Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

That is, a belief that if we’re provided with the appropriate information, we can crank out a solution. Why, don’t you just distribute the information across the screen and add a quiz? If we’re just asking people whether they like it, we don’t really know if it’s working.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 30, 2022

Asking around, my colleagues suggested it’s more like information architecture. I know a bit about information architecture, but not a lot. Which is good for information, but not necessarily for learning. Of course, your learning objectives should provide a guide.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Times change, and we’re now in an information age. The advent of the digital computer, a general purpose information system, is a natural next step. We’re information processing machines, so aren’t we like computers? Information dump and knowledge test are a natural consequence of this perspective.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2008

Donald Clark raises an issue on his blog about confounding informal with Web 2.0, However, how much have we invested in the informal? My take, at least, is that there needs to be some up-front investment in the informal, but then it (should) become self-perpetuating (with the usual maintenance/upgrade/review costs).

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 15, 2021

So providing a safe sandbox for exploration is a support for learning. Similarly, have low consequences for mistakes generated through informal learning. Exploration also drives informal learning. We learn to minimize surprise , but we also act to generate surprise. That is, making learning safe.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

the human information processing system model*), the underlying picture is of a more interactive system. Marcia Conner, in her book Learn More Now mentioned how neuropeptides passed information around the body. In short, learning is about more than just information dump and knowledge test. We need to do better.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2023

Which were ‘provide information’ and then a listing of content! Sure, we’ll ask these questions through the mechanisms they provide, and it shows we know what we’re talking about. However, too often what’s given doesn’t give enough to actually propose a solution. What do I mean?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2022

Someone, of course, asked how do you then work with SMEs to get the necessary information. Novices can let you know what they found hard to understand, and supervisors provide insight into what performers typically do wrong. All are helpful information for different parts of the learning.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 4, 2022

There was an emphasis on evidence-informed speakers and content. We need to promote those who are translating research into evidence-informed practices. The goal is to fill in the gaps of the books we should have, and provide a better relationship with authors. There were also some asynch workshops. I can align with that.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 4, 2023

We can provide practice around the specific associated tasks. I fear that part of the answer is a legacy belief that we’re formal logical reasoning beings and so new information will change our behavior. Still, we can make practice assignments around these. What really is the biggest problem is ‘awareness’ courses.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The intent is to provide a tool whereby organizations can understand what the possibilities are, assess themselves, and prioritize directions to move and improve. We also start looking at informal learning, the continual innovation. Then we incorporate informal learning, and finally where measurement’s naturally part of our 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. Another way I get my mind around new understandings is by representing information structure. I’ve switched to use this as my search engine, as it’s less-tracking, and provides good results.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

With concise prose and concrete examples, this book provides the framework to take your learning experience designs from instructional to transformational! Then, the rigor of academic training in writing and reading should provide a reasonable expectation of quality. I hope that suggests why I think it’s important.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We know that we should provide a sufficient quantity of appropriately challenging contextualized practice with aligned feedback, for instance. We see, instead, information presentation. Despite that fact that humans are complex, and increasingly so are our learning goals, there exist robust principles.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2023

Not just performance support, but here I’m talking about informal and social learning, e.g. innovation. Thus, knowing how learning works provides a good basis for assisting here. There are both principled and practical reasons for this.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2023

It was designed as a complement to my learning science book , to provide a complete LXD picture. I run workshops online and face-to-face on this because it’s my passionate and informed belief, not because it’s going to make me rich (it won’t). What I didn’t expect was the advent of the LLM AIs.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

So it’s difficult to get them to provide good support for acquiring skills or understanding. Don’t think the SME can just give you information; you’ll have to process what you get to rearrange it into something useful. Another problem is that experts also lose touch with what they grappled with as novices.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

We reinforce practice with content that guides performance and provides feedback. Yes, we look to engage multiple senses, but for comprehending and encoding information. It can be mini-scenarios (better multiple choice), branching, or sims, but it’s about ‘do’, not know. And variety.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2021

If you’re gonna use icons, provide a guide! Put information in the world! The support section of the site did list the error codes, but numerically, not by icon. So, I had an indication I couldn’t map to a problem, let alone a solution. . This is a real flaw! Don’t assume they’re interpretable.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 10, 2022

They’re competency-based, providing explicit levels of capability. Extending the learning experience should include both formal and informal mechanisms. What I want to suggest, however, is that not doing the latter, the scenarios, is going to keep any initiative from having the biggest impact. This shouldn’t stand alone.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The tools to access information are quite literally in the palm of their hands. Performance consulting is a process to identify the real problem and cause, and provide appropriate solutions. We need to branch out into informal and social learning. It’s about thinking strategically. Instead a new role is needed.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Also, of course, to make the point that a cognitive perspective provides important insight.). Similarly, for design my explorations include architecture, software engineering, graphic, product, information, and more. I want to dig a wee bit further into the cognitive and formal aspects of this to backstop her points.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Trying to point out why it’s appealing, showing why they’re wrong, and providing alternative approaches that are sounder. It’s pretty horrific to think of VR being used to present information (like attending a PowerPoint presentation in 2nd Life, which happened); to do it on such a flawed concept is doubly scary.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2019

And that’s about rethinking training to be about transformative experience design, performance support to be included, and informal learning to be also addressed. If you’ve known my work at all, you know that I’ve been pushing a L&D revolution. That’s intellectricity ! And, importantly, prescriptions.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Knowledge dump and information test, I rail, is not going to lead to meaningful outcomes. I regularly rant about the quality of the learning designs we see. Consequently, I work to promote more learning science in what we do. However, I have to acknowledge that frequently, the problem isn’t in the designer, but in the requester.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2021

This is a four week course, with videos to present the information, then live sessions to practice application, and takeaway assignments from the Learning Development Accelerator. Together, I think these three workshops provide the knowledge foundations you need to run a L&D operation. It’s by the Allen Academy directly.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2018

In thinking through my design checklist, I was pondering how information comes from SMEs, and the role it plays in learning design. Information that helps guide learners’ performance while they compile away their expertise. There’s also other useful information SMEs can give us. Which isn’t all SMEs!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

You can also search for information, using DuckDuckGo or Google, or going straight to Wikipedia or other appropriate information resources you know. To make sense of the information, you can do either or both of representing your understanding and experimenting. And there’re are different details in each.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 18, 2022

This means things like offering to help when you’ve useful information to provide. I suggest it has to do with creating an environment in which people can work together for organizational success in an optimal way. That is, if we’re helping make the workplace pleasant, we’re making it effective.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. Learners can ask for, or even be provided, support more closely tied to their performance situations regardless of location. We can look up information as well, if our portals are well-designed.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 4, 2014

We need a coherent foundation upon which to base foundations, and arbitrary information doesn’t help. If I see a ‘click to learn more’, for instance, I have good clue that someone’s presenting arbitrary information. Presenting arbitrary information isn’t going to do that. So what do you do?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This typically done with a camera that registers what you’re seeing, and then adds information to the visual field. But what occurred to me is that there’re more ways to augment the world with useful information. And this information also can augment our world. This extra information in the world is very helpful.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Now, if the system uses this information to do something different than under other circumstances, we’re contextualizing what we do. Does the greater detail provide greater benefit? It can be combinations, of course, e.g. a picture at this time and this location.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2014

A good model, with rich conceptual relationships, provides a basis for explaining what has happened, and predicting what will happen, giving us a basis for making decisions. To put that into context (see what I did there): with desktop learning, augmenting formal could be emails that provide new examples or practice that spread out over time.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We’re seeing changes in the information flow, in technology, and in what we know about ourselves. We’re being overwhelmed with information, and that rate is accelerating. On the other hand, our tools to manage the information flow are also advancing. Informal and social learning is the work.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I think a good heuristic (ala Cathy Moore’s Action Mapping ) is just to have them do what they need to do, and give them the necessary information. Now, you can’t provide all the situations, you you need to choose the right ones that will help facilitate abstraction and transfer.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Yes, university degrees aren’t necessarily just employment preparation, but I’m thinking about a degree program that provides a useful preparation for the coming world. A second such areas is understanding information technology. Then, the question is, what complements these to provide a solid foundation.

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