Clark Quinn

AUGUST 12, 2020

My initial reaction is to provide, as a palliative, tips to avoid millennials marketing hype. The content starts off with this scintillating line: “if you’re searching for current, new ways to engage people online and keep your business thriving, look to your youngest learners.” ” What? Why focus on their age at all?

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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. Moreover, how are you providing content support. We are concerned with balancing the quantity of content with the actual practice, keeping engagement throughout.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2008

Within a few hours of each other, I received two requests for referral to service providers. One request was for eLearning development providers from fairly large 5,000+ employees based in the US. Likely they would want to have a provider who is fairly local, but not sure about it. That would be MUCH appreciated!

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Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2023

I know in higher ed (I was there once) it tends to be a process of figuring out what content they need, and distributing across courses. My problem is when I have an uncertain amount of content, say for a large domain, and I want to develop specific capabilities. I’ve been hearing how it can parse content and create maps.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2022

In general, I take it as organizing around the way users think about the content. Of course, your learning objectives should provide a guide. I know a bit about information architecture, but not a lot. Which is good for information, but not necessarily for learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2023

It can look at relationships and infer structure from good content ! That is, if there’s bad content, the inferences are also bad). It was designed as a complement to my learning science book , to provide a complete LXD picture. Despite being a tad flip, I do think emotion is the new ID.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

We reinforce practice with content that guides performance and provides feedback. Mythless learning design may use small amounts of content, but because minimalism keeps cognitive load in check, not because our attention span has changed. It does use multiple media, because we use the right media for the message.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2020

Another possibility is that we’re not providing the right support. We’re not providing useful models and examples instead of a content dump with what’s to hand. Thus, we’d be developing learning solutions that aren’t going to meet the need. Are we missing out on developing motivation?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Here’s a video that provides the qualifications, and five trends for 2021 that I’d expect, or like, to see. Hopefully, we’ll see tool vendors aligning their content and assessment capabilities towards designing scenarios and contextualized practice, along with specific feedback for each wrong answer and support for reflection.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

First, I don’t hate microlearning ; there are legitimate reasons to keep content small. It can get rid of the bloat that comes from contentitis, for one. One of the two posts opened with this statement: “The appetite of our employees is not the same therefore, we must not provide them the same bland food (for thought).”

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The virtual was, at least partly, a reaction to the lack of desire to travel and meet face to face, but also to provide options for those who might struggle. The faculty are folks we know and trust to present evidence-based content. We’re also not just having presentations; we’ve asked the faculty to provide development.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 8, 2023

Which, to me, doesn’t reflect well on LinkedIn for being willing to publicly demonstrate that they don’t review what they provide. However, asking folks to do this, for free on their generated content, is really asking for free work. Similarly, don’t trust content or questions generated by AI.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

It provides a navigable knowledge resource that could be a valuable adjunct to teaching. First, there appears to be no guarantee that this indeed will provide comprehensive coverage. Second, presenting on content doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve truly comprehended it. With this background, I looked at this project.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 14, 2023

I’ve been running a workshop with my partner, Upside Learning , on the ‘missing bits’ That is, the fine tuning that takes what you normally do in ID and fills in the extra steps that will successfully provide the integration. Then it requires a bit more thought on designing practice and winnowing content.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In anticipation of my upcoming ‘Make it Meaningful’ workshop through the Learning Development Accelerator, I wanted to provide an overview of the topic. And this may be particularly problematic, if they’ve previously experienced engaging but not effective, or even worse, boring content. And, as always, the text. The Hook, 2.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 4, 2022

There was an emphasis on evidence-informed speakers and content. The goal is to fill in the gaps of the books we should have, and provide a better relationship with authors. It had two sessions of things, so it could reach most of the globe, and they were recorded so you could watch after the fact. So LDA Press is kicking off.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2022

Novices can let you know what they found hard to understand, and supervisors provide insight into what performers typically do wrong. Or have a template for content for them to fill out. Theorists can give you models, while top performers can talk about the practical implications. Another trick I use is to focus on decisions.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It may be that supervisors of the performers have more insight here than content experts. Pretty much everything you need from SMEs plays a role in providing practice. These are the ways that individuals go wrong when performing. I’ve advocated before that you may want different types of SMEs.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

So it’s difficult to get them to provide good support for acquiring skills or understanding. All told, this leads to systematic gaps in content. What they take for granted isn’t even on the radar of novices. Their attempts at explanations for reference of instruction fail.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 16, 2020

And, two recent articles provide a little insight about getting wiser. My key quote here is: No matter where I went on planet earth, all of the cultures I interacted with revered contentment as one of the highest states to cultivate in life. What’s enough to be content? And I receive their newsletter.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 11, 2021

Lectures, information dump & knowledge test, in general content presentation doesn’t lead to meaningful change in behavior in the absence of activity. Just accepting what a SME says and making content around that is likely to lead to a content dump and lack of behavior change. Further, they could be happy if that’s the case.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 21, 2014

You may recall I started with my 4C ‘s model (Content, Compute, Communicate, & Capture), and have mapped that further onto Augmenting Formal, Performance Support, Social, & Contextual. So, my starting point was realizing that it wasn’t just content. Does the greater detail provide greater benefit?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The realization came from the fact that you can use social for both augmenting formal learning and performance support, just as you can with content (both media files and interactive experiences). Thus, social versus content is a different cut through mobile than is formal learning versus performance support.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 4, 2023

After we design practice, we can develop the associated content, etc. We can provide practice around the specific associated tasks. We need good objectives to know what we’re targeting and then the next thing we need to do is design the practice. How do we get this focus? I see several ways. “I just want folks to know this.”

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 19, 2019

What I’m talking about are content systems. The thing is, being systematic about content has both short-term and long-term benefits. In the short term, thinking about content from a systems perspective offers you rigor. But there’s something deeper I’m talking about. And I’ve talked about it before.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Too often, there are RFPs (emblematic, they’re equivalent to the internal request for ‘a course on X’) that are asking for designers to take content and essentially put it up on the screen with a quiz (and window dressing). So we need better RFPs, please. Ideally, RFPs would be expecting a good process.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2016

Moreover, it can have sensors, so not just providing computational capabilities where you are, but because of when and where you are. Performance support is about providing a cognitive augment. It can be any medium – paper, audio, digital – but it’s about providing support for the gaps in our mental capabilities.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 29, 2018

For one, if the performers aren’t novices, this becomes an opportunity to provide learning at the point of need to elaborate and extend learning. Specifically, how do we match the right content with the task? One way is to have content tied to specific instances. Then you need to map that context to content.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Both in this case were for folks who develop content. Content Review. So for the first one, they wanted some feedback on their design, and we arranged that I’d investigate a representative sample and provide feedback. In one case a not-for-profit, the other in the higher-ed space.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 25, 2014

In particular, in addition to presentation of multimedia content, there needs to be: a) the ability to provide separate feedback for different choices, b) the ability to have scenario interactions whereby learners can take multistep decision paths mimicking real experiences, and c) the ability to get the necessary evaluation feedback.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

I don’t completely align with their approach, but that’s ok, and I regularly cite their lead as a person who’s provided sage advice about doing good learning design. It’s a lot of content dump, and a test. Not enough practice, and too much content. So what’s going on, and why?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2017

Instead of giveaways, they quietly provide free home-baked mini-muffins for all. DanceDanceLearn: provides a completely unique offering. They have developed an authoring tool that makes it easy for you to animate dancers moving in precise formations that spell out content. Your content can be even more engaging!

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of course, to support good application of the content to develop abilities, you need the right content! I’ve provided many resources about better learning design, from my 7 step program white paper to my deeper elearning series for Learnnovators. And I’ve a white paper about redesigning as well.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2020

If we don’t focus on the right objectives, manage attention, set challenge appropriately, provide the right models and examples, and most of all have the right practice, we’re wasting our time. If the core’s wrong, we’re just gilding bad design (and gilded bad design is still bad design).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

I want to start thinking about a learning experience as a series of activities, not a progression of content. For one, content is accessed on the basis of the activities, not the other way around. A group project could provide a documented solution, or a concept-expression video or performance.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And the same thing continues when recommendations for your courses: Digital and Visual Content : Use media? Provide social connection tools. You’re providing decent advice (er, mostly ), but doing so through a myth-perpetuating framing. Who’d have thought of it? Give them the ability to contribute. Include them.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 22, 2013

What the culture should be doing is empowering individuals, providing them with support for learning. And that is not to provide all the answers, but to support people discovering the answer. The steps that matter are to get detailed about the content structures , the model, underneath, and the associated governance.

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