Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have been lucky in my job to spend time with many hundreds of learning and development practitioners over the past ten years or so, in all sectors of the economy and in all parts of the world. He is looking for a training programme to ease the upcoming transition from Microsoft Office to Google Apps.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have been lucky in my job to spend time with many hundreds of learning and development practitioners over the past ten years or so, in all sectors of the economy and in all parts of the world. He is looking for a training programme to ease upcoming transition from Microsoft Office to Google Apps.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Some bug in Google's software then rendered my blog as a complete dog's dinner of code. I had links to all my favourite blogs, assorted badges, and code snippets to Google Analytics, Technorati and all sorts of other stuff. My instinct was to revert to the previous version and put this down to experience.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. I'm not convinced this is anything to do with 'learner journeys', more a continuation of the experiences they have come to expect in their everyday interactions with Google, YouTube, Wikipedia and the like.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 13, 2007

From his posting , Stephen Downes sounds like he didn't really enjoy giving his talk on personal learning environments here in Boston yesterday, what with all that having to connect with "corporate e-learning industry types". Is their primary function really personal learning? Is their primary function really personal learning?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

What motivated me to get on and read the book was a chance encounter with Jane at Learning Technologies last week. It’s primary focus is on the classroom (or virtual classroom) instructor who wants to enrich their offering with social learning techniques but doesn’t know where to begin. I wasn’t wrong.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Thanks to Ron Orme for bringing to my attention Learning at work: e-learning evolution or revolution? , There are so many interesting elements in this report that I'm going to quote it liberally: "Work-based experiential learning is the most dominant mode of management and leadership learning. " Good point.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Last week I chaired the Charity Learning Consortium 's conference in London. There were some excellent sessions from Sudhir Giri of Google, Iain Napier of British Telecom, Nigel Paine, and Simon Mercer and Kate Graham from Redtray. and that was 'our organisation is too risk adverse'. I know which I'd rather go for.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Curation has always been there as a minor element in the role of the learning professional. It was worth making the investment in learning everything there was to know about your chosen occupation, because this would set you up for good. Users learn to go where other users have gone before. There simply isn't the time.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When we know what we don't know it's easy - we simply Google it, check out a forum, or consult our online networks. Would people attend without the keynotes and the other formal sessions? Probably not but they should. Serendipitous meetings are necessary because they stimulate thinking outside the box.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

For the past five years I have been running 1-day workshops on learning technologies for new l&d professionals, in which I include a team quiz. They are not free and open in the spirit of the web, nor are they in many cases indexable by Google, Bing and others. with options for the 70s, 80s or 90s.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

E-learning development processes have their origins in the days when courses were delivered on videodiscs and CDs, when updates and fixes were to be avoided at all costs. The e-learning development model is typically applied in waterfall fashion - water can flow down step by step but it can never flow back up.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2009

I must admit I’d forgotten about Clive Shepherd the organist, although I did Google him this morning. He appears on YouTube in the backing band for Lecresia Campbell in her gig at the Wembley Arena. I’ve no idea if it’s the same person. Anyway, where this is leading is to the other Clive Shepherd, and yes, there is a third.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A few days ago, I sat down to write a post explaining why I thought stories were such a powerful tool for learning. Can stories really be more powerful than interactivity in bringing about learning? I investigated further, and consulted Google. There's a clue here as to why so much e-learning is dry and boring.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A few days ago, I sat down to write a post explaining why I thought stories were such a powerful tool for learning. Can stories really be more powerful than interactivity in bringing about learning? I investigated further, and consulted Google. There''s a clue here as to why so much e-learning is dry and boring.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 25, 2006

This blog is supposed to be about learning and I learned something of real significance last week. Apparently, thanks to Google, I'm now a star. The moral is to Google until there's no more Googling left in you. Although I do have one of the original acetates and apparently they sell for £1500 each!)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2010

I don't usually suffer from feelings of guilt but the sheer extravagance of a device which is so ill-suited to current e-learning - no Flash, no PowerPoint - and so hard to justify alongside my smart phone and laptop, meant that I was extremely sceptical about how the iPad would find any useful place in my life.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2007

So, why am I using it in preference to Google's own Blogger editor? The text editor is much more robust than Google's, which provides me with all sorts of formatting glitches and problems. It's a desktop tool and it's free to download. It is much easier to import images.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 16, 2009

I've been reflecting on John Norman's presentation which he made at the eLearning Network event New models for learning management on September 25. John is from Cambridge University where he has been engaged in the development on the virtual learning environment Sakai 3. Not just a choice between open source and proprietary."

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

Much of this increase had been driven by one site - Facebook - which accounts for 45% of all mobile web use in the UK, followed by Google at 8%.” This has almost tripled since 2008, when the figure stood at 5.7m.” I could be accused of being a boring old fart by suggesting that people should get out more, perhaps taking the odd walk.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2007

I was on Tony Karrer's blog watching a video of David Weinberger's talk at Google on the subject of his book Everything is Miscellaneous. We've been throwing this topic around during May (see the Learning Circuits blog Big Question for May), but this video proves points rather than proposing them.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 6, 2009

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

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

Back in November of 2005, I presented a brief history of the great e-learning paradigm wars. For a while I felt smugly self-satisfied with this analysis, as it seemed to encompass all the current offerings to the learning public currently being made by professional trainers and educators.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 25, 2009

We've started to use Google Docs for this purpose, which does the job, but means I have to keep two systems running in parallel. One of my projects at the moment involves me in pulling together a body of work with two partners. I want to keep all my notes in Evernote, but what we really need is a collaborative note-keeping space.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2009

I explain the enormous pressures for change currently facing learning and development, and the opportunities we have at our disposal to respond to these changes using new media. Yesterday I was presenting at an organisation's internal HR conference. It seems that the originator of the change curve is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, back in 1975.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2009

Well it might have worked for Google, but now the recession is hitting hard, there's nowhere near enough advertising revenue to go round. After the dotcom bust, we saw a revival centered on Web 2.0 Silicon Valley stands on "ground that is as unstable, seismically and metaphorically, as it was in the earlier bust.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 16, 2007

algorithms (Google, etc.); Try these: the brand/reputation (Nike, Gucci, etc.); fixed assets (property developers, landlords); rights to natural resources (oil companies, etc.); money (banks, etc.); secret recipes (KFC, Coke, etc.);

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2006

It's probably because my graphic designer colleague David Kori has been indisposed for a couple of months while he prepares a new suite of learning materials for schools. Apart from Google image search, I've also been exploring Flickr, now a bit of a cult site.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2009

I explain the enormous pressures for change currently facing learning and development, and the opportunities we have at our disposal to respond to these changes using new media. Yesterday I was presenting at an organisation's internal HR conference. It seems that the originator of the change curve is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, back in 1975.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

Moodle: Who ever thought I'd own my own virtual learning environment? Blogger: I didn't choose my blogging tool, I just took the easy option and used the one that Google provided. Adobe Illustrator: Still learning this tool, but I'm determined to make it my first choice for creating artwork.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2006

At the moment I'm either using or considering using all of the following: Moodle , the open source virtual learning environment. Google Docs and Spreadsheets (formerly Writely), for word processing and the suchlike. Then along came open source and a host of freebie applications, supported by advertising.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2006

Conventional online learning design focuses on self-study and self-pacing, with all the advantages and disadvantages with which these are associated. These activities have some powerful advantages: Students seem to really enjoy them - it's not what they expect from boring old e-learning. Students support and learn from each other.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 12, 2007

Future leaders will stay at home to enter IBM's virtual leadership world from their PCs, constructing new empires for Big Blue and putting rivals such as Microsoft and Google in their place once and for all. No more outward bound activities in the wilderness, no more constructing of Lego towers.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Back in December, in my posting Up, Up and Away , I told you about the balloon debate in which I was due to take part, in an event organised by the eLearning Network at Learning Technologies 2007. So, I promised to tell you how I got on with my assigned role as e-learning software specialist.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2007

For more than ten years I worked with two partners in running Epic, the multimedia/e-learning developer. Learning and development professionals absolutely must take account of all this and, as a result, make very different choices about strategy and tactics. So what am I saying? It's quite simple.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Seb Schmoller reported on a presentation by Google's Peter Norvig at the ALT conference. The course is hosted in Moodle, which in my view is ideal for supporting a collaborative distance learning model. Learning is a by-product of the experience, but no less important for that. Here's where I'm really with Peter Novig.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 27, 2006

The ASTD managed to achieve this unwittingly in one day, with two articles that they published through their 'e-learning community'. Anyway, the gist of it was that people now entering the workforce have been brought up on games and simply won't accept interactive learning material in any other format. My tennis coach has a good one.

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