Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And, previously, the case for learning science. And I’m coming at learning science again, with a personal interest. Learning science is an interdisciplinary field, including cognitive science, educational psychology, and more. Most importantly, having this knowledge is critical for those who practice learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

As always, I like to participate in my Internet Time Alliance colleague Jane Hart’s Top 10 Tools for Learning survey. So there’re my selections for 2021 top 10 tools for learning. Tracking other folks, participating in dialogs, and even asking questions, Twitter’s an ongoing contributor to my learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s start with President Obama’s recent call to raise the level of US higher education. And, frankly, there are more countries that need to heed the call of reforming post-secondary education. What if Steve Job’s took on higher education? And, yet, we must. remain as missed opportunities.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2018

At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning. 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.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. First, let’s be fair, most uni learning design isn’t very good.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I’m an advocate of meta-learning, that is: learning to learn. So I thought I’d rant, for a post, on what is involved in developing learning to learn skills. So I thought I’d rant, for a post, on what is involved in developing learning to learn skills. And, this is still not enough.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 9, 2019

Way back in ’05, my book on games for learning was published. At its core was an alignment between what made an effective education practice and what makes engaging experiences. There were nine elements that characterized why learning should be ‘hard fun’ More recently, we released the Serious eLearning Manifesto.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A gift from a co-worker (an interesting story), and led me to reflect on the link between passion and learning. And, of course, cognition, learning, engagement, and design. I managed to get educated about (American) football and cricket (yes, cricket) from inspired roommates. The list goes on. Talk to the experts!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Someone asked me what I would say about my first book, Engaging Learning. Since they asked… I saw the connections between computers and learning as an undergraduate, and designed my own major. Since they asked… I saw the connections between computers and learning as an undergraduate, and designed my own major.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

They’re increasingly aware of important issues in learning science. Whether they’re just learning design approaches, or more performance consulting (that is, starting with a premise that a course may not be the answer), it’s good to think consciously about design. My twist was to also design for how we learn.

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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. He could be irritating in his deliberate lack of social graces, but he was willing to learn, and had a good heart. I was a fan.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 6, 2016

I also talked about emotional engagement and social learning, before talking about revising design processes to incorporate these deeper elements in an effective and not-too-different approach. In short, I was talking about aligning our designs, and our design processes, to how we think and learn. What do you think?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

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. In the early days of educational technology, it was considered technically difficult. It looks like content and quizzes, which is what school is, and that’s learning, right?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Does education need to change? How should education (k-12, higher, or corporate) look like in the future? Let me count the ways… K12 Education is broken in so many ways. We need pedagogies that engage, spiral the learning around meaningful tasks, that develop multiple skills. George Siemens asks in his blog: 1.

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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

JULY 20, 2021

However, with my focus on learning and technology, there’s another ‘man on the moon’ project I’d like to see. As an example, I’ll channel Roger Schank on the quadratic equation: everyone’s learned (and forgotten) it, almost no one actually uses it. Making every kid learn it is just silly.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m trying to capture rethinking about education or formal learning. And start getting more concrete about learning experience design. I want to start thinking about a learning experience as a series of activities, not a progression of content. The latter is an opportunity for meta-learning. This unpacks.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This wasn’t just gratuitous fun, however, but was explicitly run to connect to Learning & Development folks (LnD). Organized by the Training, Learning, and Development Community (a competitor to LDA ? Then, I’ve been into games for learning since my first job out of college, programming educational computer games.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2014

The claim for learning was that it developed knowledge of world facts. What she showed was that kids learned how to use an almanac, but didn’t remember the information pointed to by the clues. And this is a consistent problem with educational software. When properly designed , games provide deep and meaningful practice.

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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. That is, it was about the support for learning and quality processes, not the actual offering.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2022

For instance, I think when someone says something wrong, we need to educate. I really learned this when I was suffering from a pinched nerve in my back; I have more sympathy now since I’ve come to recognize I don’t know what anyone else is living with. I’m not trying to shame anyone, and instead want to educate the market.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 29, 2013

It’s somewhat indirect, but it’s at least one way of systematically embedding meta-learning skills and tracking them. Remember the old educational computer games that said ‘develops problem solving skills’? We need to specifically address meta-learning, and with technology we can get evidence.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This includes learning styles, attention span of a goldfish, millennials/generations, and more (references in this PDF, if you care). Concepts like immersive learning, workflow learning, and Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) are some that are touted without clarity. How do we address them? The post Misconceptions?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As the broader picture, I’m talking about working ‘ wiser ‘ I’ll suggest it’s about better aligning with how our brains think, work, and learn. For one, it is about helping educate about learning science, and how it should be the foundation for what we do. This manifests in several ways.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Let’s start with what we know about how we learn. Learning is action and reflection. Instruction (education, training) is designed action and guided reflection. That’s why, by the way, that information dump and knowledge test isn’t a learning solution. People need to actively apply the information.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Back in the mid-90s, I was part of a government-sponsored initiative in online learning, and we were looking for a meaningful project. Then, at the end of the 90’s, I was asked to lead a team developing an adaptive learning system. There was even a machine learning component to improve the models as we went along.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Richard Nantel tweeted about Chris Dede talking about Educational Malpractice. Unfortunately, while it does accurately characterize the education space, it is not inappropriate to apply to the workplace as well. Let’s start with formal learning, or training. Yet these are the trusted hallmarks of corporate learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Obviously, the cognitive and learning sciences have been a theme. The publication of my book on learning science this year was a catalyst, as you might expect. Which I view as the complement to the learning science side. Which, really, is a form of learning. Stay tuned.). Coping with change is another recurrent theme.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Learning poll. She’s now asking that you categorize them as Education, Training & Performance Support, and/or Personal Learning & Productivity. She’s now asking that you categorize them as Education, Training & Performance Support, and/or Personal Learning & Productivity.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2017

In my inbox was an announcement about a new white paper with the intriguing title Human Learning is About to Change Forever. Our learning runs on our brain, our wetware. So here’s a digest of the nine claims and my comments: Enhanced reality tools will transform the learning environment. Is that transforming learning?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 29, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot about the higher education situation, specifically for-profit universities. One of the things I see is that somehow no one’s really addressing the quality of the learning experience, and it seems like a huge blindspot. Neither’s a likely source to meaningful learning.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 26, 2020

Still, I have to market Quinnovation, and I’ve advised orgs on marketing (learning) products, and I’ve taken down a lot of bogus marketing. First, I’ve argued that good marketing is really good customer education. So when something prompted me to reflect, I realized I had some thoughts on authentic marketing.

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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). ‘Anchored’, in my terminology, is ensuring the learning outcome meets a real need. . ‘Anchored’, in my terminology, is ensuring the learning outcome meets a real need. It sticks better!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So few were educated, and we didn’t have sufficiently sophisticated mechanisms. Yet, this doesn’t lead to learning! If we want to truly apply learning science to the design of instruction, we have to understand our brains. We also essentially treated people as parts of the machine. In reality, not outdated metaphors.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I was reflecting on the benefits of travel, and recalled a ‘learning’ experience I underwent involuntarily more than 20 years ago. These are perhaps the most valuable investment an organization can make, getting concrete about learning and problem-s0lving, instead of expecting them. meta-learning strategy'

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