Clark Quinn
APRIL 5, 2022
Too often, in the wee hours of the morning…) In this case, I realize I haven’t given a lot of thought to the role of confidence (PDF). Which suggests, looking back at my previous exploration of worked examples, that the very first thing to do is to provide worked examples if they’re new.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 23, 2015
Hal Pashler and colleagues, on a study commissioned by Science in the Public Interest (read: a non-partisan, unbiased, truly independent work) found (PDF) that there was no evidence that adapting to learning styles worked. Then, if the learner has trouble with that approach, provide help. So, what’s a learning designer to do?
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Clark Quinn
MAY 30, 2013
As Larkin & Simon pointed out in their landmark Cognitive Science article (PDF) “Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words”, a mental model is composed of conceptual relationships between the elements. Yet I’ll argue that they can be really powerful.
Clark Quinn
MAY 18, 2017
I recently came across a document (PDF) about disruptive innovation based upon Clayton Christensen’s models, which I’d heard about but hadn’t really penetrated. This one was presented around higher education innovation (a topic I’ve some familiarity with ;), so it provided a good basis for me to explore the story.
Clark Quinn
JULY 8, 2014
Will Thalheimer has written a superb document (PDF) explaining the need for spacing. And have sufficient practice that leads from their beginning ability to the final ability they need to have, and so that they can’t get it wrong (not just until they get it right; that’s amateur hour).
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
A number of years ago, I wrote an article (PDF) talking about how we might go beyond our current ‘apart’ learning experiences. The notion is what I call ‘layered learning’, where we don’t send you away from your life to go attend a learning event, but instead layer it around the events in your life.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 25, 2011
Increasingly, organizations and providers are creating APIs to their environments, which allow other organizations to add value in ways that expand their ecosystem. Of course, there are other apps I don’t get involved in, such as all the quizzes, because I’m worried about the data they share, but there’s a meta-point here.
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