Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2012

In a previous post I laid out the initial framework for rethinking learning design, and in a subsequent post I elaborated the activity component. Two additional components of the model around the activities were content and then products coupled with reflection. I want to elaborate the rest a wee bit here. Does this resonate?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2014

I’ve been on the content rant before , talking about the need to structure content into models , and the benefits of tagging. The power of leveraging content by description, not by link, is the basis for adaptive, custom, personalized experiences. But where do you learn?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I continue to have a problem with the term content as a component of what our field does. What we do is create content. Even in F2F training, we have content and structure around actions we ask our learners to take. I believe we need to focus on the activity , not on the content.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

If I’m going to rail against myths in learning, it makes sense to be clear about what learning design without myths looks like. Let me lay out a little of what mythless learning design is, or should be. Learning with myths manifests in many ways. Redundant development to accommodate learning styles, or generations.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2014

A number of years ago, I said that the problem for publishers was not going from text to content (as the saying goes), but from content to experience. Even the SME, unless prompted carefully otherwise, will resort to telling you the knowledge they’ve learned, because they just don’t have access to what they know.

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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? Making content smart would require a bunch of additional elements to the content.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 11, 2015

We’ve heard about learning engineering and while the focus is on experience design, the pragmatics include designing content to create the context, resources, and motivation for the activity. And it’s time we step beyond just hardwiring this content together, and start treating it as professionals.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 2, 2016

I mentioned in my previous post that I was talking at the xAPI camp about content strategy, and on the way in I created a new diagram to convey a concept I wanted to discuss. Consequently, so too is content. Content is used in many ways, whether via apps, through the web, or print. And, let me add, that’s only increasing.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Too often I see instructional design training and tools, in addition to talking about ‘objectives’ and ‘assessment’ (which I tend to call ‘practice’, for hopefully obvious reasons), talking about ‘content’. And I think that simplification is a path to bad learning design. It misses emphasizing the nuances, and that’s a bad thing.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2015

But compared to learning that really has an impact: medical, flight, or military training for instance, it seems woefully under-practiced. So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. So, two questions: do we just need more practice, or do we also have too much content.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 27, 2011

While it’s a vendor-driven show, there were several valuable presentations and information to help get clearer about designing content. When I talk about the Performance Ecosystem, I’m talking about a number of things: improved instructional design, performance support, social learning and mobile.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For reasons that are unclear even to me, I was thinking about personalized versus adaptive learning. It’s kinda simplistic, but I think it may help to differentiate personalized and adaptive learning. As background, I led a project to build an intelligently adaptive learning platform. no learning ‘styles’ :).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 7, 2020

So, I’ve written before about ‘learning engineering’ And, separately, it’s become an issue just what the term means. It appears there are two ‘learning engineerings’, and the issue is how to resolve them. It’s applying computer systems to meet learning needs.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

And while I’m a fan of concept maps, I was suspicious of the claim, So, while I’ve written on mindmaps before , it’s time to dig into concept maps and learning. Second, presenting on content doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve truly comprehended it. Curricularly thorough, no.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I was engaging in a mobile strategy session with a small not-for-profit the other day, and naturally it became an overall technology strategy session, as you really can’t do mobile strategy without considering social media strategy, learning technology strategy, even enterprise technology strategy.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 11, 2021

Which, for the record, is a good thing; one of us will learn something. So, let’s also talk about what CxOs need to know about the org learning myths they may believe. . Lectures, information dump & knowledge test, in general content presentation doesn’t lead to meaningful change in behavior in the absence of activity.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We were talking about how to lift the game of Modern Workplace Learning , and each had staked out a position, from human performance consulting to social/informal. Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. In fact, celebrate the lesson learned, regardless of success!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2020

He built and sold Epic, an elearning company, and now he leads a learning AI company, Wildfire. He’s knowledgeable (for instance, having read up and summarized centuries of learning theorists), willing to call out bad learning, and he’s funny. It’s just that it stops short of what we need for full learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I’m an advocate of meta-learning, that is: learning to learn. So I thought I’d rant, for a post, on what is involved in developing learning to learn skills. So I thought I’d rant, for a post, on what is involved in developing learning to learn skills. And, this is still not enough.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What is a learning experience platform? An additional issue is that the contents of said portal should be open, in the sense that all users should be able to contribute their curated or created resources, and the resources can be in any format: video, audio, document, even interactive. The Learning Experience Platform(?).

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 2, 2020

But for the second, I’m thinking that the biggest opportunity is making learning meaningful. This gives us the wrong objective, the wrong content, and the wrong practice! Most importantly, I think there’s good support for evidence-based learning design. Should I focus on making learning meaningful?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2020

So, I’ve previously mentioned the Learning & Development conference I’ll be participating in that starts late this month. So I’ll be talking meaningful learning. First, of course, meaningful learning is about getting the learning science right. yes, I’ll talking meaningful learning.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of late, a lot of my work has been designing learning design. That is, someone’s got a learning design process, but they want to improve it. It’s about good learning. Of course, to support good application of the content to develop abilities, you need the right content!

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On Friday, I had the pleasure of a conversation of Kris Rockwell , CEO of Hybrid Learning for my in-process mobile learning book. Using content models to separate out the content from how it gets rendered for display, he’s creating more flexibility across devices.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2018

One asked about meta-learning (learning to learn), in the particular situation of courses with a variety of expertise levels, and getting into issues of learner responsibility. The author pointed to a presentation on learning to learn, that had a nice framework, and I thought I should elaborate.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. First, let’s be fair, most uni learning design isn’t very good.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2019

So, I just finished teaching a mobile learning course online for a university. You have to think differently than what the phrase ‘mobile learning’ might lead you to think. I thought I’d share the learning lessons, both for my own reflection, and for others. I want lots of practice, less content.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

While there are myriad problems, such as lack of knowledge of how learning works, etc, folks seem to think you can turn around a course in two weeks. It looks like content and quizzes, which is what school is, and that’s learning, right? Put content into the hopper, and out comes courses.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And that, in turn, led me to transformation learning. I’ll start with the reverse, transformative learning, because it came first and it’s at the large end. Mezirow was the originator of Transformative Learning Theory. Mezirow was the originator of Transformative Learning Theory. So, what’s at core?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 16, 2014

In a previous post , I suggested that we should not do the ‘click to learn more’, as it was just about presenting content. But we do need to present content, so what content makes sense? such as in instructional design between the elements of learning). Which doesn’t mean you can ignore it.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 15, 2018

The statement is simple: Learning is action and reflection; instruction is designed action and guided reflection. However, when we want to guide learning, e.g. instruct, one of the tasks we can undertake is creating a problem, and asking the learner to solve it. However, one comment seems to be getting more traction than others.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 18, 2017

I’m going a bit out on a limb here, with a somewhat heretical statement: what you learn is more important than how you learn ! (You It’s meta-learning, of course, learning how to learn! This was triggered by seeing two separate announcements of new learning opportunities. And it’s good.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A second presentation was on providing tools to trainers to devolve content development locally, addressing a problem with centrally-developed content. The sourced answers included crowd-sourcing the tags for finding objects, using a controlled vocabulary, and auto-analyzing the content to determine tags.

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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.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Script: Hi, I’m Clark Quinn, Executive Director of Quinnovation (my vehicle for learning experience design strategy). Today I want to talk about an insight I had, sparked in a conversation I had with a colleague. We were talking about learning (of course), and the difference between knowledge versus practice. But not all.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 24, 2018

The initial learning technology standards came out from the AICC. They wanted a way to share important learning around flight, an area with a big safety burden. They were both working on content/management interoperability, when the US government put it’s foot down. Standards are good.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2023

It was in the larger context of representations for content development. The concern was how do you communicate the content versus representing the experience. So, there are (at least) several elements that are important in creating a learning experience. Moreover, how are you providing content support.

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