Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

It saves the author from the quite ridiculous prospect of having to communicate with you individually, by providing you with your own hand-written copy perhaps, or reading the book out to you in person. I believe self-study could feel very much like one-to-one learning if the content was prepared with a degree of personal ity.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2012

For: Evaluating someone’s performance on the basis of what they can actually do is a whole lot better than judging them by their personal qualities, their qualifications, the amount of time they spend on an activity or even their knowledge. This has to be preferable to teaching what you like teaching or what you personally believe in.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 21, 2012

You can instead work on knowledge: "Individuals are in an unstable state when their attitudes towards an object, event or person and their knowledge about that object, event, or person are inconsistent" (Simonson & Maushak).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I don’t personally see micro-learning as evidence of shorter attention spans as is sometimes claimed. So we know micro-learning is likely to be a popular personal choice outside work, but where does it fit in the workplace?

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I don’t personally see micro-learning as evidence of shorter attention spans as is sometimes claimed. So we know micro-learning is likely to be a popular personal choice outside work, but where does it fit in the workplace?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 21, 2011

Much of this is relevant to our work lives as much as it is personal. People use social media to collaborate on tasks, to promote goods and services, to entertain each other, to exchange information and so on.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

They are intimate and personal devices with which to interact, particularly when they’re yours. As Clark says in the summary of the eLearning Guild report: "Mobile learning isn’t about courses, but about using personal digital devices to assist us in performing knowledge work wherever and whenever.” And that’s a very big deal indeed.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Automated, computer-based assessment does a pretty good job of testing for knowledge and certain cognitive skills, but it is going to tell you nothing about a person's attitude, interpersonal skills or motor skills (unless you've got some pretty impressive simulator doing the job).

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2012

In the latest edition of Wired magazine I came across the term 'HiPPO' - the highest paid person's opinion. The term is widely used in web design and usability circles to refer to those people who have the final word on any design issue on the basis that they're the highest paid person in the room.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Jay Cross , someone who I respect immensely professionally and like as a person, has accused me, with some justification, of 'sensationalist claptrap'. When I started blogging, I saw it primarily as an activity for personal reflection, a way of clarifying and externalising my thoughts.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2011

Siemens explains how: "Instead of the individual having to evaluate and process every bit of information, she/he creates a personal network of trusted nodes: people and content, enhanced by technology. These findings back up the concept of connectivism, as described by George Siemens in Knowing Knowledge ( see my 2006 review ).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 15, 2012

This may well be reasonable with some types of learning, if only superficially.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2012

StrumSchool is a site, set up by Benjamin Shapiro, that teaches beginners how to play basic guitar fundamentals for free, with a curriculum of instructional videos, downloadable documents and 'a dash of personal attention'. From what I can see it's funded by donations and ads.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

Every person in the world has a unique brain shaped by their genetic inheritance and their life experience, and good teachers and trainers are empathetic to these differences. This is not to say that learner differences do not matter. So what differences should learning professionals take into account?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 14, 2013

I don't allocate much time to it - typically just sitting in bed - so, as an extremely goal-oriented person, I get very frustrated at my slow progress. Once we've wired new circuitry in our brain we long to keep it activated.' However, I do enjoy 'proper reading' when it comes to fiction.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 28, 2008

No-one doubts that learners differ in terms of personality and preferences, but whether these can be usefully categorised as learning styles is highly debatable and certainly unproven. You can guess which side I'm on.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

If two people start work on Monday morning with the same task to complete and one finishes by lunchtime while the other is still labouring away on Friday evening, then the first person should have the option of taking the rest of the week off, or earning more by carrying out more tasks. Does this happen? Perhaps, but rarely.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

There is no question whatsoever that social media is transforming our personal and business lives. Anyway, this post provides me with an opportunity to clarify my thoughts in preparation for the discussion. In some cases the results have been transformational.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

These can be delivered face-to-face, typically in 5-day chunks, as ‘Live Virtual Classes’, using web conferencing, or sometimes a hybrid of the two, where some students are there in person and some remote. The wikis allow documentation to be created at a time when there is no one person with all the answers.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

I had a play with the beta, and worked on a personal goal to help improve the way I handle email. goalgetter can be used standalone of content delivery and learning implementation and also works well as part of a blend of teaching methods (for example as an implementation and support system bolted on to face-to-face workshops.'

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They are gaining real benefit from interacting with a computer, not just to look at videos and page through slides but to experience the personal touch they would normally associate with a good teacher. Outside work, our employees are spoiled by the adaptive experiences provided by apps such as DuoLingo and the Khan Academy.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

There is hardly a person alive who hasn't learned socially, just as there isn't a person who hasn't learned many things on their own or through the efforts of a teacher.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 26, 2010

The statistics suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day – almost half their waking lives - "engaging in media and communications activities" The article goes on: “However, the average person actually squeezes in the equivalent of nearly nine hours of media and communications by multi-tasking on several devices.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Since DevLearn last week, when it seemed every other person was carrying an iPad, I've been trying to figure out just what it is that tablets offer as a delivery medium for learning which a laptop can't do equally as well. But for learning, a tablet seems such a perfect fit.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

This might involve you in writing synopses, reviewing content and adding your personal insights. Add value The third stage is to add value to the filtered content, to make it as accessible as possible to your target population. You get some help with this from experts across the organisation.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 5, 2015

Every person in the world has a unique brain shaped by their genetic inheritance and their life experience, and good teachers and trainers are empathetic to these differences. This is not to say that learner differences do not matter. So what differences should learning professionals take into account?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2013

Forget the slides full of theory and the tests that these have been remembered - or at least hold them back until the insight has been obtained through personal experience. If you really need to ''sell'' an idea, go for case studies, scenarios, simulations, practical assignments, backed up by coaching and facilitated discussion.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

They are simply not trusted as they should be to apply their technical expertise in solving problems that in practice are beyond the reach of the lay person. I want to help them achieve their own goals for personal development. Let’s take an example … What would you do? I want these learners to be inspired and grow in confidence.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Documentaries A great use of video is to take the viewer to places they could not be expected to visit in person, perhaps to see how work is carried out in different parts of their organisation. Documentaries could provide a record of important projects and initiatives, or tell a powerful story.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

They are gaining real benefit from interacting with a computer, not just to look at videos and page through slides but to experience the personal touch they would normally associate with a good teacher. Outside work, our employees are spoiled by the adaptive experiences provided by apps such as DuoLingo and the Khan Academy.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 28, 2011

Now I’m a particularly goal-orientated person and I love to finish an activity with a product of some sort, but I would hazard a guess that many others feel the same. Learning by making stuff. An idea to really explore further in 2011.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

The Preparation phase can be used to build relationships between peers, to establish ground rules, to address fears and align the intervention with the learner''s personal aspirations. As Nick Shackleton-Jones has pointed out, while a focus on performance is important, it is not sufficient.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

We’ve become adept at ignoring content that isn’t compelling, in our personal lives and at work. To get attention your learning content needs to be compelling. This isn’t achieved by magic, just focused thinking and hard work.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

He wrote, “A true learning person also has a 'to-learn' list, and the items on that list carry at least as much weight in how one organizes his or her time as the to-do list.&# To-do lists are also extremely motivational - at least they are if you're a sad person like me. Well I've always liked lists. Nonsense of course.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

They are simply not trusted as they should be to apply their technical expertise in solving problems that in practice are beyond the reach of the lay person. I want to help them achieve their own goals for personal development. Let’s take an example … What would you do? I want these learners to be inspired and grow in confidence.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2018

Take the following statement: 'It is possible for a person to consciously engage in an activity while carrying out other tasks unconsciously.’ Novices crave concreteness. Give plenty of examples. The more hooks you can get on an idea, the more it will stick in memory.'

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