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. blended learning' Next: Don’t overdo the self-study.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Most learning does not require you to be face-to-face with others – just like you happily listen to music on your iPod, watch sport on TV or films at the cinema – but some does. While face-to-face learning will increasingly become the special case rather than the default, it will still have a valuable role to play. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It’s oh so tempting when confronted with a new project to jump straight into the creative process of selecting the ingredients for your blend without a clear understanding of what it is that you’re required to achieve. blended learning' This one’s a bit obvious, but it needs saying.

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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

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

JULY 13, 2012

Last week I attempted to answer the question 'what is e-learning good for?' and came up with a very simple answer: E-learning, in its many and varied forms, is suitable for any learning activity which does not have to be conducted face-to-fac e. As a developmental activity initiated by the learner.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2013

That’s why coaching can play a valuable role in so many blends. blended learning' You can top up on the theory later, as they encounter difficulties and are striving to get better. Next : Use guided discovery to get across the big ideas.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 28, 2011

Part 5 In the fifth and last part of this interview, I address two final questions: How would you summarise the blended learning design process? What guarantee is there that you'll end up with a solution that is both effective and efficient? Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Complete 43 min interview.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2013

You need to discover the big ideas for yourself, either through hard experience or through a learning activity that has been designed specially to encourage those ‘aha’ moments. blended learning' Next: Keep a balance between the synchronous and asynchronous.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2011

In the second part of this interview, I address the following questions: How should someone set about designing a blended solution? What impact does the learning requirement have on your design decisions? What audience characteristics have the biggest impact on your design?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

The first is: Why is e-learning so unpopular? What type of e-learning are you talking about? What once was called computer-based training (CBT). Well, clearly there are lots of success stories with e-learning and not all because of huge cost savings. Either way, it deserves a response. Online video?

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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. blended learning' A subject-matter expert should be your friend and partner, but he or she should not be your master. The client’s responsibility is to articulate their needs.

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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

JULY 2, 2012

Continuing my series of posts that answer the questions I most get asked by learning professionals, I turn to one that's always difficult to answer: what is e-learning good for? There's nearly always an agenda behind this question or at least a great deal of scepticism about the potential of e-learning.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Today saw a tremendous gathering of the who's who of UK learning technologies in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union. Many thanks must go to e-learning developers Epic for putting together this event and allowing their own industry to be placed under the microscope. Today's e-learning is marginally useful.

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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 9, 2013

The first priority in any learning design – once you have a clear understanding of the requirement – is to establish the strategies that will best facilitate the required learning for your particular population. Next : Recognise that face-to-face learning still has an important part to play. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A few weeks back, Nick Shackleton-Jones set out to clarify The Difference between Online learning, E-learning & Blended learning. Actually my definition of blended learning freely crosses between formal and informal - in fact that is one of the ways in which it blends - but that is not my point here.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

After last week's ' Why is e-learning so unpopular? ', I turn today to another question I am frequently asked by l&d people: 'Will e-learning put me out of a job?' Do learning technologies really threaten l&d jobs? And you can understand why. In some ways this has already occurred.

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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

JULY 11, 2008

In my post So what is blended learning? I put forward the following definition: A blended learning solution mixes social contexts for learning (self-study, one-to-one, small group, larger community) with the aim of increasing learning effectiveness, and/or mixes learning media (face-to-face, online, print, etc.)

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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 8, 2008

Last night I attended an award ceremony for the UK National Training Awards and was delighted to see one of my blended learning designs for the child development charity Plan International recognised with a national award.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Along with my co-contributors, I’m delighted to be able to let you know about this new publication, edited by my good friend Rob Hubbard, which celebrates 25 years of the eLearning Network. This is what the publishers have to say about the book: “Technology has revolutionised every aspect of our lives and how we learn is no exception.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

No Regrets is a tale of love and learning, produced in 2014 to accompany my book More Than Blended Learning. It tells the tale of two young people who meet up in Brighton as they begin training in their new jobs. This short film is, above all, an experiment in storytelling as a mechanism for learning.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2014

You''ll find it useful for any visual work you do, whether that''s graphics, video, presentation slides or e-learning design! Which made me think that learning experiences require composition too; in other words, the right balance between contrasting elements. What it lacked was (4) practice and (5) reflection/discussion.

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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

MARCH 1, 2013

There are various models which attempt to describe the various contexts in which learning can take place at work. There's 70:20:10 of course, which places the greatest emphasis on experiential learning (the 70), then social learning (the 20), then formal learning (the 10). on-demand and experiential.

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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

AUGUST 8, 2008

Nicola defined agility as a combination of strength, co-ordination, responsiveness, speed and balance - qualities that could be applied successfully to e-content development. And Nicola misquoted Darwin to make the point: "It's not the fastest of the e-learning that survives, not the flashiest, but the most agile."

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2011

Why would you want to conduct a learning activity on a face-to-face basis? What value can that have for learning? Part 4 In the fourth part of this interview, I address the following questions: What choices do you have when it comes to delivering your strategy? What value do offline media have in an online world? Why is that?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2011

How do the various social contexts for learning compare? What options do you have in terms of an overall learning strategy? How do social contexts and learning strategies interact? Why start with methods rather than technologies for learning? How do you begin deciding which methods to use? Part 4 follows tomorrow.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

It would be an understatement to say that the UK e-learning industry has been shocked by the sudden death last Thursday of Hanif Sazen, CEO of Saffron Interactive , a London-based producer of bespoke online and mobile learning solutions. The people at Saffron are passionate about learning. This is why we’re in business."

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 19, 2006

Anyway, next week I have to get up on time because I'm speaking at Learning Technologies 2006, the conference that always gets in first. At the show Saffron Interactive will be giving out free copies of my new Blended Learning Cookbook to respectable-looking candidates. That's how I saw it with blended learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over on the Onlignment blog, I have, throughout 2012, been setting out a model for a transformation in workplace learning and development. Establishing a learning architecture and infrastructure that recognises these unique characteristics. Putting in place processes for improved performance needs analysis and blended solution design.

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