Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

John is from Cambridge University where he has been engaged in the development on the virtual learning environment Sakai 3. We should, in short, strive to create a different type of academic collaboration system. Tags: virtual learning environments learning management systems.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2007

Yesterday eLearning Guild announced their Member's Choice Awards for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Award for market share - Education and Government Learning Management Systems - Gold award: Moodle (the Platinum went to Blackboard). Perhaps they use an LMS and a VLE.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2008

These problems of perception can be overcome, but corporates may still be frustrated that, although Moodle is an excellent course delivery tool, it was never designed to tackle the sorts of problems that many corporates face, and which generally lead them to a conventional learning management system.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

Large-scale, elaborately crafted, fully-integrated e-learning courses are, in most circumstances and for most of us, a bit of a luxury. They require a great deal of expertise to design and develop, are inflexible in the ways in which they can be deployed and are hard to maintain. But so what? links are free!

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

I know that quite a few LMS providers are on-board but this is not enough, because in many ways products like these are truly global in scope. The main regional variation come in terms of services, particularly content development. Can you really get a true picture of the LMS market without an appreciation of what Moodle has to offer?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 7, 2014

Contrast that with typical self-study e-learning. The design and development of this content is seen like the build up to a product launch, not the unveiling of a new service. Agile development of learning content is a process of successive approximation  getting closer and closer to what is right for the user.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

And for me, it's much easier to concentrate on learning content when it fills the whole screen, rather than appearing in a small window alongside your emails, the report you’re writing and a web browser that’s running your LMS. Their jobs are inherently mobile. These are not trivial issues but they are being solved very rapidly.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Deployment through much friendlier and more usable platforms than your traditional LMS. I’m also beginning to see some changes to the way that your good old e-learning tutorial is presented. The evidence I saw was in work by the innovative developer Nelson Croom , but I’ve seen similar things before.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

They don't sit on an LMS, where each individual's usage is monitored, but on the intranet, where they can be freely accessed at any time and found using a search engine. For each element you can select the best tool for development and the most flexible format for delivery.

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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

JUNE 29, 2011

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

E-learning in the workplace used to be the preserve of the large corporate or public body. 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.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Back in business If in doubt, do it yourself

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Today saw a tremendous gathering of the who's who of UK learning technologies in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union. Many thanks must go to e-learning developers Epic for putting together this event and allowing their own industry to be placed under the microscope. Today's e-learning is marginally useful.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Somebody obviously saw parallels in the world of world of learning content development, by that time almost exclusively a digital activity but still tackled in the way you might approach the writing of a book - as one, large, hard-wired entity. As we know, this is not typically how learning and development works.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

What a great opportunity to take a moment and reflect on the changes that I have witnessed in the field of corporate learning and development - my main focus over these ten years - from a largely UK perspective. Some changes in the field of learning and development generally: The term 'learning and development' has replaced 'training'.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Of course, if rapid e-learning content is simply made available through an LMS in the normal way, it is difficult for users to share their preferences with each other. But with a simple rating system - one star for hopeless to five star for brilliant - any user can easily identify what has the approval of their peers.

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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. To achieve this while comparing apples with apples is nigh on impossible.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2008

I believe learning and development, particularly in the corporate context, to be a curiously conservative profession, which does not rush to make changes of any nature, however convincing the arguments. I believe that we also have to consider the likely economic context, at best difficult and possibly recessionary.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2007

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Experience shows that, for large projects involving teams of specialists (project managers, instructional designers, graphics people, subject experts, testers, etc.),

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Do you really understand what makes them tick (to give you a clue, it's not using software tools developed by other programmers)? Without a knowledge of open source and other free software, you'd end up paying $000s for tools and systems that you could probably get for nothing. Would you accept their time estimates at face value?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

The trouble is, inductive learning doesn't seem to have been what the developers had in mind when they designed the latest generation of rapid e-learning authoring tools. The assumption seems to be that questions are for assessment, they come in a batch, probably at the end, and they save a score to an LMS.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2011

When he started the job, Peter set up a governance process embodied in the BT Learning Council which he chaired and which oversaw some £70m annually in direct training costs. Peter talked to each of the BT businesses and developed learning plans aligned with the strategic direction of each business.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The software could be easily integrated into an LMS or VLE. There are some nice-to-haves which are being considered for development, such as embedding a mindmap into a blog or other web page, and the facility to have multiple users working collaboratively on a single map. This is definitely worth trying as a PowerPoint alternative.

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