Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 10, 2023

PS, speaking of basics, we’ll be running a debate tomorrow (11 Oct) discussing the Learning Experience Design (LXD) label. That way you’re going to have a good return on your $$, and that’s a good thing. I’m sure we’ll unpack critical issues. Check it out. The post Get the basics right first!

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2017

The topic was Themes from a Hat (topics are polled and then separate discussions are held). I was tapped to host the Learning Design conversation (there were three others: LMS, Measurement, and Social Learning), and that meant that a subset of the group sat in on the discussion. Are you doing good learning design? Slow learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Which also means you need to have a discussion of why you’re building it, and how you know it’s working. That could include usability and engagement (which come before and after, respectively), but most critically ‘impact’ Is this learning initiative solving the problem we’re designing it to achieve?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2023

In a conversation, we were discussing how L&D fares. Badly, of course, but we were looking at why. One of the problems is that L&D folks don’t have credibility. Another was that they don’t measure. I didn’t raise it in the conversation, but it’s come up before that they’re also not being strategic.

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Performance Support DevLearn Conversation Survey 206

Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2021

Now, hopefully, we’ll never again need to discuss this. When we’re deeply engaged in something, whether work or a passion, reading a book, listening to someone tell their story, and the like, serves as the necessary adjunct to our activity! They provide the complement to our own endeavors; the reflection to our action!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2023

I’m sharing it for her (I responded with just the categories on Twitter), and for discussion. She asked: “What areas and skills are essential (in order of importance if possible) for those who want to transition into learning and development.” ” So, I used some of my tiny brain and generated an initial list.

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Cognitive Skills Instructional Design Calendar 152

Clark Quinn

MAY 24, 2022

At the same time, there’s a discussion happening about learning affordances of the metaverse. I was asked about the latest techno-hype, bionic reading. I realize my strategy is the same, which I learned many years ago (wish I could remember from whom!). The short version is, wait until the dust settles.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2019

No aggregation of points, but instead: you get this grade if you do: this many assignments correct, and write a substantive comment in a discussion board and comment on someone else’s this many times , and complete this level on this many knowledge checks. It was competency based, so you either did it or not.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

People reach out to me there, and I also track some folks, and there are occasionally interesting discussions. LinkedIn is where I professionally socialize, and it’s becoming more prominent in my interactions. Zoom has, well, zoomed up to the top of my interaction tool suite. I’ve used it for chats, meetings, and webinars.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 10, 2022

It got me pondering, in particular, about different interpretations of ‘ gamification ‘ As I dictated a note to myself as I walked (probably looking like one of those folks who holds phone calls on their perambulations), I found myself discussing the differences between two approaches. For instance, how to deal with customers.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

An interesting discussion arose in a closing event about the value of debates ; where two folks who generally agree on the science find something to diverge on. The faculty we chose are those who’ve demonstrated an ability to help folk see the underlying thinking. That paid off well!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 4, 2020

Matt Richter, in his well-done L&D conference presentation on motivation, discussed self-determination theory. You may want to set up some mismatch of expectations to drive them to want to learn something. But I believe we need more. He had a nice diagram (my revision here) that distinguished various forms of motivation.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2022

As background, these aren’t the myths that I discuss in my book on the topic. With my reputation as a cynic apparently well-secured, I’m choosing to call out some bad behaviors. So here are some superstitions for new practitioners to watch out for! That would be too obvious.

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Metrics Performance Support Pedagogy Behavior 262

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The initial discussion talked about using technology to assist decisions (c.f. AI), but I didn’t really comprehend the discussion around decision intelligence. Which was an intriguing twist. And this, not surprisingly led me back to wisdom. A presentation on DA, decision analysis, however, piqued my interest.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

So, for instance, when working with SMEs focus on decisions to keep the discussion away from unnecessary knowledge. Still, I did have some good discussion with attendees. The discussion chose a subset of four topics: MOOCs, Social Media, Open Resources, and mLearning. I had written the mLearning chapter.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The conjunction of discussion prompted me to reflect on the intersection, considering Web 3.0 Not surprisingly, I guess, the topic went to the future of the LMS. In a session the next day, Dr. Jen Murphy of QIC talked insightfully (as she does) about the Metaverse, and compared it to Web 3.0. and whither the LMS.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I was discussing them again in preparation for this post by partner Elevator 9. I’ve talked in the past about mental models (and continue to do so), but they seem a difficult concept to grasp.

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Wikipedia Cognitive Toolkit Predictions 182

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 19, 2021

They were interested in discussing about the impact on Covid, and of course I’m taking it in an aspirational direction. So I thought I’d at least let you have a chance. So, here’s an update on my webinars. First, I’ll be talking for eLearning Learning on the 27th of January at 11AM PT (2PM ET).

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Of course, it’s a full workshop, so in addition to the content, we’ll have live sessions to workshop some ideas and discuss what we’ve done, and assignments with personal feedback. And, if you’re interested in the more, I’ll encourage you to sign up for the workshop. This is the topic of the second week! Hope to see you there!

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Tips Culture Trust Roles 205

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 23, 2022

From that one is a topic I’ll be discussing as part of at DevLearn. That has meant some steady client work since the beginning of the year; including two projects on learning and performance strategy. One is likely to be continuing at least a little while longer.

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eLearning Guild Beginner DevLearn Press 144

Clark Quinn

MARCH 2, 2021

As I discuss in my forthcoming book , there are nuances to each of the elements of learning design (as I also talked about for Learnnovators). That’s where tools help. I expect that most orgs do have process support, but…baking in learning science seems not to be there. So here I’m exhorting IDs to ‘Support Thyself’ .

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Of course, it’s a full workshop, so in addition to the content, we’ll have live sessions to workshop some ideas and discuss what we’ve done, and assignments with personal feedback. And, if you’re interested in the more, I’ll encourage you to sign up for the workshop. This is the topic of the first week! Hope to see you there!

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2016

I was talking with my ITA colleagues, and we were discussing the state of awareness of social learning. not a discussion forum available during a course: you need people interacting around artifacts – posts, pages, videos, etc – to generate meaningful outcomes. discussing different ways of getting something done.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of course, it’s a full workshop, so in addition to the content, we’ll have live sessions to workshop some ideas and discuss what we’ve done, and assignments with personal feedback. There’s more detail to this, of course, and if you’re interested in the more, I’ll encourage you to sign up for the workshop. Hope to see you there!

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2019

discussions) and collaboration (group projects). Finally, learning situated suggests the need for much practice (across contexts, I now think). Distributed support for learning are models and examples. And social learning suggests communicating (e.g. Interestingly, these results differ from my previous post.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2022

I discuss PKM in both my Revolutionize L&D book , and my Learning Science book. One attendee immediately thought about how it could be used in training sessions! So that’s a rough cut at my PKM process. I invite you to reflect on yours, and share it with Harold as well!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There was a lot of discussion of different ways to represent thinking. When I went to grad school, while I was with a different advisor, I was in the same lab as David Rumelhart. That happened to be just at the time he was leading his grad students on the work that precipitated the revolution to neural nets.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Thus, the importance of gating, not just any old discussion. Not seeing others’ responses before you create your own is important, just like in brainstorming. That means you’re processing on your own, before you see how others have processed. You can compare their output with yours, and infer their underlying thinking.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

In short, while I laud the collection, the surrounding discussion is flawed. Both have been investigated and found to be lacking in empirical support. No one likes to read long passages of text without some intrinsic interest (but we can do that). Once again, there’s a lack of awareness of learning science being applied.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The role of teacher is to check in on group discussions and projects, and bring out important lessons from the report-backs. Major activities can be solo if the material is more dedicated to training, but ideally are social particularly when complex understandings are required (mostly).

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Cognitive Design Roles Lesson 154

Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2016

She used a nice structure stating what the problem is and some useful alternate ways to frame the discussion. Annie Murphy Paul closed the Learning Solutions conference with a valuable presentation on the myths in learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2019

discussions) and collaborate (group projects). Finally, for Learning, for a Situated world you need (spread) contextualized practice to support appropriate abstraction of the principles. You want models and examples to support performance in the practice, as Distributed resources.

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Cognitive Performance Support Blended Learning Search 140

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In terms of the various ways in which we can support the gaps in our cognition, one of the terms is ‘templates’ And it’s worth discussing what a template is, and considering them at a variety of levels. I want to suggest we should have templates for good. What is a template?

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Templates Cognitive Pattern Quiz 115

Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2018

Fortunately, this discussion is now resolved. I replied that it’s role wasn’t evaluating the effectiveness of the learning design on the learning outcome, it was assessing the impact of the learning outcome on the organizational outcome. His model is more robust, with 8 levels.

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Evalution Kirkpatrick Attention Job 150

Clark Quinn

APRIL 16, 2019

Note, I’ve already discussed the game Quest for Independence, one of my most rewarding works.). This was to set up an event, and saw vibrant discussions. So, at the risk of self-aggrandizement, I thought I’d share a few of my Quinnovations. One project was a game based upon my PhD topic.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 30, 2020

I’ve designed in discussions, and group assignments, so while it’s grounded in the book, it’s both updated and more interactive. This is mobile’s real opportunity, not just bringing things to wherever/whenever, but doing things because of when and where we are.

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Cognitive Course Mobile Performance Support 201

Clark Quinn

MARCH 1, 2017

With different perspectives, they both overlap in discussing the importance of culture. They are a wee bit old-school, however, as while they do discuss innovation throughout, it isn’t a core focus and their definition of learning doesn’t include informal learning. The Workplace of the Future :) and Careers and learning.

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