Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2018

Every year of late, Jane Hart has polled about people’s top 10 learning tools. From this, she creates a list of the top 100 learning tools. Looking at last year’s post , I see I’ve switched from Google to DuckDuckGo (privacy issues), and from Skype to Zoom (functionality). WordPress (e.g.

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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. Google is my search tool.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2010

My ITA colleague Jane Hart regularly collects the top 100 learning tools via contributions from lots of folks. On the information finding/sharing path, some tools I use include: Google – like everyone else, I’m all over searching. Google Docs – where I collaborate with colleagues on thoughts.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Something we should look more to in our LXD, so that we’re doing proper backwards design and we have the right combination of tools and learning to make performance relatively effortless. and then I could paste into Google Translate (another amazing feat) and it recognized it as Dutch and translated it into English.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 12, 2015

We need to start combining experience design with learning engineering to really start delivering solutions. To truly design learning, we need to understand learning science. For instance, there’re sound cognitive reasons why information dump and knowledge test won’t lead to learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

My colleague, Harold Jarche, recently posted about his professional learning toolkit, reflecting our colleague Jane Hart’s post about a Modern Learner’s Toolkit. Favorite browser and search engine : I use Safari and Google, by default. I use Google Maps for navigation. I use Pixabay many times to find images.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The eLearning Guild is celebrating it’s 10th year, and is using the opportunity to reflect on what learning will look like 10 years from now. How has learning changed in the last 10 years (from the perspective of the learner)? What is the most significant change technology has made to organizational learning in the past decade?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 22, 2021

As I’ve said before , I’m not a fan of ‘gamification’ Certainly for formal learning, where I think intrinsic motivation is a better area to focus on than extrinsic. Outside of formal learning, it’s clear that it works in certain places. However, I think gamification is overused. Again, wrongly.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2015

If, indeed, learning is the new business imperative , what does that mean we need to learn? I reckon they fall into two categories; those we do for our own learning, and those for learning with and through others. When we learn on our own, we need to address what information we want coming in and how we process it.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Learning poll. She’s now asking that you categorize them as Education, Training & Performance Support, and/or Personal Learning & Productivity. She’s now asking that you categorize them as Education, Training & Performance Support, and/or Personal Learning & Productivity.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

What this represents is people talking about the tools they use to do their jobs, and I reckon it’s important for us to talk about tools for learning. What we’re talking about here, starting at the bottom, are the tools you personally use for learning. What’s your learning stack? What have I forgotten?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

I note that this blog was contributing to Google C5 (according to a tool I can no longer find), for instance. That is, nicely sandboxing such experimentation until we understand it and can have appropriate safe-guards in place. As it is, we don’t yet understand the copyright implications, for one.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 16, 2021

Similarly, Google Docs is too awkward, and I never got my mind around Scrivener. My first, Engaging Learning , on designing serious games, just flowed. Even in my more immediately forthcoming book, Learning Science for Instructional Designers , I found that I’d written about the same concept in two different places.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 2, 2008

for Learning Professionals is how social networks impact personal learning. Sure, the amount of existing content out there grows exponentially (a trillion web pages indexed by Google in 2008). I do some searching on Google and find some overviews of the solution and some other good information.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2017

As I mentioned in an earlier post , I have been using Safari and Google to traverse the networks. And that’s now been put through a test, and I thought it instructive to share my learnings. The rationale for the switch is that I don’t completely trust Google and Apple with my data. Still, I wasn’t happy.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2008

The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone? So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 Being a learning professional in a Web 2.0

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

For complicated reasons, I don’t have Google Analytics running. I note that the posts here at Learnlets are more unformed thoughts, and my attempts at more definitive thoughts appear at the Litmos blog and now at my Quinnsights columns at Learning Solutions. However, I found I have a WordPress plugin called Page Views.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2019

And, for both, we’re using Google tools to create shared representations. And we’re unconsciously working in, and consciously working on, a desirable learning culture. And , a key learning for me, is that this doesn’t preclude being co-located. In Blue Jeans, it covers a bit of the screen.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 20, 2017

Google Glass was a really interesting experiment, and it’s back. Google Glass has a new Enterprise Edition, and it’s being used to meet real needs and generate real outcomes. One interesting aspect is built-in machine learning, which could make aligning with objects in the world easy! That’s changed.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2012

In fact, in my early (2000) article on mobile learning, I said “Soon there will be essentially no distinction between mLearning and elearning.” If, however, you believe elearning encompasses performance support, social, and informal learning, then I was right. ” And I admit that I was wrong. At least partly.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 8, 2018

since Google declared that! But, er, again they segued off-topic, taking personalization before going to microlearning and back to gamification and game-based learning(?). Microlearning is an ill-defined concept, and conflating it with game-based learning is just silly. So, first, mobile is pretty much old news. Mobile first?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 19, 2017

Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year. Skype let’s me stay in touch with my ITA colleagues, hence it’s definitely a learning tool. I also see and occasionally comment on posting by others.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 25, 2013

I don’t think John thought of self-learning via Google or YouTube, or learning together via LinkedIn and Twitter, but if we give him the benefit of the doubt, we can begin to think that elearning may be of a substantial bulk in proportion to email, though not yet rounding error size. the growth in all the above.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2015

And there’re the various chats that I participate in around learning (e.g. lrnchat , which I was recruited to be one of the original moderators, though I’ve finally stepped away, and a few others I join when I can), as another learning channel. This is my social media learning strategy. What’s yours?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 24, 2020

With IBSTPI and others, Google Docs are a frequent way to develop and share documents. Facebook is reserved for interpersonal communications with friends, but it helps keep me sane. I do use email to communicate, and am on a couple of mailing list communities that also occasionally do events.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It wasn’t easy, as you had to learn the interface commands to accomplish this task, but the worlds were configurable (e.g. while viewing, not offline), we can find some powerful learning opportunities, both formal and informal. And, we know that collaboration is more powerful than solo ideation.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

On a recent #lrnchat , a colleague shared how she was collaborating on presentations using Google Slides. And I’ve done much important work with others using Google Docs and Sheets. So perhaps I’ll talk about organizational learning for the long term, and use collaboration for the short term work. What do you think?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2010

Seeing all the top 10 lists, I thought I’d look at what the top 10 posts were for Learnlets (using Google Analytics), and I have to say that the responses were interesting, as some weren’t the ones I thought were most interesting. Rethinking Learning Styles. Learning Twitter Chat! Learning Organization Dimensions.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

And when a small company like Google says that they’re designing for mobile first and the desktop is an afterthought, it is safe to say mobile is on the move. What mobile learning really is about is augmenting formal learning, and augmenting performance regardless. With mobile, however, we can extend that learning over time.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2016

If you google the phrase, you’ll see how many people have indicated their problems with this! One had heard me speak about learning design, and one had heard about a workshop I’d given, but both contacted me. It is clear they realized that there’s value to them for having a scrutable learning design.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2016

Google Docs), but it’s central. In that sense, they’re core to the Coherent Organization , providing the infrastructure (along with communication and curating) to advance individual and organizational learning. However, what was on offer wasn’t this capability. Anything else is, well, something else.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 14, 2016

I think out loud relatively freely (particularly with the popularity of Work and Learn Out Loud and Show Your Work). I do weekly pop by Google Analytics to see what sort of traffic I get (pretty steady), but I haven’t tried to see what might improve it. There’re other places to track that. This is, largely, for me.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Here’s the (largely unedited) transcript she provided for me: What is your definition of mobile learning? Can you tell me about your success story of using mobile technology for learning (or training, or performance improvement)? What important development trends do you see coming down the pike in mobile learning?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 2, 2014

My latest tome, Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age is out. what we know about how we think, work, and learn that we aren’t accounting for. Google groups, Yahoo groups, LinkedIn…the list goes on. Well, sort of. ways forward. First, it can’t be.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2011

Finally, however, I’m at home for several weeks before beginning another batch: Chicago for Learning 3.0 (an Under the mobile banner, we can discuss the whole performance ecosystem: formal learning, performance support, social learning, games, etc. And we get additional opportunities with context-sensitive learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Little firms like Google have instituted this. Of course, organizations should be making this easier. They can do things like have you set aside a day a week for your own projects, or an hour of your day. Firms could also put in place tools and practices around Working out Loud (aka Show Your Work).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2011

Jay Cross cites how the exceptional Google engineer is estimated to be 200 times more valuable than the average engineer. Jay and I have previously argued (PDF) that improving the ability to learn might be the best investment you could make, and this is a component of being effective: knowing when to augment your capabilities and how.

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