Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

You simply can't take them apart and re-engineer them as you would a bike. Organisations can't be re-engineered because they're organic, they're made of people. Which is why all that business process re-engineering nonsense achieved so little except as income for major consultancy firms. If you do, they're apt to die.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

And where once video editing could only be carried out by skilled engineers in elaborate editing suites, it can now be accomplished, often with equivalent production values, with free or low cost software on PCs and even mobile devices.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

No, we don’t have access to the armies of software engineers that support such high-profile products, but we could do so much more with the tools already at our disposal. Give your computer a treat – ask it to do something a little more demanding than shuffle slides or play videos.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2014

Show 3D models : If you’re a technical instructor working in engineering, anatomy, the trades or something similar, then you’ll know how useful 3D models can be to show how things work. Ideally you’ll have working models that you can manipulate rather than just renderings of 3D models on video.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

An engineer? You may need to consult with colleagues who have more specialist expertise; you may want to check how other people have tackled the same problem; you may want to explore alternatives which might do a better job of meeting the need. An accountant? An architect? A financial adviser?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

They don't sit on an LMS, where each individual's usage is monitored, but on the intranet, where they can be freely accessed at any time and found using a search engine. These resources are not 'pushed' at people, who have to use them whether they like it or not; they are 'pulled' as and when needed.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2012

If you're a serious graphic designer, you'll pay $3K for Creative Suite; and audio and video engineers pay similar prices for their software. Popular tools such as Captivate, Articulate and Trivantis' own Lectora still do.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2012

If they do learn something for the long term then that's a fortunate secondary result. enabled content management tool.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

An ability to empathise with their audience: this is a critical 'teaching' quality and sometimes lacking in those who view e-learning as an engineering discipline. Someone who is enthusiastic about technology and certainly not afraid of it: this is not the same as being seriously technical.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

The easy availability of information through search engines and on mobile devices makes it much more practical to provide resources as and when needed. Expectations have changed. Employees no longer expect to have to learn large quantities of information up-front, when it can so easily be made available on-demand.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

If you set out to be an accountant or a software engineer, then chances are you’ll not only put in the effort to keep everything in order, you’ll actually enjoy it. You may have a reasonable system of shared drives, but most likely this will be completely chaotic.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

To develop this stuff you typically need a variety of specialities, including project management, learning design, graphics and, on occasions, audio-visual specialists and software engineers. If you want to do this for a living, you’re going to have to choose your speciality and really work at building your craft skills over many years.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

What’s more, it benefits from gamification and a degree of artificial intelligence, which places a strain on software engineering. It is also heavily video focused, and video has not been the medium of choice for most e-learning designers.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

But perhaps most significantly, curation is realised through the algorithms of search engines such as Google and Bing, which, in theory at least, provide users with search listings ordered by relevance. It can also be achieved by the ratings and comments that users apply to books, videos, music and other media.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

What’s more, it benefits from gamification and a degree of artificial intelligence, which places a strain on software engineering. It is also heavily video focused, and video has not been the medium of choice for most e-learning designers. Making micro-learning work for you : It's time to begin your Skills Journey

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2007

What this means is less social science and more 'proper' science, engineering and business skills, and a halt to any research which is not obviously commercially applicable. According to this BBC article , however, the market seems to be reasonably self-regulating.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The search engines, social networks and web 2.0 But the few also includes those who control the channels through which the work of creative people is distributed, whether or not they are stars: The conference organisers who use you as the bait to attract delegates and exhibitors. sites that can place advertisements next to your work.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 23, 2010

It’s helpful for l&d people to explore the technical side (perhaps using a rapid authoring tool) or the creative side (simple image, audio and video editing), but never to venture into the extreme corners where lurk software engineers, graphic designers and other media professionals.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2006

A brief extract: "What each side has to stop doing: E-learning professionals have to grow beyond the Efficiently Engineered Content (EEC) stage. The culture of the e-learning industry is dominated by technological and engineering values and beliefs.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2009

Had this been done earlier, we may might have more women in science and engineering now. " "We could have environments where gender differences are both noted and celebrated, as opposed to ignored and marginalised. We might have shattered the archetypal glass ceiling and saved companies a lot of money." " Right.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

An engineer? You may need to consult with colleagues who have more specialist expertise; you may want to check how other people have tackled the same problem; you may want to explore alternatives which might do a better job of meeting the need. An accountant? An architect? A financial adviser?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2010

There was all this content out there, and yet the vast majority of people working in web design and development seemed to be concerned with far more technical and creative issues such as information architecture, graphic design, usability and software engineering. Somebody had to be writing this stuff.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2009

In the e-learning world, that means a select group of professional graphic designers, authors, software engineers and toy lovers, while the rest can do very nicely with the free tools. Only those in specialist occupations can really justify the price attached to the fantastic levels of functionality available in purchased software.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

And where once video editing could only be carried out by skilled engineers in elaborate editing suites, it can now be accomplished, often with equivalent production values, with free or low cost software on PCs and even mobile devices.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The development of the Google search engine, Facebook or iTunes are not projects, they are never-ending quests for perfection. Once you've shifted this mindset, course maintenance ceases to be an annoying waste of resources and manifests itself instead as an exciting process of continuous improvement. Why should e-learning be any different?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2009

These are heavy duty tools and not easy to learn - I would imagine most purchasers will use only 2 or 3 of these tools on a regular basis and dip into the others very infrequently - probably not often enough to justify the learning curve.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In decades of working with software engineers and other techies, I've found their input unbelievably helpful. Technical people : Some learning people are a bit scared of those they consider geeks, perhaps sometimes because their brains seem a little over-developed and their social skills somewhere in the opposite direction.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 13, 2007

68% use search engines to check candidates. There were some interesting stats in the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's People Management magazine last week, in an article entitled Face to face with social networking. Apparently, in the UK: 20% of firms use social networking sites to research applications.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2009

Perhaps the problem was to portray design as an engineering process. Great designers were not starting with a specification and moving to a prototype; they were doing the exact opposite - working with users to formulate and test ever more usable prototypes, and evolving a specification in the process.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2007

There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget and appeared way past their deadline, only to flop dramatically. Who says e-learning materials that take a long time to produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Over Dick’s nine years at learndirect, he had to completely re-engineer the offer. Since 2000 it has used technology to enable more than 2.8 million adults to gain the skills they, their employers and the economy need, helping them on their way into further training or employment.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 9, 2007

Engineers? Now normally I don't do guilt, but there have been times when I've wondered whether an organisation's money couldn't be better spent than on me (unfounded I know, but there you go). Do marketing people feel the same? Accountants? I doubt it. They're probably much more cynical.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

He makes a very good living writing electronic music and is a sound engineer for Disney. On the hand, my son has never had an interest in musical theory at all, is entirely self-taught and plays through feel. It's that whole art v science thing - Beethoven or Beatles.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2008

I've added a few niceties, like a logo and audio 'sting' at the beginning (luckily one of my sons is a sound engineer so he came up with the sting, although I expect you can find these free online) as well as a caption showing the names of the parties involved. None of these are that important.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2006

In fact, most of the applications that I have had to purchase are engineered to quite unnecessary levels and intimidating to learn. There is rarely a time when you think 'right, now I'm getting out of my Rolls-Royce to get into my Lada'. Cost doesn't seem to equate with quality. The same cannot be said for my open source and free software.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2007

Trainers are not really professional problem solvers, like the software engineers, scientists, academics and other enthusiasts that are largely responsible for the mass collaborations to which Don refers. Blacksmiths learning how to become auto mechanics, on the other hand, puts food on the table."

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 11, 2013

Growth Engineering , working with Aggregate Industries and the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM), to offer 19 ISMM qualifications entirely online to 400 sales people and sales managers at Aggregate. And, as Juliette Denny of Growth Engineering was proud to proclaim: 'We are the arch enemies of dull learning.'

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