Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

These resources can take various forms: Web articles, written in an engaging, journalistic manner, rather like blogs. For each element you can select the best tool for development and the most flexible format for delivery. More formal reference material, in HTML or PDF format. Self-analysis questionnaires and perhaps quizzes.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Well, I posted on this subject just last week (see Confused of Brighton ) and even listed my own top ten tools , authoring or otherwise, in a subsequent post.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2010

He launched PadPressed, which enables blogs and other publications to automatically make their content iPad friendly. What you'll hear in this program is how he developed his idea, why he insisted on an imperfect launch, how he got coverage for his new product, and the exact tools he uses to get customers to pay.

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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. Live online events using web conferencing tools Formal instructional sessions, similar to those conducted in a physical classroom.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

Jane Hart asked me to come up with a list of my top ten tools. I'm going to include IE7 under this heading, which is probably the tool I use the most after Outlook – the improvements such as tabbed browsing mean that it has caught up with Firefox (sounds like some form of heresy). I use Office so much that it has to be on the list.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 7, 2011

On the ASTD Learning Circuits blog, they ask the question “How do you address the ‘I want it now’ demand from stakeholders.” We can speed up the process with the right tools, training and an agile approach, but it still takes longer than many organisations can wait. So what do you do if your client wants it now?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This month’s Big Question in the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is ‘How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?’ How indeed? They will only have the motive if they are rewarded for effective performance.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

And the tools that they already have at their disposal, in the form of learning management systems and virtual learning environments, allow them to do this with varying degrees of success. The functionality of PeopleCloud will also support action learning and blogging, which help to maximise what is learned through experience.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

Rob is an excellent designer and a real innovator, so I feel compelled to use this blog to tell you about what he's up to with this product. 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

MAY 31, 2007

Now I know you don't read this blog for revelations about my personal life (do you?) 80% of jobs can probably be done for 20% of the budget using rapid tools. so let me bring this round to e-learning. But most tasks are not that difficult, much as we as professionals (e-learning in this case) would like to talk them up.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

Synchronous learning also benefited by technology; first the telephone and then online tools such as text chat, instant messaging, internet telephony and web conferencing. So what does it mean to be able to interact, as learners, using email, forums, wikis, blogs, social networks and the like? But individual it remained.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

January Learning in 3D: a stop on the world blog book tour (review) Is it time for Learning Technologies to use learning technologies? Excel Everest (review) Rather than getting depressed, get going What blogging has become A solution looking for a problem? I’m going to enjoy a little break. So how are people really using the iPad?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

In his design for leadership development and technical training, Sebastian brings a wide range of non-formal and experiential approaches into the mix, including a 360 degree feedback tool and job shadowing. Learning through blogging Blogging is possible within the firewall using SharePoint, but hasn’t taken off in any significant fashion.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

Only a small fraction of students may count as true digital natives, in other words. The rest are no better or worse at using technology than the rest of the population. Clearly there is a considerable body of opinion that is questioning the assumptions about net gen.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

A forum is another simple, inexpensive tool which sits nicely alongside the packaged self-directed materials. Links might seem too trivial to be considered a self-directed core learning tool, but they act as a gateway to all sorts of other resources beyond the packaged materials that you have put together.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They cannot imagine an effective learning resource that is not liberally sprinkled with opportunities to interact: Plain text is frowned at, yet strangely not in blogs or on the WIkipedia. After all, these are the tools we use every day to learn informally, which is not something you will often be able to say about the online tutorial.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

They also offer enormous performance benefits when compared to web-based tools. The web is a vital tool for me, but it is the internet which is really making the difference. They are not free and open in the spirit of the web, nor are they in many cases indexable by Google, Bing and others.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

Today sees the launch of onlignment, a new blog focusing on the use of web conferencing and similar tools (from instant messaging to telepresence) for learning and business communications. The onlignment blog. knowledge sharing and training. knowledge sharing and training.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2009

I've discovered I need some tools, in my case Twhirl , a Twitter client for my PC, and Twibble , which does the same for my Nokia N series phone. You don't get this information from a presentation, a report, even a blog, yet somehow it brings you much closer to the real person - you feel like friends, even if you've never met.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2010

The April Big Question in the Learning Circuits Blog is simply ‘how do we keep up?’ Will we be forced to chase hot tools and social platforms to stay competitive? It responds to this plea from a reader: Isn't this an ever-expanding universe of tech goodies? Perhaps the more important question, then, is ‘do I really need to?’

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2012

There are, of course, some aspects of face-to-face events which are not really practical to achieve online: activities that involve touching, smelling or tasting; interacting with physical objects, such as tools and equipment; detecting fine nuances of body language; activities that require more real estate than a computer screen.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

They will only have the means if employers help them to develop the skills they need to learn independently and provide, where appropriate, the right collaborative software tools (a rich and searchable intranet, forums, wikis, blogs, communities of practice, etc.).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2011

In the ASTD Learning Circuits blog this month, they comment on the fact that, in many organisations, learners are reaching outside of the organisation to enhance their learning experience, through social networking and other media. People use all these tools freely for personal purposes but wouldn't dream of doing the same inside."

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Even if they have the inclination, in most cases they don’t have the tools to communicate as freely as they do outside work. It's generally acknowledged that only one in a hundred writes a blog or starts up a new thread on a forum. Employees have less time to spend helping out their peers. And the numbers don’t stack up.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2013

The most obvious examples are classroom courses and on-the-job training sessions, but also in this category we must place the use of the telephone and live online tools, such as instant messaging, Skype and virtual classrooms.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

The Big Question for January in the Learning Circuits Blog is, rather predictably, what are your predictions for 2010? While conferences, magazines and blogs continue to be dominated by next generation learning technologies, corporate practice is more conservative than ever. only one will matter and that is surviving the downturn.

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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

APRIL 22, 2009

Learners are also keener to embrace collaborative tools like blogs, forums and wikis - 44% of employees want to see these techniques developed, compared to just 32% of HR professionals. Face-to-face learning is more popular among HR, with 42% of respondents wanting to see more classroom learning compared to 38% of employees.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2006

For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs. It took me a while to develop my own blogging style - I have for years written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2007

I'm enjoying Tom Kuhlman's new Rapid e-Learning Blog. Considering it's a sort-of-corporate-blog for Articulate, it's really well done - nicely presented, written with great enthusiasm and comes with a really useful free gift, The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid e-Learning Pro.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Asynchronous collaborative activities, using email, forums, social networks, blogs, wikis, etc. These resources include time, money, equipment, facilities, tools and skills. These can be categorised as: The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced). but these are not included in the motion.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is a note-keeping tool that you can use offline, but which synchs up when online, so you can carry your notes with you regardless of the device you are using. I have shifted almost all my in-progress work to Evernote, including this and other blog postings. The biggest change for me has been the use of Evernote.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2008

It's therefore not surprising to see new tools enter the market that employers can more easily relate to. " The new system integrates with other tools in the Saba suites, including web conferencing, performance management and other HR processes. flavour but is now positioning itself as a corporate tool. starting point.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

In the UK, on-the-job training is highly desired by 90% of employees, classroom by 89%, mentoring 86%, blended 83%, e-learning 81%, collaborative tools (blogs, forums and wikis) 67%, games 56%, multimedia resources (podcasts or mobile learning) 63%.” What forms of training do employees want? “In

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

But with the web now firmly established in its second evolutionary phase – in which users create the content on blogs, podcasts and streamed video – the infinite monkey theory doesn't seem so funny any more. And doesn't he realise that blogging and other web 2.0 tools are actually vehicles for everyone, including the experts?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2010

The May Big Question in the Learning Circuits Blog is What will workplace learning technology look like in 2015 ? My first instinct was to pass on this one, because it seems only a few months since we made our predictions for 2010.

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