Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It’s that latter that provides the instructional value. Thus, instruction around making better decisions is important. Therefore, instruction using models is going to be valuable! Finally, if models are useful, then they should be part of our instructional toolkit. We want people to make good decisions.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 21, 2022

I’m happy to report that the ebook version of my next tome, Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design From Instructional to Transformational , is now available for pre-order ! With concise prose and concrete examples, this book provides the framework to take your learning experience designs from instructional to transformational!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, direct instruction works (tho’ it’s interpretation is different than the name might imply, I once pointed out how it and constructivism properly construed both really say the same thing ;). . It really is more about whether you’re a novice or a practitioner level and the role of instruction. That’s apples and oranges.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 15, 2021

And instruction should be designed action and guided reflection.) For instruction, then, we need support. Learning, I suggest, is action and reflection. What that action typically ends up being is some sort of exploration (aka experimentation). Thus, in my mind, exploration is a critical concept for learning.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 18, 2023

That’s where this quote comes from: Many approaches to instruction look equivalent when the only measure of learning is memory. Instructional differences become more apparent when evaluated from the perspective of how well the learning transfers to new problems and settings. Thus, they also discuss what understanding means.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 25, 2008

This is partly the same instruction vs. support question we've had all along? then how do you know if the instruction was successful? then how do you know if the instruction was successful? Also, different needs will necessitate different solutions. My quality concerns: Is it instructionally sound?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Will describes transfer as moving learning from the instructional environment to the workplace. Given that, to me, instruction is about engineering success, maximizing likelihoods, I’m all for the latter. Which means it’s time to talk ‘transfer’ So one of our good research translators is Will Thalheimer.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Which underpins why it makes sense to talk about Learning Experience Design (LXD) and not just instructional design. We get good traction from learning science and instructional design approaches, for sure. While we can make distinctions that simplify things in useful ways (e.g. Understanding when is an important component of this).

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2022

I’ve argued both that Learning Experience Design (LXD) is an improvement on Instructional Design (ID), and that LXD is the elegant integration of learning science with engagement. At core, however, what we’re focusing on is making it a true ‘experience’, not just an instructional event. A number of things.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2019

Instructional design, as is well documented, has it roots in meeting the needs for training in WWII. Eager to continue my education, I avidly explored learning and instruction, technology (particularly AI), and design. At that time, instructional design was going through some transitions. And the relationships, as well.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

This requires some extra work on the part of those who work with them, whether instructional designers, technical writers, editors, whoever. Their attempts at explanations for reference of instruction fail. As a consequence, I’ve been experiencing a lot of the problems with that! Experts have trouble articulating their thinking.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2023

Not just instructional design, but basically designing for people: graphic, interface, marketing, etc design. For instance, I got a lot of mileage out of bringing what was known from interface design to instructional design; that field was much more astute about design than was ours at the time.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2021

That is, learning ‘outside’ formal instruction. Which, as I’ve argued before, suggests that instruction be designed action and guided reflection. And when not. Hopefully I won’t have to answer another “what about books | conferences?” To start, learning is action and reflection.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 7, 2020

Thus, learning engineering could be the application of learning science to the design of instruction. Which is ‘instructional design’ And, to be clear, there’s a contingent that suggests this is what learning engineering could and should be. It’s applying computer systems to meet learning needs.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 4, 2019

He goes through the usual candidates of labels for what we do – instructional designer, learning designer, learner experience designer – and finds flaws. And I agree with him on learning designer and instructional designer. Instructional designer , then, would make sense, but…it’s got too much baggage.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

Thus, teams worked on instantiations: instructional designers, media experts, technologists. Thus, I’m led to ponder if time is the biggest problem. In the early days of educational technology, it was considered technically difficult. Moreover, they tested, refined, and retested. Over time, the tools got better.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 8, 2020

During World War II, the military was faced with training many soldiers, and behavioral psychologists created the field of instructional design. Here, the focus was more on training, including the influence of media and elements of instruction.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 7, 2022

So, Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design from Instructional to Transformational is designed to complement the learning science books by providing the other half of the Learning Experience Design (LXD) story. Now, there’s a screwup in the printing, but it’s minor (and possibly a blessing)?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 12, 2020

A step-by-step process for evaluating your instructional content, providing you with an actionable blueprint on transforming your content. A step-by-step process for evaluating your instructional content, providing you with an actionable blueprint on transforming your content to be effective and engaging.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 20, 2021

Instruction is designed action and guided reflection. Direct instruction or constructivist? Instead, learning science tells us that we need to be given challenging problems, and resources and guidance to solve them. Quite simply, we need to practice as we want to be able to perform. Which leads to the third component.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 8, 2021

First, of course, I have to point out my own Learning Science for Instructional Designers. Moreover, there’re solid implications for the redesign of instruction. So here are my new recommended readings. With Amazon Associates links: support your friendly neighborhood consultants.). Let me explain.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

They cited a study where groups were given one of three instructions before addressing a problem: not to criticize, free to debate and criticize, or no instructions. The groups with instructions did better, but the criticize group were. The second instruction group was just diverging.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2023

If you are considering instructional design as a career, you may want to become a YouTuber or TikToker instead. TikTok and YouTube shorts will ultimately replace high schools and universities. Employment sector will phase out LMS systems and replaced with AI-powered compliance tools.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If we want to truly apply learning science to the design of instruction, we have to understand our brains. We can provide information (specifically mental models , examples , and feedback) to facilitate both initial acquisition and continual improvement, but we can’t just present information. In reality, not outdated metaphors.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Now, the reason I joined with IBSTPI (the International Board for Standards in Training, Performance, and Instruction) was to learn more about competencies. But then I could see where the emphasis should be on skills, competencies, and moving forward.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I do strive to make my feedback instructive as well as constructive. My opinions are pretty clear, but so too, generally, are my motives. Because I’m inept at hiding them, I would suspect!) I perhaps over-err on the side of explaining why I’m saying something, and try to remember not to offer advice to fix it unless asked.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2023

This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn. We pay attention to the sensory stream that’s available, and as working memory is has limits, our attention chooses what ends up being in working memory (which is where we see conscious thought).

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

First, I get requests about how to get started as an instructional designer (particularly offers to come work for me). And of course have some background in instructional design/learning science. (Of course, my immediate response should be “how should I know? ;) But I thought I’d do a bit better. They differ.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2021

There’s the Youtube video I used to fix my dryer, or the step by step instructions I used to figure out how to run cables on a monitor. Another problem is in the separation of the elements. So, for instance, a ‘how to’ guide could be a video or an article! These aren’t mutually exclusive categories.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Based on Micki Chi’s work on the value of self-explanation, Kate Bielaczyc and others have found that instruction on systematically explaining steps in examples help, across domains. While we have some innate skills for domains that are biologically primary, learning in other domains requires expertise. In my own Ph.D.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2021

Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application. Revolutionize Learning & Development: Performance and Innovation Strategy for the Information Age. And my forthcoming one is now available for pre-order! So those are the updates on my books.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 10, 2023

Van Merriënboer’s Four Component Instructional Design is necessarily rigorous! If a solution must be ‘in the head’ – available when needed and transferring to appropriate situations – there’ll likely be a fair bit of practice required. If it’s complex, much more so.

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Learning Instructional Design Conversation Solution 141

Clark Quinn

MARCH 28, 2023

Ruth, you should know, is the co-author of eLearning and the Science of Instruction , amongst other books, a must-have which leverages Rich Mayer’s work on multimedia learning. For the LDA debate this month, Ruth Clark talked to Matt Richter and I about aesthetics in learning.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2018

the accidental instructional designer): Cammy Bean’s The Accidental Instructional Designer. Ruth Clark’s eLearning & The Science of Instruction (with Dick Mayer) and/or Efficiency in Learning with Sweller & Nguyen). And they’re ones I know, and I can’t read everything ! Beginning (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Just as you wouldn’t want your doctor not to know biochemistry and biophysics, and your electrician not to understand voltage and current, you similarly should want your instructional designers to understand how learning proceeds. Such that several of us banded together to prescribe what should be done!

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2021

And a perfectly nice person listened, asked some questions, and then instructed me through a process. The second time I had to stop because I had an upcoming call. The third time, however, I got through.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 4, 2020

thesis, talked about intrinsically motivating instruction, and had curiosity along with fantasy and challenge. One I’ve heard, and wrestled with, is curiosity. It’s certainly aligned with surprise. So I’ve been curious about curiosity. Tom Malone, in his Ph.D.

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