Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. So dominant in fact, that those tasked with devising and assembling technology-based learning solutions have been called instructional designers ever since.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

They mean instruction delivered in the form of interactive tutorials for the individual learner to complete at their own pace. What once was called computer-based training (CBT). I don’t know what proportion of e-learning is mandatory, regulatory training of some sort, but it’s a lot. Online video? Games and simulations?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Just those things that we used to call CBT - computer-based training - and which we've been trying to get right since about 1975. 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.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Could I re-train as - what did you call it - a learning architect? Or should I re-train as a learning technologist? Will anyone still do formal training in a future in which all learning is informal and on-the-job? I do believe that self-paced instructional e-learning is less widely applicable that many people think.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

On balance, the evidence would suggest that the medium, the delivery channel, is much less important in determining effectiveness than the learning strategy you choose to address the task in hand (exposition, instruction, guided discovery, exploration, etc.), Do we mean instructional tutorials delivered for the individual learner?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Pecha Kucha is a performance art Online learning is more efficient than face to face training – discuss Survey on the use of media elements in e-learning June The triumph of the airheads (review) Chief Job Title Creation Officer How people really watch television The Big Question: What tools should we learn? Why not be a training specialist?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It reports on a meta-analysis of more than 1000 studies of online learning conducted between 1996 and 2008, focusing in on those which contrasted online learning with face-to-face instruction. "The meta-analysis found that, on average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I am becoming increasingly aware of the the need to make clear a distinction between the broad concept of digital learning content, in all its many varieties, and the much narrower idea of interactive tutorials of the traditional CBT (computer-based training) variety.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

Training is not education. Classroom, on-job instruction, e-learning, makes no difference. It captures the idea perfectly in plain language. So what are the implications?Training In most cases the end goal is for the learner to be able to perform a task effectively and efficiently, rather than to acquire knowledge.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2010

Ten years ago, all we had, at least as far as workplace e-learning was concerned, was interactive tutorials, very closely resembling the computer-based training materials that we had previously experienced on CD-ROM and videodisc. Instruction? Simple exposition? Guided discovery?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Massively scalable training * Face-to-face is for special occasions * Can we dispense with email? Get on a train Why does learning content seem so much more exciting on an iPad? December Where is the model for e-learning? Back in business If in doubt, do it yourself

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

And that's because peer mentoring, as it is applied here, seems to be no other than on-job instruction under a new name. When I first came into training it was called 'sitting next to Nellie'. He encourages the use of questions, before, during and after the instruction, to assess needs and check understanding.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2011

Having said all of the above, some 76% thought that e-learning was effective for training non-managerial employees.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2006

I started by explaining how I thought that IT user training had evolved and was continuing to evolve over a number of phases. OK, but how does the organisation that's paying for all this training benefit? Learners welcome structured instruction when they feel relatively uncertain about a completely new skill.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2010

So, we are supposed to believe that formal learning is always wrong and informal learning always right; similarly for face-to-face v online, top-down v bottom-up, discovery learning v structured instruction, training v performance support, passive v interactive content, 2D v 3D, static v animated and so on.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

In many organisations, up to 50% of all l&d jobs have in the past been administrative - booking people on courses, sending out joining instructions, adding up the scores on the happy sheets. In some ways this has already occurred. If these tasks haven't been automated by LMSs and other online tools by now, you'd have to ask why.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2015

Teaching and training are, after all, people professions. They will make no effort to put your ideas or instructions into practice. In my mind, learning professionals also have a duty of care - to do no harm to learners. They will bad mouth you and your courses (and not necessarily openly, on the happy sheet).

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 22, 2015

Teaching and training are, after all, people professions. They will make no effort to put your ideas or instructions into practice. In my mind, learning professionals also have a duty of care - to do no harm to learners. They will bad mouth you and your courses (and not necessarily openly, on the happy sheet).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

I have been reading with interest Stephen Downes' analysis of Kirschner, Sweller and Clark's paper Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work. Training, like education, has for too long endured the unnecessary battle between these two camps, which could be characterised as the 'left brainers' and the 'right brainers'.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2009

If you're middle management, you get group training in classrooms. Who needs instructional design? Below this level, well self-study e-learning will do the job just nicely. The implication is simple: the higher your status in the organisation, the more expensive the approach.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the past, I have been openly critical of the competency frameworks for those working in l&d offered up by professional bodies in general, because of the over-emphasis on classroom training, and scant regard for alternative media, not least the various forms of e-learning. This framework is quite a step forward. So, what's different?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2007

It wasn't called learning and development then, of course, it was called training, but this appears to have been no more than a superficial re-branding. In my first week as Finance Training Specialist, I attended a five-day residential classroom course in Hove called Techniques of Instruction.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

He pokes fun at the instructional design gurus whose pronouncements have been so slavishly followed for decades and which are so rarely evaluated for their real contribution and current relevance. I think that's because they envision only one over-arching teaching/learning strategy, i.e. structured instruction.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2008

The compromise solution that I'm beginning to favour goes like this: you maintain a small team of full-time e-learning professionals with an emphasis on project management and instructional design skills, but with some graphics and technical expertise as well.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2008

June It's the instructional method, not the delivery medium, that makes the difference. When web-based instruction and classroom instruction that have similar methods (feedback, practice, etc.) " The art of changing the brain. are compared, there's little or no difference in outcomes. It's the method, not the medium.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

but I will say it was a compulsory piece of training, completion of which was required if I was to be able to go ahead with some work with a client. Tags: instructional design. I'm not going to tell you what the programme was or who it was made by.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2009

So why, then, do we continue to encounter situations in which line managers tell the guys from l&d exactly what they want in terms of learning interventions, with the expectation that the they'll simply take those instructions and run. You'd like a 6-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 16, 2007

Back in April I initiated, with Cammy Bean , the 30-minute masters project (see original posting ), the purpose of which was to develop a curriculum to train subject-matter experts in the design of rapid e-learning materials for use in the workplace. However, I believe we could take this collaboration further.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2009

In terms of instructional strategies, then these are pretty much timeless, although the choices we make as teachers from the available options do shift. Teaching and training are conservative professions and three years is nowhere near long enough for anything major to have happened. Well, that’s unlikely.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2009

In terms of instructional strategies, then these are pretty much timeless, although the choices we make as teachers from the available options do shift. Teaching and training are conservative professions and three years is nowhere near long enough for anything major to have happened. Well, that’s unlikely.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

He is looking for a training programme to ease the upcoming transition from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. He suggests a suite of e-learning modules to cover each of the apps in the suite, along with an option of classroom training for those who still prefer this approach. Take the example of an architect.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

Certainly when I first took up a position as a training specialist at American Express in 1976 (a mere 10000 years ago in binary terms) there were already several gray areas: Who had primary responsibility for an employee's training and development - the employee themselves, their manager or the training department?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

To be absolutely clear, the goal of this first exercise with the wiki is to develop a content outline for what may become a short course to train subject-matter experts in the design of rapid e-learning materials for the workplace. In other words, we're aiming to create a 30-minute masters programme in instructional design!

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2007

The creator of Authorware and long-time instructional design guru created something of a stir (at least with me) when he announced his dissatisfaction with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model for e-learning development and put his not inconsiderable weight behind a new process of 'successive approximation'.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

He is looking for a training programme to ease upcoming transition from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. He suggests a suite of e-learning modules to cover each of the apps in the suite, along with an option of classroom training for those who still prefer this approach. Take the example of an architect.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Here's the evidence to the contrary: Brian Bishop, now head of instructional design for Caspian Learning , described how in his time at Teletech@Home, he put together an induction training programme for call centre operators working from home which broke the mould. The course was a sensational success.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 11, 2007

I saw three of the interviews: Michael Allen (creator of Authorware and of ADDIE - the instructional design process): he told us that he's no longer so convinced about ADDIE - he's into rapid prototyping. Great stuff - wait until I tell those instructional design dinosaurs I know.

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