowledge, and that doesn’t provide the necessary competitive advantage. I received some feedback on my post on Organizational Knowledge Mastery. The extension was that you needed market analytics to see new trends.

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Agile Outsource Analytics Emergent 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2016

There are also mental health benefits to be found in escaping from the everyday clatter. 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.

Learning 100

Learning Conference Lecture Brain 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2011

Increasingly, organizations and providers are creating APIs to their environments, which allow other organizations to add value in ways that expand their ecosystem. This is of benefit to both parties and the users of the environment, with appropriate caveats about how the information is used.

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Social Networks PKM Engineering Facebook 177