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?

Mobile 190

Mobile Social Networks Wiki Augmented Reality 190

Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2012

Yesterday I was part of a session at the eLearning Guild’s mLearnCon mlearning conference on Making Mobile Work. 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?

Mobile 187

Mobile Metrics Performance Support eLearning Guild 187

Clark Quinn

JUNE 1, 2010

It occurred to me for several reason to think about mobile from the perspective of affordances. I’d done this before for virtual worlds , and it only seems right to do the same for mobile learning. GPS), and we can design capabilities that provide us content and computations power. Tags: mobile. What am I missing?

Mobile 160

Mobile Augmented Reality Camera Virtual World 160

Clark Quinn

MAY 12, 2010

Thinking from the perspective of mobile content, it occurred to me that I see 3 basic levels of interaction. This comes into play for me on mobile, as both static content and navigable content are easily done cross-platform. And, this is where mobile falls apart. Tags: design mobile technology. Fingers crossed!

Mobile 170

Mobile Interactive Develop Taxonomy 170

Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2011

It’s obvious that mobile is booming, as you can tell from this shot taken as I deplaned at Heathrow Airport on my way from mLearnCon conference to an engagement. One of the emergent themes was considering what would be really innovative mobile learning applications. However, there is hope.

Mobile 160

Mobile Brain Emergent Internet 160

Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2010

Mobile is coming at us hard and fast. The devices are out there (mobile is outselling the desktop) and the workforce is increasingly mobile (72%, according to IDC!). The question is, how do you get on top of taking advantage of mobile devices for organizational (and personal) learning? Tags: design mobile.

Mobile 170

Mobile Design Toys eLearning Guild 170

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In addition to speaking on mobile design with David Metcal at the Mobile Learning Jam at DevLearn, and with Richard Clark on pragmatic mobile development, I’ve got a contract with Pfeiffer for a mobile learning book. I don’t want to write a book for the sake of writing a book, I want to provide a useful guide.

Mobile Learning 154

Mobile Learning Mobile DevLearn Learning 154

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2010

In the context of having my own book on mobile learning in press, I’m well-primed to review Gary Woodill’s The Mobile Learning Edge: Tools and Technologies for Developing Your Teams. As a consequence, there is a clear opportunity to provide guidance. It is also, not surprisingly, well-written, with a business focus.

Mobile Learning 176

Mobile Learning Mobile Brandon Hall Press 176

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We know that we should provide a sufficient quantity of appropriately challenging contextualized practice with aligned feedback, for instance. I’m not against new tech, heck I’ve written on games, mobile, and more! Heck, I’ve written a book summarizing what’s known about it, and I’m not the only one.

Virtual World 206

Virtual World Brain Quality Slides 206

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2021

In what may seem a silly approach, it manifests as a course on mobile! However, once you recognize that mobile is about pretty much everything but courses (and can do contextual, which is an important new direction). Together, I think these three workshops provide the knowledge foundations you need to run a L&D operation.

Cognitive 187

Cognitive Picture Performance Support Mobile 187

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. Thus, each assignment was tied to mobile.

Lesson 125

Lesson Mobile Learning Pedagogy 125

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In thinking about mlearning, I have characterized the possibilities of mobile as augmenting formal, performance support, social, and contextual. It occurs to me, as I continue to think mobile, that there is another way to view it. Which leads to a different way of characterizing the space. So, does it make sense to you?

Augmented Reality 185

Augmented Reality Performance Support Internationalization Mentoring 185

Clark Quinn

MAY 21, 2014

For the current ADL webinar series on mobile, I gave a presentation on contextualizing mobile in the larger picture of L&D (a natural extension of my most recent books). And a question came up about whether I thought wearables constituted mobile. In the case of mobile, one of the unique opportunities is contextualization.

ADL 166

ADL Mobile Camera Performance Support 166

Clark Quinn

MARCH 15, 2016

The previous events have been great, and I’ll of course be there (offering a workshop on cognition for mobile, a mobile learning 101 session, and one on the topic of this post). Mobile device use tends to be more about quick access than extended experience. So, mobile is a platform. Except that it can be with you.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Augmented Reality Performance Support eLearning Guild 100

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Similarly, when I wrote my books on games and mobile, I focused on the cognitive impacts. When I evaluate learning technologies, for instance, I look to see how well they do things like provide meaningful practice: active and contextualized. I look to see how things align, or not, with how our brains work.

Cognitive 286

Cognitive Virtual World Brain Second Life 286

Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2013

He’s talked about the spacing effect (even providing the basis for a diagram in Designing mLearning), drawing upon his experience as one of our best proponents of evidence-based learning design. One used mobile technology to provide reminders and access to content. Both basically provided the same opportunity.

ASTD 180

ASTD Learning Conference Mobile 180

Clark Quinn

MAY 23, 2017

Instead of giveaways, they quietly provide free home-baked mini-muffins for all. Most importantly, it’s mobile! OffDevPeeps: these folks a full suite of technology development services including mobile, AR, VR, micro, macro, long, short, and anything else you want, all done at a competitive cost.

elearning company 102

elearning company Companies Compliance Training eLearning 102

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It’s a quantitative shift, not tapping into the inherent nature of mobile. We can provide concepts, examples, and feedback around real contextualized practice. And, if the work context is using the desktop, then mobile isn’t necessarily a sensible solution. So, when is it really mlearning?

Virtual Classroom 188

Virtual Classroom Simulations Performance Support IBM 188

Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. The other is the rise of mobile. For the 20, coaching and mentoring, we can start delivering that wherever needed, via mobile. The technology wasn’t advanced enough. But that’s changed.

Social Networks 185

Social Networks Wiki Mentoring Coaching 185

Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2013

Most of mobile context is about where we are. We can prepare people before events, support them during, and provide reflection opportunities afterwards. It’s not based, however, so much on location as proximity: the thing that’s near you may not be there always, it may be mobile or ephemeral, but it’s an opportunity.

Augmented Reality 154

Augmented Reality Calendar Mobile Google 154

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The short answer is mobile. Mobile is the catalyst for change. virtual worlds), but mobile has been resistant for the simple reason that there’s so much value proposition. The cognitive augmentation that digital technology provides, available whenever and wherever you are clearly has benefits, and it’s not courses!

Social Networks 184

Social Networks Augmented Reality Social Network Mentoring 184

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. Designing mLearning: Tapping Into the Mobile Revolution for Organizational Performance.

Performance Support 158

Performance Support Calendar Mobile Learning 158

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.

DevLearn 154

DevLearn Performance Support Mobile Quiz 154

Clark Quinn

JUNE 27, 2017

There were three themes to the conference: mobile, games, and video. Mobile was present, happily, and continues to evolve. And Unity or Unreal provide good support (as I understand it), but still require coding. And it was fun as always. Here are my reflections on what happened a bit more, as an exercise in meta-learning.

Flash to HTML5 Conversion 102

Flash to HTML5 Conversion Cognitive Flash Games 102

Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2011

In talking about the 4C’s of Mobile , the last one I usually mention is ‘communicate’ Communicate isn’t last because it’s least, but instead because it leads us furthest afield, into the areas of social learning, which has many ramifications in many ways: organizationally, cognitively, culturally, and more.

Social 171

Social Cognitive Social Media Consulting 171

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

This book provides just the concise information needed. The last, in particular, is enabled by mobile. Jane does address mobile, as the social tools mentioned have mobile mechanisms. Tags: design mobile social. Consequently, social media can have a valuable role in training and learning.

Social Media 172

Social Media Media Social Social Networks 172

Clark Quinn

APRIL 14, 2015

This could work with very small learnings (I use an example of media roles in my mobile design workshops). We can because (via mobile or instrumented systems) we know where they are and what they’re doing, and we can build content to do this. design mobile strategy' I think there’s a better model, however.

microlearning 100

microlearning Performance Support Blended Learning Micro-Learning 100

Clark Quinn

MARCH 5, 2014

Now, underpinning this trilogy is another trilogy, those factors that provide a foundation. Strategy is systematically aligning what the L&D group is doing with the business needs, measuring what’s happening, and providing a growth path. This include mobile. Here I’m talking about: Strategy. Infrastructure.

Performance Support 161

Performance Support Culture Strategy Social Learning 161

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Recently, a colleague videotaped me responding to some questions about how mobile could change learning. So, if you’re in a coaching meeting, the system could prepare you beforehand, provide support during, and some reflective evaluation afterward. It had to do with context. Say, a checklist.

Simulations 172

Simulations Performance Support Calendar Learning 172

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I am also pleased that Mobile interest continues to grow, as evidenced by the large audience at our mobile panel, where I was joined by other mLearnCon advisory board members Robert Gadd, Sarah Gilbert, and Chad Udell. design meta-learning mobile social strategy' And now there’s an app for that!

DevLearn 182

DevLearn eLearning Guild Cognitive eLearning Strategy 182

Clark Quinn

MAY 2, 2013

Yesterday I wrote about some products, and I thought I should also own up to the mobile apps I use while traveling (at least domestically, international is still a bloody headache). It’s something I do a fair bit, and is a natural opportunity for mobile to make your life easier and more effective. mobile strategy technology'

Calendar 150

Calendar Google Mobile Camera 150

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. When we consider how many have a mobile device of some sort, and that these devices are increasingly powerful, we have a big opportunity to have a business impact.

Cognitive 165

Cognitive Performance Support Metrics Voice 165

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It’s certainly true for millennials as well, and seems to be true for everyone who’s gotten on to mobile devices. Provide social connection tools. You’re providing decent advice (er, mostly ), but doing so through a myth-perpetuating framing. Secretly social : (wth?) they share, but with control.

Multitasking 163

Multitasking Diversity Training Social Media Pattern 163

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 21, 2011

First of all, mobile really has taken off. I know that many people are still wondering about how to take advantage of mobile, but awareness of the opportunities are growing. I’ve conducted several mobile brainstorming sessions with clients who have started with some apps and are looking to go further.

Forum 169

Forum Articulate Mobile Security 169

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 1, 2014

Several areas I think are important and I hope that there’ll be some traction: Obviously, I think it’s past time to be thinking mobile, and I should have a chapter on the topic in the forthcoming ASTD Handbook Ed.2. meta-learning mobile social strategy technology' And I’ll definitely be causing some trouble.

NexLearn 157

NexLearn ASTD eLearning Guild TechKnowledge 157

Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2011

In writing about mobile for higher education, other than meeting learner administrative and information needs, I obviously focused more on the formal learning roles mobile devices could facilitate. This approach also provides the necessary structure to support adaptive systems, which can present different objects at different times.

Pedagogy 189

Pedagogy Alternatives Cognitive Problem 189

Clark Quinn

JULY 27, 2010

What with conferences, a week of radical fever, the mobile book manuscript coming due, and a week off in the woods, not to mention a full load of client work, it’s just been crazy here around the Quinnstitute. I intend to get more organized, but let me toss off a c0uple of quick thoughts that may get elaborated more soon: Mobile.

Social Networks 165

Social Networks Google Docs Twitter Performance Support 165