Clark Quinn

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The (Post) Cognitive Perspective

Clark Quinn

The first reason was because technology was changing so fast that anything hardware-specific would be out of date before the book was published. The second is because our brains don’t change that fast, so what works will work regardless of the technology. . You can also see when particular technologies (e.g.

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Pre-order for Make It Meaningful now available

Clark Quinn

Having written one of the books on the learning science side, Clark has undertaken to write the other half. The book is grounded in his early experience writing learning games, then researching cognition and engagement, and ongoing exploration and application of learning, technology, and design to creating solutions and strategies.

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How do we mLearn?

Clark Quinn

My passion was still learning technology (and has been since I saw the connection as an undergraduate and designed my own major), but there’re strong links between the two fields in terms of design for humans. The report is freely available on the Guild site in the Research Library (under the Content>Research menu).

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Real (e)Learning Heroes

Clark Quinn

The initial learning technology standards came out from the AICC. They wanted a way to share important learning around flight, an area with a big safety burden. Their motivations might be their employers, research, or other agendas. Thus, they were able to come together despite competition.

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Design Thinking?

Clark Quinn

And my grad school experience was in a research lab focused on interface design. As my passion was designing learning technology solutions to meet real needs, I explored other design approaches to look for universals. I also read the psychological research on our cognitive limitations and design approaches. (I

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Continual Learning

Clark Quinn

A recent request for feedback on new learning technology research areas highlighted areas they thought were important, and a subset naturally struck me: the connection between formal and informal learning : an interest of mine since I first noticed the gap in organizations. The technology capabilities make this possible.

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What I do, don’t do, and why

Clark Quinn

My background is in learning technology design, leveraging a deep background (read: Ph.D.) in cognition, and long experience with technology. I have worked as a learning game designer/developer, researcher and academic, project leader on advanced applications, program manager, and more.

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