Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Interested as I am in all this, my work is not in education, it is in training. But in a training context this is very rarely the endgame. The goal is typically to develop competence, the ability to do a job. So what would a massively scalable online training programme look like? There is, of course, an overlap.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 9, 2012

As a result, many organisations are hoping they can have it both ways by simply adding e-learning development to the responsibilities of their remaining internal l&d staff. So what’s needed if an organisation is going to make a success of in-house development? More often than not, this is failing to work as well as expected.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A few days ago I had a chance to test these cases out on a group of aspiring designers and project managers, who were yet to be exposed to any formal development model, ADDIE or otherwise. Selling training is like selling dog food. They did not disappoint. They could make a big difference. But these are not our customers.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The development of desktop computer software used to be the same. E-learning development processes have their origins in the days when courses were delivered on videodiscs and CDs, when updates and fixes were to be avoided at all costs. Analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation occur once and once only.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2008

" So, here's some real evidence of online video and collaboration having a real impact in mainstream learning and development. technologies have the potential to transform management and leadership development activities and that in the next ten years virtual worlds and gaming technology will enable all development to be experiential.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I've just been browsing L&D 2020: Phase 1 Report: Trends, scenarios and emerging conclusions , which can be downloaded from the Training Journal site. There will be a shift in balance of the L&D professionals’ skillset towards greater business understanding, change management, organisation development and use of new technologies.”

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2009

In a report this year by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), assessing employee attitudes to the recession, only 35% said they trusted senior managers, only 36% have confidence in their managers, and 46% report growing stress.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I've been trying to understand better where simulation fits within the skills development process and whether simulation is the only/best option available to trainers and/or learners. We want these people to be properly trained and that's likely to include lots of safe practice away from real hazards. These are first thoughts.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

This year I have delivered more face-to-face workshops than I have done since I was a fledgling trainer back in the late 1970s running development programmes for American Express managers.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2009

According to a new survey conducted in March for training provider Cegos , employees are keener than HR and the training function to embrace innovative training practices and new technologies.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2009

This IT Training podcast , hosted by Helen Wilcox, features your truly, along with Paul Stevens from Assima , exploring a wide range of issues relating to e-learning content. 6:03 Should materials be designed very differently depending on the topic, e.g. IT training v compliance? 22:00 Do you actually do any e-learning yourself?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 18, 2008

Well, for that remark to make sense you have to be able to compare it with something - how about 'ten years is no time at all in learning and development'. The surveys were also answered by learning and development professionals themselves and not their customers, i.e. managers in their organisations or learners themselves.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The following copy accompanied the release yesterday of a free 20-page booklet entitled What every learning and development professional needs to know about e-learning : Change and opportunity Surprising as it may seem, most educational and training methods are relatively timeless. So what’s the big deal?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

With the economic downturn in full swing (assuming, that is, that downturns can swing) and training budgets as ever looking vulnerable as the first candidate for cuts, I'm beginning to hear once more that well-honed argument that training should be regarded as an investment and not an expense. As if that was all there was to it!

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

Contrary to my expectations, I came away from my online session with Saba believing surprised how close we were in terms of our vision for the future of learning and development in the workplace. Whether Saba can persuade their customers to do any more than use their products for compliance training is the real challenge.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Today I took part in the inaugural live online session run by the British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD). The session debated the following motion: ‘Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss’ I happily presented the case for the motion. These were my arguments: 1.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 5, 2009

The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD), the main professional body for HR practitioners in the UK, has published its latest annual survey report on learning and development. Surprisingly to me, voluntary sector organisations continue to spend more per employee per year on training.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2008

A survey by Cegos Group , reported in this month's issue of e.learning age magazine, finds that companies in the UK are leading the way in Europe by providing training to some 61% of their staff. In France, Germany and Italy, less than half has any training. Just the message you need when you're heading into a recession.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I'd say quite a few other issues could come into play: Complying with policies and regulations Providing training and development as an employee benefit Delivering learning as an end in itself Let's take these in turn. An obvious step in achieving this is to ensure that everyone involved obtains adequate training.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Bill Sawyer, who works in curriculum development within the highly-technical and fast-moving environment of Oracle. He leads a small team responsible for designing and developing highly-technical training programmes for IT professionals among both Oracle’s employees and their customers. Let’s take the formal first.

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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. As Tiina says, “It’s all about making things easy for our learners.”

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2012

Cegos has just published its latest annual pan-European learning and development survey. The survey was carried out among 2,800 employees and 600 HR Directors/Training Managers from a cross-section of organisations in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 2, 2009

At the same time, spending on external services (consultants, content development, etc.) is dropping in 60% of cases, and volume of classroom training in 50% of cases. Headcount is also being hit as 36% of respondents reported a reduction.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The word 'training' is unfashionable, so much so that at one recent conference it was referred to as 'the T word'. Yet when I first entered the profession I was perfectly happy to be called a Training Specialist. Yet when I first entered the profession I was perfectly happy to be called a Training Specialist.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Massively scalable training * Face-to-face is for special occasions * Can we dispense with email? Get on a train Why does learning content seem so much more exciting on an iPad? December Where is the model for e-learning? Back in business If in doubt, do it yourself

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2012

If your manager believes it is important for you to beef up on some new development, or to refine your skills in a particular area, then you are motivated to do so. If your manager shows little or no interest in the training you are doing, then probably so will you. Other reports have come to similar conclusions.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

In my post last week, I identified four elements that I felt needed to be in place if an organisation was to make a success of in-house e-learning development: tools, talent, training and, above all, time - the four Ts. In my view, the best way to learn how to make stuff is to make stuff yourself and test it out on people.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

To quote from the Executive Summary: ''Two things stand out from the data collected over the first six months of use of the LPI Capability Map First, the Learning and Development profession has broad and deep roots in the traditional training model - in particular, in the creation of training materials for delivery in a face-to-face environment.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. Charles describes how the regional training operations were run as “fiefdoms, all in competition with each other.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2010

This time Steve alerted me to some research that Forrester has been doing for Adobe on the development of rapid elearning in the USA. 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.

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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. Every one of these is obliged to complete safety training appropriate for their role.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

In part 1, I explained that IT user training is evolving through a number of phases and that this evolution affects more than just learners - it affects the expectations that learners have of IT trainers. Phase two in the evolution of IT training is the development of power users, who know the right button to press in any situation.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

My response was that although this benefit appeared to be very real, it was a dangerous game for learning and development to play. My client was primarily engaged in soft skills training (or 'hard skills' as they jokingly call it) for which the style was likely to be relaxed, informal and non-directive. It may as well be us."

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

While I am looking forward to sharing my views on how learning and development professionals need to skill up to meet new challenges and to take advantage of new opportunities, I am enthusiastic to hear from the other keynote speaker, Pedro De Bruyckere, co-author, with Paul Kirschner and Casper Hulshof, of U rban Myths about Learning and Education.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

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. The employees of these smaller organisations also need to learn and develop and to do so as efficiently and conveniently as possible.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2013

In the next six posts, I explore six ways in which learning professionals can realise a transformation in the way that learning and development occurs in their organisations. An obvious step in achieving this is to ensure everyone involved obtains adequate training. Quite a difference.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Well, it’s hats off to Bryan Chapman of the Chapman Alliance who has surveyed 249 learning developers (I assume mostly from the US) to find out how long they spend on an average project, both in total and on the individual tasks. He also asked what the cost of this work was at internal rates.

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