Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

Onlignment publish a free virtual classroom facilitator’s guide. What I mean is being able to put together a slide show (perhaps even add a narration), create a quick demo of a piece of software, create and edit still images, write a simple how-to guide, put together a quiz, perhaps shoot a simple video.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Scenarios can be used in an instructional context, as a form of practice, but they are most productively used as a form of guided discovery. My experience over the past three years of awards judging has demonstrated to me that for everyone who hates instructional e-learning there is someone who loves doing scenarios.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Next : Use guided discovery to get across the big ideas. You can top up on the theory later, as they encounter difficulties and are striving to get better. That’s why coaching can play a valuable role in so many blends. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Edited by Rob Hubbard and featuring chapters written by global elearning experts: Clive Shepherd, Laura Overton, Jane Bozarth, Lars Hyland, Rob Hubbard, Julie Wedgwood, Jane Hart, Colin Steed, Clark Quinn, Ben Betts and Charles Jennings – this book is a practical guide to all the key topics in elearning, including: getting the business on board, building (..)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

That’s why we have begun to see a shift away from instructional techniques and the adoption of the very different strategy of guided discovery. In fact, you can see how guided discovery is transforming the perception that many learners have of e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 18, 2011

These two apps have reminded me that I have an app myself half way through development for Onlignment : The idea's similar and equally simple: a reference guide accessed from a menu. And learn how to love (is that possible?) Now there's no rocket science in this sort of app, but that doesn't mean there's no real utility.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

On the other hand, my latest book, Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide , was schemed out in such a way that it could be constructed piece by piece from magazine articles and online guides, published on a regular schedule with tight deadlines.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 25, 2011

At a recent blended learning workshop, one of the participants shared with me the guiding principle that they use in their organisation (a sizeable bank) when putting together learning solutions: Straightforward with a human touch This really appealed to me, because it seemed to capture so much of what is important in a design: Being straightforward: (..)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Bryan asked respondents to provide estimates for four categories of project: Instructor-led training (ILT) : A useful comparison to the e-learning, but also a reasonable guide to what it would take to develop sessions for the virtual classroom. He also asked what the cost of this work was at internal rates.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2011

The Kindle is also not well suited to books that are elaborately laid-out and visually-rich, such as software guides, books on design, photography, gardening and so on. It’s so much easier to hunt down information in a printed book or with well-structured and searchable web-based materials. In this respect the Kindle doesn’t really compete.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

The instructor-led elements are supported by Oracle eKits, which replace traditional printed student guides. The economic constraints suffered by many organisations are not affecting sales of these courses. These are available a week before the course and then afterwards.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2010

According to the blurb: "Already on more than five million desktops worldwide, the new version will engage, attract, draw in, and guide learners to increase usage and impact – for formal learning programs, informal on-demand learning, and peer-to-peer learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 7, 2011

With principle-based tasks, we're much better off using a strategy of guided discovery: Let's go back to rule-based tasks for a moment. More of the work we do in the developed world is heuristic - it requires us to make judgements based on principles. Principles are not black and white - they need to be experienced rather than taught.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2013

Of course, this is why guided discovery works so well when the objective is to improve problem-solving and decision-making skills, and why the exposition of theory is so frustratingly ineffective. This statement, quoted in Daniel Kahneman''s excellent Thinking Fast and Slow (Penguin, 2011), struck me like a bullet.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Scenarios can be used in an instructional context, as a form of practice, but they are most productively used as a form of guided discovery. My experience over the past three years of awards judging has demonstrated to me that for everyone who hates instructional e-learning there is someone who loves doing scenarios.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Games and simulations As a form of guided discovery learning, allowing learners to gain insights into problem-solving and decision-making principles, e.g. project management, business strategy, marketing. As a tool to allow groups of learners to collaborate on projects and assignments.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Videos, podcasts, screencasts, reference guides, even simple slide shows, can all be valuable resources and will be used increasingly in learning solutions. Importantly it's also cheap to deploy. But designers should not get too snooty about working on projects for which no interaction is needed.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also explains why your average facilitator's guide is never quite enough of a foundation on which to run a workshop - however thoroughly it lists all the steps involved in preparing and running the event, it's inadequate if it doesn't also provide you with a repertoire of interesting and illuminating anecdotes.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

It also explains why your average facilitator''s guide is never quite enough of a foundation on which to run a workshop - however thoroughly it lists all the steps involved in preparing and running the event, it''s inadequate if it doesn''t also provide you with a repertoire of interesting and illuminating anecdotes.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2010

Guided discovery? But with the enormous advances in bandwidth, computer literacy, the use of social media, mobile devices and much more, what counts as learning content is so much more varied: What learning strategy is the content designed to support? Simple exposition? Instruction? Exploration? Is it actually just-in-time reference material?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

On balance, the evidence would suggest that the medium, the delivery channel, is much less important in determining effectiveness than the learning strategy you choose to address the task in hand (exposition, instruction, guided discovery, exploration, etc.),

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

When to simply present information, when to use an instructional approach, when guided discovery works better, when to create a resource. Why many people find it useful to write specific learning objectives. I wouldn’t overdo this - see my love-hate relationship with learning objectives.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 6, 2011

In doing so I have been guided by the following goals: Reach the wisest possible audience. Without exception, their advice was to do it for yourself. And so, having now completed the last lap and crossed the finishing line, I’ve had to come to my own decision. Provide the book in the widest range of formats possible.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I cannot see Nathan’s open source model being appropriate for top-end interventions, where there may well be an element of guided discovery (scenarios, sims, etc.) and/or rich media. I would expect to see this sort of project firmly in the hands of the designer.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Scenarios are a form of guided discovery; they encourage insights; they help to get across the big ideas. They do not have to be technically difficult to develop (they can be as simple as a piece of text followed by a multiple choice question) but they do have to be challenging, authentic and relevant to the learner''s real-world problems.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 21, 2011

While most of my lessons were learned in this, my first experience, I thought I’d compare the problems I encountered when working with a much more elaborately laid out and visually-rich handbook – Live Online Learning: A Facilitator’s Guide. This publication started off as a free e-book download on the Onlignment site, in PDF format.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Onlignment has just issued this free download e-book, a facilitator’s guide to live online learning.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2011

I’m going to separate this out between two very different types of publication: (1) my book The New Learning Architect , which is primarily textual, and (2) Onlignment’s Live Online Learning: A Facilitator’s Guide , which is a highly-visual practical handbook. I’ll start with the easier of the two, the book.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The corporate classroom as therapy Presentations in the cloud What I learned about webinars from Adobe Everywhere you look there's an app What low growth and high debt mean for l&d * Michael Allen's e-Learning Annual 2012 Fotolia ticks the box Practical guides rolling off the press Questioning social media * Profile of a learning architect: Bill (..)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

And before you say that surely this depends on the style of training that you deliver, then I'd maintain that it doesn't matter one jot whether you're the 'sage on the stage' or the 'guide on the side', it's still hard.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

To fulfil your potential takes a serious amount of practice (10 years or 10,000 hours as a guide). You have to be tall enough to be a basketball player (but not necessarily the tallest) and clever enough to be a mathematician (but not necessarily the cleverest). The more practice you do the better you will be.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2007

Considering it's a sort-of-corporate-blog for Articulate, it's really well done - nicely presented, written with great enthusiasm and comes with a really useful free gift, The Insider's Guide to Becoming a Rapid e-Learning Pro. So useful, in fact, that some 6000 people had downloaded it within 24 hours.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

What is new, at least to me, is the idea of constructing the whole curriculum around this approach. It will be extremely interesting to see how they get on. Of course I couldn't help reflecting on the application of this approach to work-based learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 12, 2009

" Looking from the perspective of how we learn at work, it is quite clear that most of what we do learn is incidental rather than deliberate; we reflect on our experiences, or the experiences of others around us, and we draw conclusions that guide our future action.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2009

" You can explore the Blueprint using the guided tour, or you can try the first five or six pages of the product for real. It can be used by one person or an entire team—including subject matter experts. And because it’s based on Action Mapping , the Blueprint helps you create materials that improve business performance."

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

This role draws upon many of the skills you may already have as a 'guide on the side', but will certainly not require you to be a 'sage on the stage'. And there will be some demand for competent tutors, who can act as coaches, curators, assessors and moderators of online and blended programmes.

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