Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Do learning technologies really threaten l&d jobs? Learning technologies can and will dramatically change the nature of the service provided by l&d and the skills mix will be quite different. As they say, people don't resist change, they resist being changed. In some ways this has already occurred.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

Learning & development staff are apprehensive about the idea of using new learning technologies. You have had a poor experience in the past of using rather tedious self-study e-learning. Learning and development that is aligned. You are reluctant to compromise on the quality of the solutions you offer.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

This insight mirrors the findings of Towards Maturity , which places 'demonstrating value' as a key element in their model for effective application of learning technologies. If learning interventions are to make a valuable contribution to business performance, they must be seen as an on-going process, not an event.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Over the past couple of months, I have twice been fortunate enough to hear Professor Stephen Heppell speak, once at the 25th birthday party of the eLearning Network and again last week when I chaired his session at Learning Technologies. On both occasions, the idea that most got me thinking was that 'synchronous is sovereign'.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

I was really impressed by the work shown at Learning Technologies 2009 last week by Kirstie Donnelly and Deborah Prynne of learndirect.

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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

JUNE 8, 2012

Now l&d people have lots of reasons not to like e-learning, so we have to be careful about taking their opinions too much to heart. After all, unless they are actively engaged in some aspect of learning technologies, they probably see it as one hell of a threat (a topic I’ll be taking up in a future post).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Like Betty, Sebastian is a champion of work-based learning, aided by technology. He is responsible for designing learning solutions across Shell’s global workforce of more than 100,000 employees. As Sebastian explains, “Learning happens as we speak. On the other hand, employees are encouraged to blog externally.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2007

At the conference I attended this week in Luxembourg, participants were split into groups to try and find ways in which resistance to learning technologies from fellow learning and development professionals could be overcome.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Each strategy had its place then as now, often in combination within what we now call a blended solution. However, all three of these strategies depend on a ‘teacher’ – a subject expert, an instructor or a facilitator – to devise and direct the programme of learning. Designers themselves are on a voyage of discovery.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Itiel Dror provided us with another highly entertaining session at Learning Technologies 2009. Dare I say that this suggests a blend? This time he shared the results of two new studies which attempt to shed some light on what it is that helps learners to remember new material.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I recently received a copy, through the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), of a fascinating publication sponsored by JISC called In their own words. They are adept at blending personal and institutionally owned technologies with traditional approaches to learning in ways that are unique to them."

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2006

You can download the results from the site, but I thought I'd draw out a few findings which caught my attention: Blending of face-to-face and e-learning is pervasive, across a wide range of subject areas. I'll report back on these after the full study is launched on 31st January 2007 at Learning Technologies 2007 in London.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Technology now provides so many opportunities for learning and development that it is no longer viable for trainers to keep their distance, leaving new media to the geeks and the ‘digital natives’. The pace of change is so fast that those who keep their distance stand to be marginalised on a permanent basis.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

So I decided on learning 1.5. It's a blend of formal and informal learning, old and new e-learning technologies. When the student wants to obtain a formal qualification. When the student really wants some help and structure to get started with a new topic. It's for those that prefer evolution to revolution.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Each strategy had its place then as now, often in combination within what we now call a blended solution. However, all three of these strategies depend on a ‘teacher’ – a subject expert, an instructor or a facilitator – to devise and direct the programme of learning. Designers themselves are on a voyage of discovery.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Most of the trainers had built their career by following this approach and it was, to some degree, expected by Julie that they would be resistant to the changes she was proposing as well as a little fearful that the NHS staff would not accept or warm to a more blended strategy of delivery.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In case you don’t know Towards Maturity, they were established in 2003 as a government-funded body to promote the use of learning technologies in workplace learning across the UK. We have to wonder why organisations are not doing more in terms of CPD for learning professionals.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 11, 2015

First of all, before we get started, let me just clarify that I am not talking about e-learning in the broadest sense, encompassing live online sessions and all sorts of online collaboration. I prefer to refer to these as learning technologies, perhaps even ''digital learning''.

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