Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

CEGOS has just released the results of their 2010 learning and development survey, carried out in March among 2,200 employees from small, medium and large companies in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. The results are interesting, particularly in terms of attitudes to, and usage of learning technologies.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2014

Today at 7pm, Michael Allen, Julie Dirksen, Clark Quinn and Will Thalheimer, backed by a raft of other well-respected thinkers and practitioners in the field of workplace learning technologies will be launching the Serious eLearning Manifesto. So what is the problem with self-study e-learning?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2009

But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that the greatest obstacles in the way of new l&d practices are not so much technological (although this is obviously still a significant issue in Africa) but psychological. And if the Western World is anything to go by, that process will take quite a few years.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

For those of us who have spent a number of years working in online learning, the idea that a group can collaborate asynchronously (not in real-time) on a learning activity is rather taken for granted - not so much 'old hat' as just nothing novel. Bit by bit, new technologies enhanced these processes. But individual it remained.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2013

employees across 17 countries: 98% of organisations want technology-enabled compliance training to help manage risk more successfully. 67% of organisations say user engagement is the top barrier to adopting technology enabled compliance training. Bringing it back from the dead might be more apt. I have also seen some wonderful efforts.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The fifth of ten 'insights' is that ‘E-learning design is changing'. I'm beginning to accept this narrow definition and use the term 'learning technologies' for the broader perspective.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 16, 2010

Conversely, only 42 percent of students believe there is enough support for educational technology, evidence of a perception gap in how adept students are versus how savvy they are presumed to be. According to the survey, students prefer courses that use a great deal of technology, provided there is adequate support in using the tools.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2012

This video packages up a presentation I made at Learning Technologies in London in January. It describes how corporate learning and development appears to be at a crossroads.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

For the first time in eight years of Clive on Learning I''ve been too busy to blog. So, as the workload shows no sign of abating for a couple of months, I''ve decided to share over the coming weeks some work I did for Onlignment last year on Transforming Learning & Development. So what’s changed?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

After ' Why is e-learning so unpopular? ’ 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.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

With the Serious eLearning Manifesto drawing attention to a current lack of e-learning design skills, as evidenced by more than a little tedious and ineffective content out there, it got me thinking about what it takes to be a good designer.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

For practically thirty years now, the default corporate solution for any sort of formal, self-directed learning intervention has been self-study e-learning, specifically some form of interactive tutorial. The learner is isolated from peers, experts and others who can assist their learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

After last week's ' Why is e-learning so unpopular? ', I turn today to another question I am frequently asked by l&d people: 'Will e-learning put me out of a job?' In most occupations in which technology has had an important influence - and that means most of them - it has proved a highly disruptive influence.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2012

For some time now I have settled on a simple three stage approach for gathering the information I need in order to come up with a design for learning. It seems to work at a micro level, say designing a short e-learning module, as well as from a wider perspective, such as scoping out a learning architecture. The three Ls.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. In this final profile, w e look at the work of a learning architect who has worked within what is very much a top-down learning environment and on a very large scale.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2012

This week sees the release of my new book, Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide. The book is for anyone with an interest in helping others to learn. You may already be a creator of learning content, looking to update their skills. You may already be a creator of learning content, looking to update their skills.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2012

It only takes a couple of weeks for me to shift my attention almost entirely to matters other than learning technology, so I shouldn't have much trouble retiring when the time comes. I'm finding it hard to regain my focus after the holidays. So, this post acts as a way for me to re-focus on the issues that need addressing in 2012.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

This post continues my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. The fourth of the ten 'insights' in the report is that ‘Organisations need multi-device learning solutions'. Not that many employers are yet using mobile devices that much for learning.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

In the first post in this series, I expressed a vision for learning and development that is aligned, economical, scalable, flexible, engaging and, above all, powerful in terms of the results it achieves. Adults expect to have control over what they learn, when and where and will increasingly demand it. Flexibility can take many forms.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2008

Consider also that more companies in the UK are benefiting from technology-driven training programmes than their EC counterparts. " Apparently the UK (and Spain) spend around 40% less than the average European budget, so that's a simple equation: use technology, spend less time and less money, but train more people.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2010

This house believes that technology-based informal learning is more style than substance." " The E-Learning Debate 2010 will take place at 4pm on October 6th. Some of the arguments are predictable: Most of what we learn is learned informally. So, how about this?

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2012

And of course e-learning is not the only way. I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning. The only way to overcome these obstacles is through e-learning. The only way is e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2011

How do the various social contexts for learning compare? What options do you have in terms of an overall learning strategy? How do social contexts and learning strategies interact? Why start with methods rather than technologies for learning? How do you begin deciding which methods to use? Part 4 follows tomorrow.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

The first is: Why is e-learning so unpopular? What type of e-learning are you talking about? Well, clearly there are lots of success stories with e-learning and not all because of huge cost savings. Is it because it only works for people with some learning styles? It’s just as likely to be phrased as ‘I don’t like it’.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Today saw a tremendous gathering of the who's who of UK learning technologies in the historic debating chamber of the Oxford Union. Many thanks must go to e-learning developers Epic for putting together this event and allowing their own industry to be placed under the microscope. Today's e-learning is marginally useful.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

I must admit that I'm slightly uncomfortable with the use of the phrase 'social learning' to mean 'learning with social media', because it implies (1) that social learning is anything unusual and (2) that social media is the only way of learning from and with one's peers. Even if they don't, it will happen anyway.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 28, 2011

I had the pleasure to chair a session by Ewan McIntosh at Learning Technologies 2011 earlier this week. I know there is nothing knew in the idea that we’re happiest when we learn by doing, but sometimes we get stuck – as designers of learning experiences - when we try and work out what we’d like learners to do.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy. No ability to gather global management information, including costs.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2012

In what will probably be the final post in my series of questions most frequently asked by learning professionals, I tackle the question ‘Is e-learning something I can do?’ Creating e-learning tutorials This is a tough one. Onlignment publish a free virtual classroom facilitator’s guide. Which ones?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Along with Dick Moore, Adrian Perry and Seb Schmoller, I have been commissioned to report to the Ufi Charitable Trust (UCT) on "priorities for interventions by the Trust and others through learning technologies in adult learning and employability in the UK". The closing date for completion is 6 March 2012.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of great learning architects in action. In this extract, we take a look at how learning is architected within Shell, one of the world’s largest and most successful multinational corporations.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 16, 2014

Towards Maturity are well known for their benchmark studies which allow organisations to compare their experiences in applying learning technologies and to learn from what the best organisations are doing. Well, 88% agree that they like to learn at their own pace, which accords with the results of previous studies.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In my third review of books on social learning in a month (see my posts on Jane Hart's Social Learning Handbook and Jane Bozarth's Social Media for Trainers ), I turn to Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner's The New Social Learning , a book recommended by both the Janes. What is that challenge? In a word, excellent.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This morning I presented on ‘the e-learning skills gap’ for a webinar run by the Learning and Skills Group (LSG). I picked out three: Curriculum design: integrating learning technologies appropriately into the design for new interventions. Facilitation: the skills needed to run successful live online learning events.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 29, 2011

In this next profile, extracted from The New Learning Architect , we see another fine example of how a learning and development department has been able to break free from the confines of the face-to-face course to provide support for learning across multiple contexts. As Tiina says, “It works!"

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Throughout my book The New Learning Architect I take time out to look at real-life examples of learning architects in action. In this profile, we look at how on-demand learning can be integrated with formal training to provide the basis for a highly-successful software launch.

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