Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This isn’t complicated web programming, but it’s not trivial either. You need to set up a database and use this to store user responses question by question, so they can be drawn down later for future students to view. Hopefully, one of the tools vendors will see the potential and provide this service for you.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2010

For the iPhone and iPad that means programming in Objective C on a Mac. Also luckily, some apps are so brilliant that they change everything (to steal Apple's marketing blurb). Anyway, I'm sucked in. I can't wait to create some apps of my own. At this stage I believe I'm prepared to go that far.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The second problem is that so many e-learning programs simply don't take people far enough on their learning journeys. In fact I'm really happy with these. Equally I don't complain when the books I read are full of words. Surely that model's worked well now for hundreds of years. Yes, they present the underlying facts, concepts and processes.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2011

In the end I imported my Word master into Apple’s Pages program and exported from there. Conversion into the ePUB format was not trivial, because I had trouble generating a version that was accepted by Lulu as meeting the strict ePUB criteria (I had tried unsuccessfully using Calibre and ePubGen).

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Clive on Learning

MAY 13, 2010

According to the blurb: "Already on more than five million desktops worldwide, the new version will engage, attract, draw in, and guide learners to increase usage and impact – for formal learning programs, informal on-demand learning, and peer-to-peer learning.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 26, 2010

Connie describes how "Rather than placing all the course content online, the program will take place in the classroom, but will provide students with iPads loaded with all required reading material, videos and custom applications."

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

You can incorporate as much interactive logic as you like without programming. Enterprise users will have the option to work offline and then synch to the cloud. You can storyboard and prototype directly in the tool, as you iterate towards a launchable product. There is huge potential for dynamic and personalised feedback.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 2, 2008

I felt a little short changed, because if I wanted to find a course on, say, PHP Programming, I'd still have to hunt around the sites of all the providers listed under 'Developing IT'. As it stands the site does little more than provide links by broad subject category direct to the web sites of providers.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

What I personally found most interesting was Dan's assertion that a simple picture, drawn from scratch right in front of you in real-time, will be more engaging and memorable than a glossy chart or diagram created in advance using PowerPoint or some other program.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

Every one of us can think of examples in which we've laboured into the night to meet a challenge; when we've been so 'in the flow' that we have forgotten about the need for sleep or sustenance: solving a puzzle, perhaps, programming a computer, developing a plan, making something, playing a game.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 10, 2015

Every one of us can think of examples in which we've laboured into the night to meet a challenge; when we've been so 'in the flow' that we have forgotten about the need for sleep or sustenance: solving a puzzle, perhaps, programming a computer, developing a plan, making something, playing a game.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 29, 2010

I’m not even much a gamer (I vowed some years ago to keep as far away as possible from games and programming, because both were so enjoyable and addictive that they threatened any chance I might have for a life that involved interaction with other human beings).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2006

As a result, I have stopped using my stand-alone newsreader program and just use IE7. Feeds to news, blogs and podcasts: IE7 detects automatically if a page contains an RSS feed and displays a little orange button, meaning you can easily subscribe to blogs, etc. IE7 Beta can be downloaded now at: [link].

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 31, 2008

Hopefully, the success of these programs will prompt more prestigious colleges to follow suit. Many of us will never have the opportunity to receive an Ivy League education, so the open online courses offered by Yale are both rare and significant.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 24, 2011

Today his work includes clients as diverse as Philips, the Swiss Embassy in Indonesia, the Talented and Gifted Students Program at U.S. Following a doctoral degree, Sebastian began his learning and development career in Japan, where he co-authored some 30 TV programmes tailored for students of the Japanese Open University.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Now I'd be the first to admit that an interactive program will work best when you have novice learners, when the subject matter necessitates careful exposition and exploration, and when you need to be able to assess that learning is taking place. No way is this boring, no way is this a limited learning offering.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 24, 2008

As I write this, my Adobe Updater program is busy installing the latest updates to my Adobe Creative Suite 3. I had thought that, with my extravagant purchases, I was maintaining the Adobe share price all on my own, but the eLearning Guild's latest research report on authoring and development tools proves otherwise.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

At the time when the idea was first mooted, ten years ago or so, object orientation had already proved to be a great success in the world of programming, allowing small objects of code to be easily re-used in multiple applications, considerably reducing wasted effort. The idea behind the concept of learning objects is an elegant one.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 10, 2007

The Learning Circuits big question for January asks "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Well, there's an assumption underlying this and I'm questioning it.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Launch of Visicalc, the first spreadsheet program. Launch of Apple II, with 16 colours, a cassette drive and a resolution of 280x160. All for $2500. Intel develops the 8086 processor. 1979: Space Invaders console arrives. Pacman hits the streets. Word processing starts to emerge 1980: Launch of the Apple III, with 5.25" " floppy.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2007

As Kosslyn says "The PowerPoint program is like the weather: Everybody likes to complain about it, but nobody does anything about it," (a complaint I articulated rather similarly with my tale of the Emperor's New Slide Show ). This book doesn't disappoint.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2007

At best, most learning style programs are a waste of resources, and at worst, they lead to instructional methods that actually retard learning." Another small criticism is that I think Steve has over-complicated the process a little, with far too many forms to fill in and checklists to complete.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 4, 2007

Of course, all authoring tools have always described themselves as quick and easy to use, with absolutely no programming required, but of course we know otherwise. Applications you install on you computer (all those mentioned above except Atlantic Link) as opposed to online services (Atlantic Link, Mohive , Alto ).

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 20, 2008

It's easy; I have programmed this sort of question in no time at all in umpteen different languages (BASIC, Pascal, HTML/JavaScript, Flash ActionScript) over the years. and (3) ways to provide helpful feedback for each possible input - and in a simple multiple-choice question, that means for every possible choice.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 6, 2010

I was amused, therefore, to read in The Economist ( Stay on target , June 10) that it is now possible to buy software to protect you from other bits of software: "Some programs fill the whole screen to keep disturbing alerts hidden; others disable specific websites, such as Facebook, or even cut off internet access altogether.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Or they could be cognitive – our ability to write poetry, perform mental arithmetic, fix faulty equipment, solve crossword puzzles or program computers. They could be social – our ability to make good conversation, present to an audience, flirt with the opposite sex, negotiate deals or handle customer complaints.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Obviously full-scale content creation applications (text editors, graphics programs, multimedia tools, etc.) After all, you can always delete it when you're finished with it. Creating content : Here the devices themselves provide the greatest limitations.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2009

Interestingly, the product has been designed to work at a number of levels: Entry level: simple templates, programmed objects and 3D libraries which enable games to be assembled easily. Enthusiast level: a visual flowcharting tool enables non-programmers to easily create complex gameplay.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2009

Yes, you can carry out simple IT demos or import and extend a PowerPoint presentation, but you can also build engaging scenarios or enrich an otherwise flat course with Flash animations and custom-programmed interactions.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

Control Learners like learner rather than program control. Use program control when most of the audience is likely to be novice and/or high levels of skill attainment are critical. Collaborative tasks work best with learners working in pairs or groups of no more than six. Use course maps to provide an overview and orient learners.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or they could be cognitive – our ability to write poetry, perform mental arithmetic, fix faulty equipment, solve crossword puzzles or program computers. They could be social – our ability to make good conversation, present to an audience, flirt with the opposite sex, negotiate deals or handle customer complaints.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Or they could be cognitive – our ability to write poetry, perform mental arithmetic, fix faulty equipment, solve crossword puzzles or program computers. They could be social – our ability to make good conversation, present to an audience, flirt with the opposite sex, negotiate deals or handle customer complaints.

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