Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

East Sussex County Council has created a simulator which members of the public can use to have their own go at deciding where the budget cuts should come. It’s not often that I find something of relevance to learning technologies in my local Brighton paper, but the report in the Argus last Wednesday certainly got my attention.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This resulted in a budget over-run and a delay of two weeks. During the testing phase, your client saw the finished output for the first time. Unfortunately she disliked the style of illustrations used throughout the programme and asked for them to be changed.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Any thoughts of cutbacks and budget deficits could be cast aside temporarily as we gathered at a luxury hotel in one of the world’s most glitzy locations – London’s Mayfair (top property on Monopoly). This year’s Institute of IT Training conference was another buzzy and stimulating event.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here are my selected highlights from their findings: Forty-four percent of respondents expect their annual L&D budgets to remain the same during the next 12 months, while 24% expect budgets to increase and only 17% have plans to cut budgets in 2009. the most popular answer was a return on Investment.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2012

I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2011

Only 9% of respondents report their budgets growing in the past 12 months. The use of e-learning is forecast to grow more than any other approach in both the public and private sectors. Beyond e-learning, the trend is to reduce external spend and bring as much as possible in-house. In fact, 54% have seen a decrease.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 28, 2013

There are obvious benefits from learning online in terms of flexibility, as well as savings in terms of time, budget and emissions, but old habits die hard and many learning professionals are finding it hard to make the change.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

What it mustn't do is crowd out the smaller, niche players without the big marketing budgets. Can you really get a true picture of the LMS market without an appreciation of what Moodle has to offer? I hope the service takes off, because customers could do with the help.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You'll definitely need to know about the nature of the business need, what requirement there is, if any, for learning and of what type, the characteristics of the target population, and the practical constraints such as time and budget. Avoid talking about the solution until you understand the problem.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2012

That means lots more job losses, constrained budgets and a lot of defensive decision-making. So, this post acts as a way for me to re-focus on the issues that need addressing in 2012. In the Western world at least, we will continue to feel the effects of the worst squeeze in my lifetime.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2012

What is the budget? How easy is it for them to travel? How much time do they have available for learning? What resources are available in terms of subject experts, designers, developers, facilitators, coaches, etc? How long before the solution must be in place? How long before the job must be completed?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A lack of accountability – the supply and demand of learning services were separated organisationally and in budget terms. To support the business in managing budgets and vendor relationships more efficiently. Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2012

If you really haven't got the budget, use photos instead although the dialogue still needs to be spot on. My favourite is acted video scenarios which play out in stages throughout the course. Because authenticity is the key, these need to be really well written, acted and directed. Not cheap I know, but powerful.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 9, 2012

More and more organisations are deciding to make self-study e-learning a key part of their l&d strategy, yet budgets are still severely constrained. As a result, many organisations are hoping they can have it both ways by simply adding e-learning development to the responsibilities of their remaining internal l&d staff.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2011

There's no time or budget allowed for exchanging experiences, benchmarking or otherwise interacting with their counterparts from other organisations. So, the Learning Circuits Big Question for June is: How do we break down organisational walls when it comes to learning?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2008

As we all know, training budgets are the first to go and we could see some scaling down this year. Where asynchronous e-learning is used - and it will probably be needed to compensate for the reduction in classroom capacity - the emphasis will be on rapid development of the 'good enough' variety, with tightly-squeezed budgets.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2010

John described five types of benefits, using an appropriately medical acronym: Maintain something useful, e.g. a positive attitude to the organisation Eliminate something nasty, e.g. waiting around for courses Decrease something that is not so good, e.g. the time it takes to learn something, or the amount it costs Increase something that you want, (..)

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 28, 2008

Yes, we have enough to think about, without trying to develop alternative routes through learning experiences to pander to some vague conception of individual preferences.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 22, 2009

This doesn't mean they take over the role of desktop and laptop computers; after all, you might watch a video on a mobile device, but you wouldn't edit it that way; similarly, you might view a budget forecast on a smart phone, but you'd use your PC to create the budget.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

Top-down learning is likely to be most valuable for the 20% of knowledge that is needed 80% of the time, and for learning that is most critical in terms of risk to safety, budget or reputation. Bottom-up learning Bottom-up learning occurs because employees also want to perform.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2007

Now some budget photo editing software does not make you a great photographer, we all know that. 80% of jobs can probably be done for 20% of the budget using rapid tools. The pros can spend the rest of the budget doing the really tricky jobs - the ones that require education, experience and talent. Millions are doing it.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

With the economic downturn in full swing (assuming, that is, that downturns can swing) and training budgets as ever looking vulnerable as the first candidate for cuts, I'm beginning to hear once more that well-honed argument that training should be regarded as an investment and not an expense. As if that was all there was to it!

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2008

" Apparently the UK (and Spain) spend around 40% less than the average European budget, so that's a simple equation: use technology, spend less time and less money, but train more people. Just the message you need when you're heading into a recession.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

They don’t have to supervise every activity, but they do need to watch the numbers, so they can react if budgets and timeframes are being exceeded. An architect of buildings does not carry the bricks or paint the walls, although they do keep a watchful eye on these activities in case their plans need to be revised or updated.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

I would have thought this tool would be a real boon to those on tight budgets who already have Moodle installations - it might even be a good enough reason for picking Moodle in the first place. You have VOIP, chat, PowerPoint upload, a whiteboard and the ability to record sessions. Just one thing bothers me.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You'll definitely need to know about the nature of the business need, what requirement there is, if any, for learning and of what type, the characteristics of the target population, and the practical constraints such as time and budget. Avoid talking about the solution until you understand the problem.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2007

There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget and appeared way past their deadline, only to flop dramatically. These are the jobs that require decent budgets and should be put out to experts to produce.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

So what are we seeing, at least in the UK: Lower budget, rapid e-learning development is flourishing. What are you doing as a result? Well, in my case, as an independent consultant, I am the organisation, so any economic impact is going to hit me directly. If you can turn round short pieces of content quickly and cheaply, you'll be in demand.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In blatant disregard of all the usual constraints of time and budget, I set out to design a programme that was both highly interactive and media rich, engaging as many of the senses as possible. Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In blatant disregard of all the usual constraints of time and budget, I set out to design a programme that was both highly interactive and media rich, engaging as many of the senses as possible. Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Research by MTD Training , reported in e.learning age magazine shows that 61% of organisations are experiencing budget cuts and 42% of respondents are concerned about their jobs. Figures showing the true extent of the damage are just starting to come through.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 29, 2009

There clearly is a heightened interest in e-learning as organisations look to cut budgets and speed up training delivery - in this way e-learning seems counter-recessionary. How can this be? E-learning seems to be at the tipping point; as an industry we are no longer racked by self-doubt, because we're hearing so many great case studies.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Sometimes I can't find the right combination of images in something like iStockPhoto , which is where I usually turn first if there's no budget for a photo shoot, custom illustrations, video or a 3D world, so here's a new option.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In another session, Alan Saunders of Illustra , specialists in executive coaching, described how budget constraints at a major multinational saw them shift a face-to-face event for senior management, due to take place in a glamorous overseas venue, to a three month online-only format.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2007

This tier is reserved for projects with complex and/or high impact objectives, sensible lead times and appropriately generous budgets. The higher tier is e-learning that delivers something special, something that can't be achieved easily other ways.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Perhaps now we can see some of that entrepreneurial zeal applied to genuinely productive activity that creates jobs, provides some revenue to offset those mountainous budget deficits, and solves some of the really difficult problems that we are facing.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

On the other hand, classroom training that is run internally is proving fairly resilient as pared-down budgets and staffing levels make it difficult to consider changing. In 2009 I predicted : Many organisations will look to e-learning to keep the essential formal training going, but mainly out of the desire to save costs.

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