Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The most common manifestation of this, in my experience, is to provide the same solution for those with a great deal of prior knowledge as for those who are relative beginners. Because we have these elaborate schemas, we can pretty well cope with any new information relating to our specialisms. These are the extremes.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

They will be provided with specific and timely feedback. With this strategy, a subject expert presents information to the – largely passive – learner. When it comes to the inevitable exam, you will cram as much information as you can into some sort of temporary memory space to help you overcome this hurdle.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

Learning professionals have no real difficulty in supporting the formal element of their work, i.e. providing access to courses. Here, LMS functionality is provided within the context of your principal day-to-day tool for learning, knowledge-sharing and collaboration, not the other way round. However, there is a key difference.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a learning context, video provides a compelling means for conveying content, particularly real-life action and interactions with people. Interviews People love looking at and listening to other people, particularly if they are providing useful information concisely and in a relaxed, informal manner.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This time I’ll suggest a process that you can follow to provide an effective curation service to a population of employees in your organisation. This information will help to make sure your efforts are adequately targeted. Analyse needs The process starts with analysing the needs of the population for whom you will be curating content.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

People have always struggled to maintain concentration on new information for more than 5-10 minutes when they are new to that field of study. They simply don’t have enough hooks to connect to the new information. Cramming provides short-term benefits but these quickly fade. They get exhausted.

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Micro-Learning Compliance Training Case Study Simulations 58

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2013

We have already discussed how easy it is to overload learners with information, particularly abstract theory, facts and procedures. Generally speaking it’s best to provide the learner with the absolute minimum amount of information they need before they can start practising. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

A computer is not fulfilling its potential by simply pulling in information from a data store and delivering it out to a screen and speakers. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning. Outside work, our employees are spoiled by the adaptive experiences provided by apps such as DuoLingo and the Khan Academy.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2019

One way of reducing this risk is to provide lots of advice within the learning platform – perhaps even employ a chatbot. The reason we might do this is to provide additional motivation to the learner to make progress through the content. Do they know what’s really important? How do we use this data?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This focus will ensure you don’t overload employees with information they don’t need and that, instead, you provide lots of opportunities for them to practise and build confidence. Then ask yourself what employees absolutely must know if they are to do the things that the business needs. Next: Don’t overdo the self-study.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

People have always struggled to maintain concentration on new information for more than 5-10 minutes when they are new to that field of study. They simply don’t have enough hooks to connect to the new information. Cramming provides short-term benefits but these quickly fade. They get exhausted.

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Micro-Learning Compliance Training Case Study Simulations 49

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When, at the end of a course, the instructor handed out a reading list, web links or information about further courses, they were acting as curator – just like in a museum, where the curator selects from the wide range of exhibits in the museum's collection and organises these to make a fulfilling experience for the museum's visitors.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

It also explains why your average facilitator's guide is never quite enough of a foundation on which to run a workshop - however thoroughly it lists all the steps involved in preparing and running the event, it's inadequate if it doesn't also provide you with a repertoire of interesting and illuminating anecdotes.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To learn successfully, it requires us as human beings to exchange information, give and receive feedback, share perspectives, engage together in practical activities, support each other through the bad times and get together to celebrate our successes. The best content provides no barrier to this connection. People need people.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2012

For some time now I have settled on a simple three stage approach for gathering the information I need in order to come up with a design for learning. I was relieved, then, when my colleague Phil Green was able to provide me with a much catchier set of labels - "learning, learners and logistics". The three Ls.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

A computer is not fulfilling its potential by simply pulling in information from a data store and delivering it out to a screen and speakers. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning. Outside work, our employees are spoiled by the adaptive experiences provided by apps such as DuoLingo and the Khan Academy.

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Simulations Slides Player Learning 40

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. You can imagine that providing some opportunity for a little quiet reflection, assuming the content wasn't too new age and pseudo-scientific.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2013

The training is designed to deliver as much dry and abstract information as possible in the minimum time. Knowledge is typically assessed immediately after delivery of the information, invalidating the results. No effort is made to assess whether this information can be applied effectively in context, in other words competence.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

KnowFast is entertaining and informative but, because none of the knowledge is rehearsed, almost all evaporates immediately. Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? For some time we have had the Khan Academy covering maths and Lynda.com providing tech skills.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

And there's no doubt that, when it comes to consuming information, we'd prefer it concise. After all, we want that information to help us achieve some goal and we don't want to take too long in the process. No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. GIGIGO - get in, get it, get out.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

And there's no doubt that, when it comes to consuming information, we'd prefer it concise. After all, we want that information to help us achieve some goal and we don't want to take too long in the process. No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. GIGIGO - get in, get it, get out.

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Content Case Study Blended Learning Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2011

Julie's argument for curation went as follows: We really can have too much information. The content curator finds, groups, organises and shares information. They filter by relevance, categories, how long the content will take to read, the shelf-life of the content, by providing synopses. They provide periodic roundups.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Computers and networks provide so many opportunities to enhance learning in the workplace, but the opportunities are dependent on the use you are making of these tools. As an informal developmental activity, e.g. webinars including presentations and discussions. As tools for sharing best practice, links and information.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

What annoys them is instructional e-learning, particularly that sort that aims to provide knowledge, normally in the form of a tutorial. Instructional e-learning is not a great way to convey information. Instructional e-learning tries to provide knowledge in one hit and this is rarely going to be a successful strategy.

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Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Case Study Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

KnowFast is entertaining and informative but, because none of the knowledge is rehearsed, almost all evaporates immediately. Who does not read web articles, blogs, forum posts and wiki pages to obtain factual information? For some time we have had the Khan Academy covering maths and Lynda.com providing tech skills.

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Micro-Learning Blended Learning Wiki Brain 40

Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

They expect it because they have grown accustomed to finding whatever information they need at the click of a mouse from Google, YouTube and Wikipedia. Providing this sort of flexibility is not always practical, but it should at least be an aim. and providing alternatives can be beneficial, if not compulsory.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 24, 2012

Not 'courses' - although they may also provide some of these - but 'resources'. Decision aids, perhaps coded in Flash or JavaScript, but sometimes more simply provided as spreadsheets. It would be unforgivable not to take full advantage of the opportunities which this equipment provides, so I set about getting myself genned up.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

The book provides you with fundamental principles that you can apply to any content creation activity as well as practical information relating to specific content types. Digital learning content takes a wide variety of forms, including tutorials, scenarios, podcasts, screencasts, videos, slideshows, quizzes and reference materials.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

I made the point that, more often than not, new designers are provided with plenty of instructional design theory, but nowhere near enough time to practise and get feedback. When to simply present information, when to use an instructional approach, when guided discovery works better, when to create a resource.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before I take my leave for Christmas, I thought I'd provide you with this summary of all my posts on Clive on Learning in 2011. November Profile of a learning architect: Darren Owen Shepherd accused of sensationalist claptrap Beware who's selling informal learning * Blending is a continuum Want to write?

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Blended Learning Big Question Social Media Totara 68

Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor. For this profile we turn to Rob Bartlett from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 77

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

To quote from their latest benchmark report, demonstrating value means: 'Closing the value loop from strategic objective to achievement – and ensuring that stakeholders are kept fully informed along the way.' A typical formal intervention - classroom or e-learning - provides valuable input but very rarely sees the job through.

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Evalution Kirkpatrick Blended Learning Performance Support 84

Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rob has achieved success by integrating formal and informal learning activities in pursuit of clear strategic business objectives. The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor. For this profile, we turn to Rob Bartlett, from Farm Credit in Canada.

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Communities of Practice SharePoint SAP Mentoring 75

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2012

So, in the majority of cases, the multiple-choice quiz placed at the end of an e-learning module is going to tell you very little that matters (and even when the objectives are for simple knowledge transfer, this is far too early to provide any meaningful evidence).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

I have long resigned myself to the fact that L&D is one of the most conservative professions going and is finding it very hard to believe that its role as provider of classroom courses is becoming less and less relevant. It should also not be that surprising if they find very similar results in another two or three years.

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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. Blended solutions do much more than provide variety or choice. Most importantly, they can cross the boundary from formal to informal, making sure that learning is embedded in real-work experience.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To learn successfully, it requires us as human beings to exchange information, give and receive feedback, share perspectives, engage together in practical activities, support each other through the bad times and get together to celebrate our successes. The best content provides no barrier to this connection. People need people.

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