Rapid eLearning - eLearning Learning

Superstitions for New Practitioners

Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2022

You can develop meaningful learning in a couple of weeks. The rise of rapid elearning tools and a lack of understanding of learning has led to the situation where someone will be handed a stack of PPTs and PDFs and a rapid authoring tool and expected to turn out a course.

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Why L&D isn’t better

Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2022

We seldom look to see if the learning has actually changed any behavior, let alone whether it’s now at an acceptable level. When we didn’t want to travel, we went to elearning. Rapid eLearning tools emerged to make it fast to take the PPTs and PDFs from the previous courses and put them onscreen with an added quiz.

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Overworked IDs

Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2021

After 9/11, when we were avoiding travel, there was a push for elearning. And, with the usual push for efficiency, rapid elearning became the vogue. It looked like lectures, so it must be learning, right? My response focused on a couple of things. First, there’re the expectations that have emerged.

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Misaligned expectations

Clark Quinn

JUNE 29, 2021

Which meant that a lot of content-based training ended up being content-based elearning. The rush to take content and put it onscreen drove some of the excitement around ‘rapid elearning’ The continuing focus on efficiency – taking content, adding a quiz, and putting it online – was pushed to the extreme.

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Revolutionize Learning & Development

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The LMS, rapid elearning tools, virtual classrooms, and of course the omnipresent F2F training sessions are the rule. My simple version is that L&D isn’t doing all it could and should be doing, and what it is doing it is not doing well. The flaws are myriad. What we see are courses as the only tool in the toolbox.

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Formal Learning is (or should be) Expensive!

Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2013

Rapid elearning is cheap and fast, but it’s not going to have any impact. We don’t, frankly, and to the extent we don’t, we undermine the likelihood that our interventions will have the desired impact. The point being that courses should not be our first line of defense!

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#AECT17 Conference Contributions

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

For my own presentation, I shared my efforts to move ‘rapid elearning’ forward. I had the honor of participating in two sessions based upon writings I’d contributed, and one based upon my own cogitations. I thought I’d share the thinking.

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Extending Engagement

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 24, 2017

And a lot of what’s done under the banner of ‘rapid elearning’ is ineffective. Which is the other issue: a claim that engagement doesn’t equal better learning. So that’s really not about engagement, it’s about effectiveness. It may be engaging, but it isn’t leading to new skills.

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Aligning with us

Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2016

Whereas if you’re serious about learning, you know it’s mostly about spacing contextualized application of that knowledge to solve problems. Instead, we see rapid elearning tools and templates that tart-up quiz questions.

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Trends in L&D

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 7, 2018

The ICICLE initiative from IEEE that is defining ‘learning engineering’ is a big move to start getting smarter about integrating the two components: learning science and technology design and development. Too often learning science is ignored (c.f. ‘rapid elearning’) or the technical sophistication is missing (e.g.

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Non-invasive Brain Surgery

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Why would anyone buy a story that we can achieve anything meaningful by taking content and adding a quiz (read: rapid eLearning)? Who would believe that just anyone can present material and learning will occur? (Do So why, in the name of sense and money, do we treat it as trivial?

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From Content to Experience

Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2014

Even the SME, unless prompted carefully otherwise, will resort to telling you the knowledge they’ve learned, because they just don’t have access to what they know. what rapid elearning tools make easy), isn’t going to lead to a meaningful outcome. And this, by itself, isn’t a foundation for a course.

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Learning in 2024 #LRN2024

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We’ve become self-deluded that an LMS and a rapid elearning tool means you’re doing something worthwhile, when it’s profoundly wrong. What technologies will have the greatest impact on learning in the next decade? L&D needs a revolution.

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The ‘Least Assistance’ Principle

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

He was disagreeing with “buying rapid development tools to bash out ill formed ‘e-learning’ to an audience that will not only be unimpressed but also none the wiser - or more productive&# , a point I want to nuance. That, to me, is the role of rapid elearning.

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First eLearning?

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Or a rapid elearning tool, but don’t put hands to a development tool ’til it’s mapped out on paper (you don’t want to prematurely converge on what the tool makes easy until you’ve figured out the best design). All before you actually start building.

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On the road again

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 21, 2009

The topics are similarly spread to be as interesting as the speakers, with user-generated content, rapid elearning, mobile, games/simulations, and more. I’ll be online presenting in October and again in January, but for someone who’s in elearning, I still value the face to face time when I can get it.

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Quinn-Thalheimer: Tools, ADDIE, and Limitations on Design

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 23, 2014

For instance, rapid elearning tools make it easy to take PPTs and PDFs, add a quiz, and toss the resulting knowledge test and dump over to the LMS to lead to no impact on the organization. What is the root cause of our suffering? Oh, the horror!

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Words of Wisdom*

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Who needs all this rapid eLearning stuff? We used to have SMEs give workshops, and those were attended, so we’ve purchased virtual presentation software to allow our SMEs to present online. And that LMS makes it easy to schedule the presentations! We’re doing some more trendy things as well.

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