Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 8, 2015

For the past 6 months, Learnnovators has been hosting a series of posts I’ve done on Deeper eLearning Design that goes through the elements beyond traditional ID. Deeper eLearning Design: Part 1 – The Starting Point: Good Objectives. Deeper eLearning Design: Part 2 – Practice Makes Perfect.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s past time, both at the level of our elearning design, and at the level of elearning strategy. In different places with different goals, but each is a way to proceed on going deep on elearning. If getting serious about elearning design is your thing, you should join us on Wednesday, Nov 30 at Online Educa in Berlin.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2012

Of late, I’ve been both reviewing eLearning, and designing processes & templates. As I’ve said before , the nuances between well-designed and well produced eLearning are subtle, but important.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 30, 2012

I recently wrote about elearning garbage , and in case I doubted my assessment, today’s task made my dilemma quite clear. I was asked to be one of the judges for an elearning contest. Seven courses were identified as ‘finalists’, and my task was the review each and assign points in several categories.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2016

My interest is in finding out about the processes used in designing and delivering elearning. So I’ve created a quick survey of seven questions (thanks, SurveyMonkey) I’d love for you to fill out. While I’ve my own impressions, I thought it would be nice to bolster it with data. So here we are. .

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Just to note that Learnlets is now part of the blogs recorded in Tony Karrer’s eLearning Learning. As part of a Personal Learning Network for those in elearning, such a searchable repository is quite useful. Tony’s made an architecture that allows blogs and articles on a particular topic to be aggregated and searched.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Someone tweeted about their mobile learning credo, and mentioned the typical ‘mlearning is elearning, extended’ view. Which I rejected, as I believe mlearning is much more (and so should elearning be). That would take me back to mlearning being more than just mobile elearning, as Jason Haag has aptly separated.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 21, 2016

So, a few weeks ago I ran a survey asking about elearning processes*, and it’s time to look at the results (I’ve closed it). eLearning process is something I’m suggesting is ripe for change, and I thought it appropriate to see what people thoughts. It’s not a representative sample, I’d suspect.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why we invest in learning: training or elearning. If elearning doesn’t make an impact , who cares how accessible or affordable is seems? Here’re some signs that your elearning might not be working: Your learning unit develops courses on demand. Webinar : 7 Un believable eLearning Mistakes.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 as part of an online event for the eLearningGuild, I mentioned a few common ways that I've seen eLearning 2.0 During my presentation last Thursday that was an introduction to eLearning 2.0 approaches. approaches.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 19, 2011

I’ve had my head down on a couple of projects, but I can now announce one of them: the eLearning Guild’s Mobile Learning Research Report is now available. Clark then analyzes eLearning Guild research data about how people are currently using mobile, and discusses implementation issues, before taking a look to the future.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2008

We are designing curriculum for a graduate program aimed at building skills to be able to work in the eLearning and eContent design and development domain. What curriculum belongs to prepare students to work in the eLearning field? Obviously, the starting point for this would be existing programs at other schools.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

A contact asked me what I saw as the link between Sharepoint and elearning, and I started to give my standard answer about portals fitting in with the whole performance ecosystem. Last I played with Sharepoint, it seemed like a portal solution; a place to deposit files. Media files to augment courses could be made available via the portal.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Norbert Hockenberry here, reporting on a giant floating patch of elearning that has recently been discovered. Like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , this has been created by discarded material being gathered by oceanic currents into a giant mess.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 12, 2009

While I’ve lots more to say, I put a short version of my vision of elearning strategy in Michael Allen’s 2009 e-Learning Annual. It’s about both getting the individual elements right, and establishing the connections between the elements to achieve synergy, not irrelevance (or worse).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 12, 2009

eLearning Magazine’s 2009 predictions are now up , including those of yours truly. There are recommendations as well, such as governments would do well to sponsor more elearning, and that universities need to focus more on what’s important. It’s a thought-provoking list and I recommend give it a look.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 28, 2008

I gave my eLearning Strategy presentation to the eLearning Division of ASTD’s LA Chapter. Despite some technical hiccups (GoToWebinar doesn’t seem to have a chat feature, nor does it allow Mac users to be presenters, ahem), the presentation went off reasonably well. And now, it’s available online.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Or a rapid elearning tool, but don’t put hands to a development tool ’til it’s mapped out on paper (you don’t want to prematurely converge on what the tool makes easy until you’ve figured out the best design). All before you actually start building.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The topic of the symposium was eLearning 2.0 (or This presentation is where the Examples of eLearning 2.0 - which showed clearly these things are being applied to formal and informal learning opportunities. They don't really discuss these as eLearning 2.0, A smart example of using eLearning 2.0 or is it Learning 2.0).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2008

I'm a big fan of questions (see Better Questions for Learning Professionals ) and as I'm preparing a workshop ( Revolution in Workplace Learning ) one of the things I stumbled upon is what seems to be a great new question: Given that eLearning 2.0 (web Some of the questions that come to mind that I would use to: Identify eLearning 2.0

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 25, 2008

in the workplace (really they relate to eLearning 2.0). Later they say: Invariably, quality will mean very different things to different elearning providers. It's not at all the reality that goes along with most eLearning 2.0 On my post Quick Wins , I received some questions around use of Web 2.0 technologies? implementations.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

After 9/11, when we were avoiding travel, there was a push for elearning. And, with the usual push for efficiency, rapid elearning became the vogue. That was what drove the Serious eLearning Manifesto [ elearningmanifesto.org ], where we tried to distinguish between typical elearning and serious elearning.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 29, 2021

Which meant that a lot of content-based training ended up being content-based elearning. The rush to take content and put it onscreen drove some of the excitement around ‘rapid elearning’ The continuing focus on efficiency – taking content, adding a quiz, and putting it online – was pushed to the extreme.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2020

I was a co-conspirator on the Serious eLearning Manifesto , and we identified 8 values that separated typical elearning from serious elearning. …and what’s most important to fix? However, I suspect that not all are as important, nor hard to fix.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2023

I was thinking about what too often we see as elearning. That is, the usual content dump and knowledge test. There’s good reason to believe that it isn’t effective. So, why are we seeing it continue? Is it a placebo effect? I tend to view this as a superstition.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 7, 2008

Janet juxtaposes the recent inclusion of eLearning 2.0 Janet Clarey wrote an interesting blog post in response to the relatively recent edupunk meme which is basically an ideology that DIY learning and repurposing content is the way to go (and somewhat the ONLY way to go).

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2008

I just received a question that I'm sure often is on the minds of people in eLearning - which conference they should attend (eLearning Guild DevLearn or ASTD TechKnowledge). I have been designing and developing elearning for about a year. I'm hoping that everyone can weigh in on their thoughts. I have never attended either.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2021

So here’s one take on how to be an elearning expert. Learning Solutions or eLearn Mag are two places to put stuff that’s sensibly rigorous but written for practitioners. So that’s my take on how to be an elearning expert. The post How to be an elearning expert appeared first on Learnlets. Similarly, write.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2022

When we didn’t want to travel, we went to elearning. Rapid eLearning tools emerged to make it fast to take the PPTs and PDFs from the previous courses and put them onscreen with an added quiz. We seldom look to see if the learning has actually changed any behavior, let alone whether it’s now at an acceptable level.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

See, for instance, the Serious eLearning Manifesto as a response. That is, we’ll write a white paper, and an AI will parse it, then present it, and drill it. Which is, after all, way too much of corporate learning. Now, I’ve always maintained that such systems aren’t sufficient for real learning.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 22, 2019

A debate broke out amongst some colleagues the other day about the desirable level of polish in our elearning. So, the main complaint was that so much elearning looks dated and incomplete. Perhaps the serious eLearning Design Manifesto? :) We can do better. Ultimately, I agree that bad elearning undermines our credibility.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2018

at DevLearn on measurement and eLearning science, and at AECT on meta-learning architecture. At the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference March 25-28, Clark will be presenting a Learning Experience Design workshop, where we’ll go deep on integrating learning science and engagement.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 11, 2020

For instance, elearning shouldn’t look like just a classroom online. To future-proof what I propose is one driver, so tech changes don’t undermine relevance. Further, since mobile is a platform – a strategy not just a tactic – focusing on fundamentals makes sense. That can and arguably should be part of it, but there’s more.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I’ve been in a variety of higher education roles in several ways: as a victim, er, student; as a grad student; post-doc; tenured/promoted faculty member; textbook publishing consulting; strategic elearning consulting… Further, in general, I’m a supporter. I do have quibbles, and one is the persistence of learning myths.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 28, 2023

Ruth, you should know, is the co-author of eLearning and the Science of Instruction , amongst other books, a must-have which leverages Rich Mayer’s work on multimedia learning. For the LDA debate this month, Ruth Clark talked to Matt Richter and I about aesthetics in learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2018

Michael Allen’s Guide to eLearning. Ruth Clark’s eLearning & The Science of Instruction (with Dick Mayer) and/or Efficiency in Learning with Sweller & Nguyen). Performance Ecosystem: Marc Rosenberg’s Beyond eLearning (the start), and/or my Revolutionize Learning & Development.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I also wonder if the typical elearning experience might have undermined trust such that there would have to be a series of successes to reestablish the trust that a learning unit should have. It’s addressable, but you need to be aware. However, if we start regularly addressing all three, we have a start.

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