Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

here team, find a solution to this problem) or has emerged from the participant. Or you could be part of a Community of Practice and actively trying to improve something. And I share it, because I’m wrestling with it, and it’s how I learn out loud. It’s about locus of control.

Collaboration 215

Collaboration Wink Cognitive PKM 215

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Another response to my request for topics asked about moving from the classroom to the ‘fringe’ Here, I have a very simple response: the case studies in Revolutionize Learning & Development. Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. The problem was too much hierarchy.

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Case Study Social Networks Communities of Practice Social Network 135

Clark Quinn

MARCH 17, 2020

Our health system aims to cope with average levels of problems. I am using an adaptation to make the case for Community Emergency Response Team, a training initiative I’m engaged in. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is weighing in on how to design learning online and how to work remotely. Please do learn it!

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Emergent Behavior Association Community 164

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 26, 2013

It’s clear that our brains aren’t the logical problem-solvers we’d like to be. Except that we use intuition even when we shouldn’t, and hard thinking is very susceptible to problems. Yet we need to have reliably good outcomes to solving problems or accomplishing tasks.

Cognitive 162

Cognitive Performance Support Support Performance 162

Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m trying to capture rethinking about education or formal learning. And start getting more concrete about learning experience design. I want to start thinking about a learning experience as a series of activities, not a progression of content. The latter is an opportunity for meta-learning. This unpacks.

Portfolio 188

Portfolio Cognitive Learning Simulations 188

Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2020

This was originally intended to be one of my Learning Solutions Mag columns (Quinnsights). Clawson’s Creating a Learning Culture book to accompany the event they held on the topic. Sure, at this point everyone is touting solutions for working and learning at home. But here I want to talk a bigger scope than just learning.

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Lesson Collaboration Trust Organization 211

Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2012

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. The transparency provides real value in developing trust among the constituencies.

Collaboration 189

Collaboration Social Networks Social Network Firewalls 189

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It occurs to me that I’ve probably not conveyed in any concrete terms what I think the ‘slow learning’ experience might be like. And even in formal schooling, if you’re engaged in either an individual or group problem, it might well be available to provide a hint, as well as of course tools to hand.

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Calendar Toys Stock Learning 170

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It wasn’t easy, as you had to learn the interface commands to accomplish this task, but the worlds were configurable (e.g. while viewing, not offline), we can find some powerful learning opportunities, both formal and informal. And communities could be representing their processes and frameworks.

Collaboration 100

Collaboration Cognitive Virtual World Augmented Reality 100

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

A learning culture is optimal for organizational innovation and agility, and it’s likely that not all elements are already in place. Say, for instance, one desirable outcome of a learning culture would be, well, learning! I can see time to solve customer problems or problems solved per time.

Culture 100

Culture Change Social Networks Social Network 100

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I riffed on it for a Chief Learning Officer magazine, and my Internet Time Alliance colleagues have followed up. I had, as Harold’s original model provided the basis for, separate groups for Work Teams, Communities of Practice, and Social Networks. However, I want to take it further. Within each were separate elements.

Social Networks 174

Social Networks Organization Communities of Practice Social Network 174

Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2014

My latest tome, Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age is out. The major components are: what’s wrong (you can’t change until you admit the problem :). what we know about how we think, work, and learn that we aren’t accounting for. Well, sort of.

Case Study 166

Case Study ASTD Yahoo Examples 166

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In last night’s #lrnchat on instructional design,there was some discussion of the term ‘learning facilitator’ versus ‘trainer’ (which now I can’t find!?!), There was also a discussion on ITFORUM that expanded to discuss how experts are losing the problem-solving skills and how to develop them.

Pedagogy 140

Pedagogy Instructional Design Learning Communities of Practice 140

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They get to know what you’re up to, so it’s easier to align, but if your thinking is any good, it gives them the chance to learn from how you think. Instead, you need the elements of a learning organization : the environment has to value diversity, be open to new ideas, provide time for reflection, and most of all be safe.

Behavior 184

Behavior Attitudes Diversity Training Benefits 184

Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2018

If we don’t know how we think, work, and learn, we can’t optimally support both performance in the moment and continual innovation over time. And this is true for formal and informal learning as well as performing. We want to succeed, and we like to be challenged, and we learn when we are, so having scaffolding helps.

Cognitive 101

Cognitive Social Mentoring Performance Support 101

Clark Quinn

MARCH 1, 2016

While I was there, I remembered that I have some colleagues who don’t see the connection between xAPI and learning. I think one of the problems people have is that they think xAPI is a solution all in itself, but it is just a syntax for reporting. So I asked and was confirmed in my suspicion.

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xapi Mentoring Coaching Picture 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2012

This model came from a look at how people act in the world and I was reminded of it during a conversation on informal learning. Then we have a breakdown, and need to consciously problem-solve. If we find the answer, we can go back into action, but if we can’t find the answer, we have to go into problem-solving mode.

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Performance Support Performance Communities of Practice Picture 187

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

You now have to continually innovate in products and services, problem-solve faster, avoid repeating mistakes, and in general learn ( big ‘L’ learning ) faster than your competitors. The learning doesn’t come from more hierarchy, bigger incentives, or more systems.

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Innovation Wink Pattern Performance Support 167

Clark Quinn

MAY 20, 2015

The implications are to stop trying to put everything in the head, and start designing systems that complement us in ways that assure that the combination is the optimized solution to the problem being confronted. Of course, this is only in the case of known problems, the ‘optimal execution’ phase of organizational learning.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Player Communities of Practice Organizational Learning 100

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

During my presentation in Minneapolis on future-looking applications of technology to learning, the usual and completely understandable question came up about how to change an organization to buy-in to this new way of acting in the world: to start focusing on performance outcomes and not courses.

Performance Support 133

Performance Support eLearning Strategy Web Social 133

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2008

It’s about looking at how organizations develop competence, move to excellence, foster innovation, collaboratively problem-solve, etc. What I realized today was that what I’m really about is improving organizational learning infrastructure. It includes courses, and community, and more. Are you improving?

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Organizational Learning Metrics Performance Support eLearning Strategy 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 11, 2016

The new structure is focused on teams (stayed tuned for my review of Amy Edmondson’s Teaming ) that are given the tasks to solve problems, trouble shoot, design new products and services, and generally continue to adapt. In short, to learn. And I want to talk about the L&D role here, at least the potential one.

Agile 100

Agile Culture Diversity Training Behavior 100

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The goal is to ensure a high quality learning experience to anyone with sufficient technical ability and access to the Internet. The learning comes from content presented by a lecturer, and then dialog via social media, where the contributions of the participants are shared. The connectivist MOOCs, on the other hand, are highly social.

Cognitive 183

Cognitive Theory Learning Theory Social Media 183

Clark Quinn

MAY 6, 2010

Harold put up a post that the “ LMS is no longer the centre of the universe “, while Jane asked “ what is the future of the LMS “ Both of them are recognizing the point I make about the scope of learning in thinking about performance: it’s more than just courses, it’s the whole ecosystem.

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LMS Cognitive Portal Asynchronous 173

Clark Quinn

APRIL 7, 2015

If you’re not familiar with 70:20:10, it’s a framework for thinking about workplace learning that suggests we need to recognize that the opportunity is about much more than courses. And, outside the learning community, people get it.

Performance Support 100

Performance Support Coaching Mentoring Social 100

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership development program plays that up in a big way. Companies that can’t learn from mistakes, their own and others’, are doomed to repeat them. There are risks in sharing, and rewards.

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Apple Culture Social Media Diversity Training 174

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 7, 2010

I would like to point you to a subsequent pos t : When to LMS about why I don’t have a problem with the functionality, I have a problem with the philosophical stance. Formal learning is necessary, and tracking it can be required, but it’s a small picture. Great stuff. It’s not management.

LMS 171

LMS Learn.com ElementK Element K 171

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Jane talks about being asked “how you make people learn socially”, and mentions that you can’t force people to be social. There are multiple areas that can be addressed, but it’s not to make people learn socially. And, of course, they’ve posted about it. And it made me think a little bit more too.

Social 100

Social Training Train Culture 100

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Let’s say you are the Director of a company’s Education/Training department and you want to move more toward information learning. The problem isn’t really the number, however, it’s how they’re being organized. The problem isn’t really the number, however, it’s how they’re being organized.

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Portal Wiki Communities of Practice Site 150

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 25, 2010

and the future of teaching and learning at Berkeley’s new Center of Next Generation of Teaching and Learning , she used the familiar mechanism of transitions from Web 1.0 One of the roles of our personal learning networks is to follow people who sort through the memes coming along and reframe them into new ideas, posts and more.

Wikipedia 133

Wikipedia Network Web Library 133

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

I subsequently taught interface design (aka Human Computer Interaction or HCI) for a number of years (while continuing to research learning technology), and made a practice of advocating the best practices from HCI to the ed tech community. That inspiration has clearly (and finally ) now moved to learning design.

Agile 100

Agile Metrics Storyboard Collaboration 100

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Even without that, however, there are big offerings on the table for informal learning, via access to resources and networks. Social Formal Learning. However, there are a couple of reasons to also think about the benefits of social learning from the formal learning perspective. The first is the processing.

Brain 174

Brain Performance Support Calendar Mobile 174

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

However, I’ve been preparing a presentation from another way of looking at it, and I want to suggest that, at core, both are being driven from the same point: how humans learn. Organizational learning, however, seems to have done almost the opposite. And that’s what we should be shooting for in our formal learning, too.

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Informal Pedagogy Communities of Practice Network 158

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The discussion on ITFORUM this week has been deeply about mobile learning (if you’re into mlearning, it’s worth checking in!). Their recent loosening of the rules gives some hope, but the lack of ability to import code is still a problem. Maybe HTML 5 will give us a browser-delivery environment.

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iPad Simulations Audio HTML 140

Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2017

In much of the discussion about tapping into the power of people via networks and communities, we hear about the learning culture we need. So, the model for becoming agile is creating an environment where people learn, alone and together. But it’s informal learning. And that’s the Learning Zone.

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Diversity Training Picture Community Search 32

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In my presentation yesterday, I was talking about how to get informal learning going. As many have noted, it’s about moving from a notion of being a builder, handcrafting (or mass-producing) solutions, to being a facilitator, nurturing the community to develop it’s own capabilities.

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Wiki IM IMS Network 182

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

That was another of our findings, but only 20 years before this online learning expert got going. I guess sometimes you can be too far ahead of the times… That’s actually not to the academic’s discredit; it’s a reliable problem for interdisciplinary studies.Â

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DevLearn Asynchronous Journal Theory 100