Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2021

The Jay Cross Memorial Award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. We award it to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2020

Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. He also speaks at industry events and shares what he has learned.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2023

It’ll help us lift our game as an industry, collectively, if orgs start to give us the right info to make good proposals. Sure, we’ll ask these questions through the mechanisms they provide, and it shows we know what we’re talking about. It’s not clear they do, however!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 25, 2019

Stephanie Llamas kicked off the Realities 360 conference by providing an overview of VR & AR industry. As a market researcher, she made the case for both VR and AR/MR. With trend data and analysis she made a case for growth and real uses. She also suggested that you need to use it correctly. Hence my talk later this day.).

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Clark Quinn

MAY 29, 2019

We need better posts for our industry. The articles appear to be written by someone who doesn’t really know the industry. And there are some folks in the industry who work and write for their orgs that know what they’re talking about. For the sake of all of us who suffer from this, we need to stop!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2023

In the 80s, in an industry I was in, this was the case! Without practice, watching entertaining and informative material (e.g. edutainment) isn’t a path to learning outcomes. The conversation was derailed by my comment that edutainment had gotten a bad name from games. I was accused of having a ‘gamification’ mindset!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Guy also is quite open about the problems facing our industry. He focuses on where performance needs are critical, and thus it has a natural interest, but too many of the approaches can stifle that interest. Instead, his intent focus on meaningful outcomes truly engages everyone from the performers to the executives.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Too many design processes are carry-over from industrial approaches: one person, one tool, and a waterfall process. Most importantly, we have to do this in a practical way, under real-world resource constraints. Which is why we need to address this strategically. We need to do better.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And a small industry was built upon this basis to build solutions at scale, but the market never emerged. If you look at other industries like automobiles, we went from craft to commercial (c.f. And hopefully that becomes a defining characteristic of our industry. The whole solution was too costly, despite the power.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 13, 2021

Marketing malarkey only muddies the water, and our industry has enough of a credibility problem. This includes evidence-informed design, conceptual clarity, and transparency of motives. If you tout something, do so in a scrutable way.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. The 7th annual Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2022 is presented to Céline Schillinger.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Many stem from maintaining approaches that are carryovers from industrial age business. The alternative, digitizing unaligned practices, can only hinder improvement to be a successful organization. There are a lot of myths about what works. This includes learning myths , but also bad HR practices.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

Yes, not totally pleased about the provider, but I have yet to find a tool with better industrial strength outlining. One of the major things I do is write: book, blog posts, articles, and more. So the first two tools I use are for writing: 1. Of course, that’s how I’m writing here.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

We’re going to be looking to figure out how to do more unpacking, and share the ability to do the necessary critical thinking around claims in our industry. Everyone (including the debaters), benefit from that. The LDA focuses on evidence-based approaches to L&D.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Death to zombies, for the sake of our industry, our professionalism, and our learners. (Some of those at the event will read this blog; long story but thanks, Paul. ;). So, I’m calling you all to be zombie hunters. Update: In fact, after I’d queued up this post for publication, I went to an event where people were sharing.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 1, 2019

Certainly, that happens in other industries. On one hand, it might help mitigate against the info dump/knowledge test courses that are the bane of our industry. It’s not about trying to get folks to totally revamp their processes (which is a path to failure). Yet, could we go further? Could and should we have them for learning?

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2023

So, it’s all about me! :) Seriously, I think this puts together the tools I believe are necessary to lift our industry. Full disclosure: I’m co-director of the LDA, and Chief Learning Strategist for Upside Learning (in addition to my ongoing role for Quinnovation). (So,

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2013

Not only are the purveyors of existing solutions preaching caution and steadiness, but it even seems like some of the ’names’ of the field are talking in ways that make it easy to think that the industry is largely doing ok. The industry is going to have to change. We know what leads to effective learning outcomes.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2022

” I’ve talked before about the sorry state of our industry, but haven’t really shared my thinking on why this is the case. In this case, the question was in response to my previous post on superstitions (for new L&D practitioners). He asked “How did we even get here?”

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 27, 2019

With any industry, a large quantity of buzzwords exist, and Learning & Development isn’t any different. Likewise, plusses and minuses accrue. It’s helpful to know the buzzword as well as the real meaning behind it, but how do you do this? Buzzwords can become vernacular.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Alternatively, you could have a great purpose but use industrial era methods to get there. There’s more, but most importantly, it’s aligning all these from bottom to top. For instance, you could be creating a great culture to serve a bad purpose.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2014

Cathy Davidson gave us an informative, engaging, and inspirational talk talking about how we’re mismatching industrial approaches in an information era. She gave us data about how we work and why much of what we do isn’t aligned, along with the simple and effective approach of think-pair-share. Very worthwhile.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 30, 2013

I have previously written that the industry has to change. We hope that through this, we can get a snapshot of where the industry believes itself to be and how we can continue to move it forward. Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner have pointed out the new roles we could be taking in their book The New Social Learning. Are we on track?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Unfortunately, as an industry, we’re not informed consumers. So, I’ll continue on my crusade for us as an industry to lift our game. You’ll see all the business roles filled. Some might have advisory boards composed of learning folks, but it’s not clear what role they play. And I get it. And you should.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 25, 2015

Tom Wujec gave a discursive and well illustrated talk about how changes in technology were changing industry, ultimately homing in on creativity. Despite a misstep mentioning Kolb’s invalid learning styles instrument, it was entertaining and intriguing.'

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

Our industry is already suffering from too many myths. Even on a superficial examination, they fail the ‘sniff test’ In general, you should be avoiding folks that toss around this sort of fluffy biz buzz, but even more so when they totally confound a reasonable interpretation of these concepts. Caveat emptor.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

is the same or better than the industry average, so we’re doing good. This is a common belief amongst L&D: well, our [fill in the blank: employees served per L&D staff member | costs per hour of training | courses run per year | etc.] No, this is all about efficiency, not effectiveness.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And, of course, I attended the usual suite of industry conferences, notably the eLearning Guild events and Online Educa. And that’s an industry comment too. And yet, the industry seems to continue on in ignorance. I spoke about mobile learning, deeper learning design, innovation, as well as the L&D revolution.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 5, 2020

And it can be in any industry, anywhere. I haven’t seen a systematic move towards a more enlightened L&D. You see one inspired individual either hired in, or promoted to have the opportunity. It’s one person who gets it. Sadly; as I fervently believe that we should be moving beyond ‘the course’ with some alacrity.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 16, 2021

Which is why I need industrial strength outlining in my writing package. However, this isn’t a one pass thing, it’s iterative. I’ll revisit it a time or two beforehand, and then as I write sometimes I restructure. I want to be able to manipulate the whole document, moving sections.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 26, 2017

Reflecting on his experience in the industry, he described the transition from story telling to where he thinks we should go: social adventure. (I Maxwell Planck opened the eLearning Guild’s Realities 360 conference with a thoughtful and thought-provoking talk on VR. I want to call it “adventure together” :).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 12, 2019

The fact is that our curricula came from before the Industrial Age and is barely adequate there. The simple fact is that we need a better curriculum and a better pedagogy. As Roger Schank rightly points out, things like the quadratic equation are nuts to keep in a K12 curricula. Yet we’re in an Information Age.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 22, 2014

The outline feature is critical for me (and the main reason I haven’t switched to Pages, it’s just not industrial strength) in structuring my thoughts, and writing is one of the ways I think out loud. In no particular order: 1. Word: I write most of my articles and books in Word. Sense & Share.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 4, 2014

Not everyone we could and should’ve gotten, but a representative sample across sectors of some of the most respected folks in the industry that we could reach out to in short order. You’ll also find out that a number of folks have signed up to support us as trustees.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2017

Jay Cross was a deep thinker and a man of many talents, never resting on his past accomplishments, and this award is one way to keep pushing our professional fields and industries to find new and better ways to learn and work. The Internet Time Alliance Jay Cross Memorial Award for 2016 is presented to Marcia Conner.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

An organization that I cited in the Revolution book, Towards Maturity , has recently released their 2015-2016 Industry Benchmark Report , and it’s of interest to individuals and organizations looking for real data on what’s working, and not, in L&D. Included are some top level pointers for executives and L&D.

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