Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of the conversations I’ve been having is how to shift organizations into modern workplace learning. The idea is to address a particular tactical goal as part of a strategic plan, and to do so in ways that both embody and develop learning and a collaboration culture. The answer isn’t obvious.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2021

A colleague asked “is anyone talking about how deep learning requires time, attention, and focus?” Well, I did make a call for “slow learning” once upon a time, but it’s probably worth doing it again. So here’s a riff on deep learning and expertise. So here’s a riff on deep learning and expertise.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Of late, I’m working in a couple of engagements where the issue of learning and performance strategy have come up. So here are some reflections on whether to use learning or performance strategy as an organizing concept. In one case, an organization decreed that they needed a learning strategy.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On LinkedIn, a colleague asked “ Why do people think that integrating content in the flow of work equals learning in the flow of work ?” So here are some reflections on flow, workflow, and learning. And in between is the flow state, and where learning happens. And I’m not sure learning happens there.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 24, 2023

Many years ago, I led the learning design of an online course on speaking to the media. It was way ahead of the times in a business sense; people weren’t paying for online learning. So here are some thoughts on learners as learning evaluators. So here are some thoughts on learners as learning evaluators.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 19, 2020

I recently wrote about two different interpretations of the term ‘learning engineering’ So when I saw another article on the topic, I was keen to read it. Except, after reading it, I thought what it was talking about was not learning engineering, or, at least, not all of it. But is that what learning engineering is?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

If I’m going to rail against myths in learning, it makes sense to be clear about what learning design without myths looks like. Let me lay out a little of what mythless learning design is, or should be. Learning with myths manifests in many ways. Redundant development to accommodate learning styles, or generations.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, in the context of the conversation, it made me also ponder a related topic: “don’t make me learn” Which, of course, prompted some reflection. There are times, I’ll posit, when we don’t want employees to be learning. There are times when learning doesn’t make sense. Fair enough?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 7, 2020

So, I’ve written before about ‘learning engineering’ And, separately, it’s become an issue just what the term means. It appears there are two ‘learning engineerings’, and the issue is how to resolve them. It’s applying computer systems to meet learning needs.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

And while I’m a fan of concept maps, I was suspicious of the claim, So, while I’ve written on mindmaps before , it’s time to dig into concept maps and learning. The approach claims that “They have complete freedom to focus on and develop whichever interests capture their fancy.”

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I think we need to be aware of the possibilities, and then consider the meta-ethics of learning design. Part of the development of metacognition is to see the pedagogy being used and internalizing it. Our designs, and our meta-designs, need to be ethically designed, both to effectively achieve our ends, and to develop our learners.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We were talking about how to lift the game of Modern Workplace Learning , and each had staked out a position, from human performance consulting to social/informal. Jane talked about how you had to walk the walk: working out loud, personal learning, coaching, etc. In fact, celebrate the lesson learned, regardless of success!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 27, 2011

With my ITA colleagues, I’ve been looking at how to help organizations broaden the scope of the learning function to include informal and social learning, and leverage them to make organizations more successful. However, that seems largely to be about databases. Is it industrial/organizational psychology?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 2, 2020

But for the second, I’m thinking that the biggest opportunity is making learning meaningful. Most importantly, I think there’s good support for evidence-based learning design. One area, however, I think we reliably get wrong and there’s not as much guidance for , is making learning meaningful.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2019

So, I just finished teaching a mobile learning course online for a university. My goal was not to ‘teach’ mobile so much as develop a mobile mindset. You have to think differently than what the phrase ‘mobile learning’ might lead you to think. And for the development week, they tested it.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2020

So, I’ve previously mentioned the Learning & Development conference I’ll be participating in that starts late this month. So I’ll be talking meaningful learning. First, of course, meaningful learning is about getting the learning science right. yes, I’ll talking meaningful learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A gift from a co-worker (an interesting story), and led me to reflect on the link between passion and learning. And, of course, cognition, learning, engagement, and design. And what’s fun is learning from these folks just why they find it so interesting. Let’s connect passion and learning to make it better.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What is a learning experience platform? In today’s era of increasing speed of change and decreasing resources for meeting the learning needs, L&D can no longer try to own everything. And, of course, the resources aren’t all about learning. The Learning Experience Platform(?). So what am I talking about?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2010

A while ago, I characterized the stages of web development as: Web 1.0: More recently, interactivity has been proposed as a item to tag within learning object systems to differentiate objects. producer-generated content, where you had to be able to manage a server and work in obscure codes.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 16, 2019

Of late, a lot of my work has been designing learning design. That is, someone’s got a learning design process, but they want to improve it. It’s about good learning. Of course, to support good application of the content to develop abilities, you need the right content! I’d welcome seeing you there!

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And that, in turn, led me to transformation learning. Practicing what I preach, here’s how my thinking’s developing. I’ll start with the reverse, transformative learning, because it came first and it’s at the large end. Mezirow was the originator of Transformative Learning Theory. What say you?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2014

The claim for learning was that it developed knowledge of world facts. What she showed was that kids learned how to use an almanac, but didn’t remember the information pointed to by the clues. I’ll be talking about how to design them, and lessons from games for the design of learning and assessment.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2019

The article is about a (hypothetical) learning journey, and talks about how learning objects are part of that learning process. It’s inherently saying we don’t trust our learners to be good at learning. I don’t expect learners (or SMEs for that matter) to know learning. Always a great thing!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I was asked by a colleague to answer some questions for a project on how to learn. I learn from folks in a variety of ways, but the key is asking questions. Most have given me some stretch assignments that required me to work in my ZoPD , and then feedback to learn from the outcomes. And I would ask them along the way.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2017

If you follow this blog (and you should :), it was pretty obvious that I was at the FocusOn Learning conference in San Diego last week (previous 2 posts were mindmaps of the keynotes). Here are my reflections on what happened a bit more, as an exercise in meta-learning. Flash is both a development environment and a delivery platform.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I’ve been working on moving a team to deeper learning design. The goal is to practice what I preach, and make sure that the learning design is competency-aligned, activity-based, and model-driven. I presented to the team my vision, we worked out a process, and started coaching the team during development.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2016

Last week I ran a workshop for an online university that is working to improve it’s learning design. They have ‘content’, but wanted to improve the learning design around this. If we take activity-based learning seriously, we need to ensure that there are meaningful tasks set that can provide feedback.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The eLearning Guild is celebrating it’s 10th year, and is using the opportunity to reflect on what learning will look like 10 years from now. How has learning changed in the last 10 years (from the perspective of the learner)? What is the most significant change technology has made to organizational learning in the past decade?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

I wrote an article for Jane Hart’s Modern Workplace Learning magazine, triggered by my thought that in her tools survey, I didn’t see a lot about a certain set of reflection (c.f. last weeks posts on diagramming) and experimentation tools: meta-learning tools. The post Meta-Learning Tools? And our success.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural meeting of the Global Learning Council. While not really global in either sense (little representation from overseas nor from segments other than higher ed), it was a chance to refresh myself in some rigor around learning sciences. For one, the value of models in learning.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 29, 2013

It’s somewhat indirect, but it’s at least one way of systematically embedding meta-learning skills and tracking them. Remember the old educational computer games that said ‘develops problem solving skills’? We need to specifically address meta-learning, and with technology we can get evidence.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 7, 2015

At the recent DevLearn, Donald Clark talked about AI in learning, and while I largely agreed with what he said, I had some thoughts and some quibbles. And you should know a bit of the history of the rise of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, the problems with developing expert models, and current approaches like Knewton and Smart Sparrow.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 18, 2017

I’m going a bit out on a limb here, with a somewhat heretical statement: what you learn is more important than how you learn ! (You It’s meta-learning, of course, learning how to learn! The important point is to focus on what’s being developed. And I mean this at two levels.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve talked before about mental models , and they’re important for learning. Senge, in The Learning Organization talked about mental models as one of his 5 disciplines. But we can, and should, continue to acquire and develop them. The post Mental models are the agents of learning appeared first on Learnlets.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Back in the mid-90s, I was part of a government-sponsored initiative in online learning, and we were looking for a meaningful project. Then, at the end of the 90’s, I was asked to lead a team developing an adaptive learning system. There was even a machine learning component to improve the models as we went along.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A second presentation was on providing tools to trainers to devolve content development locally, addressing a problem with centrally-developed content. And it was another exciting development to hear them thinking this way. The third question was about ensuring quality in a localized learning environment (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2016

In a recent guest post, I wrote about the importance of context in learning. And for a featured session at the upcoming FocusOn Learning event, I’ll be talking about performance support in context. Now, to be clear, these are already in use for performance support, but how do we take advantage of them for learning.

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