Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2019

Not only do you have to provide a great service to your clients, business sponsors and key stakeholders, you also have to deliver satisfying experiences to your end users – the learners. Both were demanding, and each was looking for quite different things. Well, such is the lot of the learning professional.

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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. Particularly galling is that the standard is actually dropping as we increasingly force learners to wade through endless slides full of irrelevant abstractions and patronising interactions.

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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. The learner is isolated from peers, experts and others who can assist their learning.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The foundation for a good relationship is a teacher or trainer – or writer of learning content – who is credible with learners. This person needs to be friendly and show respect for learners while at the same time setting high standards and exhibiting confidence in the ability of learners to achieve great things.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Instruction is a structured teaching process that begins with behavioural learning objectives (that’s the sort that describes what you, as a learner, will be able to do at the end of the instructional process, in specific, measurable and observable terms) and ends with some form of assessment against these objectives.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They develop insights into the students for whom they are responsible, so they can customise the examples and analogies that they provide, offer helpful feedback and respond to varying degrees of progress. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning. After all, no-one knows better what a student needs than a student, right?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I shared with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2013

All this week, I have been discussing a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 28, 2019

This video provides a light-hearted introduction to the process of needs analysis. The video tells how Sherlock Holmes uses the three Ls (knowledge of the Learning, the Learner and the Logistics) to solve a case. It also represents my one and only acting credit (there will be no more).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 21, 2019

This video provides a light-hearted introduction to the process of needs analysis. The video tells how Sherlock Holmes uses the three Ls (knowledge of the Learning, the Learner and the Logistics) to solve a case. It also represents my one and only acting credit (there will be no more).

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The foundation for a good relationship is a teacher or trainer – or writer of learning content – who is credible with learners. This person needs to be friendly and show respect for learners while at the same time setting high standards and exhibiting confidence in the ability of learners to achieve great things.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

For the learner it can mean: Controlling what you learn and to what level: So much traditional training is one-size fits all. But every learner is different in terms of their prior knowledge and goals, and it is not rocket science to organise training in a modular fashion. If you can avoid it you should.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

From Monday of this week, I have been sharing with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Yesterday I outlined a simple series of four phases through which a workplace learning intervention should progress: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience. Application: Providing opportunities for the learner to test out new ideas and skills in the work environment.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

They are often knowledge-focused and, as a result, serve only to overwhelm the learner with new information, without placing this in context. They typically provide nowhere near enough opportunities for practice and feedback. By and large, we would do well to teach much less and provide much more in the way of support.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They develop insights into the students for whom they are responsible, so they can customise the examples and analogies that they provide, offer helpful feedback and respond to varying degrees of progress. Teachers provide one route to personalised learning. After all, no-one knows better what a student needs than a student, right?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Preparation : In this phase your aim is to prepare the learner for a productive learning experience. 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.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Computers and networks provide so many opportunities to enhance learning in the workplace, but the opportunities are dependent on the use you are making of these tools. As a tool to allow groups of learners to collaborate on projects and assignments. As a means for learners to present the outcomes of projects and assignments.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2012

While there clearly is a lot of rubbish, poorly designed and implemented, the awards show me that there’s also some absolutely fantastic stuff that learners love and which is making a fundamental impact on organisations. I also understand that learners have responded very well to this form of interaction. Here’s what others decided.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2013

We have already discussed how easy it is to overload learners with information, particularly abstract theory, facts and procedures. Another side effect of our focus on knowledge is that we allow far too little time for learners to practise new skills. That’s why coaching can play a valuable role in so many blends. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

No two learners are the same. The most common manifestation of this, in my experience, is to provide the same solution for those with a great deal of prior knowledge as for those who are relative beginners. Of course there are many gradations of expertise and only a minority of learners are complete novices or acknowledged experts.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

You can’t address as large an audience as quickly as you can with digital content and you can’t offer your learners the opportunity to learning when they want, at the pace they want and in the way they want. Why do you want to fix your learners to a particular date and time?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

Modularity implies a more granular structure - activities and resources must be provided in much smaller chunks. Modular structures are not only more flexible, they also provide improved results, because learners are so often overloaded by lengthy courses and resources. Don''t shy from one-to-one support where it''s needed.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, that’s for the learner to decide. If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. Cramming provides short-term benefits but these quickly fade. To apply the spaced practice effect the learner needs to interact with new ideas and to practise new skills.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2013

20% of organisations provide managers with resources and job aids to encourage application back in the workplace. It is possible to do this job properly, to satisfy the needs of regulators while also providing a stimulating and thought-provoking experience that has a good chance of changing behaviour. compliance'

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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. Hook your learners in Unfortunately, you can’t rely on having your audience’s attention, you really do have to earn it.

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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. But if you don’t have all this stuff, simple PowerPoint slides will do.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2013

I really like interactive scenarios, particularly the branching sort which require learners to make decisions in response to an evolving situation or to engage in a dialogue with an on-screen character. We tried our best to make the interface more fluid by having the learner construct sentences from a series of phrases. So why is that?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

My point is that live events, particularly those in the classroom, have for so long been the norm, even though getting people together at the same time is such a hassle, so inflexible for the learner, more stressful and tends to lead to too much learning in one go. Far better to provide a video or narrated slide show.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

So, how is it that, with games and films, success is ultimately determined by the intellectual effort put into the design of products that provide a satisfying user experience, whereas with e-learning this doesn't hold true? the learner.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

I made the point that, more often than not, new designers are provided with plenty of instructional design theory, but nowhere near enough time to practise and get feedback. To accelerate the learning and minimise the damage to real learners it probably helps if this process is somewhat directed and supported.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 15, 2012

The objectives provide learners with a clear statement of what they are expected to achieve and what they can expect of the instructor or instructional materials. Learning objectives work on the basis that specific outcomes can be consistently achieved for all learners, or at least most of them. So where does that leave things?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Self-study provides attractive benefits to learners, particularly in the control that it allows them over what they learn, when, where and at what pace. It also puts a smile on the face of the finance director, because it’s so cheap, at least when there are lots of people who require training.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Well, that’s for the learner to decide. If a digital resource achieves its goal without overloading or boring the learner then it’s probably small enough. Cramming provides short-term benefits but these quickly fade. To apply the spaced practice effect the learner needs to interact with new ideas and to practise new skills.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

It also explains why your average facilitator's guide is never quite enough of a foundation on which to run a workshop - however thoroughly it lists all the steps involved in preparing and running the event, it's inadequate if it doesn't also provide you with a repertoire of interesting and illuminating anecdotes.

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