Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

E-learning in the workplace used to be the preserve of the large corporate or public body. Only they were able to afford the necessarily substantial investments in learning platforms and content development and had the large audiences against which these investments could be amortised. But this year we have seen a major shift.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Self-study provides attractive benefits to learners, particularly in the control that it allows them over what they learn, when, where and at what pace. It also puts a smile on the face of the finance director, because it’s so cheap, at least when there are lots of people who require training. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I hate to say it, after so many years of trying to reverse the trend, but it seems that far too many people (finance directors excepted) really dislike e-learning. First let me be clear, I am using a narrow definition of e-learning here. People don't dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 18, 2009

One element of this is the section on Learning and Talent Development, which can be downloaded here. Well, first the name - learning and talent development. According to the document, this brings together 'training and development activity, coaching and career development'. Tags: blended learning. Progress indeed.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2013

It focuses your energies and helps to ensure you keep up-to-date with your self-paced learning activities. Synchronous experiences, whether face-to-face, online or on the telephone, enrich a blend and provide it with momentum. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Schools and colleges exist primarily to foster learning. Employers are only interested in learning to the extent that it influences performance. This focus will ensure you don’t overload employees with information they don’t need and that, instead, you provide lots of opportunities for them to practise and build confidence.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

For practically thirty years now, the default corporate solution for any sort of formal, self-directed learning intervention has been self-study e-learning, specifically some form of interactive tutorial. The learner is isolated from peers, experts and others who can assist their learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Thanks to Ron Orme for bringing to my attention Learning at work: e-learning evolution or revolution? , There are so many interesting elements in this report that I'm going to quote it liberally: "Work-based experiential learning is the most dominant mode of management and leadership learning.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Generally speaking it’s best to provide the learner with the absolute minimum amount of information they need before they can start practising. That’s why coaching can play a valuable role in so many blends. blended learning' Next : Use guided discovery to get across the big ideas.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Tempted by breakfast at a top London hotel, I sat in this morning on an interesting case study presentation delivered jointly by IT training specialists Assima and corporate giant Xerox. As I heard today, one of the City of London's largest law firms has put a complete block on international travel for training.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Blended learning is no longer a major talking point in learning and development and perhaps that’s not such a bad thing. In the case of blended learning, following it into town came the bandwagon snappily labelled Learning 2.0, After all, the Learning 2.0

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Their role is to ensure the quality of the technical content; yours is to ensure that the learning objectives are achieved. Of course the SME may be able to provide you with valuable insights into the best ways to communicate their expertise, but they are not ideally placed to offer this advice. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

JULY 25, 2008

At the recent eLearning Network showcase event, I attended an interesting presentation made by Nick Timpson of my old firm Epic and Claire Little from leading psychometric test providers, SHL. SHL train something like 10,000 people a year to use their tests, most of whom are HR people. Nothing unusual in that you might think.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The following copy accompanied the release yesterday of a free 20-page booklet entitled What every learning and development professional needs to know about e-learning : Change and opportunity Surprising as it may seem, most educational and training methods are relatively timeless. So what’s the big deal?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Professional skills learning provider Cegos polled 254 senior L&D professionals during the last two weeks of November 2008. Face-to-face learning will remain the number one method used by organisations. Trainer development will see the biggest cuts with more than 25% of companies planning to reduce efforts in this area.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before I take my leave for Christmas, I thought I'd provide you with this summary of all my posts on Clive on Learning in 2011. December Where is the model for e-learning? Massively scalable training * Face-to-face is for special occasions * Can we dispense with email?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2007

I sometimes use a series of slides to try and get across what an effective blended solution might look like. When you offer someone a choice of ways in which to undertake a learning activity, you may be doing them a favour by allowing them to express a preference, but you're not providing a blend. How about a sandwich?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

For the first time in eight years of Clive on Learning I''ve been too busy to blog. So, as the workload shows no sign of abating for a couple of months, I''ve decided to share over the coming weeks some work I did for Onlignment last year on Transforming Learning & Development. Budgets for training are flat or reducing.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Over the past twelve months, micro-learning has quietly worked itself into my daily routine. Not quite so often (because it takes a lot of concentration), but still regularly, I do brain training using Peak. And the latest addition is KnowFast, which sends me a daily learning video covering anything from history to science to cookery.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It is true that, at the time of writing, I am on my way to Lyon to run a workshop on blended learning, but otherwise the connection is tenuous to say the least, as you will see. I have been refining my method for the design of blended solutions for close to ten years now, testing it against hundreds of different real-world problems.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Over the past twelve months, micro-learning has quietly worked itself into my daily routine. Not quite so often (because it takes a lot of concentration), but still regularly, I do brain training using Peak. And the latest addition is KnowFast, which sends me a daily learning video covering anything from history to science to cookery.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2008

technologies for learning is on the up (see Learning 2.0 - an update from the eLearning Guild ), it's also true to say that most employers don't know which way to start (see How are employers responding to Gen Y and Web 2.0? ). The first is from one of the major corporate LMS providers, Saba. Although the use of Web 2.0

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

In my last post, I argued that, although face-to-face learning has been the default since the dawn of time, online learning has changed everything. So OK, there are situations when we simply can’t achieve what we want online, which is fine because, in time, we’ll be able to go back to doing some learning face-to-face.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2013

In the next six posts, I explore six ways in which learning professionals can realise a transformation in the way that learning and development occurs in their organisations. An obvious step in achieving this is to ensure everyone involved obtains adequate training.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. Naively, I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely than not to be having positive experiences. We provide helpful feedback.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2009

According to a new survey conducted in March for training provider Cegos , employees are keener than HR and the training function to embrace innovative training practices and new technologies. " The survey also found that e-learning and blended learning programmes are meeting the expectations of users.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

In my post last week, I identified four elements that I felt needed to be in place if an organisation was to make a success of in-house e-learning development: tools, talent, training and, above all, time - the four Ts. In my view, the best way to learn how to make stuff is to make stuff yourself and test it out on people.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Last week I posted that Formal learning doesn't need to be all that formal. Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. The challenge is supporting and encouraging learning as it occurs on a day-to-day basis, well beyond the formal curriculum.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

For many of us who have been involved in e-learning for quite some time, the ‘big LMS’ has disappeared off the radar to some extent, particularly with the increased focus on informal and collaborative learning. Addressing this tall order takes a new breed of Learning Management System (LMS).” The company is debt-free.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

goalgetter , launched this week, is a goal-based learning system designed to help people put their learning into practice and achieve their goals. Now I have to admit an interest here because goalgetter is the brainchild of Rob Hubbard, a colleague of mine and my successor as chair of the eLearning Network.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2013

All this week, I have been discussing a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. So dominant in fact, that those tasked with devising and assembling technology-based learning solutions have been called instructional designers ever since.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

In my last post, a review of The New Social Learning , I proposed that, with the rapid rush to using e-learning in the workplace, we are at greater risk of a surplus of isolated self-study than we are an explosion in the use of social media. Surely the same could be true for e-learning self-study content.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. In this extract, we take a look at how learning is architected within Shell, one of the world’s largest and most successful multinational corporations.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

From Monday of this week, I have been sharing with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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