Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2010

At the eLearning Network 's Showcase last week, I had time to reflect on a number of technologies that were under discussion - the iPad, interactive PDFs (if you haven't spotted these, then these are next generation Acrobat documents that can incorporate interactive multimedia elements) and good old Second 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. Nick described the course as an institution. The end result was three core modules, supplemented by role-specific content.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 28, 2009

I met Cammy Bean at an eLearning Guild event in Boston, having followed her blog Learning Visions for some time. As a result we went on to collaborate in putting together the 60-minute masters , a curriculum for an e-learning course for rapid e-learning designers. Blogging connections certainly make the world a smaller place.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2008

At the eLearning Network showcase event in July, I attended an interesting presentation on the use of learning communities made by Carole Bower of Futuremedia. Too often, accessing an LMS is just too much trouble for anything other than booking a formal course. Good for them! It's nice to see some Web 2.0

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2009

Strictly, of course, a Prezi document is not a slide show at all, but the purpose is the same - as speaker support. Patrick Dunn has shown how this can be done with his excellent piece on creating engaging elearning , displayed as a series of four videos on blip.tv. Prezi > video. Live > video.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There are informal ways of doing this, but I'd also recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild , wherever you are in the world, as well as the eLearning Network (workplace learning) or the Association for Learning Technology (education), if you're based in Europe.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Rob Chapman caused quite a stir yesterday when his article The elearning diet: Not recommended for long term results was published on TrainingZone. Here's how the synopsis reads: "Like the Atkins diet, numerous boy bands and the dot com bubble, is elearning no more than just a passing fad?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 25, 2008

At the recent eLearning Network showcase event, I attended an interesting presentation made by Nick Timpson of my old firm Epic and Claire Little from leading psychometric test providers, SHL. SHL train something like 10,000 people a year to use their tests, most of whom are HR people.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

On Wednesday, at the eLearning Guild's DevLearn conference in San Jose, I spoke about the progress that's been made with the 30-minute masters project. And they can do this for free at the Moodle site that Kineo set up to host the course. So much progress, in fact, that it's become the 60-minute masters.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2008

As someone who uses Moodle as a tool to support blended learning projects for several of my corporate clients, I was interested to hear Mark Tointon's speak at the recent eLearning Network showcase about some new add-ons for Moodle which are specifically designed to support corporate use of the tool.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

With the script now 1/3 complete and with a session agreed at the eLearning Guild's DevLearn 2007 in San Jose in November, my mind is turning to how I can convert this script into a half-decent piece of e-learning to show all those folks who come along to take a look.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 22, 2008

For objective comparative analyses there are, of course, services like those offered by Brandon-Hall or the eLearning Guild. I can only comment on those products that I happen to encounter for one reason or another and which I think may be of interest to more than just me.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2007

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). This includes skill/competency management, the management of all sorts of learning resources (including online, classroom and blended courses), the management of personal development plans, learning content management, reporting, and so on.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 21, 2008

I've been browsing the recent publication from the eLearning Guild - a compilation of the best articles from the Learning Solutions e-magazine from the past five years (Pfeiffer, 2008). So, I dipped into all 22 articles.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Although she's currently beta testing a new online tool that she has developed for designers called eLearning Blueprints and talks more sense on the subject of instructional design than most people I know, Cathy confessed that she is sometimes denied some work opportunities because she does not have a degree in instructional design.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Perhaps the most enjoyable session I attended at the eLearning Network's July showcase event was presented by Richard Middleton of Academy Internet. The title of the session was 'Fun & games - are they really necessary?', although a more accurate description would probably have been 'Fun & games - when are they necessary?'

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JANUARY 29, 2010

I know it’s a cliché but it really is ‘horses for courses’. Just as plain old HTML does the job better than Flash in 90% for 90% of websites (with elearning a big exception, where Flash really does win out), 2D is likely to be the right choice for 90% of learning and collaborative environments.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 6, 2008

These developments have really come home to me lately as I have been participating in the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN). But the days when people were content to attend a training course or a conference and just be talked at are fast disappearing.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

Last Friday I attended the eLearning Network 's Thinking Synch event in London. The course was a sensational success. The original got overwritten by accident, so please accept my apologies if this version isn't written with as much enthusiasm as the first! Why did I bother with this rewrite?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2009

In an anonymous reply to my posting yesterday on the pirating of PC software, an elearning developer asked "How do real people actually afford/justify purchasing something like the Adobe eLearning Suite?" Before answering that I've decided to take a look at what you get for your money with the new Adobe eLearning Suite (ELS).

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

I've recently been appointed Chair of the eLearning Network (eLN), a not-for-profit community for e-learning enthusiasts that is run on a part-time basis by a committee of volunteers. Here are some of the options that I'm exploring: Do nothing and let nature take its course. This is risky bearing in mind the the 1% rule.

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JULY 31, 2007

But Bill Brandon, the editor of Learning Solutions eMagazine for the eLearning Guild invited me to become his friend and, being a well brought-up boy, of course I said yes. I hadn't intended to sign up with Facebook. I'm not sure whether anyone does.

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OCTOBER 31, 2008

The conference was run by the eLearning Alliance , a non-profit group representing the e-learning community in Scotland, and was held in the very lovely city of Edinburgh. Of course all these things are relative, and Gen Y would probably consider my upbringing to be unbelievably deprived.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

In his presentation to the eLearning Network event New models for learning management on September 25, John Belton of e2train showed the results of a survey carried out in June of this year amongst members of the Learning & Skills Group. The ability to be assertive is an essential quality for a professional.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

After the eLearning Guild event in Boston I was reflecting with Kineo 's Matt Fox about the sessions that had captured his imagination. Use learner control for learners with high prior knowledge or metacognitive skills and/or for courses that are advanced rather than introductory.

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DECEMBER 20, 2012

Life beyond the course What is e-learning good for? Blame it on the dog food * January A welcome to Elearnity Vendor Perspectives Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide iBooks Author: Any relevance for learning in the workplace? What specifically is e-learning good for? June Is e-learning effective?

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