Clark Quinn

JULY 16, 2014

In a previous post , I suggested that we should not do the ‘click to learn more’, as it was just about presenting content. such as in instructional design between the elements of learning). So, please, model your learning design on the model of good learning with models. (Ok, Which doesn’t mean you can ignore it.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In his post, he talked about three levels: asset, culture, and environment. He starts at the individual level, talking about designing learning experiences. You want a ‘ learning organization ‘, as Don agrees. To his point, however, there are steps to take at every level. Finally, to me, is culture.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2016

In preparation for the upcoming FocusOn Learning Conference, where I’ll be running a workshop about cognitive science for L&D, not just for learning but also for mobile and performance support, I was thinking about how context can be leveraged to provide more optimal learning and performance.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I was looking to wrap up my slide deck for DevLearn (will be talking learning science), and wanted to see if there was anything missing. Will describes transfer as moving learning from the instructional environment to the workplace. Yet, my term seems more in line with what the learning science community.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2016

In a recent guest post, I wrote about the importance of context in learning. And for a featured session at the upcoming FocusOn Learning event, I’ll be talking about performance support in context. Now, to be clear, these are already in use for performance support, but how do we take advantage of them for learning.

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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. Everything is awesome.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 5, 2016

I recently mentioned that one of my reflections on the past year was that learning to learn, aka meta-learning, is emerging. Because until our schools start doing a better job of this, we’re not going to be able to assume that our employees and citizens are actually good at learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The solutions offered included coaching, supporting the importance of self-learning ( meta-learning , yay!), The third question was about ensuring quality in a localized learning environment (e.g. The third question was about ensuring quality in a localized learning environment (e.g. user-generated content).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. I think it’s a very interesting exercise, showing how we ourselves learn, and the fact that it’s been going on for a number of years provides interesting insight.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Recently, a colleague videotaped me responding to some questions about how mobile could change learning. What we do, in so many of our formal learning designs, is create artificial contexts. In face-to-face learning, we’ll do role-plays, and in online learning we’ll create simulations or games.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2016

And there were several learnings as an outcome that are worth sharing. So, one of the learning outcomes is being able to experience the wilderness without having to be physically capable of carrying everything you need on your back. Meaningful engagement in context is a valuable prerequisite for learning.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2022

Learning should be continual and ubiquitous, not sent off to separate environs. Similarly, I’ve sounded off on the problems of Training & Development, or Learning & Development. Training and learning are means to an end.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2016

I never had learned that I couldn’t cook, and some early successes kept me going. And the punchline: meta-learning. We can create the environment to do so, and increase the likelihood of continual innovation. The post ‘Cooking up’ some learning appeared first on Learnlets. Your thoughts?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2023

Speaking of irreverent , I’ve argued, in the past , that we don’t use comics enough in learning. To start, as I mention in talking about making learning meaningful , I believe you need to open up people emotionally. It might also set the tone for the learning. However, we can use comics for humor, as well.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2016

I never had learned that I couldn’t cook, and some early successes kept me going. And the punchline: meta-learning. We can create the environment to do so, and increase the likelihood of continual innovation. With some extra across the top. One of the secrets of my confidence in cooking probably started here.

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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. That’s why, by the way, that information dump and knowledge test isn’t a learning solution. And it can’t follow an ‘event’ model, as learning is spaced out over time.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2008

After my post on Improving Organizational Learning Infrastructure, Daan Assen suggested that it was too limited in reference to the broader Learning Organization picture. It starts with three factors, a supportive environment, concrete processes and practices, and a leadership that reinforces learning.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2021

This was based upon the excellent work of the principals of Media Skills, and was a case study in my Engaging Learning book. And, of course, we’d now do it digitally in the environment, not needing the machine.). It requires a freeform response, closer to what likely will be required after the learning experience.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Someone on LinkedIn asked about a way to evaluate orgs on their learning infrastructure. And I had developed a Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model as part of Revolutionize Learning & Development, but…I hadn’t presented it. Recently, someone asked about an organizational learning maturity model.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The Entreprise Collaborative has a new question , asking whether we can formalize informal learning. To me, it’s not about formalizing informal learning so much as explicitly supporting it versus ignoring it. Like the proverbial ’stuff’, informal learning happens. Are you formalizing informal learning?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2010

In all the excitement about empowering learners by providing rich information and social environments, it’s too easy to think that “if you build it, they will learn&#. Individual learning skills include the ability to know where to look for what, and how to write good search queries and evaluate search results.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2011

I had the pleasure of speaking at the Learning Technologies ’11 conference, talking on the topic of games. In addition to Roger’s great talk on what makes learning work, there were other stellar sessions. I’ve already covered Roger Schank ‘s keynote , but I want to pick up on a couple of other things.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2011

On short notice, I’ll be speaking on games at the UK’s Learning Technologies conference at the end of the month. since I put up my take on designing learning games, but I have continued to look at what’s out there. Games can also serve as assessment environments. It’s been six years (!)

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Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2018

If we don’t know how we think, work, and learn, we can’t optimally support both performance in the moment and continual innovation over time. And this is true for formal and informal learning as well as performing. When we have people working together, it helps if it’s the right people and the right environment.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 27, 2015

My colleague Charles Jennings recently posted on the value of autonomous learning (worth reading!), The point was that the closer to the work that learning is, the more value. However, I was reminded of Fits & Posner’s model of skill acquisition, which has 3 phases of cognitive, associative, and autonomous learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2011

It occurs to me that I’ve probably not conveyed in any concrete terms what I think the ‘slow learning’ experience might be like. And I admit that I’m talking a technology environment in the concrete instance (because I like toys). This isn’t the only path to slow learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2009

So, start thinking a bit broader, and deeper, about learning and the components thereof, and produce better learning, learners, and ultimately the outcome performance. Tags: meta-learning mobile. And that, at the end of the day, is what we need to be doing.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They get to know what you’re up to, so it’s easier to align, but if your thinking is any good, it gives them the chance to learn from how you think. Instead, you need the elements of a learning organization : the environment has to value diversity, be open to new ideas, provide time for reflection, and most of all be safe.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

How do you systematically design learning experiences that effectively engage the learner? Based upon years of deep investigation into learning & instruction theories and design processes, and practical experience in designing games, I wrote Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2020

This was originally intended to be one of my Learning Solutions Mag columns (Quinnsights). Clawson’s Creating a Learning Culture book to accompany the event they held on the topic. Sure, at this point everyone is touting solutions for working and learning at home. But here I want to talk a bigger scope than just learning.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the context of having my own book on mobile learning in press, I’m well-primed to review Gary Woodill’s The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams. The book is full of quotes about mobile learning, has a variety of examples, and points to a suite of sources of information.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

While there are many dimensions that could be considered, for the sake of simplicity let’s characterize the two important ones as effectiveness of our learning and the engagement of the experience. To get effective learning, you need a number of elements, for instance: meaningful practice: practice aligned with the real world task.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2013

John Seely Brown spoke eloquently on extreme learning for coping with extreme change, e.g. now. He talked about how extreme learning resembles play and challenged us to create environments where imagination could flourish. meta-learning social strategy'

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