Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Some fantastic progress has been made recently in realising the concept of massively scalable education. You've probably already heard plenty about the Khan Academy , which has contributed to the maths education of millions, as well as the free online courses being run by faculty at Stanford University. There is, of course, an overlap.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Just in case you weren’t one of the 500 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in London last night, here are the lucky ones for this year: Best use of mobile learning Gold Winner: Learnosity Best use of rapid e-learning content Gold Winner: Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK and Brightwave Silver Winner: Everything Everywhere Bronze Winner: ispeakuspeak (..)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

With 500K enrolments per year, a significant number of whom have a relatively low educational level, Dick had the task of developing a technological architecture that was not just functional, but scalable, reliable and capable of providing a positive user experience. Since 2000 it has used technology to enable more than 2.8

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Whether formal education and training is valuable (only people who have forgotten what it is like to be a novice would question that). How formal education and training can be made more stimulating, memorable and enjoyable. What policies and interventions are most likely to stimulate and encourage informal learning at work.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

I can do no more than quote from the book (p39): "In a landmark study, Richard J Light of the Harvard Graduate School of Education discovered that one of the strongest determinants of students' success in higher education - more important than their instructor's teaching styles - was their ability to form or participate in small study groups.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2011

To sum up, the Kindle is great as a text display, which is perfect for most traditional books, but not ideal in many educational and training contexts. The screen is simply not large enough to cope with the visuals and it is simply not possible to retain the formatting in the way you can with a PDF file or even a web page.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 8, 2010

The highest enrolment in tertiary education as a % of the relevant age group is in Cuba, South Korea, Finland, Greece, Slovenia and the USA. Education spending as a % of GDP is highest in Cuba, Lesotho, Denmark, Moldova, Botswana, Swaziland and Iceland. Canada and Japan are the only other countries to appear in the top 20.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

Yes, it has been widely used in higher education for some time and, I suppose, happens informally every day on the Internet, but that does not mean that it's not still a new way of looking at learning for millions of learning professionals and billions of students.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

But whatever you call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000—there is a widespread consensus among educators, marketers and policymakers that digital technologies have given rise to a new generation of students, consumers, and citizens who see the world in a different way.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

In fact some people never tire of collecting badges and certificates, particularly those who didn't achieve so much through their formal education. That perspective may change as you get older and wonder how much your formal qualifications have helped you in actually doing your job, but at the time they're very welcome.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) asked 2076 employees in the UK to identify the activities that had been useful in helping them to do their job better. Employees are well aware of how important experiential learning can be.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

educational establishments had to innovate? A recurring theme in this list and in my conversations at the conference in general was how decentralised and uncoordinated activity appeared to be for educational technologists working in the educational sector. excellence in teaching were rewarded? learners were allowed to play more?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

I know the report covers all sectors, including education (and I know little about the economics of e-learning in education), but it does claim that the majority of revenues are concentrated in the corporate sector (and that I know pretty well).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

Training is not education. It captures the idea perfectly in plain language. So what are the implications?Training In most cases the end goal is for the learner to be able to perform a task effectively and efficiently, rather than to acquire knowledge. Knowledge is useful, but only so far as it supports this goal.As

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The term has always been used this broadly in education, but in the corporate sector it continues to mean one thing only: interactive self-study tutorials, in the style of good old CBT (computer-based training). I have now just about given up on this.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2010

A recent article in The Economist entitled Learning difficulties describes a paradox of educational research which is that when you present information in a way that looks easy to learn it often has the opposite effect.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2008

I know there's a lot of social networking tools out there, but looking purely at the educational possibilities, I quite like the look of Infodit. It does this without undue complication and I can see it being a great way of focusing attention on an educational topic or project. By the way, I joined the Coldplay fan group!

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

Thomas L Russell reviewed 355 research reports, summaries and papers that documented no significant differences in student outcomes between alternate modes of education delivery. It is the method that matters when it comes to effectiveness, not the medium.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2008

You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace learning, as there are considerable differences in the approaches that each of these sectors adopts when it comes to the use of technology.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

It is time to arrive at a clearer understanding of the capabilities that represent needs unique to education and for the Sakai community to focus its development effort on providing these capabilities while taking advantage of established open?source This is the kind choice we should provide to the educational community.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It shows how far we have to go to educate the l&d profession (at least what will be left of it) in terms of just how amazing the possibilities are for the future of learning at work. The poor decisions show that very few in l&d (and their sponsors) have any idea what is possible with online media.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I''m sceptical if it has application in any sort of educational setting but I''ll let you be the judge of that. In subsequent posts this week I will explain more about PIAF and how it might be applied to different types of (mostly top-down) workplace learning interventions.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It was published by the US Department of Education in May. It reports on a meta-analysis of more than 1000 studies of online learning conducted between 1996 and 2008, focusing in on those which contrasted online learning with face-to-face instruction. The report can be downloaded here.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 16, 2009

I agree with Donald that there are too many bodies and that it would be better if efforts could be more concentrated, However, UK workplace e-learning is difficult to isolate as a concept: because e-learning also exists in education and there is a great deal of overlap of interest across education and training; because e-learning also exists outside (..)

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 31, 2008

Receiving a high quality education from an Ivy League school is now just a click away, thanks to complimentary online courses from Yale. While you won't receive a prestigious degree from the university, you will have access to the same high-quality education and world-renown professors. Hayes is the Robert F.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

Luckily, I don't have to rant about why learning styles are unhelpful, because I can allow Brown and Roediger to do that for me: "The idea that individuals have distinct learning styles has been around long enough to become part of the folklore of educational practice and an integral part of how people perceive themselves.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

What we have here is a sort of religious war, a battle of educational ideologies, in which neither party seems to be able to appreciate the perspective of the other. As a result, I don't feel under any pressure to take a position on one educational approach or another. Am I missing something?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2010

And it needs to start by educating those above to understand the realities of adult learning in the workplace, not the business of processing employees through courses. If there is a problem, and this survey indicates that there probably is in more companies than is acceptable, then this is a problem of management.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2008

Chris is one of a rare breed of designers specialising in 3D worlds for education and training, with the advantage of a sound theoretical understanding of learning and an abundance of interesting opinions. Chris' first post, Failing to Win!

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

The research was carried out in the UK amongst those involved in further and higher education, as well as work-based learning. What they don't want are organisations - educational or otherwise - telling them how it should be done. It was about time someone asked.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 25, 2013

Thankfully, the core educational philosophy and approach does not need to vary, just the mechanics.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

For too long, employees have been spoon-fed their education and their training, and have failed to develop as independent learners to the extent that perhaps they should have done. Those now entering the workforce have, in many cases, overcome these barriers and have higher expectations.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Thanks to Tony Karrer for alerting me to the fact that this blog has been nominated for an edublog award in the elearning / corporate education category. How exciting. Anyway, if you like this blog, go the awards site and cast your vote. If you don't, vote for Tony or one of the others. As ever, don't waste your vote!

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The guys at CreateDebate tell me that the site is also configurable for private discussions among groups of students, so this makes a useful educational tool that could easily be launched from an LMS. I was impressed with the outcome and very grateful to those who contributed.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Remote instructor-led training (not a bad term, but the words 'instructor' and 'training' don't cross-over well into educational settings, and imply a certain pedagogy even within workplace learning).

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Clive on Learning

MAY 16, 2010

Conversely, only 42 percent of students believe there is enough support for educational technology, evidence of a perception gap in how adept students are versus how savvy they are presumed to be. According to the survey, students prefer courses that use a great deal of technology, provided there is adequate support in using the tools.

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