Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2019

So, I just finished teaching a mobile learning course online for a university. My goal was not to ‘teach’ mobile so much as develop a mobile mindset. You have to think differently than what the phrase ‘mobile learning’ might lead you to think. Formal Learning: augmenting learning.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2012

When I started talking about mobile, I thought it was interesting adjunct to desktop computing. In fact, in my early (2000) article on mobile learning, I said “Soon there will be essentially no distinction between mLearning and elearning.” Which is why mobile may be a wedge to open up change. At least partly.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

If you’ve been paying attention to mobile learning, hopefully you’ve heard about my recent book, Designing mLearning. I’m proud of it, as I feel I did a pretty good job of addressing the important issue: helping you get your mind thinking different which is an important component of taking advantage of mobile.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 17, 2011

As part of an initiative for ASTD’s upcoming International Conference and Exposition , I was filmed as I responded to 10 questions around mobile (if you’re there, hope to hear how it goes) from Tony Bingham (he came in via conference call). How do you define mobile learning? Why mobile / why now?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 25, 2013

And if we take a performance ecosystem view of elearning, including performance support and social, we can begin to think much more broadly about the relationship. If we take a performance ecosystem view of mobile, we may well have that sort of ratio. using and/or sharing photos or videos for help.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 8, 2014

As Jason Haag has aptly put it, elearning courses on a phone (or tablet) is mobile elearning, not mobile learning (aka mlearning). And there are tools more oriented towards performance support. Anything that creates content or interactivity can be used to build performance support, but we have to be doing it!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2012

The first one is focused on addressing either or both of yourself or any other folks who aren’t yet behind the movement to mobile: How does your mobile device make you smarter? The point being that there are lots of ways we’re all already using mobile to help us perform. What is a full performance ecosystem?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

A student from Florida Gulf Coast University interviewed me on mobile. Here’s the (largely unedited) transcript she provided for me: What is your definition of mobile learning? Using a mobile device to make us more effective, either in the moment or developing us over time. to meet individual’s needs better.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Someone tweeted about their mobile learning credo, and mentioned the typical ‘mlearning is elearning, extended’ view. Mobile, paper, computers, voodoo, whatever technology works. So, for instance, this would include performance support and social networks. And then I thought about it some more.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

After a mobile learning panel I realized that, just as mlearning makes it too easy to think about ‘courses on a phone’, I worry that ‘learning experience design’ (a term I’ve championed ) may keep us focused on courses rather than exploring the full range of options including performance support and eCommunity.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

This is the extended abstract for the presentation I’m leaving today to give in Berlin at Online Educa on mobile learning on Dec 2. Increasingly, workers are mobile. To examine the opportunities, we must first consider the range of activities mobile can support.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 1, 2012

First, I have to tout that my article on content systems has been published in Learning Solutions magazine. Second, I’ll be presenting on mobile at the eLearning Guild’s Performance Support Symposium in September in Boston. It complements my recent post on content and data. Would welcome seeing you there.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

In looking for a title for my forthcoming book on mobile learning, Aaron Silvers took one of the key principles, augmenting performance, and, combining it with a neat complement to my previous book, Engaging Learning , came up with Augmenting Learning.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

What are the real opportunities in mobile learning? One of the several sessions I’m doing at DevLearn next week (in addition to a pre-conference workshop with Jay Cross, a mobile development session with Richard Clark, and another session on the future of orgnanizational learning) is a mobile learning design introduction.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

We’ve also used tools to augment our brains: books to serve as external memory, calculators to support our computational capability, phones to allow us to communicate at distances. What mobile learning really is about is augmenting formal learning, and augmenting performance regardless.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 28, 2015

This crosses formal learning, mobile learning, serious games, performance support, content systems, social and informal learning, and more. like to think I’m pretty good at it, and I am for hire.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m writing a book on mobile learning. My only previous experience was writing Engaging Learning , where the prose practically exploded from my fingers. This is a bigger topic, and I keep uncovering new ways to think about mobile and new facets to try to include.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2010

As I was booking my travel to San Diego for the eLearning Guild’s mLearning conference, mLearnCon (June 15-17), I thought about a conference focusing on mobile learning versus the regular, full, elearning conference or even a full training conference (congrats to Training magazine pulling a phoenix). And that’s the point.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 31, 2010

Also, it helps focus on the conative side of learning, the motivation for and anxiety about learning when you think about the learner experience. You need a design process, tools, and good concepts around learning and engagement. Which takes us to the last part, strategy.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 20, 2010

However, my point here is not to extol the virtues of a GPS, but instead to use them as a model for some optimum performance support, as an EPSS (Electronic Performance Support System). There’s a problem with maps in a real-time performance situation. What’s their EPSS?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2009

On Friday, I had the pleasure of a conversation of Kris Rockwell , CEO of Hybrid Learning for my in-process mobile learning book. I’d sought him out because of how he was developing mobile. This combines two of my passions, and is part of a performance ecosystem strategy.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It’s clear to me that many folks are still thinking of mobile as content delivery in a course mode. There’s nothing wrong with content delivery, e.g. for performance support, and for course augmentation, but the panel (Kris Rockwell, Ed Prentice) was wisely arguing for a broader vision for mobile learning.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 11, 2008

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 11, 2008

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2009

In the conversation with Kris Rockwell of Hybrid Learning I mentioned previously , we talked about the definition of mobile learning. We both agreed that it wasn’t about loading your average asynchronous elearning course onto the phone, and that it was more about performance support.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 29, 2010

I’ve been sensitized to international mobile issues from a variety of channels. I had the pleasure to meet Inge de Waard , has been active in using mobile learning in developing countries, and served as a reviewer on a draft of the mobile book. The problem, of course, would be the distribution of materials.

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