Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Training cannot guarantee learning, because learning in the end is the prerogative of the learner, but it can have a pretty good try.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2009

Learning strategies Patrick next reflected on whether what was really needed to engage the learner was a big idea, a unifying principle, a strategy based on sound learning principles that could bring about the desired change. Will that do the job?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2010

But with the enormous advances in bandwidth, computer literacy, the use of social media, mobile devices and much more, what counts as learning content is so much more varied: What learning strategy is the content designed to support? Is the content really designed for learning at all? Simple exposition? Instruction?

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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.), In other words, it is a delivery channel.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2012

An on-demand learning strategy will include the provision of formal reference materials, increasingly through mobile devices, but will also support bottom-up approaches using search tools, forums and wikis.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Learners may exhibit different learning strategies (after all, they have many more resources and far better tools available), but the processes by which learning happens in the brain should be pretty constant. Bert may have meant to ask whether teaching will be any different on this fateful day.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Learners may exhibit different learning strategies (after all, they have many more resources and far better tools available), but the processes by which learning happens in the brain should be pretty constant. Bert may have meant to ask whether teaching will be any different on this fateful day.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I'll be presenting a concurrent session called Using the Content Pyramid to Maximize Your Learning Strategy. Basically, I'll be describing how top-end, top-down e-learning can be successfully combined with a strategy that includes rapid development by SMEs and bottom-up content generated by users. On Wednesday 12th at 10.45

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But it is what learners want and it will make a valuable contribution to an organisation’s learning strategy, so ignore it at your peril. What’s more, it benefits from gamification and a degree of artificial intelligence, which places a strain on software engineering.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But it is what learners want and it will make a valuable contribution to an organisation’s learning strategy, so ignore it at your peril. Making micro-learning work for you : It's time to begin your Skills Journey

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Most e-learning people are not dictators, so they have even more to gain. Consult widely to get ideas After you've done all your analysis, you have plenty of decisions to make in terms of learning strategies, modular structures, media mix, look and feel, tools and technologies.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

On-demand approaches To support on-demand learning Shell has its own wiki, with 70,000 users and more than 40,000 articles. Backing this up is a knowledge management strategy based on the simple requirement to “ask, learn, share.” University of Oregon and the German National Academic Exchange Service.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Fair enough, but I'd argue that even this is a reasonable strategy, as long as the material on the pages is really interesting. No way is this boring, no way is this a limited learning offering. Take Designing Presentations by Mike de Palma, just one of a host of online publications at issuu.com.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 13, 2007

As books on e-learning implementation go, this looks as good as any, and should prove a useful resource to anyone charged with initiating an e-learning strategy in a corporate setting. The case studies are organised according to the type of training involved, which makes them easy to reference.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of adopting what Nick describes as a ‘teacherly’ approach to the training, he worked with the safety team to shift the emphasis to a less patronising, more ‘grown-up’ strategy in which employees are encouraged to take responsibility for their own decisions. In December 2010 he joined BP as Group Head of elearning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 16, 2009

We also have to look at who’s interests are being served.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

I think that's because they envision only one over-arching teaching/learning strategy, i.e. structured instruction. Much classroom training and the majority of self-study e-learning falls into this category, more because it's a default option, than because it has been consciously chosen.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2007

At the conference I attended this week in Luxembourg, participants were split into groups to try and find ways in which resistance to learning technologies from fellow learning and development professionals could be overcome.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2007

I got the impression (perhaps mistakenly) that Jay believes you're wasting your time if you don't approach this as a major strategic, top-down exercise ('a superlative training department is not enough', 'put an enterprise learning strategy in place').

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 27, 2006

Anyway, the gist of it was that people now entering the workforce have been brought up on games and simply won't accept interactive learning material in any other format. Apparently, enlightened and successful US corporations have recognised this and have made interactive, online games an integral part of their learning strategy.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Most of the trainers had built their career by following this approach and it was, to some degree, expected by Julie that they would be resistant to the changes she was proposing as well as a little fearful that the NHS staff would not accept or warm to a more blended strategy of delivery.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2015

and, if your content forms part of a series, a teaser for what comes next (think soaps).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 28, 2015

and, if your content forms part of a series, a teaser for what comes next (think soaps).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 9, 2009

However, this abundance is not representative of the situations many of the delegates here are facing when trying to implement e-learning. It follows that we've been having a lot of discussions about where to start and how to get quick results.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

If David's right, we're wasting our time building collaborative experiences into formal learning interventions and informal learning strategies - we're just slowing things down and making it easier for the less able to ride on the back of their more productive colleagues.

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