Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2009

I began to question whether my presentation, which positioned the current pressures facing the l&d community in the context of a proliferation of new media options and bandwidth, really made any sense to this audience when most of those opportunities were some years away. Again, the problem is not purely an African one.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Last week I attended a one-day workshop entitled The Science of Learning, which was facilitated by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Itiel Dror of Southampton University. Designers/teachers need to take account of the way in which the information is likely to be encoded and processed - it's not 'what you teach' but 'what is learned'.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

One of my lasting memories of this week's Learning Technologies 2008 was a blogger's reunion dinner at a Persian restaurant just off Kensington High Street. Anyway, what I was interested to discuss with this illustrious company was the problem of how you build an online community in which the participants interact with each other freely.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2008

I've had a number of discussions recently with large corporate clients about the e-learning skills that they need to maintain in-house. Couple all this with the problems of balancing capacity, so you've always got enough people but never too many, and you can see that this solution is hard to sustain.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

I must confess to being more than a little baffled by the aversion of the e-learning community to the concept of a page turner. So if it isn't the page turning that's a problem, maybe it's the danger that designers will take the book metaphor too far and fill these pages with nothing but reading material.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. So dominant in fact, that those tasked with devising and assembling technology-based learning solutions have been called instructional designers ever since.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2007

The training community, for example, is not used to collaborating. Blacksmiths learning how to become auto mechanics, on the other hand, puts food on the table." Those who solve problems for a living are addicts - they would problem solve 24 hours a day if it was physically possible.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

Like degrees by post, they devalue the whole concept of qualifications as a measure of achievement in learning. Now informal learning afficionados might wonder why we bother with certification at all. Aren't they just a representation of old-style educational thinking? A way for teachers and trainers to exercise power over students?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

While many suggest that friendships, like communities, are collapsing, others claim that we have never been so well and closely connected. Looked at in this light, Facebook is alleviating what could be a much worse problem. By the way, on October 5th in London, the Institute of Ideas is debating What good is e-learning?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2007

But Bill Brandon, the editor of Learning Solutions eMagazine for the eLearning Guild invited me to become his friend and, being a well brought-up boy, of course I said yes. It was interesting to discover that two of my step children were already members and to find out who their friends were (parents can learn so much this way).

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 27, 2006

The ASTD managed to achieve this unwittingly in one day, with two articles that they published through their 'e-learning community'. Anyway, the gist of it was that people now entering the workforce have been brought up on games and simply won't accept interactive learning material in any other format.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In my experience this works, which is more than can be said for most formal learning. The long-standing 'deal' with the learning and development department, as described so well by Charles Jennings , is that l&d take the problem off the manager's hands. Neither is an elaborate blended solution what managers expect.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In case you don’t know Towards Maturity, they were established in 2003 as a government-funded body to promote the use of learning technologies in workplace learning across the UK. And therein lies the problem, for the call seems only to be heard by the already converted. The rest have been stuck for years.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 27, 2007

Now I don't know if the train journeys to London are getting slower or I'm reading faster, but I managed to get through The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning by Wick, Pollock, Jefferson and Flanagan (Pfeiffer, 2006) in the time it took to travel 60 miles. Again, seems basic stuff, but so few programmes do this.

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