Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

We’ve been given some content, and it’s not just about being good little IDs and taking what they give us and designing instruction from it. We could do it, but it would be a disaster (in this case, that’s what we’re working from, a too-rote too-knowledge-dump course. knowledge).

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Making Change

AUGUST 5, 2009

Learning objectives are wimpy. A typical learning objective focuses on what each person supposedly needs to know, ignoring whether this knowledge will actually lead to useful action. Identify the action, then the knowledge. Only then can we determine if the problem really is a lack of knowledge. Photos © iStockPhoto.

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TOPYX LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

This may look like watching a 5-minute instructional video on YouTube. Compared to traditional learning, microlearning may seem a little wimpy. This is as true of knowledge as it is of material possessions. There is something that links self-paced eLearning with information retention. We call this microlearning.

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TOPYX LMS

JANUARY 12, 2017

This may look like watching a 5-minute instructional video on YouTube, reading a 400-word blog post on a training topic, or taking a 3-minute online quiz covering learning that has taken place. This is just as true of knowledge as it is of material possessions. These are all examples of microlearning.

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