Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I intend to provide insight into many ways much of instructional design fails, and some pointers to avoid the problems. I see several reliable problems with examples, and they aren’t even the deepest problems. Conceptually, examples are applications of the concept in a context. Note that the choice of examples is important.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2023

Which were ‘provide information’ and then a listing of content! Why aren’t we getting: performance objectives misconceptions /ways they go wrong models stories & examples etc? Sure, we’ll ask these questions through the mechanisms they provide, and it shows we know what we’re talking about.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 23, 2015

A commissioned study in the UK (like the one above, independent, etc) led by Coffield evaluated a representative sample of instruments ( including the ubiquitous MBTI, Kolb, and more), and found (PDF) only one that met all four standards of psychometric validity. Then, if the learner has trouble with that approach, provide help.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2012

If you’re providing knowledge and a knowledge test, I don’t care how well produced it is, it’s not going to make a difference. Then we run a workshop where we use your examples. I’ve found that being sent samples of subsequent work and commenting on it in several joint sessions is what makes the real difference.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 25, 2022

Then the book walks them through the thinking with models and examples. Some shake up your world view with new perspectives, so for example Don Norman’s Design of Everyday Things or Todd Rose’s The End of Average. Ultimately, a book should leave them equipped to do new things. I think these books can take different forms.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

So it’s difficult to get them to provide good support for acquiring skills or understanding. There may be a lack of examples, and the thinking behind the examples I do see isn’t there. There may be a lack of examples, and the thinking behind the examples I do see isn’t there.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 17, 2018

If science and theory can’t provide the answer, you either wing it, but it’s better if you set up an experiment. Ideally, with your sample population. There’re tradeoffs: in the former it’s easier to provide multiple contexts for practice, but the latter may be more closely aligned with job performance.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2014

table of contents, sample pages, and more. What I’ve tried to do is make the case for dragging L&D into the 21st Century, and then provide an onramp. For example, culture change is not a recipe, it’s a process. Practitioner friends and colleagues provided the five case studies I’ve the pleasure to host.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2013

I saw several solutions that were more focused on providing information as needed, or letting you navigate to it, rather than thinking everything had to be ‘in the head’ This is definitely a promising sign. A quick spot check revealed a number of approaches going above and beyond. They’re not hard to build, either.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Yet, I realize I haven’t been doing that as much as I should, or perhaps not as effectively and mindfully as I should So here’re some reflections on sharing my thinking, or ‘exposing myself’ Worked examples, as we know from John Sweller, are most effective when they come before practice.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2020

Another possibility is that we’re not providing the right support. We’re not providing useful models and examples instead of a content dump with what’s to hand. Thus, we’d be developing learning solutions that aren’t going to meet the need. Are we missing out on developing motivation?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 5, 2022

Which suggests, looking back at my previous exploration of worked examples, that the very first thing to do is to provide worked examples if they’re new. When you’re right, but not confident, you’re ready for more practice. If you’re right and confident, it may be time to move on.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Providers have done a fabulous job of making sure you can’t compare apples to apples, and when there’re so many such situations…) Yet, there’s one place where I struggle with the consequences. Other examples include learning styles, hemispheres, gender differences, and more.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example a code solution, or a proposed social response. While it’s ideal to have an instructor in the loop to provide feedback, the asynchronous part means that’s hard to arrange. One of the mechanisms to support this is to provide a model answer to compare to the learners’ own response.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We can provide information (specifically mental models , examples , and feedback) to facilitate both initial acquisition and continual improvement, but we can’t just present information. When we look at how we really perform, we recognize that we’re contextually-influenced, and tied to previous experience.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

It provides a navigable knowledge resource that could be a valuable adjunct to teaching. ” and “…the class is exposed to a large range of topics that together provide a comprehensive and lively view of the subject…” This is problematic for two reasons. With this background, I looked at this project.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 21, 2016

The alternatives were ‘providing what’s asked for’ (e.g. The third question was looking at the feedback provided. It’s nice (and I admit somewhat surprising) that almost 40% are actually providing feedback that addresses each wrong answer. The fourth question digs into the issue of examples.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 27, 2013

The API previous known as Tin Can provides a consistent way to report individual activity. That is, the system tracked and intervened on whether you were varying one variable at a time, ensuring your data sampling was across a broad enough range of data points, etc.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Well, two things, I think: one is to help raise awareness, the other is to provide support. One are examples where people have put in place programs where they’ve oriented themselves in this direction and documented benefits. The other is to provide scaffolding; support materials that help folks implement these competencies.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 29, 2017

The problem was, there was no way to interview an appropriately representative sample, and consequently the outcome was going to be less than optimal. providing support for expected problems. The hired guns (the typical consulting agency) came into to do their usual schtick, interviewing some people and making recommendations.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 8, 2021

Well-illustrated with examples and research, she covers embodied cognition, situated cognition, and socially distributed cognition, all important. While the first bit of that is useful personally, it’s the latter that provides lots of guidance about how to take our learning from events to experiences.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2021

In the event, one person wasn’t aware and continued to provide a second example even though the first was sufficient and time had run out. I realized, as a result, that maybe not everyone has the same view of timekeeping that I do, So I thought I’d make the case for good timekeeping. A session was cancelled to adapt!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I took a sample of some of my photos and marked them up. Going wider, here I’m looking out at a landscape, and the overlay is providing directions. It could do more, pointing out that the green ridges are grapes, provide the name of the neighborhood that’s in the foreground (I call it Stepford Downs, after the movie ;).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 17, 2019

For instance, the work on worked examples comes from John Sweller’s Cognitive Load theory. While individual results, such as the benefits of relearning, are valuable and easy to point to, it’s the extended body of work on topics that provides for longevity and applicability. My answer to theory or research is theory.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For example, there are the tarted-up quiz show formats. With more depth, we can provide guides for learning, suggesting quality elements. We might have a place in our examples for the underlying thinking. How does that change for learning? Here, a template tends to be a framework for particular interactions.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 14, 2018

I’ve talked about examples before, and have long suggested that examples for learning should be in the form of stories. So, first, an example needs to do several things. Foremost, examples show how a concept is used in context to guide performance and achieve a solution. But let me go through the whole story.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 2, 2021

In examples, for instance, you could leave a placeholder for referencing the model, and for the underlying thinking. You can also provide guidance for the elements, in a variety of ways. I had originally been thinking about templates, and that’s another way. And here, I’m not talking about tarted-up quiz show templates.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 15, 2018

Yesterday I wrote about examples as stories. They’re not examples, but they are stories. We flesh out a setting that the learner cares about, provide a sense of urgency, and enable the goal achievement. We’ve provided tools for that to happen, but we, as designers, don’t control the protagonist.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 27, 2016

don’t just provide abstract knowledge). Recontextualization : here we’re showing another example. A good example, with a challenging situation that the learner recognizes, a clear goal, and cognitive annotation showing the underlying thinking, will serve to strengthen the learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

With great examples and deep insight, he brought home powerful lessons on the power of people. His takeaways provided valuable lessons for individuals, schools, organizations, and society. Howard Rheingold gave a fast-paced and inspiring talk on social network skills. design social strategy'

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2013

He’s talked about the spacing effect (even providing the basis for a diagram in Designing mLearning), drawing upon his experience as one of our best proponents of evidence-based learning design. However, at the conference were two separate examples of such systems. Both basically provided the same opportunity.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In your working life, how have you learnt effectively from experience, please provide an example if possible? For example, the very first time I ran a workshop for the eLearning Guild, while most liked it two people asked for their money back. (I I naturally decided to answer in a blog post ;). I was really upset.)

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 9, 2020

If we don’t focus on the right objectives, manage attention, set challenge appropriately, provide the right models and examples, and most of all have the right practice, we’re wasting our time. If the core’s wrong, we’re just gilding bad design (and gilded bad design is still bad design).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2013

The book does cover the history of advertising, going through some classic examples of old-style advertising, and using some surprisingly successful examples to elicit a new model. I think this book provides not only practical marketing advice, but also guidance for personal journeys and learning.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2018

We need examples of wins (and losses). examples need to capture those stories. practice needs to provide opportunities to exhibit those misconceptions before they matter. Then, of course, there are the war stories. Ideally, compelling ones (or we may have to exaggerate ). concepts need to be presenting those models.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2012

So let’s talk about a lack of worthwhile objectives, lack of models, insufficient examples, insufficient practice, and lack of emotional connection. Otherwise, you have two options; you provide sufficient practice, as they do with airline plots and heart surgeons. We don’t see sufficient examples, either.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2017

So, I’ve been creating a ‘deeper elearning’ course for one of the video course providers. I used the assignment tool to create questions that asked learners to go out and do things and then provide them with some guidance to self-evaluate. But to do this, I had to do some serious learning about creating video.

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