Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2019

When we think of a great learning experience with digital content, we tend to think of the way that the content itself is designed – how usable, relevant and engaging it is for learners. But the learning experience is much more than the content as we shall see. Let’s add some intelligence.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

She has been working for three months on a 4-hour e-learning programme that teaches employees how to use her organisation’s new CRM system. We’ve become adept at ignoring content that isn’t compelling, in our personal lives and at work. We’ve become adept at ignoring content that isn’t compelling, in our personal lives and at work.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

She has been working for three months on a 4-hour e-learning programme that teaches employees how to use her organisation’s new CRM system. We’ve become adept at ignoring content that isn’t compelling, in our personal lives and at work. We’ve become adept at ignoring content that isn’t compelling, in our personal lives and at work.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

I'm convinced that the future of e-learning will be on tablet devices. But for learning, a tablet seems such a perfect fit. It's much more likely to be used in a 'lean back' mode, which is more conducive to reflective learning. But it has a big enough screen to display just about any learning content with ease.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

We are told that learners are no longer able to concentrate on content that's more than four or five minutes long. But meaningful learning does not take usually place in minutes; it can take days, months or years of testing ideas out, reflecting and discussing, honing our skills and building our confidence. We start with storytelling.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

We are told that learners are no longer able to concentrate on content that's more than four or five minutes long. But meaningful learning does not take usually place in minutes; it can take days, months or years of testing ideas out, reflecting and discussing, honing our skills and building our confidence. We start with storytelling.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety. Tags: digital content rapid e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

Most of the content was aimed at influencing behavioural change so, as the principal writer, I decided to major on storytelling as strategy for learning. Reflecting on how central storytelling had become so central to my approach to learning design, I thought back to the point at which I really became hooked on this technique.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Cath Ellis recently set out her ten commandments of e-learning and this prompted me to try and articulate my own. Now e-learning's a big subject if you include all its many variants - formal and informal, synchronous and asynchronous and so on - and if you take into account all the issues relating to its management and marketing.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 4, 2019

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2011

They are designed to bring out a wide range of issues related to the development of custom e-learning content. Case 1 You have been the manager of a project to develop a new equal opportunities e-learning programme for use by all employees in your organisation. So here goes. Feedback from early users was negative.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Case 3 You were the project manager for an e-learning programme that was launched six months back. You have just met with your client who has raised a number of issues: The system is due for a revision within the coming month and this will require some changes to the e-learning materials. What would you recommend?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Case 4 You are the project manager for an e-learning programme that has recently been completed. The purpose of the e-learning programme was to brief managers and senior professionals about a major policy change. She would take some convincing to go with e-learning again for anything other than a major, long-term project.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

In my last post, I argued that, although face-to-face learning has been the default since the dawn of time, online learning has changed everything. So OK, there are situations when we simply can’t achieve what we want online, which is fine because, in time, we’ll be able to go back to doing some learning face-to-face.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Over the past couple of weeks I've shared four case studies in custom e-learning content creation, each bringing out a number of problems that occur regularly in real projects. Most e-learning people are not dictators, so they have even more to gain. They will understand narrative, characterisation, tone, style and much more.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 12, 2019

Humans need humans and never more than when we are learning. As we move from a situation in which most learning is face-to-face to one in which we make use of digital content and perhaps even AI as the vehicle for a learning experience, we don't need to give up on our humanity.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 7, 2014

After all, youve never tested your ideas for content and activities against a real audience before. You dont know for certain whether your design will work in meeting the underlying learning need. Contrast that with typical self-study e-learning. I was surprised to find that hardly anyone maintains their content.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 1, 2010

A number of comments made by participants at the Second European Articulate Conference , which I attended in Leeds last month, gave me the impression that designers are overly anxious about the production values of their interactive content. They don’t expect it of your content anyway. Because they’ve seen it all before.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 9, 2010

The March Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks why it is that open content initiatives such as the OER Commons and the Open Courseware Consortium haven't had a bigger impact. I have some suggestions: There is no history or culture of content sharing in workplace learning and development.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Case 2 You have been the manager of a project to develop a new e-learning component to your organisation's induction programme. The e-learning will be used by all new employees. For some background to these cases, see my initial post.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2014

Today at 7pm, Michael Allen, Julie Dirksen, Clark Quinn and Will Thalheimer, backed by a raft of other well-respected thinkers and practitioners in the field of workplace learning technologies will be launching the Serious eLearning Manifesto. So what is the problem with self-study e-learning?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2010

In the past ten years I have spent a great deal of time looking at the skills and competencies required to create good quality web content, including four years participating in European projects and defining role profiles, competency frameworks and curricula for a mysterious new profession that we called 'web content specialist'.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

Except, nearly forty years after the advent of digital learning, the vast majority of learning experiences delivered by computers are anything but personalised. In the context of digital learning, computers are still behaving as slide projectors and video players. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I hate to say it, after so many years of trying to reverse the trend, but it seems that far too many people (finance directors excepted) really dislike e-learning. First let me be clear, I am using a narrow definition of e-learning here. People don''t dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Back in December I posted about what I predicted would become e-learning's two tiers. To remind you: High end The top tier would be e-learning that delivers something special, something that can't be achieved easily other ways. tools for informal learning. I agree with them.)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Over on the Onlignment blog, I have, throughout 2012, been setting out a model for a transformation in workplace learning and development. Establishing a learning architecture and infrastructure that recognises these unique characteristics. I started the series by arguing the case for transformation.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 12, 2008

I don't know where this appeared from or why but it seems that Microsoft has a rapid e-learning development tool. It does have some interesting features, including a scenario builder, a selection of learning games and Flash import, and exports to SCORM 1.2 although I couldn't get my test material to play in Moodle).

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2012

In a series of posts on the Onlignment blog that has run throughout 2012, I have endeavoured to explain how transformation can take place in workplace learning and development. Establishing a learning architecture and infrastructure that recognises these unique characteristics.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. Naively, I rather supposed that this was a sign that the quality of e-learning was improving and that e-learners were more likely than not to be having positive experiences. We make effective (i.e. Well I haven't given up yet.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The fourth of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘Organisations need multi-device learning solutions'. Not that many employers are yet using mobile devices that much for learning.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

Except, nearly forty years after the advent of digital learning, the vast majority of learning experiences delivered by computers are anything but personalised. In the context of digital learning, computers are still behaving as slide projectors and video players. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Micro-learning can justifiably be accused of being the latest digital learning bandwagon, here today, gone tomorrow. Real cynics might regard it as just another way of re-branding self-study e-learning, a medium which has spent too long in the compliance ghetto and has suffered in terms of popularity as a result.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 1, 2008

I presented yesterday in London at the conference of the Learning and Skills Group on the subject of rapid e-content creation. My conclusion: content creation skills are in relative abundance. Provide employees with the tools, the opportunity and the means for content distribution and they are capable of delivering.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

E-learning development processes have their origins in the days when courses were delivered on videodiscs and CDs, when updates and fixes were to be avoided at all costs. The e-learning development model is typically applied in waterfall fashion - water can flow down step by step but it can never flow back up.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a learning context, video provides a compelling means for conveying content, particularly real-life action and interactions with people. Amazingly, it can also be quicker and easier to produce than slide shows or textual content.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

After ' Why is e-learning so unpopular? ’ and ' Will e-learning put me out of a job? ', my focus today is on another question that I am frequently asked by l&d people: ‘Is e-learning effective?’ In both of these cases, e-learning is providing something different from what we had before.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Last week I posted that Formal learning doesn't need to be all that formal. Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. The challenge is supporting and encouraging learning as it occurs on a day-to-day basis, well beyond the formal curriculum.

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