Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

My client was primarily engaged in soft skills training (or 'hard skills' as they jokingly call it) for which the style was likely to be relaxed, informal and non-directive. As training shifts from face-to-face to online, from formal to informal, the opportunities for a break from the routine undoubtedly diminish.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Organisations can do their best to satisfy the needs of employees for on-demand information but they will rarely be able to cover it all on a top-down basis. Tags: social networking. in the familiar YouTube fashion Experiential learning : Learning at work is as much about 'learning from' as it is 'learning to'.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Formal courses have taken a bit of a beating in recent years, as the pendulum has swung towards more informal approaches. They don't know what they don't know and cannot be expected to just get out there and network. The third of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘formal courses are not dead, just different'.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I asked the group what worked best for them in bridging their own e-learning skills gaps. Here’s what came back: CIPD course!

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

So what does it mean to be able to interact, as learners, using email, forums, wikis, blogs, social networks and the like? Was it sufficiently speedy and flexible to be desirable? It was a last resort. Quite a lot I reckon. There are considerable advantages to asynchronous learning: It allows time for reflection.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

His leaning is towards rich blends, going beyond the typical classroom plus e-learning mix to include both formal and informal elements. There is a strong incentive to share, particularly in the technical disciplines and, as a result, networking is vibrant. Every employee is encouraged to establish a profile on the network.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting an ALT / eLearning Network webinar which featured two of my favourite commentators on the subject of instructional design, Cathy Moore and Patrick Dunn. The theme for both speakers was very much shifting the emphasis in design away from information to experience.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 12, 2011

For many of us who have been involved in e-learning for quite some time, the ‘big LMS’ has disappeared off the radar to some extent, particularly with the increased focus on informal and collaborative learning. Bridging competency gaps through informal as well as formal means. Social network analysis.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 10, 2009

You don't get this information from a presentation, a report, even a blog, yet somehow it brings you much closer to the real person - you feel like friends, even if you've never met. Once you have a relationship with your Twitter network, you can start to be a little more demanding. Tags: social networking Twitter.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

The discussion centred on social networking: "The explosion of social networking sites in recent years has prompted some serious reflection on the state of modern friendship. Of the 16 hours that regular internet users spend online a week, 11 hours are spent social networking (hardly seems credible - maybe I misheard!).

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

What the BBC team accomplished was to take an informal, peer-learning approach and fold it into a formal l&d intervention. Rather than asking employees to replicate the effort they put into their out-of-work network, the system now hooks into external channels like Facebook and Twitter directly. This is still a vital role, however.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

Media sharing at 48%, wikis at 47%, blogs at 45%, social networks at 41%, content ratings at 13%. Command and control doesn't fit well with informal and collaborative learning approaches, and given the current crisis there's even more command and control than usual to contend with. Tags: social networking research.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2010

Twitter is definitely accelerating the spread of useful information across the learning community and this has to be a good thing. I’m concerned that we’re all becoming very good at passing interesting information on from one to another, but not actually reading and reflecting on any of it.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 16, 2009

the provision of networking opportunities? information and training? As part-time chair of one of these bodies, the eLearning Network , and an active user or contributor to just about all the others, I’m up for change. Is it administered by its own members? Just don’t expect it to be easy.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

A portfolio of learning assets was created, which included ‘above the line’ learning interventions (instructor-led classroom and online classroom) as well as ‘below the line’ (e-learning, email and phone support, with corporate social networking groups). If needs be, employees can ring the IS Service Centre or one of the trainers.”

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 to organisations is not exclusively a learning issue - it permeates all aspects of the way in which people network and collaborate.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The big question: predictions for 2010 The World in Figures 2010 1000 tweets but still not sure why February Homo Competens – learning, doing, sharing (review) How professionals learn The one-sided battle Confessions of a public speaker (review) The secrets of success (review) Just why do Aussies, Brits and Italians network so much online?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

And it isn’t just young adults doing this – it would not be unusual to find me checking out information on my smart phone while my wide plays a game on the iPad, as we both watch a TV programme. When the programme gets interesting, our focus will switch, because you really can’t concentrate on two things at once.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Hierarchies, unlike networks and ecologies, do not permit rapid adaptation to trends outside of established structure. Knowledge extends beyond the individual to their personal network of trusted 'nodes', both sources of content and other people with specialist knowledge. The act of knowledge is offloaded onto the network itself."

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2008

If you prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences. The sources for this will vary enormously from country to country. Most importantly you need to get connected with others in the industry.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2010

My goal is to expose the hype and promote an informed discussion of evidence-based strategies that postsecondary institutions can use to harness the power of Web 2.0 " This certainly accords with my experience. and other learning technologies."

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

" Communication and networking : Technology supports a continuum of social interaction, increasing learners' ability to network with their peers and communicate with their tutors." " This is an interesting perspective. When technology is so pervasive, is the term e-learning still meaningful or relevant?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 22, 2009

This week I was lucky enough to present at the World Summit on the Information Society, hosted by the ITU, a UN agency, in Geneva. Smart phones are, of course, small computers and, in many cases, they can take advantage of broadband connection using 3G networks. This is where e-learning is going, full stop.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2008

According to the announcement , Saba Social will incorporate "comprehensive social networking tools - blogs, communities of practice, wikis, discussion boards and social connection capabilities will enable people to conduct informal knowledge exchange, build connected communities and extend blended learning."

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2008

laden with musicians trumpeting blogs, wikis and social networks. Well, it comes from the realisation that blended learning and informal learning are not actually mutually exclusive concepts; in fact I will argue that they make very compatible bed-fellows. Now, if I was cynical (and most Brits are), I’d spot an opportunity here.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

" Now I've met Rob Chapman and he's both a nice guy and a successful businessman, but well-informed he certainly is not. Where Rob is most clearly ill-informed is in the way he characterises e-learning as exclusively a self-study activity, conducted in isolation.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2008

We can over-do the play in learning: "We can find ourselves stressing action and creativity at the expense of scholarship and information. Prior knowledge is persistent - the connections in these physical networks of neurons are strong. " Zull recommends a balanced approach. We risk trivialising learning."

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 8, 2008

Nicola's proposition was that, while rapid content development had its merits, much more important was agile development.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Instead he quotes this process by James Webb Young: Gather as much raw information as possible. I enjoyed taking the following quote and substituting training for marketing: "In hard times, clients can't afford to throw money at a marketing problem and agencies can't afford to do work that goes unnoticed.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2007

You consult your network, you explore available resources, you may even document what you find for the benefit of others. Proactive learning can be packaged up as a formal course (on-job, classroom, online, blended) or be as informal as reading an article, attending a conference session or contributing to a forum.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 4, 2008

At the eLearning Network showcase event in July, I attended an interesting presentation on the use of learning communities made by Carole Bower of Futuremedia. The widgets allow users to view information about their performance and career development and to customise the user interface in a similar way to iGoogle.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

Peter describes himself as an information architect, which cynics (heaven forbid) might describe as a highly impressive rebranding for those formerly known as librarians. Important as new informal and bottom-up approaches to learning are becoming, the reality is that top-down methods have a vital and enduring role. I'm glad I did.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Rapid development The lower tier would be 'good enough' digital content, designed to communicate simple information or provide basic knowledge without fuss. tools for informal learning. Enter Nick Shackleton-Jones, Manager, Online & Informal Learning for the BBC.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2008

As someone who uses Moodle as a tool to support blended learning projects for several of my corporate clients, I was interested to hear Mark Tointon's speak at the recent eLearning Network showcase about some new add-ons for Moodle which are specifically designed to support corporate use of the tool.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 6, 2008

Hierarchies, unlike networks and ecologies, do not permit rapid adaptation to trends outside of established structure. These developments have really come home to me lately as I have been participating in the design of a series of face-to-face conference events for the eLearning Network (eLN).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2007

It is also interesting to see the take-up of social networking across Internet users in the various age groups: 15-25: 31%, 25-44: 24%, 45-64: 24%, 65+: 10%. Indeed, far from being just a young person's technology, one quarter of all UK internet users are over 50 and the over-50s account for 30% of total time spent online."

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

I don't regard this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been there as long as we have had learning professionals. Who was responsible for providing reference information and other job aids - the line, specialist technical writers or specialist trainers?

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