Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2019

The book User-Centered System Design was being pulled together as a collection of articles from the visitors who came and gave seminars, and an emergent view was coming. These days, LXD has emerged. As an outgrowth of the HCI field, UX emerged with a separate society being created.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And a small industry was built upon this basis to build solutions at scale, but the market never emerged. There did emerge authoring systems (e.g. Video discs and Computer- and then Web-Based Training emerged. Companies emerged to do them at scale, but things were changing rather fast.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2021

There’ve been some emergent themes, and it’s worth it (to me, at least ;) to think a bit more about them. I don’t think I’ve made a habit of it, but it occurs to me that it might be good to reflect a little on this past year. In particular, I want to revisit the areas I’ve been focusing on.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This meant we didn’t have the dialog and choices that might typically emerge in such playing. We were a group who didn’t necessarily know each other, and we were playing under time constraints. Yet, we managed a successful engagement in the hour+ we were playing. And had fun! I was an early advocate of games for learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Of course, what emerges is that they link at the wrists and ankles. However, going back to grad school (for several reasons, including knowing that we didn’t have a good enough foundation for those game designs) got me steeped in cognition and design. So, my lab was studying designing interfaces.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Of late, more agile and iterative approaches have emerged, not least Michael Allen’s SAM and Megan Torrance’s LLAMA. The 800 lb gorilla of ADDIE has shifted from a water flow model to a more iterative approach. Yet it still brings baggage.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2023

LinkedIn has risen to replace Twitter (which I now minimize my use of, owing to the regressive policies that continue to emerge). Share My blog (e.g. what you’re reading ;) is still my best sharing tool, so WordPress remains a top learning tool. It’s where I not only auto-post these screeds, but respond to others.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 28, 2023

What emerged in the conversation was a problem about tradeoffs in aesthetics, that’s worth exploring. 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.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2023

These are phenomena that emerge from our HIP system, but are unique to learning (there are others that aren’t as specific to our roles). I’m surprised, frankly, that it’s not more central. From there, the next step, and this is where we get L&D-specific, is learning science.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2021

Thus, when we hear terms like microlearning or workflow learning or whatever else will emerge, tread carefully! Again, my most recent book is on learning science, trying to provide the foundation for clear understanding. My message is twofold.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Having emerged relatively late, it’s now finding a solid footing with a unified approach to looking at how we learn, and how to facilitate it. 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.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 24, 2022

There’s no need to bleed prematurely, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to need to tune and test again even once principles emerge. Let those with needs, resources, and opportunity take the first cuts. So that’s my take on the value of a ‘late adopter’ strategy. What’s yours?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

It’s a probabilistic game, but we can increase our odds by certain practices that emerge from research, theory, and practice. Creativity is the flip side of innovation. It takes the former to successfully execute on the latter. We also want to include emotion in the picture as well, in our design practices as well as in our solutions.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At the recent DevLearn conference, I was part of a Guild Master panel on emerging technologies. It featured notables such as Julie Dirksen, Mark Lassoff, Megan Torrence, Ron Price, Chad Udell, Karl Kapp, and Jane Bozarth, all hosted by Mark Britz. Not surprisingly, I guess, the topic went to the future of the LMS.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

Social media emerged (with all the associated good and bad). There were forms where you could type in content, and the system could handle posting it to the web (e.g. this blog!). So, most anyone could be a web creator. This was Web 2.0, user-generated content. I saw the next step as system-generated content.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 9, 2022

It’s always interesting to see what emerges from the aggregate responses. I don’t use their browser, but I find their hits to be pretty spot-on. So there, that’s my Top 10 Learning Tools for 2022. I encourage you to find a way to add yours to Jane’s list.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

here team, find a solution to this problem) or has emerged from the participant. In the other, you’re actively working with someone to generate a new interpretation. That’s coupled with a second dimension, whether the goal has been dictated externally (e.g. It’s about locus of control.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2022

However, if I look at it from the effort required from L&D, a new order emerges. Hmm…) Thus, the list here might be: Performance Support. Formal Learning. Informal Learning. Here, formal learning is hardest. That is, if you’re doing it right.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 19, 2021

More info as it emerges. Finally, at 10 AM PT (1PM ET) on Thursday the 13th (not Friday), I’ll be talking learning science for ATD. That, as yet, doesn’t have a page AFAIK. BTW, there’s a recording of my webinar last week on learning science.).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 6, 2021

Now, we know that, for instance, training for emergencies and unexpected situations leads to better learning. You’re actively problem-solving, versus throwing yourself off balance at a bad time. So, taking on a challenge clear-headedly is good. That’s why varying practice is helpful.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 15, 2018

This can involve just thinking, or writing, or diagramming , or other ways of representing the contingencies and emerging models. An interesting option that emerges here is the opportunity for contextual learning. Some of this can happen unconsciously, but if we want to improve fastest, reflecting helps.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2022

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. I do think we also still see the effects of 9/11.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I have to admit that, having served in orgs of various sizes, and seen the pockets of inefficiency that can emerge, I wonder how any business makes any money! Alternatively, you could have a great purpose but use industrial era methods to get there. Still, there’s evidence that the better you’re aligned, the better you do.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2019

When we consider Thinking by Situated, we’re talking about coping with emergent situations. And of course, not completely, but this is ‘business significance’, not ‘statistical significance’ ;). The resulting diagram appears similar, but also some differences.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

We move from handcrafted solutions to systemic approaches, then looking to incorporate semantics, and finally looking at systems with emergent capabilities. Finally, we look at our infrastructure, our underlying approach and our systematicity.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As a consequence, sub-symbolic approaches emerged, that tried architectures to do smart things in new ways. Such systems do generate productive results (e.g. chatbots, expert systems), but eventually don’t do a good job of reflecting how people really think. We’re not formal logical reasoners!) Neural nets end up showing good results.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

First, there’re the expectations that have emerged. Regardless, many folks wear different competency requirements that in other orgs are handled by different teams. So what’s a person to do? My response focused on a couple of things. After 9/11, when we were avoiding travel, there was a push for elearning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 27, 2016

In particular, we can provide tools to address gaps that emerge from our cognitive architecture. For instance, in a well-known upscale department store chain, the staff have the leeway to spend on the order of $1K to address any emerging customer problem. We can also provide policies about things we’re supposed to do.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 8, 2021

In the areas I know and have talked about, e.g. emergent and distributed cognition, she gets it right, which leads me to believe the rest is similarly spot on. She writes about new facets of cognition that open up a whole area for our understanding. Written by a journalist, it is compelling reading.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2021

It can also require developing pre-conscious responses, such as we train airline pilots to respond to emergencies. . This could be following a process, making strategic decisions such as diagnoses and prescriptions, and more. Now, these responses can vary in their degree of transfer.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 12, 2019

And I’ll talk it out first here, and maybe a diagram will emerge. I was thinking a bit about distributed cognition, and recognized that there as a potentially important way to tease that apart. The point is to think about how external tools can augment our thinking. Or, really, a way that at least partly, we have cognition external.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We’re seeing certain platforms emerge as the ‘go to’ place, and that’s OK, as long as they work. Don’t try to set up your own community if you can get people to participate where they already are. Of course, that also implies having good places to go.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Rather than send them off and await their emergence; I toss them out here, with a caveat: “It’s tough to make predictions, particularly about the future.” Some success stories are emerging, but I suspect we don’t hear much yet about the money being wasted. Still, a request came in for my thoughts.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2019

So what emerged? In my past two posts, I first looked at cognitions (situated, distributed, social) by contexts (think, work, and learn), and then the reverse. And, having filled out the matrixes anew, they weren’t quite the same. And that, I think, is the benefit of the exercise, a chance to think anew.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

In my case, I looked them up, or more usually their activities emerged in conversation. Potential new candidates are scrutinized in a call, so existing members are aware of new members’ capabilities. It develops authentically.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 20, 2015

As I read more about how to create organizations that are resilient and adaptable, there’s an interesting emergent characteristic. This emerged from how the military had to learn to cope with rapid changes in tactics. Here again, the same concept of small groups working with a clear mission and freedom to pursue emerges.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 17, 2020

I am using an adaptation to make the case for Community Emergency Response Team, a training initiative I’m engaged in. This diagram, and the associated label “flattening the curve” really conveys the need for action. But this has really helped convey the necessity. Which is also postponed. I worry about much more, of course.

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