Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

What does micro-learning mean to the e-learning industry? But it certainly can satisfy needs for additional personal development and fill in all the gaps left after basic training. It can also fit into blended solutions, either as preparation for practical application or as on-going follow-up.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 14, 2008

Anyway, the purpose of this posting is to share a little news about how the economic downturn is affecting the corporate e-learning industry in the UK, hopefully not to scare you, but to encourage a healthy exchange of intelligence.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

Attempting to explain how so many brilliant minds in the banking industry managed to make such a complete mess of things, he drew on a number of historical, mainly military, examples, including Chancellorsville, Gallipoli and the recent Iraq war.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2010

And 150+ new videos bring real-world context through stories from Harvard Business School faculty, industry executives and emerging leaders." Comprehensive search capability enables learners to filter by topic, media type and relevancy and guided navigation options help learners get where they want based on available time and interest.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

What does micro-learning mean to the e-learning industry? But it certainly can satisfy needs for additional personal development and fill in all the gaps left after basic training. It can also fit into blended solutions, either as preparation for practical application or as on-going follow-up.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And don't forget those organisations - typically cottage industries - that provide training services to the big boys, but have had neither the capital nor the technical expertise to integrate e-learning into their offerings. But this year we have seen a major shift.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2008

It was interesting to review again what I had to say about the effects of the current downturn on e-learning, most notably that e-learning stands to benefit more than most industries. Recent conversations with suppliers confirm that business is booming and that designers and developers are in short supply.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

The report's authors characterise the purveyors of these instruments as an industry bedevilled by vested interests that tout 'a bedlam of contradictory claims' and express concerns about the temptation to classify, label and stereotype individuals." This is not to say that learner differences do not matter.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2006

The culture of the e-learning industry is dominated by technological and engineering values and beliefs. The discourse within the industry centres round mechanisation and efficiency, rather than a consideration of peoples' real-life problems, and meeting their learning needs effectively.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The question is: What issues and trends do you think are having a major impact on the industry—and should be on the hot list for the blog to tackle? The latest Big Questio n on the ASTD Learning Circuits blog is designed to set the agenda for discussion over the coming months.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2010

But if you want to be right up to the minute, all you have to do now is subscribe to the leading blogs, follow the industry experts on Twitter and perhaps attend the occasional webinar. The traditional means for staying on top of new developments – conferences and trade magazines – are going as strong as ever.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Most importantly you need to get connected with others in the industry. If you prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Not that many people actually will, because as Steve points out: "It's a sad fact, but if you read just one book a year during the course of your career, you'll be among the top five per cent most learned people in the industry. Indeed, you could probably claim guru status." " Tags: reviews creativity.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Recently we have seen the release of two annual reports - the ASTD's 2007 State of the Industry Report and Training Magazine's 2007 Industry Report. Both show similar growth in the use of e-learning in the USA.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 29, 2009

E-learning seems to be at the tipping point; as an industry we are no longer racked by self-doubt, because we're hearing so many great case studies. There clearly is a heightened interest in e-learning as organisations look to cut budgets and speed up training delivery - in this way e-learning seems counter-recessionary.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2008

But don't make this into a beauty parade involving the whole industry. I understand that, to ensure prices stay competitive and that no favours are being exchanged behind the scenes, organisations do have to put work out to tender, at least from time to time. Otherwise you're just taking the mickey.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Rob Chapman pulls no punches in this outspoken opinion piece about the fate of the elearning industry." Here's how the synopsis reads: "Like the Atkins diet, numerous boy bands and the dot com bubble, is elearning no more than just a passing fad?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Great work can be achieved by cottage industries but not always on the scale needed to solve problems of global proportion. Surely there is a call here for the sort of money that only governments can call upon, to bring together the very best expertise available anywhere to take projects of this sort ahead with passion and without compromise.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Many thanks must go to e-learning developers Epic for putting together this event and allowing their own industry to be placed under the microscope. Today saw a tremendous gathering of the who's who of UK learning technologies in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union.

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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".

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

By and large, the figures coming out of industry surveys in recent times have been kind to e-learning. There's more of it about and a generally positive disposition, at least in the case of employers, to use more of it in future.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2007

As early as 1984 I can remember working on a highly-innovative, game-based videodisc for pharmaceutical reps, that used all sorts of fab video effects (including a nevigatable 3D mock-up of a hospital), that won an industry award, appeared on the BBC, but which was hopelessly off-beam in terms of its application.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2006

Of course this doesn't apply to all walks of life, but it certainly does in the media industry, where bloggers, wiki contributors, podcasters, musicians and others can reach as wide an audience as many a media giant and often with a better product. a PC with a microphone, keyboard, speakers and a lot of fancy software).

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Previously Dick was Vice-President for Systems and Information at a Los Angeles-based dot.com company thedock.com, an industrial auction site, and before that was Director of ICT at both Sheffield College and Doncaster College, two of Europe's largest Further Education institutions.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Well, I certainly feel they will need exemplars to follow, by which I mean blogs written by people just like them, not by industry gurus. Will it just be the 1% or can we be more optimistic. They will have to feel they are not being judged.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2005

For the news media read the training industry and you'll see where I'm coming from. E-learning (and for that matter a great deal of classroom training) is founded on 20th century assumptions about the roles and responsibilities of trainers and learners in the process of learning.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 11, 2013

Growth Engineering , working with Aggregate Industries and the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM), to offer 19 ISMM qualifications entirely online to 400 sales people and sales managers at Aggregate. Some 1500 members are now studying online, with 691 passes to date.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2012

You have greater credibility with the client: in the awards judging I participated in recently, I encountered several organisations that concentrate on a single vertical industry (such as oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, healthcare or finance) or a single horizontal slice (such as marketing or sales).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 31, 2007

Now, call me an old cynic, but even when the forecast comes from the impressively titled Global Industry Analysts (whoever they are), I cannot summon up the remotest excitement. A posting by George Siemens alerted me to the startling prediction that the e-Learning Market to hit $56 billion by 2010.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Julie has over 25 years’ experience of teaching and training across a wide range of industry sectors in the UK, Europe and the USA. The training team are very much of the moment and continually looking to improve and move with the times.”

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