Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an ideal world, we would probably provide personalised support for every learner, but this gets more and more unrealistic as online learning groups get larger. One way we can all do that is through the content that we provide to learners – the videos, the podcasts, the self-study materials and the job aids.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

While the underlying pedagogy of a MOOC can, in some cases, resemble that of a traditional course, the sheer scale of the endeavour and the opportunities that this provides for peer interaction make the MOOC something very different from what we have ever been able to experience face-to-face. Live group sessions in a virtual classroom?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Anyway, this post provides me with an opportunity to clarify my thoughts in preparation for the discussion. The gaps can be filled using social media: the use of social networks to find sources of expertise or offer your own expertise to others content sharing (text, screencasts, podcasts, etc.)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It provides the structure that novices need. Videos, podcasts, screencasts, reference guides, even simple slide shows, can all be valuable resources and will be used increasingly in learning solutions. Importantly it's also cheap to deploy.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I thought I''d bring it back to life here: September 22, 2009 Webinars, video recordings and podcasts provide the opportunity for experts to share their thoughts and experiences with a wide audience. It brought to mind a posting I made back in 2009, called How online media helps to create ever brighter stars.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2018

You reflect that the session got off to a slow start, as you provided instructions for those participants who hadn’t used the tool before, and waded point by point through the objectives and the agenda. If you want to present a large body of content, why not do this in advance in text, as a video or a podcast?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And don't forget those organisations - typically cottage industries - that provide training services to the big boys, but have had neither the capital nor the technical expertise to integrate e-learning into their offerings. Supplement these if necessary with some tools to help in developing short videos and podcasts.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes. In fact I'd go further: any subject can be taught using storytelling. So does good learning content.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

No regrets : a short film which provides insights into good blended learning design. Compelling challenges provide us with the incentive and the opportunity to put our learning into practice and to revisit our assumptions and attitudes. In fact I'd go further: any subject can be taught using storytelling. So does good learning content.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2010

Chances are that you are using the classroom elements to enthuse students about the topics covered by the course, to explain key ideas with the benefit of visual aids and interactive exercises, to stimulate discussion and provide opportunities for working with the new ideas. My recommendation is not to go there.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I added a column to explain whether e-content would be an input to the activities involved or an output.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

Learning technologies can and will dramatically change the nature of the service provided by l&d and the skills mix will be quite different. If these tasks haven't been automated by LMSs and other online tools by now, you'd have to ask why. But the situation with 'professional' l&d jobs is more complex.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I added a column to explain whether e-content would be an input to the activities involved or an output.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Whatever you think of e-learning, it insults the intelligence of the learning and development community to pass it off as a fad, whatever motives he has as a provider of classroom IT training. " Now I've met Rob Chapman and he's both a nice guy and a successful businessman, but well-informed he certainly is not.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Webinars, video recordings and podcasts provide the opportunity for experts to share their thoughts and experiences with a wide audience. Of course they can also do this through face-to-face events such as conferences, but are limited in their reach by geography.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2007

The form may be a simple interactive tutorial, a short video, a podcast, a screen capture movie, a PowerPoint or a PDF. It is not good news for those who have made their living providing lower-tier content at higher-tier prices. And they won't pay $20K/hour or more for simple page turners, even if they do have nice graphics.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Just as consistently, it is apparent that they experience a major obstacle to achieving their goals and providing the best possible service to their organisations. A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills? They would soon be unable to provide an adequate service and would rightly ushered out of the profession.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 14, 2008

When e-content is used in this way, you don't want it to come with a lot of embedded navigational features and add-ons, because these are more flexibly provided separately. And you don't always need a lot of built-in interactivity, because this can be provided in other ways, perhaps with a forum or a live discussion.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

Before the internet it seemed like a joke: if you provide an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters one of them will eventually come up with a masterpiece. Papers and magazines close down while broadcasters sell off radio and TV stations, as more people turn to podcasts and streamed videos. I don't think so.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Just as consistently, it is apparent that they experience a major obstacle to achieving their goals and providing the best possible service to their organisations. A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills? They would soon be unable to provide an adequate service and would rightly ushered out of the profession.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2007

At 156 pages this was a quick read and provided a useful overview of the state of m-learning circa 2005 (when the author concedes that it was written). Delivery of passive learning materials, e.g. podcasts, videos, PDFs, Flash movies, web pages. Essentially these would be the same as you get on PCs, but ideally smaller/shorter.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Rapid development The lower tier would be 'good enough' digital content, designed to communicate simple information or provide basic knowledge without fuss. The form may be a simple interactive tutorial, a short video, a podcast, a screen capture movie, a PowerPoint or a PDF.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

If you're anxious about whether your students will resent them, then provide an easy opt-out facility. E-newsletters can inform learners about new training events and services, they can celebrate successes, they can provide case histories, they can exhort learners to keep using their new skills, and they can present new tips and hints.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 15, 2006

A typical task would be to conduct research on a topic related to the course (typically in the form of a webquest ) and then present their findings, perhaps as a forum posting, a wiki entry or a podcast. provided by so-called experts - are increasingly peripheral to the process of online learning, and in many cases could be unnecessary.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2005

He goes on to say how news providers such as his own organisation had better get web-savvy, stop lecturing their audiences and become places for conversation, where bloggers and podcasters congregate to engage our reporters and editors in more extended discussions. And they quite like it that way.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Asynchronously there’s been similar progress, with email, forums and newsgroups; the World Wide Web; social networking using blogs, wikis and podcasts; as well as the ability to send simple text messages to each other using our mobile phones.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

More importantly, you don't have the opportunity to publish your own thoughts and opinions, to become a provider as well as a recipient. They allow us to make contact with others who are facing similar challenges and who may be able to provide us with help. With the new tools, everyone's a publisher, everyone's a teacher.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I was chatting over this concept with Nigel Paine just recently - he used the analogy of a dashboard , providing us with ongoing and speedy access to vital information and expertise. The act of knowledge is offloaded onto the network itself." That got me thinking about my own personal dashboard.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2020

I have added a column to explain whether digital content would be an input to the learning processes involved or an output.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 11, 2015

When it was first coined, in the late 1990s, it promised a brave new world of engaging, multimedia-rich learning freed from the confines of the classroom, providing unlimited accessibility, flexibility and scalability. The problem is that the term e-learning, used in this specific context, carries too much baggage.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics. Whichever medium they choose, if they can communicate well they have the potential to provide a really valuable service. But which provides you with the support you need to take your skills to the next level.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Perhaps they maintain a blog, interview experts for podcasts or put out video commentaries on hot topics. Whichever medium they choose, if they can communicate well they have the potential to provide a really valuable service. But which provides you with the support you need to take your skills to the next level.

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