Clark Quinn

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Theory or Research?

Clark Quinn

There’s a lot of call for evidence-based methods (as mentioned yesterday ): L&D, learning design, and more. But…do you want to be basing your steps on a particular empirical study, or the framework within which that study emerged? My answer to theory or research is theory. And this is a good thing.

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Reading Research?

Clark Quinn

Generally, theory drives research. Occasionally , we do purely exploratory studies just to see what emerges, but mostly we generate hypotheses and test them. Occasionally , we do purely exploratory studies just to see what emerges, but mostly we generate hypotheses and test them. We do this with some rigor. research. (So