Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Blogging lets you put out more formed thoughts and look for feedback. One of the coming roles for learning designers is facilitating the informal learning as well as the formal, I suggest. You need mechanisms to ask questions, find people, share thoughts. Microblogging (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2015

First, if you haven’t seen it, you should check out the debate I had with the good Dr. Will Thalheimer over at his blog about the Kirkpatrick model. He’s upset with it as it’s not permeated by learning, and I argue that it’s role is impact, not learning design (see my diagram at the end).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 24, 2011

This, of course, also is what happens in informal learning, if we end up discussing a problem to solve, or even just blog our thoughts and get comments. As Jay Cross says , the most powerful learning technology is conversation.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

In preparation for an event, he makes a blog post to organize his thoughts. Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. Social Formal Learning. My Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche is a clever guy.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The nicest part, for me, is the last chapter where Jane reconnects the message back into the larger picture: of learning, of work, and of organizations. For one, she talks a bit about how social relates to learning, an important conception. The last, in particular, is enabled by mobile.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. Our approach to formal learning needs to more naturally mimic this approach, having us attempting to do something, and resourcing around it with information and facilitation. They may need discussion forums, blogs, wikis, and IM.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

My message is that learning should be considered as a very broad umbrella, as it should include all those activities where we don’t have an answer and have to ‘learn’ one. Dave Wilkins has collected quite a few in his blog, and more are popping up everywhere.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

is about informal learning, but the organization was moving to using social networking tools to scaffold their move from face-to-face to more online learning. So I was asked to talk about social networking and formal learning. I started from the informal picture, however, both to introduce the 2.0 Much of elearning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Saw a post by Matthew Franz - where he tells us - I don't get e-learning 2.0 - and it made me wonder if Franz is a training specialist - who's not looking at more than training as a model for learning. Here's what he said: I just don't get why folks are trying to lump in wikis, blogs, rss, etc. as "e-learning."

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2018

The award is for an individual who represents the spirit of continuing informal learning for the workplace. Jay was a fierce champion of social and informal learning. He saw that most of how we learn to do what we do comes from interacting with others. This year, Mark Britz is the deserving recipient.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 15, 2008

or is it Learning 2.0). This presentation is where the Examples of eLearning 2.0 - which showed clearly these things are being applied to formal and informal learning opportunities. One of the other presentations of the day was This Isn’t your Mama’s Training: Implementing Learning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

After my last blog post , a commenter asked a pertinent question: Many organizations/companies have multiple intranets, wiki sites, and so forth, often making it difficult for employees to know where to go when they want an answer or more information.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Entreprise Collaborative , a cross-cultural endeavor bridging English and French to provide a jumping off point on organizational collective intelligence (and co-led by my Internet Time Alliance colleague Harold Jarche ), is launching a blog carnival. It’s got to include performance support, and informal learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It’s about making learning experiences that really deliver. So, where does the process of creating a learning experience go wrong? And while I’m talking formal learning here, by and large, I believe it holds true for performance support and informal learning environments as well, the whole performance ecosystem.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

Donald Clark raises an issue on his blog about confounding informal with Web 2.0, and the point I found interesting is his query about the 80/20 in/formal learning metrics. and a major component of informal), you need to systematically support informal. I commented: Interesting point, and right in many respects.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In the process of thinking through how to support informal learning, I was reminded of a diagram I created several years ago. The social network provides the rest of the support around the courses which really only serve the situation where a major skill-shift change is needed.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

An interesting aside, for me, is that this does segue to informal learning. Taking this framework provides a reference for learners to take control of their own learning, and develop their ability to be better learners. communing on blog posts, participating in a discussion forum, etc).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

If someone can get to your online reference (stored on a wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning? Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Warning that on Blogs and Podcasts, the numbers are so low that any adoption looks bigger than it really is. However, that's still impressive.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2008

Harold Jarche in Skills 2.0 : Today, active involvement in informal learning, particularly through web-based communities, is key to remaining professional and creative in a field. Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0 How do I scan, collect keywords, and rescan to crystallize ideas and information?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 27, 2010

It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged, and it’s not that there haven’t been learnings, it’s just that my dance card was too too full. The ongoing debates around social media for learning flummox me. Maybe you have to be ‘in it’ to get it, but then, get in it.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2009

Yet, for a learning group, Mzinga’s integration of formal and informal learning is also plausible. Vignette’s story about building on their core content management system supporting knowledge management makes sense from the point of view of mining value out of the discussions. I’m still wrestling with this.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

A lot of the time, the way people actually learn how to work in this environment is through informal learning. Technology is Tactical not Strategic First, learning 2.0 That said, there is almost always some technology (Wiki, blog, RSS, etc.) They establish exactly how you are supposed to manufacture everything.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Wikis and blogs? Our responsibility ends at formal learning. Informal learning is an oxymoron. We’re careful to know our areas of responsibility. When someone wants to talk expertise directories, or other KM-type activities, we point them to IT. We’ve no time for a drunken Hawaiian party.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 10, 2008

He just spoke at the celebration of Doug Engelbart’s work, and while I couldn’t attend, I was looking for blog postings and found his slide deck. The implications for informal learning are obvious, I’ll have to think more about formal learning. That’s insightful, and useful.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 3, 2006

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2008

This month on the Learning Circuits Blog - I asked some very leading questions If we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning , etc. Don't we have to conclude that learning professionals must be literate in these things?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 27, 2017

And I promised to write a blog post about it, and I’ve finally received the list of thoughts, so here are my reflections. As an aside, I’ve written separate articles on L&D innovation recently for both CLO magazine and the Litmos blog so you can check those out, too. Sutton and Huggy Rao ( blogged ).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2010

At the Upside Learning Blog, this post (which I found through the CLO group on LinkedIn) proclaims that the elearning industry is down on the iPad. As I blogged, it’s huge for publishers, providing both a channel for richer media and interactivity, and a new unified market channel. Gov’t?

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