Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2009

Around half of the respondents say that the formal classroom training they had been given was only useful in parts, with an overwhelming majority (87%) preferring to learn at their own pace.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Continuing my review of last Friday's eLearning Network Thinking Synch event, I was surprised by several case studies that seemed to suggest that better results could be achieved in the virtual classroom than face-to-face. Hard-hitting evidence came from Illustra 's Alan Saunders, whose presentation I mentioned in my previous post.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a learning context, video provides a compelling means for conveying content, particularly real-life action and interactions with people. It plays without difficulty on all sorts of devices, including smart phones and tablets, and adds a great deal to the classroom experience, virtual or physical. Video is so versatile.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

Let’s imagine you’re currently in a position in which you simply have to deliver your programmes online because your classrooms are all closed up. Or should I run live online sessions that approximate what I currently do in the classroom?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

My point is that live events, particularly those in the classroom, have for so long been the norm, even though getting people together at the same time is such a hassle, so inflexible for the learner, more stressful and tends to lead to too much learning in one go. Far better to provide a video or narrated slide show.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 25, 2012

This week I've had an opportunity to go the whole way, as I've been working for two days with a group of experienced trainers looking to build their skills in facilitating within a virtual classroom. At this point I applied the principle: 'provide only as much knowledge as is needed to allow learners to practise and no more'.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Learning technologies can and will dramatically change the nature of the service provided by l&d and the skills mix will be quite different. Classroom training will undoubtedly have a major role to play in the mix, but rather than being 90% or more of the offering, it may well be 40% or less. Let's say you are a classroom trainer.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I''m not referring to virtual classrooms, online content such as web articles and videos, or any form of social media. What annoys them is instructional e-learning, particularly that sort that aims to provide knowledge, normally in the form of a tutorial. People don''t dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

How can we continue to provide a worthwhile service in L&D when we have half the bodies available that we had a year ago? I have spent much of my life running classroom courses and feeling I was doing a really good job. I believe the shift away from the classroom is going to be long term. First thought: I'm not sure.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2012

In particular they want to know whether it has the potential to challenge what they are currently doing in the classroom. E-learning provides an equivalent to all learning activities that would previously have been conducted by other means. It also provides opportunities that have no precedent in traditional media.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

They see evidence of increased involvement of L&D in providing or curating content that is 'good enough' to do the job, although rather less progress with user-generated content. For some in L&D, the only learning resources they get involved with are the printed handouts they provide alongside their classroom courses.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

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. The audience ranged from those who hadn’t been in a classroom for 30 years to some who couldn’t wait to get started. He ultimately became the training lead for the launch of the system.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

Customers are becoming more savvy about the fact that large-scale knowledge dumps in the classroom don't work. Customers are turning to lower-cost, third-party providers. It seems unlikely that IT companies will be able to rely in the future on the classroom as their main delivery medium.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2011

When you enter the classroom (or log on to an online course), you are completely at the mercy of the trainer (or the online course designer). Of course, you could use an online simulation, in which no-one gets to laugh at your mistakes, but these can be expensive to produce and may not always provide the necessary realism.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

It saves the author from the quite ridiculous prospect of having to communicate with you individually, by providing you with your own hand-written copy perhaps, or reading the book out to you in person. 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.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

Synchronous learning (that takes place with others, at a specific time, perhaps in a virtual classroom) can be powerful, but it is certainly not flexible. Providing this sort of flexibility is not always practical, but it should at least be an aim. and providing alternatives can be beneficial, if not compulsory.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a learning context, video provides a compelling means for conveying content, particularly real-life action and interactions with people. It plays without difficulty on all sorts of devices, including smart phones and tablets, and adds a great deal to the classroom experience, virtual or physical. Video is so versatile.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We were discussing the all-too-common tendency to over-teach and under-practise in formal workplace learning interventions.Here's how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more I'm really taken with this.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a facilitated learning intervention, interactions can be planned to occur alongside the use of learning materials, through group activities in a classroom, debriefs in a virtual classroom, forum discussions, practical group assignments, coaching sessions, and so on. It provides the structure that novices need.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

Courses may take place in a classroom, online, on-job or by some blend of these, but they all typically have objectives, entry criteria, a curriculum, formal content, tuition and assessment. They typically provide nowhere near enough opportunities for practice and feedback. Timing is rarely ideal - often they are too early or too late.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I have seen recent evidence of some very sophisticated ROI analysis of learning interventions, and this is to be lauded, but it's usually not necessary to provide evidence with scientific precision. A typical formal intervention - classroom or e-learning - provides valuable input but very rarely sees the job through.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You may include measures to pinpoint areas of need, establish goals, address any shortcomings in prep-requisite knowledge, introduce learners to each other and provide an overview of what is to follow. This is when you do things like run workshops, provide on-job instruction, make available core learning material, and so on.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 7, 2011

In fact, since the shift from the classroom to e-learning got under way, the demand is more common not less, even though the lead time for self-study materials has to be greater than that for the classroom. Well guess what, providing information is a pretty good start. Or does it?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2009

I have mixed feelings about classroom training. On the one hand, it frustrates me that the classroom is still the default format for a formal learning intervention, often chosen without regard for its suitability to the job in hand. Tags: research classroom. Practically all respondents advocated the TAP system strongly.

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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 12, 2010

Rapid e-learning has enabled 32% of the organisations surveyed to speed up the shift from classroom training to e-learning : Interesting in that this was the goal in the first place, but understandable given that respondents also stated that “Training is moving online to reduce cost and provide learner flexibility”.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

It’s primary focus is on the classroom (or virtual classroom) instructor who wants to enrich their offering with social learning techniques but doesn’t know where to begin. This is not a book that spends a lot of time developing a theory of social learning; this is highly practical stuff, and the better for it.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2012

Events that you go to primarily for the social contact it provides and because it gets you out of the house. Many conferences and classroom courses fit in this category. Others events for which a webinar or virtual classroom session would be quite adequate. Events for which the primary benefit is making and renewing contacts.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Input: Providing the formal element which hopefully will inspire the learner and act as a catalyst for changes in behaviour and on-going skills development. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment. So why is ''blending in'' so important?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

Modularity implies a more granular structure - activities and resources must be provided in much smaller chunks. Modular structures are not only more flexible, they also provide improved results, because learners are so often overloaded by lengthy courses and resources. Don''t shy from one-to-one support where it''s needed.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts. This was accomplished using Bupa’s Saba Centra virtual classroom platform.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Bryan asked respondents to provide estimates for four categories of project: Instructor-led training (ILT) : A useful comparison to the e-learning, but also a reasonable guide to what it would take to develop sessions for the virtual classroom. He also asked what the cost of this work was at internal rates.

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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. Of course, if you want to more than match the traditional classroom experience, you'll probably also include forums, live online sessions and individual or group assignments.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

While the underlying pedagogy of a MOOC can, in some cases, resemble that of a traditional course, the sheer scale of the endeavour and the opportunities that this provides for peer interaction make the MOOC something very different from what we have ever been able to experience face-to-face. Live group sessions in a virtual classroom?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

This title is a reasonable contender as long as instruction is what you are designing, whether that’s e-learning, in a classroom or on-the-job. Here we have an idea borrowed from user experience (UX) design, defined as ‘the process of creating products, systems or services that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users’.

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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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