Clive on Learning

AUGUST 9, 2012

Training I’ve already mentioned that developers will need some training in the tools that you’ve chosen to use. You wouldn’t write a book in 15-minute bursts, and you wouldn’t design learning content that way either. It also helps if you have a design sensibility and can write reasonably well. Design skills take much longer.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

I've been trying to figure out for years now why sitting on a train is such a productive environment when it comes to designing and writing. Obviously this doesn't work if the train's so crowded you have to stand. Something about the motion of the train. On the train. It just works. Three posts this morning.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

A month back I had the fortune of being asked to present to CEdMA, an association of senior training managers in large IT companies who have the responsibility for training up their organisations’ customers in their various products. It's becoming ever harder to sell content anyway. Customers are demanding more online delivery.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Chances are, many years later, minor changes are still being made to fine-tune the methodology and adapt the content. So we find ourselves in a situation in which traditional classroom training follows a model not a million miles from online software, while e-learning is developed according to the rapidly outdated offline media model.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

The session debated the following motion: ‘Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss’ I happily presented the case for the motion. Online learning’ is a medium which supports a wide variety of educational and training methods. It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2009

This IT Training podcast , hosted by Helen Wilcox, features your truly, along with Paul Stevens from Assima , exploring a wide range of issues relating to e-learning content. 6:03 Should materials be designed very differently depending on the topic, e.g. IT training v compliance?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

The consensus seems to be that we'll use e-learning where we have to (typically for compliance training), or where classroom training is not affordable, but we know it's going to be horrible. We know how to make it engaging and enjoyable: We employ a modular achitecture, with content organised in relatively small chunks.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

They’re also keen to make it possible for whole bodies of content to be downloaded and made available on mobile devices iTunes style. User-generated content submission with peer ratings. Whether Saba can persuade their customers to do any more than use their products for compliance training is the real challenge.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2013

Towards Maturity has just published a study called Reinvigorating Compliance Training. employees across 17 countries: 98% of organisations want technology-enabled compliance training to help manage risk more successfully. 12% of organisations say compliance training is helping achieve their business goal of changing working culture.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2012

Traditional training cannot help us to overcome these problems. I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning. The only way to overcome these obstacles is through e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

In my post last week, I identified four elements that I felt needed to be in place if an organisation was to make a success of in-house e-learning development: tools, talent, training and, above all, time - the four Ts. What simply produced but effective e-learning content looks like. How it can fit into a blend.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 2, 2009

At the same time, spending on external services (consultants, content development, etc.) is dropping in 60% of cases, and volume of classroom training in 50% of cases. In addition, the use of social learning is up in 30% of cases, games/simulations in 12%, and user-generated content in 29%.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Massively scalable training * Face-to-face is for special occasions * Can we dispense with email? Get on a train Why does learning content seem so much more exciting on an iPad? December Where is the model for e-learning? Back in business If in doubt, do it yourself

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2010

Organisations like rapid e-learning because it’s easier to maintain and update content / they can design and deliver training content more quickly: As you would expect here, the arguments are ones of efficiency rather than effectiveness. Someone should mention the 60-minute masters ! So, there’s a lot of it about.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2011

I've been taking a look at the first iPhone app from long-standing training film specialist, London-based Video Arts. Back in November 2009, I posted about Yet another renaissance for the training video and marvelled at how Video Arts has been able to re-invent itself as each new opportunity presents itself.Well here we go again.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

With the Serious eLearning Manifesto drawing attention to a current lack of e-learning design skills, as evidenced by more than a little tedious and ineffective content out there, it got me thinking about what it takes to be a good designer.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I''m not referring to virtual classrooms, online content such as web articles and videos, or any form of social media. Just those things that we used to call CBT - computer-based training - and which we''ve been trying to get right since about 1975. People don''t dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

British Telecom Dare2Share case study Who writes web content? Selling myself the masterclass The Big Question: how can we leverage open content in workplace learning? review) So what actually is learning content? Why not be a training specialist? So how are people really using the iPad? Want a cushy little number?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Only they were able to afford the necessarily substantial investments in learning platforms and content development and had the large audiences against which these investments could be amortised. Training providers will have no trouble using Moodle to provide course web sites to support traditional, e or blended solutions.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Of course, some of the credit must go to employers who have provided IT training and support to those who work with computers, but a much more major influence has been the increasingly widespread use of technology outside the home. A great deal of content is still inaccessible to those with disabilities.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2005

A plea to IT user trainers in five thrilling instalments Some forms of training never seem to change. If you teach sales, customer service or management skills, chances are that you would have covered much the same content in much the same way 25 years ago. But if you opt for a career in IT training then change is a way of life.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This extract shines the spotlight on a real innovator who has successfully broken free from the confines of the traditional training course and, in doing so, challenged out-dated models of learning and development. Every one of these is obliged to complete safety training appropriate for their role.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Surely when money is tight, the first priority should be to prune the training that is not relevant, not to rework it in a new format. You can try as hard as you like to engage learners, using flashy media, games, quizzes and other interactions, but if the learner does not feel the content is relevant then engagement is just about impossible.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You’re still getting great content, but without the hassle of travelling and the high ticket prices. The same dynamics could be seen to apply to training events as well as webinars, but here there is a moderating factor. Because you want a piece of that special magic you only get up close and face-to-face.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

My client was primarily engaged in soft skills training (or 'hard skills' as they jokingly call it) for which the style was likely to be relaxed, informal and non-directive. You can imagine that providing some opportunity for a little quiet reflection, assuming the content wasn't too new age and pseudo-scientific.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2009

IT Training magazine has just published its tables of top e-learning companies in the UK market according to sales. To accompany the tables I have written a summary of the market for bespoke content developers, off-the-shelf content providers, authoring tool providers and LMS/LCMS providers.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

As an adult learning provider delivering widespread access to online training, learndirect has become one of the leading contributors to the UK government's skills agenda. million adults to gain the skills they, their employers and the economy need, helping them on their way into further training or employment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Bryan asked respondents to provide estimates for four categories of project: Instructor-led training (ILT) : A useful comparison to the e-learning, but also a reasonable guide to what it would take to develop sessions for the virtual classroom. Level 1 e-learning : Bryan characterises this as simple content pages and test questions.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Exposition is not a predictably successful strategy, even though it still dominates in many educational and training environments (including many of the latest MOOCs). The teacher ‘pushes’ learning content or learning activities in the direction of the learner. However, learners are not as passive as they used to be.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

It includes a mini 360-degree training needs analysis tool so users can identify their areas for development and track their progress, a library of resources which offer user-rated, real-world activities for users to complete, and supporting material delivered as text, images and video.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 22, 2012

Probably very little, because text books have very little relevance to training. Highly interactive, multimedia content is obviously of more interest, but then all the e-learning authoring tools will get you to that same place sooner or later. But what are the implications for learning in the workplace?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Classroom training will undoubtedly have a major role to play in the mix, but rather than being 90% or more of the offering, it may well be 40% or less. If, however, you have no interest or aptitude for this type of work, I'd steer well clear, because no amount of training is going to make you into a content designer.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Of course you have to start with an idea but, once you get going, an hour (incidentally the time it takes to travel by train from Brighton to London) is more than enough. Once you get in the swing of it, it is relatively straightforward to write a blog post. I feel like a seasoned old hack.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Viv Cole drew my attention on his From the Coleface blog to an interesting article by Des Woods and Henry Marsden published recently in the UK's Training Journal called How Professionals Learn (sorry, but you'll have to pay for the download). The authors make a number of useful points about the unique problems of training this group.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2010

Five years may be a lot in Internet Time, as Jay Cross keeps reminding us, but in corporate training it’s no time at all. Managers have started to question the money spent on traditional training, the time this absorbs, and to some extent the environmental impact. So, in for a penny … First the killjoy stuff. Just maybe.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Reuters is the largest provider of content to the internet and supplies data on almost one million shares, bonds and other financial instruments. Charles describes how the regional training operations were run as “fiefdoms, all in competition with each other. He set about finding out what was currently being spent on l&d.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The term has always been used this broadly in education, but in the corporate sector it continues to mean one thing only: interactive self-study tutorials, in the style of good old CBT (computer-based training). We're looking for a new breed of digital learning content designers. I have now just about given up on this.

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