Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

The book is currently only available through Lulu , priced at £19.95 or local currency equivalents.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Creating e-learning tutorials This is a tough one. Creating other forms of digital online content My standard position on this is that every learning professional should have at least some content creation skills, although I do waver on this from time to time. Onlignment publish a free virtual classroom facilitator’s guide.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here we have an idea borrowed from user experience (UX) design, defined as ‘the process of creating products, systems or services that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users’. You can create solutions that use all sorts of strategies – exposition, guided discovery, exploration – and not just instruction.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

A portfolio of learning assets was created, which included ‘above the line’ learning interventions (instructor-led classroom and online classroom) as well as ‘below the line’ (e-learning, email and phone support, with corporate social networking groups). As Tiina says, “It’s all about making things easy for our learners.”

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Which brings us to the way that the modules are created in the first place. The self-study materials of the future will be responsive to the capabilities of different devices, more often than not they will scroll rather than flip from frame to frame, they will be created online and delivered dynamically to ensure an individualised experience.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Is it even remotely realistic that a classroom trainer would be any good at creating e-learning? How long does it take to learn how to create e-learning? When it all settles down, there will probably be as many jobs in creating instructional e-learning as there are in classroom training. Will a two-day course be enough?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Which brings us to the way that the modules are created in the first place. The self-study materials of the future will be responsive to the capabilities of different devices, more often than not they will scroll rather than flip from frame to frame, they will be created online and delivered dynamically to ensure an individualised experience.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2010

Rapid e-learning is used most to create content that must be developed quickly / updated often / repurposed from existing documents : Which makes sense, assuming of course that it works. Rapid e-learning is leading to a significant increase in the amount of content created overall: Which, again, proves that rapid e-learning is efficient.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2012

If you're looking to make this process as efficient as possible, create an online questionnaire and have your LMS (or some other platform) send out a link to this a month or so after the learning intervention has been completed.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2011

Siemens explains how: "Instead of the individual having to evaluate and process every bit of information, she/he creates a personal network of trusted nodes: people and content, enhanced by technology. These findings back up the concept of connectivism, as described by George Siemens in Knowing Knowledge ( see my 2006 review ).

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 22, 2012

And there's nothing stopping you from creating interactive multimedia 'books' now (I hesitate to keep using the term 'text books' because surely that's exactly what they're trying not to be) - you just set up a website. You may remember the wonderful interactive products that Dorling Kindersley produced back then, not to mention Encarta.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What this is not saying is that l&d professionals need to be able to create interactive self-study courses which completely replace their face-to-face predecessors. While some trainers will have the aptitudes and interests which will help them to excel in this area, in most cases this will remain a job for specialists.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

At a recent blended learning workshop, one of the participants shared with me the guiding principle that they use in their organisation (a sizeable bank) when putting together learning solutions: Straightforward with a human touch This really appealed to me, because it seemed to capture so much of what is important in a design: Being straightforward: (..)

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

It doesn’t take a lot of money to create relevant content, just a sound knowledge of your audience and a lot of care. What learners find engaging is material that is relevant to their daily work, will help them solve current problems or improve their general employability.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

East Sussex County Council has created a simulator which members of the public can use to have their own go at deciding where the budget cuts should come. It’s not often that I find something of relevance to learning technologies in my local Brighton paper, but the report in the Argus last Wednesday certainly got my attention.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 22, 2009

I’ve just finished slide:ology , a wonderful book by Nancy Duarte, which celebrates ‘the art and science of creating great presentations’. Nancy is well qualified to show us how PowerPoint and similar packages can be used to greatest effect, as Duarte Design was the firm that created Al Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Flexible learning materials Bill’s team has started to use an Oracle product called the ‘User Productivity Kit’, a development environment which simplifies the process of creating course materials, software simulations, assessments and job aids. These are available a week before the course and then afterwards.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2009

I was lucky enough to sit in on Patrick Dunn's landmark presentation last week at the eLearning Network event on creating engaging content. Successful designers create experiences, not content, because experiences are what makes learning happen. He described four phases through which this thinking has evolved: 1.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 9, 2010

There are, of course, exceptions and associations can play a valuable role in identifying common needs across a vertical or horizontal market sector and helping to centralise efforts to create new content. This resource for occasional instructional designers was created collaboratively under a Creative Commons license.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2010

It can be used to create detailed answers to frequently-asked questions, or sophisticated multimedia presentations, or even interactive tests or quizzes. Push a button and our team can create some in a matter of hours. It is an eLearning ecosystem. Best of all, everything is online. Need more graphics?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

He argued that organising courses was the easy option, but that to create effective learning interventions which were meaningful in terms of the job called for much more effort, imagination and innovation. Way b ack in 1970, Peter Honey pleaded for us to 'stop the courses, I want to get off.' Forty years later, we're getting the message.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Another solution is to create content that intelligently adapts to the device on which it is being viewed, something that Kineo itself is pioneering. One way is to use an authoring tool that will output to HTML5, which in theory at least will work on most devices (although not if your organisation is still using IE6).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 22, 2011

You can create your content in two ways. Another novelty of this system is that you can link into the content at any point. If the section of interest is 45 minutes into a presentation, you can take the viewer exactly to that point, rather than have them search through.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2010

I could share these with you, but that would mean creating an abstract of the abstract, and I think that with a topic of this importance that would be one level of abstraction too far.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2010

What this new focus on objective and relatively unbiased research has done is to (1) help us to recognise the pop psychology for what it is and (2) to create a bridge between the opposing forces in learning and development (the behaviourist/cognitivists and the constructivists). That is progress enough.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

An ever-increasing proportion of the population does not only consume video, it creates and shares it with a worldwide Internet audience. Not only do we spend many hours each day watching it on our TVs, it has become an integral part of the online experience.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

But flexibility is a worthwhile target to have in mind and you can make big strides in this direction by creating more modular interventions, with a greater use of self-paced components, and by delivering online when possible. Coming next: The vision: 5. Learning and development that is engaging. transformation'

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

An ever-increasing proportion of the population does not only consume video, it creates and shares it with a worldwide Internet audience. Creating live action videos : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. Not only do we spend many hours each day watching it on our TVs, it has become an integral part of the online experience.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

It brought to mind a posting I made back in 2009, called How online media helps to create ever brighter stars. There may therefore be far fewer of them, each compensated like superstars in the entertainment industry.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Well clearly it has never been so easy for people to find speciality content online or to share their own expertise with peers.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

It is possible to create new 'sites' simply by searching for members with certain characteristics. Our goal is not simply to create a better and cheaper version of Blackboard. We should, in short, strive to create a different type of academic collaboration system. source efforts to provide more generic capabilities.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

If you doubt this point, think how difficult it must be to create a compelling ad that will command attention in Piccadilly Circus or Times Square. In fact you probably take the interface completely for granted, which is as it should be. There simply is no backdrop - everything is screaming at you. So why red?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2012

Our assumptions about the role of individualism and competitiveness as a foundation for creating great working lives and careers have to be questioned. Instead, my prediction for the future is that you will need what I call ‘serial mastery’ to add real value.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2010

I can't wait to create some apps of my own. Luckily, they are usually so cheap that you can afford to take a gamble - it cost me 59p to test out the marketing claims in this case. Also luckily, some apps are so brilliant that they change everything (to steal Apple's marketing blurb). Anyway, I'm sucked in.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Because of its cost, high end content is almost always going to be a top-down learning intervention, created at the initiative of an organisation's management. They felt that you didn't have to be doing leading-edge work to be at the high end, you could be generating what is relatively simple content, but with great care and professionalism.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 7, 2011

If you want to help make the message stick then you have some other quick-fire options: set up a forum for Q&A allow for comments, blog-style prepare some short and simple worked examples or case studies create a quick quiz TV stations and newspapers have a plan B.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

When I bumped into Tony Lowe at the ALT-C conference in Leeds, he told me about a tool he'd created called Dragster. Dragster is a versatile online tool for creating stand-alone, Flash-based drag and drop activities. Now I've finally had a chance to try it out, I can see how this might just fill the gap.

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