Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2022

It’s been happening for web design for years, but for some reason the notion of content management systems lags in L&D. Without a content management system, as yet, it still makes sense to systematize the resources around a map of the space, ensuring they align to what we know about how people learn and perform.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

sometimes I wonder how to best juggle everything that my role requires: project management, design and ux/ui skills, basic coding, dealing with timelines and SMEs and managers. One of the responses, then, is to manage expectations. There was considerable context behind the question. My interlocutor weighed in with her tasks: .

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

Learning management systems (which is a misnomer, they’re course management systems) manage courses well. Assuming people know how to do it isn’t justifiable. Informal learning is the key to innovation, and innovation is a necessary differentiation. Our LMS is all we need.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s not really a Learning Management System (you can’t really ‘manage’ learning), but it can include courses, and it is worthwhile. Again, it doesn’t really matter whether it’s labeled Web 3.0 So those are my thoughts on Web 3.0 and whither the LMS, what’re yours? The post Web 3.0

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While them getting their mind around learning would be a good step, I fear that too many see it as just management & leadership, not domain knowledge. I’ll also cite the phenomena that when folks come into a new role they need to be seen to be doing something. Which, reliably, doesn’t work.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2023

Keeley Sorokti’s career as a knowledge management professional has been marked by her expertise in guiding organizations and teams through transformative journeys in designing and sustaining social learning, online community, and knowledge-sharing practices.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 15, 2021

Diversity on a team, properly managed, increases the likelihood of searching a broader space of solutions than otherwise. So putting constraints on the task and/or the environment can support making exploration more effective. Exploration also drives informal learning. There are practices that increase the effectiveness of the search.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 5, 2023

She recognized that even good design (what her first book did, eloquently) might not help learning stick, and looked at other barriers, such as managers extinguishing the learning. Julie’s book, on the other hand, is a complement to her first book, Design for How People Learn. She was more focused on making the learning design succeed.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Michael Allen’s Successive Approximation (SAM), Megan Torrance’s Lot Like Agile Management Approach (LLAMA), David Merrill’s Pebble in the Pond, or Guy Wallace’s PACT approach (I’m not even going to try to deal with that acronym) all have iteration as a fundamental component. You see this in the best approaches.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

There are also practices we can follow to make it manageable. Plus, vendors are telling you that they, at least, are immune to the complaints (with self-interest at stake). On the other hand, there are good sources of insight from reliable translators of research. More help is on the way (at the LDA we’re working on it; stay tuned).

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Concepts like immersive learning, workflow learning, and Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) are some that are touted without clarity.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There’s much more: how to manage the process, deal with stakeholders, and test your assumptions. Guy’s book is a way to avoid doing that, and systematically evaluating what the pivotal point should be for determining whether we can successfully intervene or not, and how. That’s my take, at least, I welcome yours.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How do you manage it? (Not least because I’m Editor-in-Chief of LDA Press , which so far has only published my own book, but hope springs eternal… ;). I know some of the barriers to writing a book, for sure. The overwhelming scope, for one. Well, like you do all big projects, you break it down.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Taylorism, aka scientific management , looked at how much a person could produce if they were working as efficiently as possible, without damage. We transitioned from a largely agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy, of goods and services. Factories got economic advantage from scale.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Performance management likewise benefits from focusing on competencies. However, increasingly optimal execution is only the cost of entry, and continual innovation is the only sustainable differentiator. And that, I suggest, comes from competencies beyond skills.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For one, as McTighe and Wiggins have advocated in Understanding by Design , they focus on the outcomes first and work backwards.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2023

Which may be more accurate, in that if you need to attend to what’s in working memory, and manage the process of attending to information while evaluating what decision to make. Recent pictures of the information processing loop suggest, however, that attention has a bigger purview. They have it influencing most of the above.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 6, 2023

I’ve managed to convince Harold Jarche, Emma Weber, Kat Koppett, and Mark Britz (each of which alone would be worth the price of entry!), We’ll cover the gamut, from individual learning skills, to team, and organizational success. We’ll also cover strategy. on top of myself and Matt Richter.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2022

Then, we need to manage emotions through out the experience. First, you need an initial emotional ‘hook’ to gain the learner’s commitment to the learning experience. Even before we open them up cognitively (though, of course, they’re linked)!

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 15, 2008

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 15, 2008

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2022

You have to manage the process right, of course, but if you can do it, it’s useful. Guy Wallace (Eppic), Roger Schank (Socratic Arts), and Norman Bier (CMU) have all mentioned to me that they’ve found utility in getting SMEs together as a group and having that knowledge negotiation unpack the necessary learnings.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2022

While her comments were extremely worthwhile, it was more a toss-off comment about using terms like “talent management” that got me to leave a note to riff on this topic. For her dissertation, she interviewed a number of folks about what L&D is doing. So let’s start with those overarching terms.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 11, 2021

A colleague mentioned how her org realized that it couldn’t create a course without also creating manager training, otherwise they’d undermine the outcomes instead of reinforcing them. However, it’s also known that sometimes that goes to the manager, not the person who’ll actually be doing the work!

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

For instance, my attempts at project management will need to become more effective. If all comes together as planned, there’ll be some updates come the new year. Yet these changes, welcomed as they are, will require me to adopt some new work practices. I’ve been working on it, but I need to instill some new habits.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 5, 2020

Because it’s complex, and it’s a lot to process and manage. So I’m inclined to worry that balancing all that and sequencing the right next steps while managing ‘up’ about the intent and process, while also transitioning to working out loud…you get the picture.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 16, 2008

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2021

Also I can occasionally use it for managing other sites (e.g. Of course, that’s how I’m writing here. I also use it for writing for the HPT Treasures blog (I post once a month, third Friday. Another way I get my mind around new understandings is by representing information structure. OmniGraffle.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The platform we used didn’t manage that elegantly, and we owe a lot to a staffer who wrestled that into submission. We attribute this at least partly to it being a later thought, and not promoting from the get-go. We struggled a bit with scheduling. Still, it led to some problems in folks connecting at the right time.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 19, 2020

What’s a manager to do? Given the drain on resources, allocating that much time means the cost of the washing may be more than the cost of not. People not on the job for that time are an expensive resource. What we do all the time is make a probabilistic decision. signs on the walls) in the places you wash your hands.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Another issue is management: lifecycle monitoring, ownership, and costs. This includes both formal learning tools including the LMS and LXP, but also informal learning tools such as social media platforms and collaborative documents.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Technologically, it makes sense to talk about content management systems, but learning management systems above that is the wrong language. There’s now an Experience API that provides some infrastructure for creating such an experience management system, but there’re still some intermediate steps needed.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2013

We start with the content management systems, from the delivery perspective, which maintains media assets. Similarly, individual implementations may not have differing choices, such as not utilizing an independent content management system underpinning the media asset and content development.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2017

From a broader perspective, is it talent management or performance management or…? I get that it’s not a learning management system, but a course management system, but is that the right metaphor? Do we want a learning tracking system instead, and is that what an LMS if or could be for?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

So, teams (or the rare individual) who could manage the writing, the technical specification, and the technical implementation. Back then, I postulated that Web 1.0 was producer-generated content. That is, the only folks who could put up content had all the skills. These were the ones who controlled what was out there.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2020

Can’t manage? Therefore, to be required, LnD shouldn’t help them learn. . Why do LnD still market a once and done approach to learning? . Can’t sell? Learn this. . Can’t comply? Learn this. . Can’t coach? Learn this. . Learn this. . Can’t lead? Learn this.”

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 16, 2013

What would an effective L&D unit be doing, and what would the employee/manager/exec experience be? Managers would be playing a leadership and mentoring & coaching role rather than a directive role. In an post this past spring, I opined that we do have to change. One obvious related question is what that change would look like.

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