Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. In this final profile, w e look at the work of a learning architect who has worked within what is very much a top-down learning environment and on a very large scale.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

For those of us who have spent a number of years working in online learning, the idea that a group can collaborate asynchronously (not in real-time) on a learning activity is rather taken for granted - not so much 'old hat' as just nothing novel. And 20 years is, in the history of learning, no time at all.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The sixth of ten 'insights' is that ‘Experiential learning is an important part of the architecture'. Experiential learning is literally learning from our experience.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In my third review of books on social learning in a month (see my posts on Jane Hart's Social Learning Handbook and Jane Bozarth's Social Media for Trainers ), I turn to Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner's The New Social Learning , a book recommended by both the Janes. What is that challenge? In a word, excellent.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2007

Now you know that learning and development professionals are always being advised to align their work to business objectives, well Malaysia is clearly a place where they apply the concept to education as well.

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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. Many learners would just disregard learning material that was not presented in a user-friendly fashion.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

I've been reading Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown and Henry Roediger (Harvard University Press, 2014). Although, believe it or not, I do have a romantic side, primarily I'm a rationalist and I'm drawn to new evidence relating to learning and teaching, even if this confounds my current thinking.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. In this profile, we look at how on-demand learning can be integrated with formal training to provide the basis for a highly-successful software launch.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Having spent the past 25 years advocating the greater use of online tools and resources for education and training (not to mention many other aspects of our lives), I've met my fair share of opposition and have to admit that I've been frustrated at how slowly we have responded to the opportunity. I needn't have worried! Ask yourself.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 18, 2009

One element of this is the section on Learning and Talent Development, which can be downloaded here. Well, first the name - learning and talent development. If anything, this is a blended learning manifesto, so I have to be pleased. Tags: blended learning. This framework is quite a step forward. So, what's different?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

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. It was published by the US Department of Education in May. The report can be downloaded here. " Which makes the point.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

I've been reading Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown and Henry Roediger (Harvard University Press, 2014). Although, believe it or not, I do have a romantic side, primarily I'm a rationalist and I'm drawn to new evidence relating to learning and teaching, even if this confounds my current thinking.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

and we're happy with the term for an online lecture/presentation (a webinar of course), but we're bamboozled when it comes to live online learning. Synchronous teaching and learning online. Synchronous e-learning. Webinar (many people use this term generically to apply to learning events as well as presentations).

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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). The session debated the following motion: ‘Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss’ I happily presented the case for the motion. but these are not included in the motion.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Now I'm a bit of a fan of Gilly's work as a pioneer in the field of collaborative online distance learning. In Gilly's current role, she's exploring learning futures, hence the question that she posed in her presentation. educational establishments had to innovate? learning technologists actually helped each other?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. Once you know where you'd like to fit in, you should consider whether to undertake some formal education or training that's appropriate for your role. What should I do first?"

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 8, 2009

An article - I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told - in this week's Economist, emphasises just how important it is to relieve poverty if we are to achieve equality of opportunity in education. As The Economist summarises so clearly: "Children with stressed lives, then, find it harder to learn."

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2008

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for December is 'what did you learn about learning in 2008?' All conscious learning is to some degree stressful, even when it's voluntary and not work-related - and particularly in the classroom. Lars is Learning. Whatever happened to inductive learning? No Two Alike.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 13, 2007

From his posting , Stephen Downes sounds like he didn't really enjoy giving his talk on personal learning environments here in Boston yesterday, what with all that having to connect with "corporate e-learning industry types". Is their primary function really personal learning? Are these really PLEs?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The following copy accompanied the release yesterday of a free 20-page booklet entitled What every learning and development professional needs to know about e-learning : Change and opportunity Surprising as it may seem, most educational and training methods are relatively timeless. So what’s the big deal?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This short animation for unaccompanied migrant minors was produced by the Center for Computer Arts and Modern Media in Education in Sofia as part of the EU Erasmus project My Gender Rights. It presents a picture of a society in which genders are regarded as different but equal.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2008

Under the sub-heading E-learning: an oxymoron? he writes: I continue to believe in the linear, author-driven narrative for educational purposes. I continue to write books, and I continue to develop training seminars, because I believe these media are best for deep learning of new concepts. collaborative distance learning?

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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 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. The term e-learning goes back a little over 10 years, but the concept is at least 30 years old.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

There’s a new Big Question on the Learning Circuits blog and it’s about questions. Well, I have my own list, based on my own perspective of learning and development in the workplace. Whether the majority of what people learn at work is learned informally (through experience, conversations, exploration, etc.).

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2007

When you offer someone a choice of ways in which to undertake a learning activity, you may be doing them a favour by allowing them to express a preference, but you're not providing a blend. In themselves useful, but not enough to stimulate a complete learning process. You get A or B or C, not AB, AC or some other combination.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It is true that, at the time of writing, I am on my way to Lyon to run a workshop on blended learning, but otherwise the connection is tenuous to say the least, as you will see. Preparation : In this phase your aim is to prepare the learner for a productive learning experience. blended learning PIAF'

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Clive on Learning

JULY 1, 2009

This month's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog asks 'What new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?' At some point since then, as new learning media began to proliferate, they backed out and started leaving the job to specialists. Big mistake. Now they have a hell of a lot of catching up to do.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This month’s Big Question in the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is ‘How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organisation?’ Bottom-up learning is managed by employees themselves. A bottom-up approach is needed to address the 80% of learning that is needed 20% of the time. How indeed?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. There has been a realisation, I believe, that courses have failed to deliver in terms of real performance change and that there's much more to learning at work than sitting in a classroom.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2007

Now I've spent more of my valuable time than I would like over the past ten years explaining to those in the corporate learning and development community what e-learning is, more specifically what else it is over and above packaged self-study courses. Am I on the right track? Have I missed anything?

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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. and other learning technologies."

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I've been dipping on and off into Patti Shank's new book The Online Learning Idea Book , which claims to contain '95 proven ways to enhance technology-based and blended learning'. Whatever they choose, they commit to this way of working by completing an online Learning Agreement form. This doesn't surprise me.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The Towards Maturity 2010 Benchmark Report has confirmed what you would have expected to come out of a severe recession in terms of e-learning. This is allowing most of those working in e-learning to maintain business as usual and in some cases to grow their revenues. and a live element (using web conferencing).

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We were discussing the all-too-common tendency to over-teach and under-practise in formal workplace learning interventions.Here's how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more I'm really taken with this.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 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. Top-down learning is designed to fulfil the employer’s objectives, not the employees’. Bottom-up learning is managed by employees themselves.

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