Clark Quinn

AUGUST 9, 2019

The bio program was all cut-throat med, and while I could cut it, it was all rote memorization and deadly boring. Of course, back then, at my school, there was no such program. Luck 2: my school had a program where you could design your own major. That sparked my awareness of the connections between computers and learning.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 28, 2022

Postponing programming and preferring paper are components of this. In pragmatic ways, of course. Implementation is also more iterative. You’ll be investing slowly, to allow pivots and to keep the overall costs contained. Even your evaluation is different. You are testing, now, not only effectiveness, but also the experience.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Then, I’ve been into games for learning since my first job out of college, programming educational computer games. Recently, with guidance offspring two, our family is getting back into it (with a prompt from a Shakespeare and DnD skit at the local Renaissance Faire).

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As an undergrad, I designed my own major on Computer-Based Education, and then got a job designing and programming educational computer games. My interest in design came in a roundabout way. What that didn’t do, was teach me much about design as a practice.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2023

with programming: learning conditionals and then loops), and addressing them separately. Which might include some very rich types of capabilities, so we might have a lot of concepts and practice involved. We’d need to create a large map. We might even break it up into conceptual stages (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The acquaintance was right that just university uptake wasn’t a solid basis (I found a renowned MBA program recently that was still touting MBTI!). To the contrary, uptake at individual institutions without a corporate marketing program is actually quite the accolade! So what’s the evidence that it’s good?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I had created my own major in Computer-Based Education, and was designing and programming educational computer games. It prompted some small thoughts about Smalltalk. I was a regular Byte magazine reader, back in the day. I’d done academic research as part of the degree requirements, so I was aware of the work at Xerox PARC. (In

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2017

A colleague pointed me to a intense critique of master’s programs in Instructional Design, and it raised several issues for me. The issue is that the program didn’t provide any practice in designing courses from go to whoa, it was all about theory. So, I thought it’d be worth discussing. Is it job training?

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 24, 2023

We could try to have an intelligent programmed response (c.f. While it’s ideal to have an instructor in the loop to provide feedback, the asynchronous part means that’s hard to arrange. artificial intelligence), but those can be difficult to develop and costly. Is there another solution?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2018

First, the Aussie science program Quantum had a bit on it. That is, you started the game, the player’s actions were sent to the web, the program could calculate the outcome and render an appropriate new page, with the graphics assembled to represent the game variables, the current location, and more. This was exciting.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 23, 2022

I’m also now on the advisory board of a startup with a platform for augmenting formal learning programs. Yes, there are plenty of efforts in this area, I just happen to be involved in this one that has an approach I’m getting to shape aligned with my perspectives.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Fortuitively, this was at the time my advisor was creating the cognitive science program (and more). I’m deeply steeped in the cognitive sciences, owing to a Ph.D. in cognitive psych. So I’ve a bias.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 13, 2019

NNs obviously, more closely resemble our cognitive architecture (though GAs are still used in some areas like program generation). And explains why programs talking about neural really aren’t working there.) After so much work on symbolic reasoning, here were mechanisms operating beneath the symbolic level.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2020

One comment brought in neuro-linguistic programming! It gets worse. The commentary on the post went sideways. Despite some apt questions about the legitimacy, there were counter opinions. Debunked , by the way.) It’d be funny if it weren’t so scary!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2012

Developed by Bill Atkinson, it was really ‘programming for the masses’, a tool for the Macintosh that allowed folks to easily build simple, and even complex, applications. I’d programmed in other environments : Algol, Pascal, Basic, Forth, and even a little Lisp, but this was a major step forward in simplicity and power.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s also the basis of what’s now called generative AI, programs that are trained on a large body of prose or images, and can generate plausible outputs of same. You provide the inputs, and give feedback on the decisions until they make them in the same way.Then they generalize to decisions that they haven’t had training on.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2020

a small program with a better ROI but less overall impact). Yes, what it costs you to move a needle should be less than the cost of what the needle was costing you. However , I could be doing things that return the biggest ROI without doing the most important things. They can be different (e.g. So it’s only secondary.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2014

At the same time, David Kelly (program director for t he Guild) asked for conference reflections for the Guild Blog. At the mLearnCon conference, it became clear it was time to write about wearables. Long story short, my reflections are a guest post there.'

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2014

They’ve started with Entrepreneurship programs to create new businesses, and are supplementing with job training to prepare people to staff them. I’m still passionate about the Serious eLearning Manifesto , and the Revolution message, and I’ll still be thinking out loud here and on Twitter.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Yet orgs still look for the simple packaged program that will turn things around. And what I haven’t seen, and I’m willing to hear of one, is a comprehensive program that addresses the full suite of skills and culture together that constitute a coherent organization. And while it’s understandable, it’s decreasingly likely to work.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2017

Certainly in software engineering, having application program interfaces (APIs) have led to the ability to connect powerful capabilities. A program can call a function and get data returned via an API, and the software doesn’t have to care how the function’s carried out. Now, separation of functions can be useful.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

Most importantly, the definition for Engaging is “A program journey can be spaced enough that combats forgetting curve.” The followup says: “Repetition, practice, and reinforcement can increase knowledge.” ” Er, yes, but that’s just good design. There’s nothing unique to microlearning about that.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve earlier talked about the importance of failure in learning, and now it’s revealed that Apple’s leadership development program plays that up in a big way. There are risks in sharing, and rewards. And ways to do it better and worse.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2017

And if you ask the top ways they evaluate their programs, the top five methods are subjective or anecdotal. And, interestingly, one other statistic struck me:”less than 1⁄4 are willing to recommend their program to peers” To put it another way, the majority of L&D are embarrassed by their outputs.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I’ve been on conference program committees, and know conference organizers as well. The nice thing about being small is the ability to be flexible! None of this is saying you don’t get much of the same from conferences (except, perhaps, the design).

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2013

Rather than developing people through programs, increasingly people are looking for mentoring. Programmed development is like taking the bus, when mentoring is like having a chauffeur. Development -> Mentoring.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 26, 2015

The mantras were test early, test often, and I advocated Double Double P’s (Postpone Programming, Prefer Paper; an idea I first grabbed from Rob Phillips then at Curtin). These days, with agile programming, we see sprints producing working code, which then gets elaborated in subsequent sprints.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2016

I have smaller businesses, some of whom are vendors who offer training products and services to the public or to organisations who are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to get ‘into the 21st century’ as their clients ask for more blended programs – shorter programs – but still achieve the same outcomes.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2018

My first job out of college was designing and programming educational computer games. Since they asked… I saw the connections between computers and learning as an undergraduate, and designed my own major. Long story short: I went back for a Ph.D.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 24, 2014

On Wednesday at 2:45, I’ll be part of a panel on mlearning with my fellow mLearnCon advisory board members Robert Gadd, Sarah Gilbert, and Chad Udell, chaired by conference program director David Kelly. Of course, there’s much more.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And, of course, this is programmed in advance (if we’re not talking about online role playing ), so learners get feedback without necessary human intervention (though there’re powerful benefits to collecting discussion around the learning challenge). Hence, serious games are a series of interesting and important decisions!

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 11, 2017

That, I think, is a desirable and achievable goal, but it’s more than one program. Where people are communicating and collaborating in ways that apply best principles in an way that integrates them into an aligned whole that’s greater than the sum of the parts.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 22, 2020

I’ve guided the design of online content for high school curricula, advised on improving design processes for a courseware provider, and guided an online program manager to incorporate learning science in their practices. Since then, I’ve been assisting many orgs in a wide variety of roles around online learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Flash came about as a web-based lingua franca, where programs could run in most browsers with a plug in. Video discs and Computer- and then Web-Based Training emerged. Companies emerged to do them at scale, but things were changing rather fast. And, specifically for learning, Authorware became a powerful tool.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 27, 2016

And I’ve been a fan of serious games since before then (my first job out of college was designing and programming educational computer games). not requiring custom programming). And back then we didn’t even have the label ‘serious game’! We can make learning ‘hard fun’, and we should.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 16, 2019

I’ve provided many resources about better learning design, from my 7 step program white paper to my deeper elearning series for Learnnovators. It’s not a lot, but unless it happens at the right time (or happens at all) can have a valuable contribution to the quality of the outcome.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2016

There was no major then at my school, but there was a program to design my own major, and I found a couple of professors willing to serve as my advisors (thank you, Hugh Mehan and Jim Levin). And a light went off; computers for learning!

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