Clark Quinn

JANUARY 11, 2022

I was extremely pleased when she referred to my Revolutionize Learning & Development book , and posted a diagram from it. To be fair, suggesting that L&D take responsibility for informal learning could be considered a stretch. It’s about formal learning, but also more. So, innovation is an opportunity.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 15, 2021

Learning, I suggest, is action and reflection. Thus, in my mind, exploration is a critical concept for learning. In learning, we must experiment (e.g. In learning, we must experiment (e.g. We learn to minimize surprise , but we also act to generate surprise. That is, making learning safe.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2022

Formal learning? Informal learning? To start with, I generally think of formal learning as the starting point. For instance, in thinking about performance & development (as an alternative to learning & development), I put training first. Here, the order is: Formal Learning. Informal Learning.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Overall, there seems to be no awareness of the whole thrust of social and informal learning. Ok, so Jay’s book on Informal Learning is relatively new, and the concrete steps may still be being sorted out, but there’s a lot there.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As the broader picture, I’m talking about working ‘ wiser ‘ I’ll suggest it’s about better aligning with how our brains think, work, and learn. For one, it is about helping educate about learning science, and how it should be the foundation for what we do. This manifests in several ways.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 21, 2009

social, informal, [enter your own bizbuzz phrase here] strategy. Some are instituted from different organizations, like under the CIO, and others have emerged from the learning function with the organization. The interesting thing is how the actions are blurring the notion that there are tight boundaries between formal and informal.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 15, 2019

The article is about a (hypothetical) learning journey, and talks about how learning objects are part of that learning process. It’s inherently saying we don’t trust our learners to be good at learning. I don’t expect learners (or SMEs for that matter) to know learning. Always a great thing!

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay‘s lifetime of work. They share their work in public and often challenge conventional wisdom.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Script: Hi, I’m Clark Quinn, Executive Director of Quinnovation (my vehicle for learning experience design strategy). Today I want to talk about an insight I had, sparked in a conversation I had with a colleague. We were talking about learning (of course), and the difference between knowledge versus practice. But not all.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Someone on LinkedIn asked about a way to evaluate orgs on their learning infrastructure. And I had developed a Performance Ecosystem Maturity Model as part of Revolutionize Learning & Development, but…I hadn’t presented it. Recently, someone asked about an organizational learning maturity model.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2021

We award it to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning. 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 announce the award on 5 July, Jay’s birthday.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2018

Yes, learning is really about strengthening neural links. For instruction, and other aspects like performance support and informal learning, however, cognitive (or social) is the right level. And, to be clear, learning sciences are a subset of the cognitive sciences. Invest in solid learning and performance design first.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

These days, if someone posts some learning myth, people tend to let me know. Another way to bucket me would be the learning science person (my next book ). Similarly, the learning science book coming out is a primer on the underlying cognitive science and the implications for learning design. And, as always, the text.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

Donald Clark raises an issue on his blog about confounding informal with Web 2.0, and the point I found interesting is his query about the 80/20 in/formal learning metrics. The formal learning probably takes more resources, over time, as there’s more development required. Typically, bugger all. What say you?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

If it looks like school, it must be learning. We’ve all been to school, so we know what learning looks like, right? Maybe reading and writing, but beyond that, what did you learn about business, leadership, etc? And how did you learn those things? Informal learning isn’t our job.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2023

Too often, we think about ‘learning’ as the end goal, and it’s not. (I’ve We need to rethink and ask about doing, not learning; we need to ask about people: what to do ? To start with, for organizational needs we don’t learn for intellectual self-gratification. We’re focusing on outcomes.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2019

The revolutionary point of view is that organizations need both optimal execution and continual innovation (read: learning). However, learning science is pushing us to recognize that we can do better. Information dump and knowledge test isn’t going to lead to any change in behavior.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Which led to an ongoing series of activities that have some learnings both at the technical and learning side. So I thought I’d share my learnings about sites. So, the important thing: tech stuff ends up being complicated, but what helps are the same innovation (aka informal learning) steps as always.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 20, 2011

A recent request for feedback on new learning technology research areas highlighted areas they thought were important, and a subset naturally struck me: the connection between formal and informal learning : an interest of mine since I first noticed the gap in organizations. Anyone game?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2019

So when I parsed her “from training to modern workplace learning”, it resonated in many ways. And that’s about rethinking training to be about transformative experience design, performance support to be included, and informal learning to be also addressed. I just think of that as spaced learning ;).

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2019

He had been touting the value of Informal Learning, and realized he was doing it alone. When Jay passed away, we determined to honor his ideas by recognizing those who continue to carry the banner for informal learning. We announce the ITA memorial award on 5 July, Jay’s birthday.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 11, 2020

It’s about not just courses on a phone, but: Augmenting formal learning: extending it. Social: tapping into the power of social and informal learning. It’s about extending formal learning, not just delivering it. And aligning with how we really learn, because it really does have to be effective.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

Harold Jarche’s elegantly crafted announcement: The Internet Time Alliance Memorial Award , in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

However, that’s what learning’s all about, right? It’s partly formal and partly informal learning, yet this is what I do. So here’s to more learning! I’m positive and committed, but I also have to acknowledge the shift from my comfort zone.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And, as I just ordered new business cards, I put Intellectricity as the tagline instead of “Learning & Performance Strategy” or other permutations with Technology and such in the title. You’ve likely heard or read me harp many times on how companies aren’t well aligned with how we think, work, and learn.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2020

The Internet Time Alliance Award, in memory of Jay Cross , is presented to a workplace learning professional who has contributed in positive ways to the field of Informal Learning and is reflective of Jay’s lifetime of work. Andrew is determined that learning and development should be an integral part of business activity.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Going back to being effective, that means that when we design courses, we need to effectively integrate learning science with true engagement. And then, it’s about facilitating social and informal learning: t apping into the power of our people, creating a learning culture, assisting the organization in systematic in good practices. .

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

I referred to supporting the activities that we find in natural learning, for both formal and informal learning. Crash : our commitment means we make mistakes, and learn from them. Create : we design, we build, we are active in our learning. Create : we design, we build, we are active in our learning.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2020

In a document shared with me recently, there was this statement: “The assumption that there will always be a managed learning function” I find that interesting to contemplate. The notion is that once folks are better at self-learning, the reason for organized courses could fade. E.g. will we still need L&D?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

In last night’s #lrnchat on instructional design,there was some discussion of the term ‘learning facilitator’ versus ‘trainer’ (which now I can’t find!?!), Not how do we believe we should be instructed, but how do we learn? and it got me wondering.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Let’s start with formal learning, or training. Remember, our goals are retention over time until the learning is needed, and transfer to all appropriate situations, not just ones that are seen in the learning experience. Consequently, the ‘massed practice’ of the learning *event* is a broken model!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Two days ago I attended the 3D Teaching, Learning, & Collaboration conference, organized by Tony O’Driscoll. Tony also presented, in particular, some principles about designing learning for virtual worlds (see slide 17 here ). The revelation for me, however, was linking the social informal learning with virtual worlds.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

It looked like lectures, so it must be learning, right? As part of that, we need to create better expectations about what learning is. For one (not surprisingly ;), I think IDs need to know learning science. Then we move to informal learning, facilitating learning. We need to reset expectations.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 24, 2011

In preparation for our webinar with Citrix and the eLearning Guild, I’ve been thinking through the benefits of learning socially, specifically for formal learning. And you submit it, say, in formal learning, and eventually may get feedback from an instructor. That, to me, is the power of social learning.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m trying to capture rethinking about education or formal learning. And start getting more concrete about learning experience design. I want to start thinking about a learning experience as a series of activities, not a progression of content. The latter is an opportunity for meta-learning. This unpacks.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In looking for a title for my forthcoming book on mobile learning, Aaron Silvers took one of the key principles, augmenting performance, and, combining it with a neat complement to my previous book, Engaging Learning , came up with Augmenting Learning. Of course, slow learning is a goal I’d be supportive of as well.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2013

A few years ago, I created a diagram to capture a bit about the technology to support learning ( Big ‘L’ Learning ). The point is to characterize the relationship between underpinning infrastructure and mechanisms to support availability for formal and informal learning. strategy technology'

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