Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

In his book Tell me a Story , psychologist and artificial intelligence expert Roger Schank argues that "knowledge is stories" and that intelligence may be more or less equated with the ability to tell the right story at the right time. Simple stories like "I fell over" or "I had a bad dream and I'm scared", but stories nonetheless.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2011

I’m going to separate this out between two very different types of publication: (1) my book The New Learning Architect , which is primarily textual, and (2) Onlignment’s Live Online Learning: A Facilitator’s Guide , which is a highly-visual practical handbook. I’ll start with the easier of the two, the book.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an ideal world, we would probably provide personalised support for every learner, but this gets more and more unrealistic as online learning groups get larger. One way we can all do that is through the content that we provide to learners – the videos, the podcasts, the self-study materials and the job aids.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

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. In particular, I'm beginning to wonder whether self-study can feel social.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

What motivated me to get on and read the book was a chance encounter with Jane at Learning Technologies last week. Jane’s a likeable character from the deep south of the USA with an infectious enthusiasm, which I felt sure would be reflected in this book. I wasn’t wrong.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The flight from London to Newcastle this afternoon provided an ideal opportunity to remove one book from the pile accumulating on my desk. The book I chose was, to be fair, a short one, the intriguingly titled Open Source Instructional Design by Nathan Eckel (IntelliDesign, 2009). This process is time consuming and adversarial.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 6, 2011

Back in August, I wrote about weighing up the benefits of traditional book publishing. At that point I was starting on the last lap of development of my a book four years in the making entitled The New Learning Architect. Go the formal e-book route and aim at the Kindle, the iPad and the rest. As a PDF download.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

What a great book! It provides a whole load of useful tips for learners, teachers and trainers based on solid research. Finishing this book coincides with The Debunker Club's Debunk Learning Styles Month. So what differences should learning professionals take into account? Clive is now Instrumentality.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I not only have a new book to read, ReWork by Jason Fried and the impressively titled David Heinemeier Hansson (Vermilion, 2010), but a new way of reading, a Kindle. I couldn’t have chosen a better book for my first Kindle experience than ReWork. And no, Amazon aren’t paying me to say any of this. 10–40 hours a week is plenty.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I suppose for anyone working in learning media prior to computers, then fixed size windows were the norm, whether we were talking pages in a book, overhead and 35mm transparencies, or video frames. That’s how you get recommendations, notifications, help and advice, gamification, discussions and all those other useful things.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The most common manifestation of this, in my experience, is to provide the same solution for those with a great deal of prior knowledge as for those who are relative beginners. But it is easy to see how, if we are not careful, we end up providing an 'average' learning experience which satisfies no-one.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 9, 2012

You wouldn’t write a book in 15-minute bursts, and you wouldn’t design learning content that way either. A failure to block book serious amounts of time to development has been the downfall of many attempts to establish an in-house capability. E-learning development requires concentration, ideally over prolonged periods.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

What a great book! It provides a whole load of useful tips for learners, teachers and trainers based on solid research. Finishing this book coincides with The Debunker Club's Debunk Learning Styles Month. So what differences should learning professionals take into account?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I suppose for anyone working in learning media prior to computers, then fixed size windows were the norm, whether we were talking pages in a book, overhead and 35mm transparencies, or video frames. That’s how you get recommendations, notifications, help and advice, gamification, discussions and all those other useful things.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 17, 2011

It provides a place for course materials to be shared, for students to collaborate and for assignments to be uploaded and graded. But the nature of those resources and activities is typically very different. A typical VLE is designed to support formal academic courses, whether face-to-face, online or blended.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2012

Over time we developed ways of packaging up learning content in books and on tapes and CDs, which freed us up from having to be there on the day when the lesson given. Events that you go to primarily for the social contact it provides and because it gets you out of the house. Only items 1 and 2 require being face-to-face.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

However, so much of the design work that’s required is not instructional in nature, for example: If the experience you are designing is simply expositional – videos, podcasts, books, presentations, etc. If the experience is one of guided discovery – scenarios, simulations, etc. So, what about learning experience designer ?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The first half of the book presents the argument for social learning and provides a number of ways of making sense of the phenomenon. The second half of the book presents '30 ways to use social media to work and learn smarter.' Anyway, enough of all this.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Of course, some of the credit must go to employers who have provided IT training and support to those who work with computers, but a much more major influence has been the increasingly widespread use of technology outside the home. While not so long ago this was a major obstacle, even in developed economies, the problem is fast reducing.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 22, 2010

It provides some insights into the uses early adopters are finding for their iPads and the effect this is having on competitive devices: The iPad was initially positioned as a device for reading, watching videos and web browsing. True, even more (49%) said they would no longer be buying an e-book reader, but that was only to be expected.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2009

Like slide:ology , which I reviewed last month, this book is a work of art in its own right - a real visual extravaganza. Connie's background is a mix between art and cognitive psychology, which explains why the book contains such an excellent summary of what we know about the brain and perception, attention and memory.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 27, 2012

I'm not sure I really needed an excuse to upgrade to the new iPad but, as I expected, the high-resolution display has provided me with one.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

But e-learning cannot provide the skills of tomorrow on its own. CBT-style, self-paced) has been largely overcome, with the increased use of synchronous online learning, online books, content generated by subject experts and so on. The most needed skills of tomorrow will be interpersonal, and e-learning is not going to provide these.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. Reuters is the largest provider of content to the internet and supplies data on almost one million shares, bonds and other financial instruments.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I thought I''d bring it back to life here: September 22, 2009 Webinars, video recordings and podcasts provide the opportunity for experts to share their thoughts and experiences with a wide audience. It brought to mind a posting I made back in 2009, called How online media helps to create ever brighter stars.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

It can also be achieved by the ratings and comments that users apply to books, videos, music and other media. But perhaps most significantly, curation is realised through the algorithms of search engines such as Google and Bing, which, in theory at least, provide users with search listings ordered by relevance.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Well, they do of course include the stars: Those able to sell tens of thousands of books or more, or who are paid very considerable sums to keynote at conferences. By contrast, the overwhelming majority of people make next to nothing from writing books and can only get to speak at conferences for free. So who are these few?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor. For this profile, we turn to Rob Bartlett, from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 23, 2010

I’ve prepared this short e-book to shed some light on these issues and to encourage more rewarding online communication for all involved. If you’d prefer the simple, plain text version, I’ve provided links to all the original blog postings here. You can download it for free from Onlignment here.

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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. I've marked with asterisks a few posts that were particularly significant from my point of view. December Where is the model for e-learning?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. He is author of five books, of which three have been co-authored, and has written over 30 articles and book reviews. The whole approach is based on a framework of competencies.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. In this profile, we look at how on-demand learning can be integrated with formal training to provide the basis for a highly-successful software launch.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 29, 2018

Of course, you will need to use unfamiliar technical terms from time to time – just make sure you define them carefully and provide examples of how they should be used. It's a common fallacy that plain English means dumbing down your content for the sake of the ignorant, but in fact everyone benefits from simple language.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 8, 2009

Rule 6: Remember to repeat This chapter of John Medina's book focuses on long-term memory and the processes required if learning is to be lasting. Provide opportunities for reflection and/or discussion immediately following new learning. Limit the amount of new information that you provide in one session.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

As Daniel Pink explains in his excellent book Drive , incentives can cause more problems than they solve: "The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. It's all a game and employees know this.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2008

Two aspects of the 'Performance Zone' site that Futuremedia created for private health care provider BUPA particularly caught my attention: LMS widgets : The site provides each user with a personalised home page that can be customised with all sorts of widgets, including RSS feeds, etc.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2010

Imagine you were running a pretty traditional formal course composed of face-to-face classroom sessions, backed up by handouts or reference books. The complete body of content is most likely covered more formally in the handouts and other reference materials.

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