Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Hard experience has taught me that only career specialists (in other words those who do this for a living) should go near the development of high-end e-learning content. This quick and simple ‘rapid e-learning’ can be designed and developed by some generalist learning professionals. Which ones?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

While not so long ago this was a major obstacle, even in developed economies, the problem is fast reducing. Of course, some of the credit must go to employers who have provided IT training and support to those who work with computers, but a much more major influence has been the increasingly widespread use of technology outside the home.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2007

The script is in the wiki, along with the content outline. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has any experience of developing an e-learning script in a wiki.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

Cammy suggested that we (the interested members of the blogging community) should co-operate in coming up with a curriculum, perhaps using a wiki. Well, I thought that was a great idea, and took away the action step of setting up the wiki and populating it with initial content. That I have done and you can find it here.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Organisations can do their best to satisfy the needs of employees for on-demand information but they will rarely be able to cover it all on a top-down basis.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? But it certainly can satisfy needs for additional personal development and fill in all the gaps left after basic training. We have been sold on micro-learning for some time. What does micro-learning mean to the e-learning industry?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 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. Like each of the recommendations in this series, the change from synchronous to asynchronous represents a movement of a slider, not a switch on or off.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 16, 2007

Back in April I initiated, with Cammy Bean , the 30-minute masters project (see original posting ), the purpose of which was to develop a curriculum to train subject-matter experts in the design of rapid e-learning materials for use in the workplace. Phase 2, I would suggest, is to develop a script based on the content outline.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? But it certainly can satisfy needs for additional personal development and fill in all the gaps left after basic training. We have been sold on micro-learning for some time. What does micro-learning mean to the e-learning industry?

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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). Asynchronous collaborative activities, using email, forums, social networks, blogs, wikis, etc. It used The Open University’s Flash Meeting platform, which was a new one for me.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2009

The survey found that "half of employees across Europe want more e-learning and blended learning during the next three years, while only about 40% of HR professionals plan to develop more programmes using these techniques.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

CEGOS has just released the results of their 2010 learning and development survey, carried out in March among 2,200 employees from small, medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. The results are interesting, particularly in terms of attitudes to, and usage of learning technologies.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2007

We set out to develop a curriculum that could teach subject experts and generalist trainers the essentials of instructional design in just 30 minutes. You'll find the scripts at the 30-minute masters wiki. So, if you would like to give the scripts a read and make any suggestions you are very welcome.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

I can think of several good reasons why trainers should make the effort to develop their own content: Your learners are relative novices and appreciate all the structure and support they can get. They also add their reviews of the tools they've been using to the wiki. The workshop itself is content free.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Whatever you think of e-learning, it insults the intelligence of the learning and development community to pass it off as a fad, whatever motives he has as a provider of classroom IT training. " Now I've met Rob Chapman and he's both a nice guy and a successful businessman, but well-informed he certainly is not.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Rapid development The lower tier would be 'good enough' digital content, designed to communicate simple information or provide basic knowledge without fuss. This content may be designed and developed in-house, by subject experts or generalist trainers, or outside by a new breed of rapid developers. tools for informal learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2006

A typical task would be to conduct research on a topic related to the course (typically in the form of a webquest ) and then present their findings, perhaps as a forum posting, a wiki entry or a podcast. These activities have some powerful advantages: Students seem to really enjoy them - it's not what they expect from boring old e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2007

I'm in the middle of designing and developing a new blended learning course on the whole subject of embedded learning/performance support. My general philosophy is, as far as possible, to have the participants co-create the content in a wiki as an output from their work on the course. So call me a rapid e-learning convert.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Blended learning is no longer a major talking point in learning and development and perhaps that’s not such a bad thing. laden with musicians trumpeting blogs, wikis and social networks. But, as ever, there’s little chance of much peace and quiet, because there’s always another bandwagon not far behind.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 12, 2007

MMORPGs really will help you develop your leadership skills. So where does the report lead if it doesn't advocate corporations using MMORPGs to develop leadership? You see, corporations don't want leaders, they want followers." The upshot? Just don't expect to use those skills in corporations. Why not start your own instead?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2007

I know some development takes time, especially games, simulations and scenarios, and anything with complex animations or video. However, the occasions on which these are needed are not that frequent and, even then, the use of e-learning must be cost-justifiable and the time must be available to wait for its development.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The online use of non-interactive materials may be accompanied by reflective work in forums, wikis or blogs. One of the most exciting aspects of the whole move to rapid content development is the realisation that online materials can take many forms, interactive and not.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 Q: Shouldn't they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organisations? Become a participant.

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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?' Online tools tend to be less sophisticated but really do facilitate collaborative development.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 11, 2008

If you haven't seen the series (there's one on wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, etc.), am buzzing with ideas for ways in which these sorts of short, simple videos could be used in learning and development, most particularly in the work I do. then do because, even if you're not interested in the topics, you will be in the technique.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2006

Of course this doesn't apply to all walks of life, but it certainly does in the media industry, where bloggers, wiki contributors, podcasters, musicians and others can reach as wide an audience as many a media giant and often with a better product. a PC with a microphone, keyboard, speakers and a lot of fancy software).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

Certainly when I first took up a position as a training specialist at American Express in 1976 (a mere 10000 years ago in binary terms) there were already several gray areas: Who had primary responsibility for an employee's training and development - the employee themselves, their manager or the training department?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2009

As a learning and development professional it is obligatory to ask whether Twitter has potential as a learning tool. It doesn't offer the potential for collaborative work that a wiki can provide. And if you've found a gem of a website, blog posting, video or whatever then you should share it. I'm not sure.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 4, 2007

are for corporates who want to manage all (or at least all formal) aspects of their learning and development. Moodle (and I believe Blackboard in its latest release), even includes blogging and wiki tools. LMSs (Saba, SumTotal, SkillPort, etc.) It seems that the LMS/VLE distinction is either dead or UK-specific.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 11, 2007

After all, LTI Magazine defined raid e-learning as "courseware (live or self-paced) developed in less than three weeks, where SMEs act as the primary development resource". But has anyone told the rapid content development tool builders? I thought I knew what 'rapid e-learning' meant. Notice how similar these definitions are?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

By applying realtively informal methods - blogs, wikis, communities of practice, coaching, webquests, etc. This could be a bit of a let down for readers who don't run the whole learning and development function, or even if they do, they don't run the whole organisation. I bet Jay's thinking has moved on and will continue to do so.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Asynchronously, they would have started with few options, but developed the ability to communicate more permanently using signs and symbols, paintings and inscriptions. On the synchronous side, our ancestors would have started out making gestures and grunts, gradually evolving this into speech.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Bring together forums, blogs, wikis and other social networking tools and every learner becomes a teacher, and content is co-created as an output from learning rather than a formal input. Do you really understand what makes them tick (to give you a clue, it's not using software tools developed by other programmers)?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

I really can't imagine many learning and development professionals being able to select a suitable tool without the help of a consultant - a positive side-effect in my case, perhaps, but hardly an encouraging situation for all those millions of potential content creators that we'd like to think are waiting in the wings.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2006

The author encourages readers to contribute to the re-writing of the book using a wiki. An ecology should permit these networks to develop and flourish without hindrance." He writes: "These established metaphors fall short in an era defined by rapid knowledge development. The author has ". This is not what we've come to expect!

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2013

Well, a month or two ago, e-learning developer Kineo and global training providers The Oxford Group helped us all out by gathering information to show how blended learning is being used, what benefits are being obtained and what problems are being experienced. It''s not often that anyone researches blended learning.

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