Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

I made the point that, more often than not, new designers are provided with plenty of instructional design theory, but nowhere near enough time to practise and get feedback. If we teach our designers this way, it’s not surprising that they then go on to develop self-study content for their audiences which is equally unbalanced.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This video is the first of a series of interviews that I am conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. This one appeared in the June issue.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

This video is the third in a series of interviews that I am conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designs on Learning' This one appeared in the September issue. See previous interviews with Mark Bennett and Stephanie Dedhar.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This video is the fourth in a series of interviews that I have been conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designs on Learning' This one appears in this February''s issue. See previous interviews with Mark Bennett , Stephanie Dedhar and Lisa Minogue-White.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The book I chose was, to be fair, a short one, the intriguingly titled Open Source Instructional Design by Nathan Eckel (IntelliDesign, 2009). If I was the designer, I’d want to interview a subject expert and have access to their materials. Then I’d produce a design, which the subject expert would approve. and/or rich media.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

This week sees the release of my new book, Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide. Whatever your interest, this guide will help you to design learning materials that really make a difference. The book is for anyone with an interest in helping others to learn. You may be a teacher, trainer, lecturer or coach.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 13, 2012

Clearly, you do not need to be a naturally gifted artist to perform effectively as a designer of learning experiences. Graphic design and instructional design are quite separate, but they are related. It's because I've just finished reading a great new book on visual design.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 3, 2014

This video is the fifth and final edition in a series of interviews that I conducted last year with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. This one appears in the March 2014 issue.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This video is the fourth in a series of interviews that I have been conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. This one appears in this February's issue.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This video is the first of a series of interviews that I am conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. This one appeared in the June issue. I hope you find them enjoyable.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2013

This video is the second of a series of interviews that I am conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. This one appeared in the July/August issue. See the first interview with Mark Bennett.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

This video is the third in a series of interviews that I am conducting with leading e-learning designers in the UK, in conjunction with e.learning age magazine. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey. This one appeared in the September issue. See previous interviews with Mark Bennett and Stephanie Dedhar.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2009

Patrick is an award-winning designer of interactive materials who has devoted a great deal of time and effort to understanding just what it is that makes content engaging. Design processes Still puzzled as to why we weren't seeing more engaging e-learning content, Patrick looked at how design was carried out in other disciplines.

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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. Designing for interactivity : It's time to begin your Skills Journey

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Clive on Learning

JULY 20, 2009

You may be interested in a podcast produced a few months ago by IT Training magazine in which Paul Stevens of Assima UK and myself discuss a variety of issues relating to the design of e-learning content. You can download it from the IT Training podcast page - it's episode 9.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting an ALT / eLearning Network webinar which featured two of my favourite commentators on the subject of instructional design, Cathy Moore and Patrick Dunn. The theme for both speakers was very much shifting the emphasis in design away from information to experience.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2009

One of the main decisions a designer of learning interventions has to make is the social context best suited to the learning requirement, the audience characteristics and the practical contsraints and opportunities. The main options that the designer has to choose from are self-study, one-to-one learning and learning in a group.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2010

The Big Question for July on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is “Does the discussion of ‘how the brain learns’ impact your elearning design?” I have gained a great deal of benefit from what I have read on this subject and I have made every effort to integrate this into any design work I have undertaken over the past couple of years.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

So, what I've done is restrict my thoughts to the design of interactive, e-learning content, drawing heavily from the 60-minute masters : Structure into modules. This will make it easier for learners, curriculum designers and intelligent software to make use of the content in a wide variety of contexts.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

I'm obviously not a professional graphic designer but I am an enthusiastic amateur and keen to improve. With this in mind I enjoyed exploring Timothy Samara's sumptuous Design elements - a graphic style manual. Being universal is the domain of the designer. Obviously there is readability and readability.]

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2009

I've spent a couple of happy hours poring over Connie Malamed 's luxuriant new tome Visual language for designers , (Rockport, 2009). As the title suggests, this work is definitely aimed at the professional graphic designer (not the instructional variety), although it's also going to be hugely useful to enthusiastic amateurs like me.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2007

Universal principles of design , by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden and Jill Butler (Rockport, 2003) is a gloriously-presented compendium of 100 design ideas that, if not universal, can certainly be applied in a wide variety of settings.

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Clive on Learning

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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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

That's also why I like working alone on design and development when that's possible. That's why rapid e-learning is rapid - there are less people involved.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Patrick Dunn has created a an engaging and accessible site for learning designers called Networked Learning Design. is about design thinking and creativity, applied to the practice of learning design. As it says, it is: ".is The site provides plenty of opportunities to comment and debate. I'd have a look.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

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. Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 7, 2014

You dont know for certain whether your design will work in meeting the underlying learning need. You set about designing version 2. You keep on adjusting the design every time until eventually it flows well and achieves consistently good results. agile design instructional design'

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 7, 2014

Modern tools all work on the assumption that students will respond to questions by clicking on an option, which makes the tools easier to develop and the courses easier to design. We then need some great examples to inspire writers and designers to leave behind the multi-choice question and start to really relate to their students.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2020

This led us to adopt an innovative design, centring on storytelling, authentic challenges, personal exploration, reflection and social interaction. We were determined not to bombard learners with abstract information.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

So dominant in fact, that those tasked with devising and assembling technology-based learning solutions have been called instructional designers ever since. It is no longer appropriate to call those responsible for devising learning experiences instructional designers. Designers themselves are on a voyage of discovery.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

In any project that involves the design and development of learning content, there are competing priorities which can be hard to reconcile. The second consideration is the design for learning : What learning strategy should be employed? Second should come the design for learning. How relevant is this to the target population?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 15, 2012

Conventional wisdom says we should take great care in defining learning objectives and then use these as a basis for assessment and design. In the highly 'rational' world of instructional systems design, this sounds like a pretty convincing set of arguments. But only part of me believes this works out in practice.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2013

For 2013, I will endeavour to 'do as you would be done by', not in any karmic sense, but as a designer of learning solutions. As a designer, there's a real risk of under-estimating your audience. So next time you're putting together a design for learning, think twice. Of course not. They're living on elegant Georgian terraces.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

As the week progresses, they reflect on their contrasting learning experiences, highlighting from a learner's perspective what good and bad looks like in the design of learning solutions. It tells the tale of two young people who meet up in Brighton as they begin training in their new jobs.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 10, 2019

You will have to believe me that when recently I was exploring ideas for high-level designs for learning solutions, option after option seemed to begin with the letter C. I would wonder whether important ideas had been omitted because they didn’t fit the pre-determined pattern and how strained the search might have been for synonyms.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2014

You''ll find it useful for any visual work you do, whether that''s graphics, video, presentation slides or e-learning design! A lot of highly-skilled work has been put into the design of this tutorial. Don''t be fooled by the informal tone - this video is highly professional and wasn''t produced in a few hours.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 25, 2013

Interactive scenarios : These can be designed for self-study use or to be moderated by a facilitator in a group environment. So is it possible to design for all contexts, without compromising on quality? Thankfully, the core educational philosophy and approach does not need to vary, just the mechanics.

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