Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In fact, I flunked a job interview there because I didn’t know what ‘protocol analysis’ meant, though it turns out that’s what I’d been doing!) Machines running Smalltalk were what Steve Jobs saw on his PARC visit that led to the Lisa and then the Macintosh.).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 4, 2022

However, Will got a full-time job with Tier 1. The more we know, the better we can do our job! At the beginning of 2021, they began this initiative, the Learning Development Accelerator (LDA). The society has had regular events, articles, also workshops. They also ran the conference again. I’ve agreed.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2023

It’s like they think the job can be done with information. They’ve provided content and access to SMEs. However, they push back when asked “what’s the actual problem”, let alone asked for measures. They are happy with the appearance of a solution, because it’s easy, and no one’s checking.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2023

What I’m talking about, here, is that just doing your job isn’t a bad thing, but you can and should do more. Sure, you can just do your job. At least, if you want to continue to learn (and you should; let’s not talk about the alternative, but either you’re growing, or, well, you’re not).

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2021

I’ve spent time in a job early in my career reading (relevant) magazines like Byte, with my feet up on the desk. What concerns me are folks who can’t be seen to be taking time off from ‘the work’ We’re in a mode where we push people to work harder and faster.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

chatbots, expert systems), but eventually don’t do a good job of reflecting how people really think. People may lose jobs if they’re currently doing something that AI can replace. The former dominated AI for several decades, and this is where a system does formal reasoning through rules.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2021

However, a concept map does a better job of indicating the total knowledge representation. I know a wee bit about this, because while writing up my dissertation, I had a part-time job working with Professor Kathy Fisher and SemNet. Jerry’s Brain , where Jerry Michalski has been tracking his explorations for over two decades!)

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 15, 2023

Nuances matter , and we can’t expect others to go into the depths we do, but they do have to let us do our jobs. In short, you’ve got to go beneath the surface and find the real issue. Which means we have to know our stuff. Please, do! The post Beneath the surface appeared first on Learnlets.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Providers have done a fabulous job of making sure you can’t compare apples to apples, and when there’re so many such situations…) Yet, there’s one place where I struggle with the consequences. Now, I’m the last who should throw stones.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 29, 2019

That is, they’re equipping students to be ready to take jobs. A not-for-profit initiative I was involved with wanted to get folks a meaningful job. My point was that I didn’t want them to get a job, I wanted them to keep a job! Which is understandable, but there’s a gap.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

job aid) design, task design, and informal learning as well. We should create designs that reflect about what’s known to support effective learning. We also need design processes that deliver on this. This goes beyond just learning design, of course, and it should go into our performance support (e.g. What do we care about?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 29, 2023

Yes, again, it may take a little more exposition, but isn’t educating folks part of the job too (e.g. I’m willing to believe that, for practical reasons, people do need the pragmatic distinctions. I just feel that the conceptually clear ones can yield that, too. good marketing is good customer education)?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This is the job of LXD: integrating learning science and deep engagement into experiences that transform us. Content presentation and quiz questions may be necessary, but by no means are they sufficient. And that for now and the foreseeable future, AI will not be able to create those elements. .

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 4, 2019

While it’s true for our field as a whole, it’s also true for the specific job of those who design formal learning. What research into the role shows is that there are just too many jobs being lumped under the label (whatever it is). I think we need to perhaps have multiple job titles. Do you develop too?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The story was that there are individual skills, but that it takes more to do a job. So I didn’t feel inadequate looking it up (and probably should’ve asked my colleagues), but my search revealed a consistent viewpoint that kept me from having to bother them.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Then, I’ve been into games for learning since my first job out of college, programming educational computer games. Recently, with guidance offspring two, our family is getting back into it (with a prompt from a Shakespeare and DnD skit at the local Renaissance Faire).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As an undergrad, I designed my own major on Computer-Based Education, and then got a job designing and programming educational computer games. My interest in design came in a roundabout way. What that didn’t do, was teach me much about design as a practice.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

We get married, take a different job, have kids, all of which are changes. There’s a myth that we resist change, but Peter de Jaeger busted that in a talk I heard where he pointed out that we make changes all the time. The difference is that these are changes we choose!

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2023

Of course, we shouldn’t be responsible for hiring or resourcing or compensation; at least not without a job description and skilling rethink. We could also be the ones who design performance support and facilitate informal learning (who better?). Our organizations deserve to invest in things that will move important needles.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 27, 2022

I likely wouldn’t have had that if I had a full-time job. For one, I’ve been fortunate to have the bandwidth to do things like publish books (my most recent also came out this year).

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 9, 2019

Lucky chance: I got a job doing the computer support for the office that coordinated the tutoring. More luck, I finally came across Jim Schuyler, and as he was starting DesignWare , I got a job! Serendipity continued in jobs and people to guide me, I’m happy to say. There’s much more to the story, of course.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

There are broad claims of the need for them, increasingly, even showing up in job advertisements. Recently, a colleague asked a few of us about our views on critical thinking skills. This is actually a contentious topic. On the other hand, researchers and others have weighed in against them, saying that expertise is the only lever.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2023

My first complaint is that we’re not doing a good job. Overall, there are two steps for L&D to really make an impact on. Now, I joke that L&D isn’t doing well what it’s supposed to be doing, and isn’t doing enough. In the second conversation, up-skilling came up as an important trend.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s not easy, but it’s part of the job. There are other elements you want from SMEs, such as their personal interest. However, it’s critical that you get them to focus on behavior change. Working with SMEs, correctly, is key to designing learning experiences that address real needs. These are my thoughts, what are yours?

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Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2023

We should show the objectives, models, and examples, but fight against content ‘coverage’ Cathy Moore does a good job in her ‘Action Mapping’ to argue that what the minimum is to achieve success on appropriate performance tasks is a good goal. I agree, as does learning science.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 10, 2023

Turn to job aids or community (learning can be facilitated around either, as well), but stop developing learning as a default. Ok, so I’m being a bit provocative, but too often we err on the side of throwing training at it, even when it’s not the best solution. Let’s aim for the reverse, finding other solutions first.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

We need more women… more humanities majors… more people of colour… more professionals coming from other jobs… in short, a much bigger diversity of viewpoints at all levels. . “What really matters is to mirror the diversity of the world we serve.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

Don’t give experts the job of communicating to anyone but other experts, or to experts on working with experts to get explanations. As I wrestle with the outputs of experts, here’s my plea. There are wonderful ways experts and explanations can work out, but don’t take it for granted. Fair enough?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We shouldn’t be using courses when job aids will suffice, as cognitive science tells us. Yet, sad to say, it’s not the case that what we see in practice is well-grounded in what learning science tells us. Such that several of us banded together to prescribe what should be done! It goes beyond courses, of course.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

I think if we are actively thinking about transformation as a goal, we might do a better job of thinking about the necessary practice and the emotional engagement. Similarly, here, I think we’ll do a better job if we think ‘ambitious’, and end up not as far as we’d like.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2018

Kirkpatrick (or Katzell? :) can relatively easily be used for other interventions (incentives, job aids, … tho’ you might not tell it from the promotional material). We need to do a better job of evaluating our impacts (not just our efficiency). It’s not perfect. We do some, but not enough.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 19, 2020

People not on the job for that time are an expensive resource. To do that sufficiently, say, takes X minutes of instruction. Yet we may not have X minutes. Given the drain on resources, allocating that much time means the cost of the washing may be more than the cost of not. What’s a manager to do?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Thus we focus on job aids and examples. In this case, the audience can’t be mandated with classes or tutorials. So really, the only options are to support performance in the moment and develop them over time. I think of it as a ‘performance strategy’, not a learning one.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2022

As Harless famously said, “Inside every fat course there’s a thin job aid crying to get out.” See above; there are lots of reasons why performance may not be up to scratch: lack of resources, wrong incentives, bad messaging, the list goes on.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2022

Not saying that any are trivial, mind you, designing good job aids isn’t easy, it’s just not as hard as designing a whole course. To successfully get a persistent change in the way someone does something is harder than even facilitating informal learning, and performance support is easiest. Informal Learning. Formal Learning.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 7, 2021

So my guidelines for timekeeping: Designate someone as the timekeeper; there can’t be a question over who’s job it is. That also includes getting out of the way in a timely manner if it’s a scheduled room, leaving time for the next person to set up. Warn speakers ahead of time about the rigor and practices. No excuses!

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2014

For instance, if you are helping people acquire job skills, you are also developing their ability to hold the job, and self-improve over time. People acquire a job by their ability to do X, but they will need to know how to work in a job context regardless of whether it’s X, Y, or Z. Think of it this way.

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