Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2022

This is before there’s even the technology support available to be more proactive, but planning for the possible future is part of the strategy. I’ll be presenting a session on this at the DevLearn conference in October. If you’re interested and going to be there, I welcome seeing you.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Other times, like in the recent L&D conference, I shared my deeper thinking on analyzing technology through affordance, but then didn’t challenge learners to apply that themselves (to be fair, I only had an hour; on the other hand, I didn’t properly prepare).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At the recent DevLearn conference, I was part of a Guild Master panel on emerging technologies. It featured notables such as Julie Dirksen, Mark Lassoff, Megan Torrence, Ron Price, Chad Udell, Karl Kapp, and Jane Bozarth, all hosted by Mark Britz. Not surprisingly, I guess, the topic went to the future of the LMS.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 22, 2020

The L&D conference , starting today, has a wide variety of things going on. There are panels on, for instance, on diversity & inclusion, state of learning, learning technology, women in learning, as just a few. Including things I’m in. So, do you wanna talk meaning, learning science, and more…? Please help!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Neil deGrasse Tyson opened this year’s DevLearn conference. strategy technology' A clear crowd favorite, folks lined up to get in (despite the huge room). In a engaging, funny, and poignant talk, he made a great case for science and learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At the recent and always worthwhile DevLearn conference, I was part of the panel on Artificial Intelligence (AI). So, first, AI is about using computer technology to model intelligence. Now, I’m not an AI practitioner, but I have been an AI groupie for, well, decades. So, some exposure.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2013

Christopher Pirie opened the eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon mobile learning conference with a fair overview of technology for learning. Overall, a nice kickoff for the conference. design games technology' He talked about the usual trends, and pointed to some interesting game apps for learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The eLearning Guild, in queuing up interest in their Learning Solutions/Performance Ecosystem conference, asked for some thoughts on the role of technology and training. The real key, a theme I find myself thumping more and more often, is that we can’t use technology in ineffective ways. technology'

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Marcy Driscoll kicked off the Association for Educational Communications and Technology’s annual conference with a thoughtful keynote on leadership. She used her experience as a Dean to explore possibilities and suggestions for what this could and should mean.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2019

Eager to continue my education, I avidly explored learning and instruction, technology (particularly AI), and design. Frankly, I did a lot of my presentations at EdTech conferences on implications from HCI for ID approaches. And EdTech was playing with trying to map ID approaches to technology environments that were in rapid flux.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Just looked at my commitments for the eLearning Guild’s always fun DevLearn conference, and I’m quite booked, all with fun and interesting stuff: My mobile design workshop kicks off: how do you take advantage of these devices? design mobile strategy technology' I hope one of the folks I talk to is you!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2019

Graham Roberts kicked off the 2nd day of the Realities 360 conference talking about the Future of Immersive Storytelling. He told about their experiences and lessons building an ongoing suite of experiences. From the first efforts through to the most recent it was insightful. The examples were vibrant inspirations.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2017

Marcia co-organized and co-hosted the Creating a Learning Culture conference at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, leading to a book of the same title. Marcia’s a recognized leader, writing for Fast Company, and keynoting conferences around the world.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2020

I recall attending Learning Technologies to speak on games, many years ago. And, as part of the conference, one keynote was a speaker who talked to the futility of predicting the future. I’ll be speaking on transformation again at TK2020 , and on the Revolution for ATD New England’s annual conference.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2019

I’ve been looking into ‘realities’ (AR/VR/MR) for the upcoming Realities 360 conference (yes, I’ll be speaking). Here we’ve got a way to think about the relationship between story and technology that will let us figure out what makes the best approach for our goals.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2014

On Wednesday at 2:45, I’ll be part of a panel on mlearning with my fellow mLearnCon advisory board members Robert Gadd, Sarah Gilbert, and Chad Udell, chaired by conference program director David Kelly. It’s at least partly a Serious eLearning Manifesto session. Of course, there’s much more. design mobile social strategy'

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 12, 2017

Rahaf Haroush opened the second day of the 2017 ATD TechKnowledge conference. She made clear some important points about the potential for technology. For instance she made the case for context-sensitive performance support, social network analysis, and a learning culture.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2016

Soraya Dorabi opened the second day of the FocusOn Learning conference with a presentation on how data is changing learning and performance. Hampered by technology hiccups, Soraya talked about the ways in which all digital platforms generate data and how that data could be leveraged to support personalized education.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2019

For Learning, it’s about blending learning across a variety of elements: technologies, interaction methodologies, etc, to support successful outcomes. For Work, it’s about using external tools to support effective performance, e.g. performance support. And, no, I didn’t. That’s my next post, the swapped version.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 13, 2014

I wrote up my visit to the Intelligent Content conference for eLearnMag , but one topic I didn’t raise was an unanswered question I raised during the conference: should the ‘smarts’ be in the content or the system? strategy technology' Which is the best way to adapt? Now the obvious answer is the system.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2017

If you follow this blog (and you should :), it was pretty obvious that I was at the FocusOn Learning conference in San Diego last week (previous 2 posts were mindmaps of the keynotes). There were three themes to the conference: mobile, games, and video. In short, it’s a delivery technology. And it was fun as always.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I had the pleasure of being the opening keynote at the People Matters L&D conference in Mumbai this past week, with a theme of ‘disruption’ In it, I talked about some particular myths and their relation to our understanding of our own brains. Following my presentation, I sat through some other presentations.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2011

Today, Roger Schank keynoted the Learning Technologies UK conference, talking about cognitive science and learning. Obviously, I was in large agreement. And, as usual, I mid mapped it:

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2013

At the just concluded ASTD International Conference and Exhibition, on exhibit were, finally, two instances of something that should’ve been obvious. However, at the conference were two separate examples of such systems. One used mobile technology to provide reminders and access to content. Both used diagrams (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

At the recent DevLearn conference, David and Heidi (the two-cofounders of the eLearning Guild ) punk’d me. Consequently, the Guild hosts a number of things: online conferences (forums), Learning Solutions (an online magazine), research reports, discussion forums on LinkedIn, and of course their excellent conferences.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 23, 2010

The ISPI organization gave each chapter a free registration to their international conference, which happens to be in San Francisco this year (just a Bart trip away), and I won! Now, it probably helps to explain that I’ve been eager to attend an ISPI conference for quite a while. Tags: design mobile strategy technology.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 2, 2010

Today, one of my heroes, Alan Kay, gave a keynote to the Innovations in eLearning conference. The mindmap can’t convey the broad range, but to get it out there… Tags: design technology.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2011

I’ll be at The Australasian Talent Conference May 25-26, and running a couple of pre-conference workshops on the 24th. It has a reputation as a good conference, and has had lively participation before. Mobile learning and performance technology strategy are the topics of my two pre-conference workshops.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2016

So, I did a fair bit of speaking in 2016, keynoting conferences in New York and Beijing, as well as more private events live and online. And, of course, I attended the usual suite of industry conferences, notably the eLearning Guild events and Online Educa. And I think the hype about technology improvements are premature.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

This past week I was at the always great DevLearn conference, the biggest and arguably best yet. Finally, Belinda Parmar took on the challenge of women in technology, and documented how small changes can make a big difference. Yet I attended keynotes and sessions, as well as presenting, and hobnobbed with folks both familiar and new.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2017

I was honored to learn that a respected professor of educational technology liked my definition of micro-learning, such that he presented it as a recent conference. He asked if I still agreed with it, and I looked back at what I’d written more recently.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2015

If you don’t know it, it is a conference about comics, but also much, much , more. I have gone to many conferences, and some are big, e.g. ATD’s ICE or Online Educa, or Learning Technology (certainly the exhibit hall). ATD’s ICE or Online Educa, or Learning Technology (certainly the exhibit hall).

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2017

This is reflected in the way they promote themselves at conferences: they all wear mauve polos and sing beautiful a capella. OffDevPeeps: these folks a full suite of technology development services including mobile, AR, VR, micro, macro, long, short, and anything else you want, all done at a competitive cost.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 19, 2011

This is a timely release to help set the context for their upcoming mLearnCon mlearning conference. (And, And, yes, I’m speaking, running a pre-conference workshop, all the usual. :). In it, I review the latest trends in the mobile market, and then synthesize the results of the Guild’s member surveys.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

On Wed I depart to La Jolla to attend WCET’s conference , where I’ll be talking on mobile learning. Early in the new year, I’ll be running the mobile design workshop in San Jose for ASTD’s TechKnowledge conference. And afterward the Internet Time Alliance really solidified our plans. Exciting times ahead.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2014

And he’s put together the Intelligent Content Conference that will give you the opportunities you need to get on top of this. design strategy technology' We can and should be doing this for learning and performance, whether pull or push. But where do you learn? One of the people I follow is Scott Abel, the Content Wrangler.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2018

Also to read and mark up the journal or conference submissions I review. Keynote is the presentation tool I use, and I create the stories I present at conferences in Keynote. (I’m bad about using the phone, mea culpa.). GoodReader: I use GoodReader on my iPad to read longish PDFs, white papers, and things.

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