Clark Quinn

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Help with breaking up

Clark Quinn

In general, I take it as organizing around the way users think about the content. Which is good for information, but not necessarily for learning. Of course, your learning objectives should provide a guide. There should be a path from the learner’s initial state, through enabling objectives, to the final objective.

Help 278
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Personalized and adaptive learning

Clark Quinn

It was quite the research endeavor, actually, as the CEO had been inspired by Guilford’s learning model. I dug into that and all the learning styles literature, and cognitive factor analysis, and content models around learning objectives, and revisited my interest in intelligent tutoring, and more.

Personal 289
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Creating meaningful experiences

Clark Quinn

What if the learner’s experience was ‘hard fun’: challenging, but engaging, yielding a desirable experience, not just an event to be tolerated, OR what is learning experience design? Can you imagine creating a ‘course’ that wins raving fans? Tags: design meta-learning.

Cognitive 160
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WIIFL

Clark Quinn

On a set of content I was lead on the design of (math), I created the spec for our introductions to show how the content would get used in real life, and then we worked through meaningful examples and practice items. Ask yourself, if and when you’re creating a learning experience: WIIFL.

Cognitive 165
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Manifesting in practice extended

Clark Quinn

So, if you took the advice to make more meaningful and applied practice within the constraints of many existing workplaces (order-taking, content dump, ‘just do it’), you next want to be creating content aligned with helping the learner succeed at the practice. Another part of the organization’s education.

Metrics 158
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Better Learning in the Real World

Clark Quinn

with sufficient depth to develop models), using a cognitive task analysis process to get the objectives, align the processing activities to the type of learning objective, developing appropriate materials and rich simulations, testing the learning and using feedback to refine the product, all before final release.

Cognitive 173
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Learning Experience Design Strategy

Clark Quinn

First, I think it is important to stop thinking about content, and start thinking about learning experience. It’s too easy, when focusing on content, to focus on knowledge, not skills, yet skills are what will make the difference – the ability to do. How do you create effective and engaging learning experiences?

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