Clive on Learning

MAY 28, 2013

L&D needs a plan B; one that much better leverages limited subject expertise and teaching skills. The pressure for more scalable learning and development at work is accentuated by the increased pace at which change takes place within organisations. Coming next: The vision: 4. Learning and development that is flexible. transformation'

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

As performance support tools, i.e. making it easier to seek out and provide expertise. Social media tools, including forums, wikis, blogs, social networks To facilitate group collaboration within a formal blended solution. As tools for sharing best practice, links and information. As tools for problem-solving and reflection.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

If your client is not aware of your expertise, there is a danger they will treat you as someone who's there to take their instructions. You should also note down the questions you really do need answers to, so you don't forget anything on the day. Establish your credibility.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The result is that the vacuum becomes filled by lots of second division experts (and I don’t mean to be derogatory here – these can be fine people), who live more locally, filling in to deliver similar expertise but at a much lower cost. Online, of course, the situation is quite different.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 11, 2011

less trainer-led, more peer-to-peer : enterprise social media tools make it far easier for employees to seek help from and share expertise with their colleagues; you won't have time to teach everything, so don't even try. There's nothing new in this list, but there's even more urgency now to put it all into practice.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Of course there are many gradations of expertise and only a minority of learners are complete novices or acknowledged experts. They need reassurance and encouragement to help them through the difficulties they will inevitably encounter. These are the extremes.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

Forums and other collaborative tools that allow us to share expertise and solve problems. Coaches who can help us to analyse our successes and failures and establish our goals. Packaged content that can provide us with information and help in diagnosing problems and making decisions.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I asked the group what worked best for them in bridging their own e-learning skills gaps. Here’s what came back: CIPD course!

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

It takes a great deal of expertise to do a really good job of designing an engaging solution, and this is in short supply.

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Toolkit Blended Learning Compliance Training Wiki 97

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

No one establishment seems to have the time, money or expertise to develop the world-class content that we need to solve the educational problems shared by millions.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Well clearly it has never been so easy for people to find speciality content online or to share their own expertise with peers. The losers are the mainstream networks that can only look back in fondness on the golden days when their audience was more or less captive. Are there parallels in the world of learning?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

Scalable : Bottom-up learning is highly scalable because it draws upon the expertise of every employee. Economical : Some investment might need t0 be made in collaborative tools, but otherwise bottom-up learning requires little or no additional expense. Flexible : Here is the greatest advantage.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

He showed how expertise in one domain can lead experts to over-confidence, to the ‘delusion of control’ - the belief that their dominance extends to all domains. As Gladwell said: “Incompetence annoys me.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

The ability to hunt down expertise. They’re also keen to make it possible for whole bodies of content to be downloaded and made available on mobile devices iTunes style. Embedded social collaboration throughout the modules. Bridging competency gaps through informal as well as formal means. The use of widgets, Outlook add-ins, etc.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

The forums allow questions to be answered rapidly and for expertise to be shared. Bill’s team meet the needs of IT professionals at this early stage using a combination of forums and wikis. They allow a community to be built around all those people in Oracle who are responsible for getting the product online.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 22, 2010

What learners need are reliable sources of expertise, the chance to reflect and discuss, opportunities to practice and to obtain feedback, and so on. That's what being in business is all about. So, is the classroom as a channel for learning analogous to print as a channel for news? In some ways it is.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2008

The compromise solution that I'm beginning to favour goes like this: you maintain a small team of full-time e-learning professionals with an emphasis on project management and instructional design skills, but with some graphics and technical expertise as well.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

As none of these is intuitive and obvious, the client cannot be expected to have this expertise. This requires them to be fully conversant with current thinking in terms of learning methods, acquainted with the latest learning media and up-to-date with developments in the science of learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

Well I don't know about must , but they certainly should, if they want to remain credible as sources of expertise on organisational learning. Again not sure what the point is here about libraries (probably a US thing), but everyone needs to market their expertise to some extent. This is sadly a a long way short of reality.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

Consistently rated in the most important category was the expertise of the instructor/mentor/coach (63% of respondents rated this as very important) followed by appropriateness of content (rated as very important by 58%).” In other words, nearly everybody wants a bit of everything. What contributes most to the success of the training?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

What's needed is more training and encouragement to support the latter, rather than a futile attempt to develop advanced levels of instructional design expertise across broad swathes of the l&d profession.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It works very well for people who already have expertise in the subject, because they know what they don’t know, and can easily focus in on information that is relevant to them. On the other hand, novices are likely to be completely overwhelmed.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

On the other hand, trainers with less obvious subject matter expertise will not cut the mustard, however brilliant they are at delivering training. This is a potential difficulty, because senior people have little time to devote to training and can sometimes make poor trainers.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 6, 2009

You'd be able to call in whatever specialist expertise you wanted and have the time to wait while they delivered the goods. In the perfect situation you'd have unlimited time and money available when creating a presentation, print document or online learning materials.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

So I'm going to try and draw out a few key themes, the first of which can be simply summarised as follows: Consult early and widely There are many stakeholders in any e-learning project, large or small, and they are going to have very different perspectives based on different areas of expertise and different motivations.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2008

It's great to welcome one of close work colleagues entering the edublogosphere, particularly one with so much unique expertise to share, and that's Chris Brannigan of Caspian Learning.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The result is that the vacuum becomes filled by lots of second division experts (and I don’t mean to be derogatory here – these can be fine people), who live more locally, filling in to deliver similar expertise but at a much lower cost. Online, of course, the situation is quite different.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2007

True there's little in the way of science and engineering, but then the UK is now predominantly a service economy and we can always import the expertise we want from our ex-colonies - you know, places like Malaysia. The most popular subjects in 2006 are almost entirely vocational, with English the one exception in the top ten.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 2, 2007

On the Teaching Expertise site , they make a similar point: "Pupils are learning much more from the way the classroom is arranged, the way you are teaching, the way you behave, even the way you are dressed, than they are learning about the subject you're trying to impart to them."

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

As well as the wiki, collaboration is facilitated by the Shell International Global Networks, which allows employees to easily locate expertise and discuss issues using forums. There is a strong incentive to share, particularly in the technical disciplines and, as a result, networking is vibrant.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2008

Small organisations are much less likely to go for e-learning, given the lack of scale to justify bespoke development and the lack of expertise available to them. Of course this does need addressing and the CIPD themselves would be the ideal body to raise awareness and help develop expertise in smaller organisations.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 11, 2008

If you can't see yourself doing this alone, form teams and share your skills and expertise. There are so many topics that would benefit from this approach and so many innovative creative treatments yet to be discovered. We're well and truly in the era of online video now and it's much more fun to be a player than a passive observer.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 12, 2007

These tools will be familiar to us all: instant messaging, VOIP, blogs, wikis, collaborative spaces, online spaces, live online events, personal employee spaces, expertise locators, tagging. Second Life does get a small mention, but blink and you'd miss it. Now, I'd endorse all these recommendations.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

They are simply not trusted as they should be to apply their technical expertise in solving problems that in practice are beyond the reach of the lay person. In their interactions with key stakeholders they are not afforded the respect upon which their credibility as true professionals depends. Let’s take an example … What would you do?

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2009

Nor is it likely to be as helpful in locating and sharing expertise as an enterprise social networking tool. It doesn't, for me at least, have the power that blogging does as a stimulus for reflection. It doesn't offer the potential for collaborative work that a wiki can provide.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Yes, we can use our expertise to design carefully-balanced interventions that we believe will deliver the goods. As we get older and wiser, we can hopefully be trusted to take more responsibility and we get frustrated when we are not granted this freedom. So where does this leave us as designers of blended solutions?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

They are simply not trusted as they should be to apply their technical expertise in solving problems that in practice are beyond the reach of the lay person. In their interactions with key stakeholders they are not afforded the respect upon which their credibility as true professionals depends. Let’s take an example … What would you do?

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