Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2023

For one, it’s a missed opportunity to reflect important conceptual distinctions (can you tell I’ve been an educator?). Yes, again, it may take a little more exposition, but isn’t educating folks part of the job too (e.g. good marketing is good customer education)? I think it’s problematic, however.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I had created my own major in Computer-Based Education, and was designing and programming educational computer games. After a post-doc looking at learner models, I ended up teaching interface design (and researching educational technology). It prompted some small thoughts about Smalltalk.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Roger subsequently applied his thinking to education, writing Engines for Education (amongst other works), while leading a variety of efforts in using technology to support learning. Surprised, Roger realized that there must be cognitive structures for events that were similar to the proposed schemas for things. I was a fan.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this case, a suite of concept maps, with a claim that this could be the future of education. Here again, navigating linkages can be used for educational purposes. The project claims to be a key to the future of global education. However, as an educational innovation, the intended pedagogical design is worrisome.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 8, 2020

While education had been proceeding for a long time, the approaches were ad hoc. The notion of scientific education had yet to emerge. The notion of scientific education had yet to emerge. The first real systematic study of learning came from the field of educational psychology.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2022

For instance, I think when someone says something wrong, we need to educate. I’m not trying to shame anyone, and instead want to educate the market. Educate the individual and the market. I continue to try to refine my responses. There are two issues, to me: what we should say, and how we should say it. Assume good intentions.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I looked into accreditation for educational institutions, the requirement isn’t about the actual curriculum, but instead that there is a library and that there are processes for review and revision of course offerings. There’s also accreditation on the quality of the educational process.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As an undergrad, I designed my own major on Computer-Based Education, and then got a job designing and programming educational computer games. My interest in design came in a roundabout way. What that didn’t do, was teach me much about design as a practice.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 20, 2021

So let me document three important criteria that I think are critical to make this work (queue my claim “only two things wrong with education in this country, the curriculum and the pedagogy, other than that it’s fine”). Just look at the lack of success of educational reform initiatives.) However, think of the upside.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

In the early days of educational technology, it was considered technically difficult. While there are myriad problems, such as lack of knowledge of how learning works, etc, folks seem to think you can turn around a course in two weeks. Thus, I’m led to ponder if time is the biggest problem.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 26, 2020

First, I’ve argued that good marketing is really good customer education. And I guess it works, because I keep finding new examples of marketing that goes for the cheap ploy rather than authentic education. So when something prompted me to reflect, I realized I had some thoughts on authentic marketing.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

Her impact can be seen in her work with multiple technology, non-profit, and higher education organizations, where she has improved knowledge creation and sharing, cross-boundary connections, collaboration, and learning experiences.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While we need to push ourselves to be better, we also need to educate our clients (internal or external). They need to educate themselves, too. Orgs will get the courses they ask for. However, will the ask have any impact? Too often, unfortunately, the answer is no.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Perhaps, like with myths, it’s just persistent messaging and ongoing education. I’ve written here and spoken and written elsewhere on previous concepts, to little impact (microlearning continues to be touted without clarity , for instance). At this point, I’m open to suggestions. The post Misconceptions?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For one, it is about helping educate about learning science, and how it should be the foundation for what we do. I’m working to help us, the L&D community, be wiser. That includes being wise in our decisions, and in our designs as well. This manifests in several ways. We also need design processes that deliver on this.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In reviewing my forthcoming book on Make It Meaningful, I’m poring over my Education -Engagment Alignment (EEA). I’m rewriting part to revisit it. Which I’ve done, but in doing so I had a revelation. I’ve maintained that they’re independent elements.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So few were educated, and we didn’t have sufficiently sophisticated mechanisms. We also essentially treated people as parts of the machine. Taylorism, aka scientific management , looked at how much a person could produce if they were working as efficiently as possible, without damage.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2021

I’ve continued my usual ‘takedowns’ of myths, shared thoughts on education, and unpacking nuances of learning design. However, if you digitize some of the old approaches that are holdovers from prior eras, you can limit the effectiveness of the investments. A mixed bag, but then this blog is about my various ideas.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

I partnered with an experienced digital producer, and backstopped with a university-based media team. We had a comic skit writer, and cartoonists, to augment our resources. The result was technically sophisticated, educationally sound, and engaging both visually and in prose. Which was reflective of the times.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Then, I’ve been into games for learning since my first job out of college, programming educational computer games. Recently, with guidance offspring two, our family is getting back into it (with a prompt from a Shakespeare and DnD skit at the local Renaissance Faire).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

Further, their push, based upon Herb Simon’s thoughts about improving uni education, is a good one. Not that we always see that…but that’s an education problem. So what’s going on, and why? First, let’s be fair, most uni learning design isn’t very good. It’s a lot of content dump, and a test.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 29, 2019

I was listening in to a webinar on trends in higher education. It became clear that there was a significant gap between a focus on meeting corporate needs and the original goals of education. The speakers had been looking at different higher ed pedagogy models, within and external to institutions. So what does that mean?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2019

I came from a background of computer science and education. Eager to continue my education, I avidly explored learning and instruction, technology (particularly AI), and design. It’s worth thinking about the trajectories and the intersections that are the roots of LXD, Learning eXperience Design.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2018

There were experts in each area, so names like Vanessa Dennan on social media, Curt Bonk in MOOCs, Florence Martin on synchronous Learning, and David Wiley on Open Education Research. At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2021

And, I’ve priced them way down (Happy New Year! :) Anyways, here’re links (they literally came through over the past couple of days) that take you to both options: The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education. Designing mLearning: Tapping into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 9, 2019

At its core was an alignment between what made an effective education practice and what makes engaging experiences. I found elements that were repeated across proposals for effective education practice, and ones that were stipulated for engaging experiences. Way back in ’05, my book on games for learning was published.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2021

The other is advice to you who are consumers of education & technology products. (If you want to live in infamy, feel free to point me to your posts. ;) It’s time to address what I’m seeing, from two points of view. One is my advice to vendors in the L&D space. The underlying theme is Caveat Malarkey!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Learning science is an interdisciplinary field, including cognitive science, educational psychology, and more. And, previously, the case for learning science. And I’m coming at learning science again, with a personal interest.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 7, 2018

Prompted by questions from Tony Bingham, he eloquently addressed education, values, and more. The official opening event to kickoff ATD’s International Conference, was our 44th President, Barack Obama. Thoughtful, witty, and ultimately wise, an inspiring session.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

Not really in any order, but I’ve numbered anyway. ;) It’s a personal list, since I’m not formally in education nor part of a workplace. So that’s my 2021 top 10 learning tools list. I’ve been using Teams more, but I still find it has silly limitations, so my preference is Slack.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Educate clients, audiences, and employees about the nuances of learning design. Improve learning design processes to make learning more engaging and effective. Architect design approaches to address learning needs. Understand new technologies’ ability to enhance learning experiences.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 4, 2020

Ok, for education, particularly young kids, I see it. This is in line with the Free Energy Principle suggesting that we learn to do better at matching our expectations to real outcomes. Yet, to me, curiosity doesn’t seem enough. You may want to set up some mismatch of expectations to drive them to want to learn something.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 12, 2019

And, at the other end, as I spoke at a conference looking to talk about improving education in India. There, they have a much bigger need for good teachers than they can reach with their education schools. So I have argued for a massive project, but using advanced curricula and pedagogy. I was arguing for a viral teacher prep.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 4, 2023

We generally don’t want to educate them about our business, yet we need more focused guidance. . ;) Yet, there are pragmatics we have to deal with, as well. For instance, with ‘clients’ (internal or external), giving us their desired outcomes that are vague and unfocused.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 1, 2019

It appears IACET does this for continuing education certification. Processes in education. Or, of course, people could market alternative process certifications. It appears this is what Quality Matters does, for instance, at least K12 and higher ed. Would an organization certification matter? For customers, if you do customer training?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

We’ll have to continually educate. We can’t have credibility if we haven’t walked the walk.It won’t happen overnight. We’ll have to build back our reputation as scrutable practitioners. And likely have to do the ‘better to seek forgiveness than permission’. Here’s the vision I see.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 13, 2021

“Only two things wrong in education these days, the curriculum and the pedagogy, other than that we’re fine.” Also, you always want to base instruction on learner experience, because elaboration requires connecting to and building on existing knowledge. We teach the wrong things, badly. . Adults generate interest in useful information.

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