Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

These resources can take various forms: Web articles, written in an engaging, journalistic manner, rather like blogs. In a recent project we used web articles as the gateways, each article drawing on the resources most closely related to a particular topic. More formal reference material, in HTML or PDF format.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Live online events using web conferencing tools Formal instructional sessions, similar to those conducted in a physical classroom. Digital online content, including web articles, videos, screencasts, podcasts, slide shows Performance support material for access on-demand. As a developmental activity initiated by the learner.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When, at the end of a course, the instructor handed out a reading list, web links or information about further courses, they were acting as curator – just like in a museum, where the curator selects from the wide range of exhibits in the museum's collection and organises these to make a fulfilling experience for the museum's visitors.

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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. Web conferencing’s time has come. Communicating using web conferencing is not difficult, but does require some readjustment.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

But most of our routine meetings are not in this category - we can get along just fine using Skype, or some more sophisticated form of web conferencing. Asynchronous comms, using email, forums, social networks, blogs and wikis, allow us to regain control of our time.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

This month’s Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog asks what software tools, as learning and development professionals, we should set out to learn. In the second instance, a colleague took a course on web design. Do you need to know HTML to appreciate web design? On careful reflection, I’d have to say none.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

In the meantime, there's a job to be done, and that's far better achieved through access to videos, PDFs, forums, blogs and simple web articles. A great example of this is the ubiquitous YouTube video, which can be embedded just about anywhere from a blog post to an email, perhaps even played in a classroom!

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2010

When you’re confronted day after day by hundreds, if not thousands, of emails, tweets, status updates, blog posts and text messages, it’s amazing how skilful we become at weeding out the communications that deserve our attention. With emails and blog posts, our messages will never get read if the headlines are not sufficiently enticing.

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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? British Telecom Dare2Share case study Who writes web content? Excel Everest (review) Rather than getting depressed, get going What blogging has become A solution looking for a problem?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

content - blog and forum postings, YouTube videos, etc. - It would also require that the content be written using a conversational tone, with the author's personality shining through - their stories, jokes and examples. is consumed with gusto because it has personality.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 13, 2012

Perhaps the best way of illustrating the importance of visual communication to learning design is to list the names of those designers whose blogs everyone wants to read: Tom Kuhlman , Cathy Moore , Connie Malamed , Julie Dirksen. Written for the beginner, the book covers all aspects of graphic design, from print to web.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

You have competition There is a lot of content out there competing for our attention: 100 million YouTube videos 5 million English language articles on Wikipedia 5 billion web pages 25 million songs on iTunes 14000 films on Netflix Clearly we can’t consume more than a tiny fraction of all this.

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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

JULY 24, 2015

You have competition There is a lot of content out there competing for our attention: 100 million YouTube videos 5 million English language articles on Wikipedia 5 billion web pages 25 million songs on iTunes 14000 films on Netflix Clearly we can’t consume more than a tiny fraction of all this.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Although the use of Web 2.0 technologies for learning is on the up (see Learning 2.0 - an update from the eLearning Guild ), it's also true to say that most employers don't know which way to start (see How are employers responding to Gen Y and Web 2.0? ). Saba's new offering is a leaning towards Web 2.0 starting point.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2010

I have stopped using my blog to share resources, provide updates or make brief comments - these have all graduated to Twitter. My blog has now taken the form of a more-or-less twice weekly column on learning-related issues, which works well for me.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

My goal is to expose the hype and promote an informed discussion of evidence-based strategies that postsecondary institutions can use to harness the power of Web 2.0 Clearly there is a considerable body of opinion that is questioning the assumptions about net gen. and other learning technologies."

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

For the first time in eight years of Clive on Learning I''ve been too busy to blog. By then, many organisations will have got used to the idea that many meetings and other events can be handled perfectly adequately using web conferencing.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 25, 2009

The source material hasn't changed a great deal in form - web pages, PDFs, books, magazine articles, handwritten notes - but the way I process this certainly has. I have shifted almost all my in-progress work to Evernote, including this and other blog postings. You can copy and paste from PDFs or web pages, or import them wholesale.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

The web was going to be the great educator, but the cult of the amateur is now devaluing knowledge, says net entrepreneur Andrew Keen. Today's technology hooks all those monkeys up with all those typewriters," argues Andrew Keen, who believes that web 2.0 And doesn't he realise that blogging and other web 2.0 True web 2.0

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 3, 2010

The February Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog (I know, it’s March already and I’m late on this one) queries what the place is for instruction and deep reflection in a culture in which people increasingly just dip into things and move on.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

If e-learning is a fad then here's what we are going to be doing without when the fashion changes: web conferencing e-assessment collaborative distance learning social networking wikis blogging and micro-blogging podcasting games and simulations forums instant messaging and the whole World Wide Web!

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice. Facilitating collaborative online learning More modern, informal learning approaches put the trainer as the ‘guide on the side’ rather than the ‘sage on the stage’.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Where it is required that participants meet, they can do this on the phone or with LiveMeeting (a web conferencing system), as they would at other times in their work. 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous. Who does not watch videos on YouTube to see a demonstration of how to do something or an explanation of how something works?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2013

Reading a book, watching a video, listening to a podcast, surfing the web or interacting with an e-learning programme are all asynchronous; so is communicating by post, by text messages, by email or through forums, blogs, wikis and social networks.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 This is debatable, because the application of web 2.0 First of all, the web 2.0 Become a participant.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? Long before the micro-learning term was coined, the practice was widespread, almost ubiquitous. Who does not watch videos on YouTube to see a demonstration of how to do something or an explanation of how something works?

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Micro-Learning Blended Learning Wiki Brain 40

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2008

The eLearning Guild have recently released a new report on Learning 2.0 - Learning in a Web 2.0 The list of authors represents a blogging who's who, with contributions from Jane Hart , Tony Karrer , Michele Martin , Mark Oehlert , Sanjay Parker , Brent Schlenker , and Will Thalheimer.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2009

June's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks a personal question: How much time do you spend and how do you find the time for reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.? So how do I fit in all these web 2.0 Let's start with blogging. Tags: Facebook BigQuestion blogging Twitter. at least twice a week.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Synchronous (live) online events, using web conferencing, instant messaging and so on. Asynchronous collaborative activities, using email, forums, social networks, blogs, wikis, etc. These can be categorised as: The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

In fact Peter wrote what was probably the definitive book on the subject, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web , which I vaguely recall reading some time back (I find that now I blog a review of any book I read, I remember much more, which for me is an invaluable side effect of blogging).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 29, 2009

SlideShare is essentially a text and graphics medium - it converts your slides to a simple sequence of still images, which can be viewed on the SlideShare site or embedded in another blog or web page. PowerPoint > Articulate/Adobe Presenter > Flash > LMS/web site.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2010

In my role as a consultant, it is hard to completely cut yourself off from business-related communication while on holiday, so the ability to receive all my emails and blog feeds was useful, along with access to my Evernote database and Google docs. Weather forecasts, maps and travel guides, with GPS support are all obviously useful.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He has actively engaged in all aspects of web 2.0. After all, in the past five years I've managed close to 600 blog postings but have still not quite finished the book that I started three years ago. Rather it is a revelatory reminder of how far the internet has become enmeshed in our daily existence and is affecting the way we think.'

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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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