Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2019

In VR, we totally have to have a goal in the simulated world. We could have a real task that we’re layering AR on top of to support success (more performance support than learning). AV strikes me as something that has a virtual world created story that uses virtual images and real locations. Kind of like The Void experience.

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Augmented Reality Virtual World Simulations Performance Support 151

Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2012

Not surprisingly, I believe simulation games are the best form of deep practice to help cement skills. Further, I believe we will have collaboratively developed sims as part of that path, where we use wikis to edit the rules of the simulation to keep it up to date. CTA is highly effective, but also very complex.

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Wiki Simulations Cognitive Communities of Practice 154

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 25, 2016

This is just a better multiple choice question (or other canned interaction, but… If the consequences of the initial decision lead to a new situation and new decisions, now we’re talking a full scenario (whether implemented via branching or a full simulation-driven experience). Note that this is also the structure of a game.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 5, 2019

Again, there may not be many situations, but for doing that mix of delivering a simulated experience in your life instead of a virtual life could be interesting. As mentioned above, disaster preparedness could make sense. Or other real world awareness tasks (spies?). Certainly intriguing. And to share at the conference.

Virtual World 161

Virtual World Player Augmented Reality Simulations 161

Clark Quinn

JULY 8, 2015

An alternative to social interaction would be practice set in a simulation that’s richer and with some randomness that mimics the variations seen in the real world that go beyond our specific designs.

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Emergent Simulations Blended Learning Asynchronous 100

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

That means scenarios and simulations. A series of these might be enough if the task isn’t too complex, but if it’s somewhat complex, it might be worth creating a model-based simulation and giving the learners lots of goals with it (read: serious game).

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Activities Simulations Ratio Predictions 172

Clark Quinn

APRIL 10, 2012

Of course, activities too could be digitally based such as simulations, whether desktop or digitally delivered, e.g. simulations or alternate reality games. Further, creation tools could and should be used to create products and or reflections.

Portfolio 162

Portfolio Content Simulations Augmented Reality 162

Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2011

For the medium term (2-3 years), he pointed to augmented reality and game-based learning (though only barely touching on deeply immersive simulations, which surprised me). For the near term (< 1 year), he identified the two major technologies as ebooks and mobile devices (with a shoutout for my book : very kind).

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Report Augmented Reality Simulations ASTD 176

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Learners need role-plays and simulations to be immersed in practice, and scaffolded with reflection to develop their flexible ability to apply these abilities going forward. Now, it does start with a killer learning experience. That is, activity-based, competency-driven, model-guided, with lean and compelling content.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2013

These are served up via delivery channels and managed, whether through webinars, courses, or simulations through a learning management system (LMS) on the formal learning side, or self-managed through social media and portals on the informal learning side.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 23, 2013

Test -> Simulation . The pragmatic barriers to creating simulations are falling down, and we now know that knowledge test isn’t an adequate assessment of ability to apply. Not to say reading won’t continue to play a role for concepts, but for procedures, the context and dynamism makes videos powerful.

Simulations 179

Simulations Mentoring Performance Support Search 179

Clark Quinn

JULY 17, 2018

So, for instance, you don’t know whether to place the learner’s role in the simulation game as a consultant to many orgs or as a role in one org with many situations. If science and theory can’t provide the answer, you either wing it, but it’s better if you set up an experiment. Ideally, with your sample population.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 18, 2018

applying it in practice, real or simulated. But there are actually a variety of useful things we can do: representing information (a form of reflection) whether rewriting, or mindmapping, or… connecting to other known information, personal or professional. considering how it would be applied in practice.

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Cognitive Simulations Summary Performance Support 133

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

My blog posts are pretty regular (my aim is 2/week), but tend to have ideas that are embryonic or a bit ‘evangelical’ First, I’ve written four books; you can check them out and get sample chapters at their respective sites: Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games.

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Write Blog Simulations Examples Sample 100

Clark Quinn

MAY 9, 2013

I’ve an inkling that writing meaningful assessments, particularly leveraging interactive technology like immersive simulation games, is an area where skills are still going to be needed. Aligning and evaluating the assessment, and providing scrutable justification for the assessment attributes (e.g.

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Assessment Online Cognitive Simulations 184

Clark Quinn

APRIL 22, 2011

Not just quizzes, which can be done now via mobile web, but immersive simulations and serious games. We need a standard, like ePub for ebooks, but one that supports simulation-driven interaction. And you can do that now, but not in a cross-platform way.

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Simulations Flash to HTML5 Conversion Performance Support Mobile 180

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I didn’t have the ability to work quite as tightly with the SMEs from the get-go, and we didn’t have the ability to simulate the hands-on tasks as well as we’d like, but we did our best to infer real tasks and used low-tech simulations and scenarios to make it effective.

Cognitive 100

Cognitive Effectiveness Simulations Pedagogy 100

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Based upon years of deep investigation into learning & instruction theories and design processes, and practical experience in designing games, I wrote Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games. The book was based upon work I’d published as an academic, but was focused very pragmatically.

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Simulations Journal Games eLearning Guild 167

Clark Quinn

JULY 2, 2013

That takes time to design properly, ideally with scenarios or simulation-driven interactions. This is not trivial: a poorly formed objective about knowledge, not behavior, isn’t going to have an impact on the business. Then, to do formal learning well, you need appropriate and sufficient practice. Enough of them. This takes time.

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Metrics Simulations Behavior Rapid eLearning 196

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 20, 2014

In the case of the practice, the experience is likely a simulation, and the learner should be getting feedback about their success. Also in both cases, an instructor should be reviewing their output. In the conceptual case, learners might get feedback on their output, and have a chance to revise their creation.

Pedagogy 171

Pedagogy Design Cognitive Simulations 171

Clark Quinn

MAY 25, 2016

For the latter, we might be talking documents, documentaries, diagrams, or more interactive elements such as simulations. For the former, we’re talking about how-to videos, checklists, lookup tables, etc. At this stage we also need coaching and/or mentoring, and chances to communicate with our colleagues.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 9, 2007

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Simulations eLearning Guild Research Project 100

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Whether it’s simulations/scenarios/serious games, spaced learning delivered via mobile, or user-generated content (note: I’m deliberately avoiding the LMS and courses ;), these things should play a role in preparing the audience to optimally execute and being accessed by a large proportion of the audience. Several ways.

Social Networks 100

Social Networks Simulations Portal Social Network 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2017

And it may mean simulating our cognitive architecture on a sensor equipped processor that must learn through experimentation and feedback as we do. I do believe we ultimately will achieve machine consciousness, but it’s much further out than we think. e.g. taking a few years just to learn to speak! What would it take to build a baby?”

Cognitive 102

Cognitive Simulations Pattern PENS 102

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This is aside from scenarios/simulations (e.g. I know there are other resources that I should know about (pointers welcome), but I’m currently wrestling with several types of situations and wanted to share my thinking. games ) that are the first, best, learning practice you can engage in, of course.

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Simulations Ratio Guidelines Problem 152

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

with sufficient depth to develop models), using a cognitive task analysis process to get the objectives, align the processing activities to the type of learning objective, developing appropriate materials and rich simulations, testing the learning and using feedback to refine the product, all before final release.

Cognitive 173

Cognitive Simulations Learning Objects Analysis 173

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

So, for instance, if you create a really intriguing simulated avatar for practicing soft skills, but you’re still not really providing a good model to guide performance, and good examples, you’re either requiring considerable more practice or risking an inappropriate emergent model. But don’t assume so.

Simulations 101

Simulations Emergent Behavior Statistics 101

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Imagine putting that into play for learning: you read a graphic novel that’s about something interesting and/or important, and then there’s a simulation game embedded where you have to practice the skills.

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eBook Simulations HTML Embed 178

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We can also mix in some simulated practice (e.g Delivered, for instance, through mobile devices. The goal is to use the events in your life as learning opportunities as much as possible (or preferable).

Metrics 167

Metrics Simulations Calendar Learning 167

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

My argument is pretty simple: just because courses are on a different device, if they’re a traditional course – page turning with knowledge test, a virtual classroom, or even a simulation – if it’s only made touch-enabled, it’s still just elearning.

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Virtual Classroom Simulations Performance Support IBM 188

Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In face-to-face learning, we’ll do role-plays, and in online learning we’ll create simulations or games. What we do, in so many of our formal learning designs, is create artificial contexts. Now, this makes sense; you want to do practice away from real performance if the consequences are costly.

Simulations 172

Simulations Performance Support Calendar Learning 172

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Studies across economic behavior, animal cognition, simulation studies, and more are integrated to make the point that they way we think is very different than the models of conscious minds sitting in meat vehicles. Instead, we’re very driven from below and outside, and our conscious thinking is rare, hard , and language based.

Cognitive 175

Cognitive Simulations Learning Emergent 175

Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2010

And just a reminder, I still haven’t found a better guide to designing learning games than my previous book: Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games. I will have the first chapter available for download as soon as I can get it from the publisher. And I do keep track.

Simulations 133

Simulations TechKnowledge eBook Conference 133

Clark Quinn

JANUARY 13, 2016

If you created a study that tried to simulate the workplace and test to see where the numbers fell, your data would be hard to claim to be valid in a real workplace. Similarly in a complaint linked off of Ryan’s post. And I’ve already riffed on how I don’t get people who are flummoxed by the numbers.

Simulations 100

Simulations xapi Poll Performance Support 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 30, 2015

Depending on the ability of the learners, you may start with challenges that are like but not necessarily real challenges, such as evaluating a case study or working on a simulation.

Activities 100

Activities Integrate Case Study Social Media 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 1, 2017

Think: flight or medicine simulators.) There have been uses for things like understanding the world according to a schizophrenic, and a credit card call center helping employees understand the lives of card-users. On principle, such environs should support near transfer when designed to closely mimic the actual performance environment.

Virtual World 102

Virtual World Augmented Reality Simulations eLearning Guild 102

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 7, 2015

He points out how they’re largely used as knowledge test, and I agree that’s wrong, but while there are better practice situations (read: simulations/scenarios/serious games), you can write multiple choice as mini-scenarios and get good practice.

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Cognitive Simulations DevLearn Learning 100