Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

Courses may take place in a classroom, online, on-job or by some blend of these, but they all typically have objectives, entry criteria, a curriculum, formal content, tuition and assessment. They typically provide nowhere near enough opportunities for practice and feedback. Timing is rarely ideal - often they are too early or too late.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While this format certainly can deliver the goods, and provides a simple, trackable means to monitor compliance, it frequently falls down on many fronts: Interactive tutorials are time-consuming, expensive and complex to put together. Wikis provide a way for groups of learners to work together in building a knowledge resource.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2012

As far as he was concerned they just seemed to be getting in the way of his task of helping people to learn their jobs - just another bureaucratic corporate process which ate up time and gave back little in terms of real benefits. Competency frameworks provides a basis for designing learning activities and content.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

He argued that organising courses was the easy option, but that to create effective learning interventions which were meaningful in terms of the job called for much more effort, imagination and innovation. Blended solutions do much more than provide variety or choice. Forty years later, we're getting the message.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

Generally speaking, a real-time approach gets the job done quickly, whereas it can take ages to resolve an issue while you wait for people to respond when it suits them. This level of responsiveness can be important in some situations, such as learning to operate a process or to handle customer queries.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Over the next few weeks I'm going to provide my own commentary to the excellent Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. He did a good job and the report adds an interesting alternative perspective to the research carried out by others in the UK such as Towards Maturity.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Informal learning is a broad term, covering everything from on-job instruction and coaching, through to the use of performance support materials, collaborative and experiential learning; anything, in fact, that doesn't come bundled up as a full-blown course. If this really is a trend, then it's a very important one.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We were discussing the all-too-common tendency to over-teach and under-practise in formal workplace learning interventions.Here's how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more I'm really taken with this.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

I have long resigned myself to the fact that L&D is one of the most conservative professions going and is finding it very hard to believe that its role as provider of classroom courses is becoming less and less relevant. It should also not be that surprising if they find very similar results in another two or three years.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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 tries to provide knowledge in one hit and this is rarely going to be a successful strategy. People don''t dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

You may include measures to pinpoint areas of need, establish goals, address any shortcomings in prep-requisite knowledge, introduce learners to each other and provide an overview of what is to follow. This is when you do things like run workshops, provide on-job instruction, make available core learning material, and so on.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Input: Providing the formal element which hopefully will inspire the learner and act as a catalyst for changes in behaviour and on-going skills development. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a learning context, video provides a compelling means for conveying content, particularly real-life action and interactions with people. Interviews People love looking at and listening to other people, particularly if they are providing useful information concisely and in a relaxed, informal manner. Video is so versatile.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

This title is a reasonable contender as long as instruction is what you are designing, whether that’s e-learning, in a classroom or on-the-job. Here we have an idea borrowed from user experience (UX) design, defined as ‘the process of creating products, systems or services that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users’.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an ideal world, we would probably provide personalised support for every learner, but this gets more and more unrealistic as online learning groups get larger. One way we can all do that is through the content that we provide to learners – the videos, the podcasts, the self-study materials and the job aids.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The goal is typically to develop competence, the ability to do a job. And while you can do a reasonable job of measuring knowledge and some cognitive skills using a computer-gradable, online assessment, the majority of competences require a human eye. The problem comes with providing feedback.

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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. I’m sure we would agree that the ‘i’, the ‘e’ and the ‘a’ are all important, but do we provide these in the right proportions?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2013

As you can imagine, when you’re trying hard to resist that bar of chocolate or force yourself up out of bed on a cold morning, the rider has a heck of a job keeping the elephant under control and can easily become exhausted in the process. They liken the emotional system to an elephant and the intellect to the rider of the elephant.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

Of course this is not the first time that learning providers have had to struggle with tight market conditions. First of all, customers cannot any longer afford for their employees to be off-job for protracted periods. So what’s changed?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While I would still look to provide the maximum flexibility for the learner by providing resources online and allowing collaboration to take place asynchronously (through email, forums, social networks, blogs, etc), I now understand that live events are going to add something really significant to the blend. I still believe that.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2018

You reflect that the session got off to a slow start, as you provided instructions for those participants who hadn’t used the tool before, and waded point by point through the objectives and the agenda. Here are my six suggestions for a virtual classroom experience that holds attention and gets the job done.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

How can we continue to provide a worthwhile service in L&D when we have half the bodies available that we had a year ago? I have spent much of my life running classroom courses and feeling I was doing a really good job. Does e-learning actually provide a much more secure future? First thought: I'm not sure.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I have seen recent evidence of some very sophisticated ROI analysis of learning interventions, and this is to be lauded, but it's usually not necessary to provide evidence with scientific precision. A typical formal intervention - classroom or e-learning - provides valuable input but very rarely sees the job through.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2012

The term e-learning may not be 25 years old but the concept certainly is and the volunteers at the eLN (formerly TACT - the Association for Computer-Based Training) have done a brilliant job of providing a forum for e-learning designers and professionals to share best practice.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2011

First of all, can a synchronous communication channel, like instant messaging, do as good a job as email when it comes to handling all that valuable and necessary communication? You can also take your time and provide a considered response to an email; there is no opportunity for reflection with instant messaging.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

At the same time the amount of important information available to us in each new job is rising at an exponential rate and changing constantly. In an upcoming post, I’ll suggest a process that you can follow to provide an effective curation service to a population of employees in your organisation. There simply isn't the time.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

Their jobs are inherently mobile. Up until now it has been very hard to provide performance support to these people. Another consideration is that more than half the working population do not sit at a desk looking at a computer for most of the day. Now you can. So, now I think about it, this is a pretty big deal.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an ideal world, we would probably provide personalised support for every learner, but this gets more and more unrealistic as online learning groups get larger. One way we can all do that is through the content that we provide to learners – the videos, the podcasts, the self-study materials and the job aids.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

You’re doing a job, away from your desk, perhaps operating a piece of equipment or dealing with some emergency. You’re provided with the information you need in easy stages, step-by-step. A recurring theme, at least for me, was on–demand learning, so I interested to come across this original offering from Trainer1.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2013

The exact motivation may vary, from achieving job security to earning more money, gaining recognition or obtaining personal fulfilment, but the route to all these is performing well on the job, and employees know as well as their employers that this depends – again, at least in part – on them acquiring the appropriate knowledge and skills.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2011

They filter by relevance, categories, how long the content will take to read, the shelf-life of the content, by providing synopses. They provide periodic roundups. Employees were able to learn well on the job. They encourage people to allocate a limited amount of time each day for their own development. They did find time.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2014

Technology is providing many useful alternatives to the corporate classroom, but it also has an increasingly important role to play when we do get together with a facilitator within the confines of good old bricks and mortar. If you have an interactive whiteboard then lucky you, but there are plenty of cheaper options.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2011

The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor. Communication between members has been enriched by the use of monthly webinars and by the collaborative tools provided by Microsoft SharePoint. No way will Rob ever be an order taker.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2011

The leadership development programme : This takes place over an 8-month period and is provided by an external contractor. Communication between members has been enriched by the use of monthly webinars and by the collaborative tools provided by Microsoft SharePoint. No way will Rob ever be an order taker.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 28, 2013

Some courses benefit from the opportunities provided for networking socially. Some skills are more authentically practised in the real job environment. Some practical courses require students to interact with equipment in ways that cannot feasibly be simulated online.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2013

Employees will do the minimum possible to complete the training, focusing all their attention on passing the assessment rather than on gaining useful information that is important for their job. On the basis that people resist ''being changed'', it is possible that the whole process makes them less likely to comply rather than more so.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

and ' Will e-learning put me out of a job? ', my focus today is on another question that I am frequently asked by l&d people: ‘Is e-learning effective?’ In both of these cases, e-learning is providing something different from what we had before. After ' Why is e-learning so unpopular? ’

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