Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Yesterday I outlined a simple series of four phases through which a workplace learning intervention should progress: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2013

All this week, I have been discussing a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I shared with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

From Monday of this week, I have been sharing with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The learner is isolated from peers, experts and others who can assist their learning. It is hard for the learner to re-visit any of the elements of the tutorial for reference, without getting caught up in the sequential, page-driven navigational system. Quizzes provide an indication of what the learner knows.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2020

We were determined not to bombard learners with abstract information. Six months of highly concentrated effort by the Skills Journey team has paid off with the launch, on January 23, of a major new online learning resource for 150,000 members of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development ( CIPD ).

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

If you're a learner (and rarely are you the one paying for any of this or ever consulted in any way) then your priority will undoubtedly be number 2. Let's hope that the learner isn't the one to miss out. Even if you did, it would not make a positive impression on learners. What comes top? Because they’ve seen it all before.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 15, 2012

I think most people would agree that workplace learning interventions need a clear purpose, closely aligned to the needs of the organisation, and should be directed at helping employees to acquire competences that will help them in doing their jobs effectively and efficiently. So where does that leave things?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They develop insights into the students for whom they are responsible, so they can customise the examples and analogies that they provide, offer helpful feedback and respond to varying degrees of progress. Well, we could just throw open the doors to all our content and allow learners to choose whatever they want, whenever they want it.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

However, he made the distinction between e-learning and blended learning as essentially ways of delivering courses, whereas online learning was more about learners accessing resources in a more informal way. Because, for him, it implies a course, whereas ‘learning online’ is more about what learners do for themselves.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

All of this structure helps an organisation to make sure that certain key interventions do take place in the intended fashion, but does not guarantee success. They are often knowledge-focused and, as a result, serve only to overwhelm the learner with new information, without placing this in context.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

As a tool to allow groups of learners to collaborate on projects and assignments. As a means for learners to present the outcomes of projects and assignments. As a way for learners to explore complex principles and processes, e.g. economics, physics. As a developmental activity initiated by the learner.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2013

employees across 17 countries: 98% of organisations want technology-enabled compliance training to help manage risk more successfully. 12% of organisations say compliance training is helping achieve their business goal of changing working culture. Here are some of the findings, based on responses from 136 organisations representing 2.3m

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

No two learners are the same. They need lots of examples, stories, metaphors and similes to help them relate new information to their other life experiences. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past week I’ve been heavily involved in helping to judge this year’s E-Learning Awards. While there clearly is a lot of rubbish, poorly designed and implemented, the awards show me that there’s also some absolutely fantastic stuff that learners love and which is making a fundamental impact on organisations.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They develop insights into the students for whom they are responsible, so they can customise the examples and analogies that they provide, offer helpful feedback and respond to varying degrees of progress. Well, we could just throw open the doors to all our content and allow learners to choose whatever they want, whenever they want it.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 7, 2013

Learning is first and foremost an investment in the learner, the employee. It can also be regarded as an investment by the learner, who must be engaged if learning is to take place at all. Lastly, the power of an intervention will very often depend on the commitment of learners'' managers. transformation'

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

To accelerate the learning and minimise the damage to real learners it probably helps if this process is somewhat directed and supported. Why it important to engage your learner right up-front and how to achieve this. What helps to make material memorable. How it can fit into a blend.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, that’s for the learner to decide. If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. If a learner receives new information in small chunks over an extended period it is true that they are less likely to be overloaded. How small is that?

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Micro-Learning Compliance Training Case Study Simulations 58

Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2018

As a designer of learning content, you have a responsibility to your client to deliver an effective learning solution – one that helps to satisfy the underlying need. And if you go half and half, you might just put off some of your learners who find it all unbelievable. But who are caught on the horns of a dilemma.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2018

But you can’t help feeling that you weren’t doing enough to keep the audience’s attention. Hook your learners in Unfortunately, you can’t rely on having your audience’s attention, you really do have to earn it. Look for strong imagery that helps to clarify your ideas and make them stick.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

Funnily enough, learners won't be any different. Try as you may to come up with clever mnemonics to help them remember the five stages in this, or the seven elements in that, they're much more likely to recall the tales you have told or the experiences shared by other participants.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I shared with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Skills Cognitive Performance Support Coaching 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We were discussing the all-too-common tendency to over-teach and under-practise in formal workplace learning interventions.Here's how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more I'm really taken with this.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 25, 2013

It would be easy to just miss out this element for self-directed learners, but this would be second best. The trick here, I believe, is to have learners engage with their work colleagues (and perhaps even their family and friends) to ensure that have the opportunity to externalise their views and benefit from other perspectives.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool conducted a study with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period. Here is one of the main findings: "Line manager support to help learners use what they had learnt was a major factor in tackling the lack of performance improvement.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

They may have pitted one learner's performance against another, or against their own previous attainments. Who knows, they may even have had learners progress through levels to some ultimate prize. A little help can only be useful. They may have set goals, perhaps in terms of output, perhaps time. Learning is hard.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Instruction is a structured teaching process that begins with behavioural learning objectives (that’s the sort that describes what you, as a learner, will be able to do at the end of the instructional process, in specific, measurable and observable terms) and ends with some form of assessment against these objectives.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

Modular structures are not only more flexible, they also provide improved results, because learners are so often overloaded by lengthy courses and resources. If just 5% of a solution is offered in this way (and some learners won''t use it all, some a lot more) then your interventions are much more likely to make a real difference.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, that’s for the learner to decide. If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. If a learner receives new information in small chunks over an extended period it is true that they are less likely to be overloaded. How small is that?

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Micro-Learning Compliance Training Case Study Simulations 49

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Dick’s work at learndirect helped to ensure 2.8 million adults to gain the skills they, their employers and the economy need, helping them on their way into further training or employment. Retention is key, so a high emphasis is placed within learning centres on ensuring that customers (learners) have appropriate threshold skills.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Doing no harm to learners One of the key differences between professions and other forms of occupation is the fact that professionals are bound by ethical codes. You have important responsibilities, not only to your clients but also to your learners. I want these learners to be inspired and grow in confidence.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

This will make it easier for learners, curriculum designers and intelligent software to make use of the content in a wide variety of contexts. That's enough for most learners to cope with in one session. Hook the learner in. Without the learner's attention, you're pretty much wasting your time. Bridge to the next step.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2011

I’ve never found this particularly helpful, as there are usually plenty of good arguments on either side. Synchronous learning can be easily blocked out in the diary, and it allows learners to get quick answers to their questions and immediate feedback on their performance. Typically you’re either with the old way or the new.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Doing no harm to learners One of the key differences between professions and other forms of occupation is the fact that professionals are bound by ethical codes. You have important responsibilities, not only to your clients but also to your learners. I want these learners to be inspired and grow in confidence.

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Trust Consulting Learning Theory 36

Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2018

But you can’t help feeling that you weren’t doing enough to keep the audience’s attention. Hook your learners in Unfortunately, you can’t rely on having your audience’s attention, you really do have to earn it. Look for strong imagery that helps to clarify your ideas and make them stick.

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Virtual Classroom Classroom Voice Sound 40

Clive on Learning

MARCH 26, 2010

In a rare training-related article in People Management magazine, Evaluating Performance Gain from Training , my attention was drawn to an interesting study conducted by training outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool , with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period.

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