Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

I've been trying to figure out for years now why sitting on a train is such a productive environment when it comes to designing and writing. The economic argument is straightforward: the additional cost of a first class fare v the value of a really productive work environment. Which doesn't explain why the environment is so productive.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Just in case you weren’t one of the 500 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in London last night, here are the lucky ones for this year: Best use of mobile learning Gold Winner: Learnosity Best use of rapid e-learning content Gold Winner: Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK and Brightwave Silver Winner: Everything Everywhere Bronze Winner: ispeakuspeak (..)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

Rob is an excellent designer and a real innovator, so I feel compelled to use this blog to tell you about what he's up to with this product. The experience was fun and productive. goalgetter is Rob's attempt to solve the problem of transfer of learning.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

Called Vendor Perspectives (slightly ironic as 'vendor' is very much a US expression, where we tend to say 'supplier') the service provides intelligence about available solutions to potential buyers in all the usual product and service categories, including custom content providers, authoring tools, learning management platforms, etc.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Jane Bozarth Production Processes – Making it Happen! Table of contents So What is eLearning? Clive Shepherd Getting the Business on Board Laura Overton Build In-House, Buy Off -the-Shelf or Outsource?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 22, 2012

True we were restricted to distributing on PCs via the offline medium of a laserdisc, but the creative product was almost identical. You may remember the wonderful interactive products that Dorling Kindersley produced back then, not to mention Encarta.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Flexible learning materials Bill’s team has started to use an Oracle product called the ‘User Productivity Kit’, a development environment which simplifies the process of creating course materials, software simulations, assessments and job aids. These are available a week before the course and then afterwards.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 24, 2013

Every hour spent away from productive work is a cost to the organisation and one that should be minimised. But even if this is not the case, the cost is still real; time spent learning could have been used productively elsewhere - in other words, there is an opportunity cost.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In learning terms, benefits could include cost savings, productivity gains and so on - see MEDIC below. The benefits of these outputs : Each output will lead to at least one benefit. In some cases more than one output could contribute to the same benefit.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2013

All this week, I have been discussing a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 30, 2012

recommending products / vendors? Not surprisingly, the most popular services on offer at the moment are those that can be provided virtually, like graphic design or coding, but currently no-ones extending this to learning technologies. So, what could you buy or sell remotely by the hour: analysing a performance requirement? preparing a quiz?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 1, 2010

A number of comments made by participants at the Second European Articulate Conference , which I attended in Leeds last month, gave me the impression that designers are overly anxious about the production values of their interactive content. Even if you did, it would not make a positive impression on learners.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

From Monday of this week, I have been sharing with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2010

What you'll hear in this program is how he developed his idea, why he insisted on an imperfect launch, how he got coverage for his new product, and the exact tools he uses to get customers to pay. He launched PadPressed, which enables blogs and other publications to automatically make their content iPad friendly.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2010

This is an output-oriented model, so MindMuze has every incentive to help you make productive use of the tool. Because they make money from what you produce rather than from the product sitting on the shelf. They are also demonstrating a great deal of confidence in their product.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2014

And where once video editing could only be carried out by skilled engineers in elaborate editing suites, it can now be accomplished, often with equivalent production values, with free or low cost software on PCs and even mobile devices. Video production is becoming as core a competency as writing.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2018

It could be you’re comfortable with including a token woman in your productions, as long as she’s young and beautiful and only then as a sop to political correctness gone mad. It may be you’re quite happy with how women and girls are generally portrayed in adverts, video games and films. If this is you, this article will not be of interest.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I was particularly taken by Diana’s five media forms (the descriptions are mine): Narrative media : explain, demonstrate, describe Interactive media : facilitate reflection, check understanding, encourage exploration, provide feedback Communicative media : allow exchanges between learners and between learners and tutors Adaptive media : facilitate (..)

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2009

Products and services can only be provided free of charge if someone other than the user is prepared to foot the bill. The provider is treating the product as a 'loss leader.' They hope that a positive reaction to the product will boost their visibility and reputation, making it easier for them to sell other products and services.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 15, 2015

We started a new company to look after our new invention, a portfolio of products and services to support it, a new website to show it all off and a free online course for anyone who wants to learn how to use it. We developed a whole new way of designing learning interventions, an approach that we really believe in.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Not because they don't have a good product or a massive marketing pot, but because it's not enough for a new product to be 10% better than what exists. By and large it also acts to successfully filter out the dross and bring the cream to the top. Google may not be successful in introducing a new social network.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In his profile, we will be examining two very different populations for which Nick has architected learning solutions – those responsible for production safety and all those in the BBC with a desire to contribute creatively. As well as permanent employees, this population includes freelance, contract and temporary staff.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

No, we don’t have access to the armies of software engineers that support such high-profile products, but we could do so much more with the tools already at our disposal. Give your computer a treat – ask it to do something a little more demanding than shuffle slides or play videos.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2013

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I shared with you a simple four-phase model for the design of workplace learning interventions: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the hands of a good facilitator, the classroom can be a very productive place of learning, at least in small doses. I have long resigned myself to the fact that L&D is one of the most conservative professions going and is finding it very hard to believe that its role as provider of classroom courses is becoming less and less relevant.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Scenarios can be used in an instructional context, as a form of practice, but they are most productively used as a form of guided discovery. My experience over the past three years of awards judging has demonstrated to me that for everyone who hates instructional e-learning there is someone who loves doing scenarios.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

No, we don’t have access to the armies of software engineers that support such high-profile products, but we could do so much more with the tools already at our disposal. Give your computer a treat – ask it to do something a little more demanding than shuffle slides or play videos.

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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. Now what sort of deliverable should I aim for?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Yesterday I outlined a simple series of four phases through which a workplace learning intervention should progress: Preparation: Helping the learner to prepare for a productive learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

The final consideration is the level at which to set the production values. How can interactivity be used to support this strategy? How can the subject matter best be communicated using examples, stories, cases and demos? How professionally should the content be presented? How novel and eye catching should it be? How rich is the media mix?

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2010

Is this formal content with high production values, or is it just 'good enough' and rapidly-produced? Is the content interactive or passive (as with podcasts, videos, manuals)? Does the content stand alone or is it designed to accompany other activities or resources?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The best teachers will be fabulously productive, reaching hundreds of thousands of students. I was fascinated to read an article in this week''s Economist on Massive Open Online Forces , looking at some of the economic effects of the rise of online education.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2018

Many of us will have experienced doubts like this when we first use a virtual classroom but there’s nothing inherent in the medium that means you can’t be really engaging and productive. Here are my six suggestions for a virtual classroom experience that holds attention and gets the job done.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Preparation : In this phase your aim is to prepare the learner for a productive learning experience. I struggled to find names for these phases that would apply to both formal and non-formal interventions using a wide range of different strategies, but I''m happy with what I''ve settled on.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2009

This makes sense given that most e-learning products are the same across the globe, many of the largest transactions are with multinationals, and few suppliers are able to provide figures by market. Apart from bespoke content development, which tends to be more of a localised business, all the other categories are for world-wide sales.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Similarly, the use of desktop tools to develop e-learning would have been an extension of traditional practice as would the convention of delivering a finished product to an LMS. E-learning was simply more of the same, with the extra sparkle of interactivity to provide the potential for non-linear progress through the frames.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I'm absolutely certain that this is true, because I see so many e-learning products that break practically every known rule of usability and learnability. When they test the product the one thing they are not trying to do is learn from it. These issues are invisible to clients, subject experts and other project participants.

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