Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We tend to want to provide all the knowledge up front, when it's more helpful to feed it in gradually as we work through the practical exercises. Classroom, on-job instruction, e-learning, makes no difference.

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Informal Performance Support Exercise Teach 81

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Those who overwork are severely damaging their potential to learn, as John Medina points out in Brain Rules : Exercise boosts brain power (and, unless you're a professional athlete or a manual worker, chances are your work provides few opportunities for exercise).

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2012

If the material is really not relevant, then it makes sense to make the box-ticking exercise as painless as possible, like renewing your passport or some similar administrative chore. All good advice, as you would expect from Tom, but only assuming the whole process is just one of getting boxes ticked to satisfy an external regulator.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 25, 2012

Historically a course like this would have contained one main practical exercise, conducted only once a whole load of new concepts and principles had been introduced. It didn't work.

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Virtual Classroom WebEx Theory Classroom 69

Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2010

Chances are that you are using the classroom elements to enthuse students about the topics covered by the course, to explain key ideas with the benefit of visual aids and interactive exercises, to stimulate discussion and provide opportunities for working with the new ideas.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Peak may not be making me cleverer but is definitely improving my ability to do brain training exercises. Well, Duolingo is definitely improving my French vocabulary and grammar, although I’m short on conversation practice – something I will be remedying with numerous trips to France for a current project.

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Micro-Learning Blended Learning Wiki Brain 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Peak may not be making me cleverer but is definitely improving my ability to do brain training exercises. Well, Duolingo is definitely improving my French vocabulary and grammar, although I’m short on conversation practice – something I will be remedying with numerous trips to France for a current project.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Blended Learning Big Question Compliance Training Brain 66

Clive on Learning

MARCH 18, 2010

You may want to place IT in this box too, on the basis that l&d is a relatively low priority for them, but they all too frequently exercise their power to say no. The tool suggests that you keep senior managers satisfied and that sounds about right.

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Analysis Exercise Performance Support Consulting 64

Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2007

For $9 a month you get PDF transcripts and other goodies; for $30 you also get a wide range of guides, exercises, games and tests; for a much heftier $200 you get the human touch with a needs analysis, study plan and someone to practise with. Do the games and exercises aid learning? Are podcasts enough?

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Podcasts Podcaster Podcasting Exercise 40

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2011

If role plays are unavoidable, the risks can be reduced by allowing for repetitive, short practices in twos or threes, rather than one major, do-or-die exercise in front of the whole class.

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Virtual Classroom Simulations Classroom Classes 75

Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2009

What you'll find is an engaging mix of tips, examples, interactive exercises, slide shows, videos and worksheets. " You can explore the Blueprint using the guided tour, or you can try the first five or six pages of the product for real.

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eLearning Performance Support Exercise Slides 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2015

If the material is really not relevant, then it makes sense to make the box-ticking exercise as painless as possible, like renewing your passport or some similar administrative chore. All good advice, but only assuming the whole process is just one of getting boxes ticked to satisfy an external regulator.

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Compliance Training Compliance Score Policies 40

Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Use cases, problems, exercises, scenarios, simulations or whatever it takes to provide the learner with the opportunity to test out the idea and, where relevant, to build skill. Learners, particularly if they're at work, want ideas that are relevant to their current problems, not abstractions. Encourage the learner to work with the idea.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

It is much, much harder to create a set of fully self-contained instructional materials than it is to develop the components - the explanations, the examples, the demonstrations, the practice exercises, the assessments.

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Blended Learning Digital Content Rapid eLearning 60

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2008

I probably screwed them up psychologically with this exercise but the results were interesting. I asked the advocates to use the hour to come up with arguments against open source, and for the sceptics to come up with positive arguments.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 16, 2007

Games are exercises for our brains. Games that fail to exercise the brain become boring." The best I can do is to share with you some of my favourite quotes: "The only real difference between games and reality is that the stakes are lower with games." Games are concentrated chunks ready for our brains to chew on."

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Theory Brain Games Exercise 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Employees were introduced to LearningGuide in the classroom, where it was used as the basis for exercises that simulated the real-world environment. Hewden took what was for them a big leap into the unknown by using LearningGuide as a platform for reference materials to support the roll-out.

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Simulations Performance Support Classroom Learning 66

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

They will structure this information and support it with visual aids and practical exercises. The typical instructional designer will work with a subject expert to define the learning objectives and list the important learning points.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

They will structure this information and support it with visual aids and practical exercises. The typical instructional designer will work with a subject expert to define the learning objectives and list the important learning points.

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CD-ROM Cognitive Learning Objects PowerPoint 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the context of learning content, these challenges might take the form of practice exercises, case studies, quizzes, scenarios, simulations and games. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes.

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Content Case Study Blended Learning Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

In the context of learning content, these challenges might take the form of practice exercises, case studies, quizzes, scenarios, simulations and games. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes.

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Content Case Study Blended Learning Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The reasons for this increased interest in e-learning may not be the best ones - i.e. this is primarily a cost-cutting exercise - but then beggars can't be choosers. It could be we'll look back at the winter of 2008 as a turning point for learning and development.

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Report Upgrade Exercise Budget 40

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2006

And, some corporate assessments are starting to feel like "Everyone Gets a Trophy" exercises." A way for teachers and trainers to exercise power over students? We have been tracking the rise of certifications that are really just 'Certificates of Sitting'. Aren't they just a representation of old-style educational thinking?

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Masie Exercise Forum Assessment 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

An obvious step in achieving this is to ensure that everyone involved obtains adequate training.

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Performance Compliance Training Policies Learning Objects 84

Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

To be absolutely clear, the goal of this first exercise with the wiki is to develop a content outline for what may become a short course to train subject-matter experts in the design of rapid e-learning materials for the workplace. That I have done and you can find it here.

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Wiki Rapid eLearning Instructional Design Exercise 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 27, 2008

I must admit I'd love to conduct the same patterning exercise for e-learning: What practices help and hinder adoption? There's plenty of good stuff like this, much of which I wish I'd have read a few years ago before I got involved in wiki projects. What characters are you likely to encounter in an e-learning project?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

The byline to the article gives you the gist: "New research in neuroscience shows you how to stay sharp by exercising your brain." Chris Brannigan of Caspian Learning alerted me to Cognitive Fitness , an article by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts in the Harvard Business Review, which you can download online for US$6.50.

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Cognitive Case Study Simulations Brain 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2007

The book sits underneath my monitor and I complete the exercises using the illustrations supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Anyway, I have set myself the task of going through a chapter a day, which takes about an hour. So far, three days into my routine, this pace is working just perfectly.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I not only have to deliver new content and facilitate any exercises, I also have to answer all the questions posed by the learner and fill the gaps left by the absence of other participants - conversing, supporting, socialising. What I didn't know was how hard work it would be for me. Facilitators of proper workshops (i.e.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 3, 2007

If the book included a diagram and I'd reproduced it myself (either of my own accord or because of some interactive exercise) would that have been the most powerful combination of all? Without a diagram in the book, was there a danger I'd misinterpret the text and get the diagram wrong? Food for thought.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

He understands the problems of transfer and knows how to overcome this, using worked examples and practical exercises. He understands the problems of cognitive overload and gives recommendations on ways to avoid it (consider what is the "least amount of information necessary to make the apprentice successful at this task?").

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Teach Mentoring Cognitive Learning Styles 40

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Here's my comparison of some of the main options at our disposal: Classroom exercises (role-play, etc.): 2D e-learning sims (interpersonal skills scenarios, software sims, business sims, etc.): and on the ability of the players to behave realistically. asynchronous 3D sims (problem-solving sims, etc.): simulators (flight, driving, etc.):

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Simulations Skills Develop Cognitive 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

I got the impression (perhaps mistakenly) that Jay believes you're wasting your time if you don't approach this as a major strategic, top-down exercise ('a superlative training department is not enough', 'put an enterprise learning strategy in place').

Informal Learning 40

Informal Learning Blended Learning Informal Social Networks 40

Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2006

It's a pump priming exercise that Nuvvo should have thought about in advance (perhaps even funded) but it still feasible (before word gets round that there's nothing worth looking at).

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Ideas Content Enterprise Site 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2008

But couldn't stand a very long tain journey - I need exercise. I'm growing some chilies in a bag at the moment, but that probably doesn't count. Seen the Mona Lisa in France. Very disappointing. Slept on an overnight train. Had a pillow fight. Hitch hiked. Won't happen now.

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Movie Toys Exercise Personal 40

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Before ninety (submitted by Ken Dobrovolny): An ice-breaker exercise in which learners each submit to the instructor a description of something they are determined to do before they are ninety. : This is an exposition in which randomly-selected learners take turns to determine what topic is covered next.

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