Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As a result, just about every self-respecting trainer has been relabelled with a title that centres on 'the L word' (whether or not their role has changed or not). Yet when I first entered the profession I was perfectly happy to be called a Training Specialist.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 21, 2011

She was sharing her thoughts about the emerging role of the curator in organisations which have established systems to encourage user-generated content. How do I see the role of curator? Yes there is a role for l&d (or someone else) and curator is how I also have come to describe this role. They did find time.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 19, 2010

The second consideration is the design for learning: What learning strategy should be employed? How can interactivity be used to support this strategy? Which comes out top could depend on your role in the process. How relevant is this to the target population? How timely is this information? Is it accurate, clear, concise?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these is obliged to complete safety training appropriate for their role. The end result was three core modules, supplemented by role-specific content. Resources play a far greater role in the overall learning landscape than do courses. By aligning the modules to tasks, this problem is avoided.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. With this strategy, a subject expert presents information to the – largely passive – learner. In fact, all three strategies have been around as long as we have had human beings.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2014

Technology is providing many useful alternatives to the corporate classroom, but it also has an increasingly important role to play when we do get together with a facilitator within the confines of good old bricks and mortar.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. Charles identified six issues which needed attention: The lack of a coherent global learning strategy.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 10, 2012

An on-demand learning strategy will include the provision of formal reference materials, increasingly through mobile devices, but will also support bottom-up approaches using search tools, forums and wikis. Courses are too ponderous and inflexible to meet the majority of the requirements of the modern workplace.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Instructional e-learning tries to provide knowledge in one hit and this is rarely going to be a successful strategy. Guided discovery is a great strategy for selling the big ideas and influencing attitudes, but when you're tasked with building knowledge or increasing skills then instruction can still be the best approach.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2009

John didn't include in his list the important role that line managers play in supporting formal l&d interventions. Unless you recognise that line managers are your most important stakeholder and ensure their commitment to your l&d strategy, you stand little chance of success. The lesson from all this evidence is quite clear.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the downturn affects the behaviour of Gen Y What it’s like to be a learner today The pros and cons of a linear progression through content as opposed to random access How necessity is once again proving to be the mother of invention That blogging is journalism That Twitter is only incidentally a learning tool That exercise boosts brain power Relationships (..)

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 8, 2008

Back in June, I posted about the Three Tiers in the Content Pyramid , a model I borrowed from Nick Shackleton-Jones of the BBC. Quality and speed are not absolutes - you need the right speed and the right production values for the task in hand.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2008

We both agree that the role of the 'trainer' has to change radically and we both agree that there is long way to go for that to become a reality. All this implies a shift of role for the learning and development professional. Unfortunately the report continues to call this population 'trainers', which rather perpetuates the problem.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

This would not be your favoured strategy for addressing the situation. To put it bluntly, every time you behave unprofessionally, you reinforce undesirable stereotypes and make it much harder for your colleagues to fulfil their roles as professionals. He would like you to go off and work up a proposal with a budget and schedule.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

This would not be your favoured strategy for addressing the situation. To put it bluntly, every time you behave unprofessionally, you reinforce undesirable stereotypes and make it much harder for your colleagues to fulfil their roles as professionals. He would like you to go off and work up a proposal with a budget and schedule.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 5, 2008

Back then we probably saw HR having the major role here, because managers could not always be trusted to act objectively when it came to the advancement of their own direct reports. I still feel that now - the last person I would ask to put together a usable guide to doing anything would be a technical writer.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Where possible, we employ inductive/discovery strategies, building on the learner's existing knowledge and past experience. I believe these materials still have a useful role (albeit perhaps within blended or informal contexts) as long as we can do something about the quality. If we can, we employ humour. We provide helpful feedback.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 12, 2007

In my life I've often taken up the role of arbitrator - the one who acts as the moderating force and helps to cool down the conflict. Learning and development professionals absolutely must take account of all this and, as a result, make very different choices about strategy and tactics.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

I think that's because they envision only one over-arching teaching/learning strategy, i.e. structured instruction. I believe structured instruction has a role to play, particularly with more dependent learners and where the outcomes have to be clearly demonstrated.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 8, 2008

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 It would be great if this could happen as a result of a strategy created by learning professionals, but any route will do.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 12, 2007

I kept notes of some of the more interesting suggestions to share with you: Adopt a blended learning strategy : Well I know what they meant, but as far as I'm concerned keeping classroom trainers on board is not a reason for blended learning.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2007

One of the central premises of the book is that findability (the ease with which information can be found by its audience) is an essential ingredient in any strategy for online communication. Important as new informal and bottom-up approaches to learning are becoming, the reality is that top-down methods have a vital and enduring role.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Coaching has become an important component in many learning and development strategies. Much more promising is the concept of connectivism , which recognises the role of technology in helping individuals to build networks of trusted nodes and information sources.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2011

Initial priorities of the Learning Council were to rationalise down from 14 learning management systems to one, establish an evaluation strategy, develop an online learning planning tool, and to create a single system for procurement. Phase two was to move from what Peter called “getting things fixed” to “doing things more effectively.”

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This decision is complicated by the fact that there are so many aspects of an solution that you can choose to blend: Learning methods: You can blend the educational and training strategies that you use (exposition, instruction, guided discovery, exploration).

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Here's a list of the categories in the taxonomy (the descriptions are mine, not theirs): Egocentric performance sims Single player game, where the player takes on the role of a single character in a 3D space. Real-time strategy sim Simulation in which the user takes an over-arching strategic role, rather than one of a particular character.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 22, 2009

Lots of people tell me that role-play is their least favourite learning activity for that very reason. I reckon that a great many classroom events, particularly those that are highly interactive, stress out learners too much because the degree of peer pressure is too high - the learner may be terrified of embarrassing themselves.

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