Clive on Learning

AUGUST 18, 2009

If anything, this is a blended learning manifesto, so I have to be pleased. At the top level, l&td (just trying that one out) professionals are encouraged to 'propose an appropriate blend of education, face-to-face training, experiential learning, e-learning, coaching and mentoring, for each of the employee population programmes'.

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Blended Learning Blended Instructional Design ADDIE 58

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2008

The Xerox case study was an excellent example of a blended solution, with each component in the blend well thought through. The chosen blend consisted of: A communication programme. Support provided by floor walkers, help desks, a software practice environment, electronic materials and highly realistic software simulations.

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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, Tags: blended learning. laden with musicians trumpeting blogs, wikis and social networks.

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Blended Learning Blended Social Networks Wiki 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2008

About blended learning: "It has been in practice a long time but its usage has grown in response to the impact of e-learning." It is this format which put so many people off the idea of blended learning a few years back. " Presumably this is because most blends include some formal e-learning materials.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Input: Providing the formal element which hopefully will inspire the learner and act as a catalyst for changes in behaviour and on-going skills development. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment. blended learning PIAF'

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Case Study Blended Learning Blended Performance Support 83

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.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The first is from one of the major corporate LMS providers, Saba. " Essentially, Neulio provides a low-cost hosted platform for sharing content in a structured manner, whether that's for training, customer information or performance support. The second new offering started with very much of a Web 2.0

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Learning 2.0 Saba Providers Social Networks 45

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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Blended Learning Blended Write Blog Pattern 79

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Input: Providing the formal element which hopefully will inspire the learner and act as a catalyst for changes in behaviour and on-going skills development. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment. blended learning PIAF'

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Ideas Case Study Blended Learning Blended 79

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While this format certainly can deliver the goods, and provides a simple, trackable means to monitor compliance, it frequently falls down on many fronts: Interactive tutorials are time-consuming, expensive and complex to put together. Wikis provide a way for groups of learners to work together in building a knowledge resource.

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Toolkit Blended Learning Compliance Training Wiki 97

Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. Here, LMS functionality is provided within the context of your principal day-to-day tool for learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration, not the other way round. However, there is a key difference.

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Performance Support Saba Support Blended Learning 95

Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

Used judiciously and typically as part of a blend, face-to-face learning is capable of adding tremendous value. 4 In the context of a blended solution, live events also act as a milestone to encourage learners to get the self-paced work done. But not for everyday learning, for special occasions.

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Online Learning Online Blended Learning Blended 52

Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Computers and networks provide so many opportunities to enhance learning in the workplace, but the opportunities are dependent on the use you are making of these tools. As a component in a formal blended solution, e.g. to introduce a new course, to explore key topics, to review progress. As tools for problem-solving and reflection.

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Blended Learning Social Networks Case Study Wiki 93

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The best way to satisfy that need is through some sort of formal course, whether that's face-to-face, online or a blend. Blended solutions, whether or not we call them this, are without doubt the strategy of choice among larger employers around the world. Blended solutions do much more than provide variety or choice.

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Course Blended Learning Compliance Training Blended 101

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. November Profile of a learning architect: Darren Owen Shepherd accused of sensationalist claptrap Beware who's selling informal learning * Blending is a continuum Want to write?

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Blended Learning Big Question Social Media Totara 68

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Input: Providing the formal element which hopefully will inspire the learner and act as a catalyst for changes in behaviour and on-going skills development. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment. blended learning PIAF'

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Skills Cognitive Blended Learning Performance Support 81

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

What annoys them is instructional e-learning, particularly that sort that aims to provide knowledge, normally in the form of a tutorial. Instructional e-learning tries to provide knowledge in one hit and this is rarely going to be a successful strategy. People don''t dislike all e-learning. Scenarios are the future of e-learning.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Case Study Simulations 107

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 30, 2012

Not surprisingly, the most popular services on offer at the moment are those that can be provided virtually, like graphic design or coding, but currently no-ones extending this to learning technologies. proposing a blended solution? So, what could you buy or sell remotely by the hour: analysing a performance requirement?

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Services Specialist Virtual World Quiz 73

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes. Good teachers tell lots of stories. So does good learning content.

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Content Case Study Blended Learning Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes. Good teachers tell lots of stories. So does good learning content.

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Content Case Study Blended Learning Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While I would still look to provide the maximum flexibility for the learner by providing resources online and allowing collaboration to take place asynchronously (through email, forums, social networks, blogs, etc), I now understand that live events are going to add something really significant to the blend.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

Courses may take place in a classroom, online, on-job or by some blend of these, but they all typically have objectives, entry criteria, a curriculum, formal content, tuition and assessment. They typically provide nowhere near enough opportunities for practice and feedback. Timing is rarely ideal - often they are too early or too late.

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Resources Strategy Course Simulations 87

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I have seen recent evidence of some very sophisticated ROI analysis of learning interventions, and this is to be lauded, but it's usually not necessary to provide evidence with scientific precision. A typical formal intervention - classroom or e-learning - provides valuable input but very rarely sees the job through.

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Evalution Kirkpatrick Blended Learning Performance Support 84

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

I was chatting with a client the other evening after a workshop on blended learning. You can imagine that providing some opportunity for a little quiet reflection, assuming the content wasn't too new age and pseudo-scientific. A virtual classroom provides no protection from interruptions. Where does this lead us?

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Classroom Virtual Classroom Social Networks Blended Learning 72

Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2013

The training would focus on encouraging positive attitudes to the necessary change, providing critically-important information (the rest can be accessed as reference resources), putting principles into context with examples and case studies and, most importantly, providing plenty of opportunities for practice (with supportive feedback).

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Compliance Training Compliance Blended Learning Strategy 75

Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2013

Designed well, they provide the learner with the opportunity to engage in a sort of experiment from which insights can emerge into key principles. First off, I'd suggest that, imperfect as they are, scenarios still provide a valuable opportunity for experimentation and rehearsal, safe from physical, financial or psychological risk.

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Simulations Photo Blended Learning Brain 78

Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

What goalgetter does is to work with you, like a virtual coach, to help you set goals for changed behaviour, provide you with tips and advice, suggest practical activities that will encourage skills development, and then follow up to see how you're getting on.

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Blended Learning Virtual World Library Coaching 74

Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2012

E-learning provides an equivalent to all learning activities that would previously have been conducted by other means. It also provides opportunities that have no precedent in traditional media. This is a bold statement but not over-stating the case.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Compliance Training Simulations 75

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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Blended Learning Big Question Compliance Training Brain 66

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

I made the point that, more often than not, new designers are provided with plenty of instructional design theory, but nowhere near enough time to practise and get feedback. How it can fit into a blend. When self-study digital learning content is useful and when it is not.

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Blended Learning Design Learning Objects Theory 88

Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

It saves the author from the quite ridiculous prospect of having to communicate with you individually, by providing you with your own hand-written copy perhaps, or reading the book out to you in person. When you read a book, one that has an author with a name written on the cover, the book acts as a useful mediator between the author and you.

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Study Social Blended Learning Social Media 103

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In other words, interaction is part of the blend. It provides the structure that novices need. There is a definite place for the online self-study tutorial.

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Virtual Classroom Blended Learning Tutorial Wikipedia 80

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Blended learning is so often blended training. But e-learning cannot provide the skills of tomorrow on its own. E-learning is providing only shallow learning of compliance topics - not the profound learning you get through interaction with other people. D-learning (digital) provides a better description.

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Rapid eLearning Internet 85

Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

Of course this is not the first time that learning providers have had to struggle with tight market conditions. But this may well be the first time that customers – internal and external – are beginning to question the basis of the service offering. Coming next: The vision: 1. Learning and development that is aligned. transformation'

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Develop Budget 95

Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Learning technologies can and will dramatically change the nature of the service provided by l&d and the skills mix will be quite different. And there will be some demand for competent tutors, who can act as coaches, curators, assessors and moderators of online and blended programmes.

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Blended Learning Job Virtual Classroom Simulations 80

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

They will be provided with specific and timely feedback. You can understand why the emphasis shifted from exposition to instruction as it became necessary to provide millions of new entrants to the workforce with essential knowledge and practical skills. They will receive ample demonstrations and examples.

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Blended Learning Instructional Design Instructional Instruction 101