Clive on Learning

APRIL 16, 2014

Above all, this list encourages me towards blended solutions that cross the boundary from formal to informal. Some 26% use their devices to access work resources and another 23% would be happy to if the right resources were available. It will take some time to digest this information and see where it takes us.

Learner 102

Learner Blended Learning Blended Social Media 102

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

However, he made the distinction between e-learning and blended learning as essentially ways of delivering courses, whereas online learning was more about learners accessing resources in a more informal way. It also proves just how strongly people (at least Nick and Barry) feel about the shift in emphasis from courses to resources.

Blended Learning 89

Blended Learning Online Learning Online Blended 89

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. Most micro-learning resources are under five minutes, but 10 minutes could work. We’ve been developing solutions based on many, short digital learning resources for many years now. They get exhausted.

Micro-Learning 49

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.

Content 40

Content Social Networks Streaming Ratio 40

Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Because we have these elaborate schemas, we can pretty well cope with any new information relating to our specialisms. We are very hard to overwhelm or overload, because we can easily relate new information to what we already know, to sort out the credible from the spurious, the important from the trivial. These are the extremes.

Teach 91

Teach Expert Case Study Photography 91

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Often what people really want is not e-learning at all By contrast, this change is revolutionary and driven by the very different experience that we have when we access information online on a day-to-day basis. You know the detailed information will always be available online so you don't bother trying to learn any of that.

Change 103

Change Diversity Training Design Learning Objects 103

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Instructional e-learning is not a great way to convey information. What most people need is information you can go back to when you need it - and no-one does that with e-learning. Whatever the terminology, they represent a useful resource in a whole range of situations, particularly in the context of a blend.

Blended Learning 107

Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Case Study Simulations 107

Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2018

Sometimes the intention is simply to provide information at the point of need, sometimes to stimulate reflection and discussion, sometimes to allow a learner to explore a subject in depth. In particular, I would argue, we need the right balance between three critical elements: information , in the form of our principal learning point(s)?

Information Overload 49

Information Overload PENS Ratio Learning Objects 49

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. What additional information needs to be provided as on-demand resources. What, if any, learning is required to support this change in performance. Where are they based?

Learner 74

Learner Attitudes Micro-Learning Performance Support 74

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They cannot imagine an effective learning resource that is not liberally sprinkled with opportunities to interact: Plain text is frowned at, yet strangely not in blogs or on the WIkipedia. After all, these are the tools we use every day to learn informally, which is not something you will often be able to say about the online tutorial.

Virtual Classroom 80

Virtual Classroom Blended Learning Tutorial Wikipedia 80

Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

It might seem counter-productive when resources are very tight to offer a more personalised service, but there are ways in which this can be achieved without incurring additional cost: You can start by adopting a more modular architecture for your interventions.

Strategy 79

Strategy Asynchronous Synchronous Suite 79

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Even when we put in place facilities and resources to support on-demand learning, we still have a forward looking focus, trying to get ahead of the game, even if only at the last minute. Our survival did not depend upon exposing ourselves to organised, pre-planned packets of information.

Brain 98

Brain Lecture Performance Support Policies 98

Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2011

After all, the majority of learning has always been informal, taking place, as it does, outside the confines of something packaged up as a course. The informal element needs supporting too, as I explain in The New Learning Architect. See my previous posting on courses and resources. This slider may seem a little confusing.

Synchronous 83

Synchronous Low Cost Blended Learning Asynchronous 83

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. You concentrate hard and hope that some of what you read or hear will stick.

Blended Learning 101

Blended Learning Instructional Design Instructional Instruction 101

Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2015

To what additional information must they have access in order to meet the performance requirements? This complements the previous question because there is likely to be a lot more information to which people need ready access than they need to actually remember. Think resources rather than courses where possible.

Performance Support 40

Performance Support Budget Blended Learning Analysis 40

Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2015

To what additional information must they have access in order to meet the performance requirements? This complements the previous question because there is likely to be a lot more information to which people need ready access than they need to actually remember. Think resources rather than courses where possible.

Performance Support 40

Performance Support Budget Blended Learning Analysis 40

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Facilitation: the skills needed to run successful live online learning events. I asked the group what worked best for them in bridging their own e-learning skills gaps. Here’s what came back: CIPD course!

Skills 72

Skills iTunes Slideshare Screencast 72

Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2012

Much was made at the conference of the shift from courses to resources, from just-in-case learning to just-in-time. There is no doubt that expectations are shifting as we make increasing use of on-demand resources, whether these are packaged as content or involve interaction with peers and experts.

Wiki 74

Wiki Course Communities of Practice Conference 74

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.

Compliance Training 75

Compliance Training Compliance Blended Learning Strategy 75

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The underlying rationale is that employees will develop, and make use of available resources, where they feel the need to do so. What the BBC team accomplished was to take an informal, peer-learning approach and fold it into a formal l&d intervention.

Compliance Training 72

Compliance Training Social Networks Attitudes Social Media 72

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 17, 2011

I wanted to know whether Saba, one of the most successful of the big LMSs, could reinvent itself to accommodate informal learning. There is some overlap: both types of platforms can deliver resources and both can support certain types of learning activities. But the nature of those resources and activities is typically very different.

Totara 77

Totara Moodle VLE LMS 77

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. She was sharing her thoughts about the emerging role of the curator in organisations which have established systems to encourage user-generated content. Overload causes depression.

Social Media 73

Social Media Information Overload Media Brain 73

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

When to simply present information, when to use an instructional approach, when guided discovery works better, when to create a resource. I usually get people to work on these assignments in pairs, to reduce the pressure and get them used to the idea that design is, more often than not, collaborative.

Blended Learning 88

Blended Learning Design Learning Objects Theory 88

Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2019

Well, like before, we need intelligence and to achieve this we have the same three choices – we inform the learner so they can choose what to do next, we provide reports to third parties, such as teachers, so they can provide advice, or we update the system so it can use its own intelligence. How do we use this data?

Digital 72

Digital Gamification Learning Objects Score 72

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2013

But more and more often now there's no real need - you can simply supply all the required information as resources, for people to access as and when needed. It's not difficult to teach rules and procedures - sound instructional practices will probably do the trick.

Cognitive 91

Cognitive Simulations Coaching Teach 91

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. Learning is a very human experience. People need people.

Content 58

Content Voiceover Digital Adoption 58

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Instructional e-learning is not a great way to convey information. What most people need is information you can go back to when you need it - and no-one does that with e-learning. Whatever the terminology, they represent a useful resource in a whole range of situations, particularly in the context of a blend.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Case Study Simulations 40

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But I've been finding it quite useful recently as a way of explaining the learner's journey as they develop new skills and I'm finding a very snug fit with Nick Shackleton-Jones ' concept of courses and resources (see my post on this ), currently my favourite way of explaining the relationship between formal and informal learning.

Case Study 74

Case Study Simulations Wikipedia Theory 74

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Harnessing informal learning There was an assumption that students would jump at the chance to use chat rooms and forums, however without active support and guidance such chat rooms were often ‘like the Marie Celeste’. In Dick’s view “it is almost an oxymoron to try and control informal learning.” Perhaps we are conditioned by adverts.”

Screencast 78

Screencast Director Learning Simulations 78

Clive on Learning

AUGUST 11, 2011

We have to get used to working smarter and for l&d that's likely to mean: less courses, more resources : teach the really important things well and back this up with information available on-demand.

Social Media 72

Social Media Enterprise Teach Expertise 72

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. Learning is a very human experience. People need people.

Content 40

Content Voiceover Digital Adoption 40

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2010

I have stopped using my blog to share resources, provide updates or make brief comments - these have all graduated to Twitter. Twitter is definitely accelerating the spread of useful information across the learning community and this has to be a good thing. So, what has all this activity achieved?

Twitter 69

Twitter Ratio Community Tagging 69

Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Darren Owen started work with the company in 2005 and became involved with Project Horizon, a major enterprise resource planning (ERP) project. At first the habit was to follow the old familiar route and to ignore the online resource, but that habit has since been reversed.

Simulations 66

Simulations Performance Support Classroom Learning 66

Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

The team also uses Bupa Live for more informal training needs analysis to gather requirements directly from the learner audience. Bupa Live acts as a valuable repository for more informal learning resources, but direct links can easily be made to Bupa Learn, the Saba-based LMS.

Blended Learning 70

Blended Learning Virtual Classroom Diversity Training Saba 70

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Latest CEGOS survey shows how Europe is shaping up for learning technologies The iPad is your ultimate travel companion Training is hard work There's no need to aspire to Hollywood content July Social media in the UK 2010 Is informal learning more style than substance? So how are people really using the iPad?

Case Study 65

Case Study Big Question iPad Enterprise 2.0 65

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

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. You concentrate hard and hope that some of what you read or hear will stick.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Instructional Instruction Predictions 40

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.

Folksonomy 40

Folksonomy Technorati Taxonomy Web 40