Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

If the experience is one of guided discovery – scenarios, simulations, etc. However, so much of the design work that’s required is not instructional in nature, for example: If the experience you are designing is simply expositional – videos, podcasts, books, presentations, etc.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 2, 2011

Flexible learning materials Bill’s team has started to use an Oracle product called the ‘User Productivity Kit’, a development environment which simplifies the process of creating course materials, software simulations, assessments and job aids.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

At a very basic level, we already have the tools to do some simple things: we can provide differentiated feedback depending on the answers that students provide to our questions - to provide at least an illusion of a teacher-learner conversation - and we can fashion branching scenarios that simulate real-world problem-solving situations.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2010

Learning Excel within Excel is a great idea that works; you get to try out all sorts of fancy formulae and formatting right inside the tool - not by simulation but for real. Well I tried it and it's a wonderful resource. Not only that, it's written in clear, friendly English with a heavy dose of humour.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2007

A 3D world doesn't need to simulate anything real - it can look and behave in completely fantastical ways if that's how you design it - although simulating things is what it's most useful for. According to the Wikipedia , ' a simulation is an imitation of some real thing, state of affairs, or process'. Second Life ?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

At their most sophisticated, they can be thought of as simulations. This is laboratory learning in a safe environment - not as powerful as real-life decision making but a whole lot safer. At their simplest, scenarios are just case studies with questions on which the learner can reflect. Scenarios are the future of e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2013

If you really need to ''sell'' an idea, go for case studies, scenarios, simulations, practical assignments, backed up by coaching and facilitated discussion. Forget the slides full of theory and the tests that these have been remembered - or at least hold them back until the insight has been obtained through personal experience.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2013

Well how about work assignments, simulations, interactive scenarios, coaching? Our aim is not to set people up for horrible trauma, but to provide opportunities for mistakes to be made safely and with adequate opportunities for reflection. How do we do this? We have the tools and now is the time to start using them.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 28, 2013

Next step is probably the role play, which is all too often an unsatisfactory experience or, if funds permit, a full-scale simulation. First off, I'd suggest that, imperfect as they are, scenarios still provide a valuable opportunity for experimentation and rehearsal, safe from physical, financial or psychological risk.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 13, 2012

Games and simulations As a form of guided discovery learning, allowing learners to gain insights into problem-solving and decision-making principles, e.g. project management, business strategy, marketing. As an informal developmental activity, e.g. webinars including presentations and discussions.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 7, 2018

At a very basic level, we already have the tools to do some simple things: we can provide differentiated feedback depending on the answers that students provide to our questions - to provide at least an illusion of a teacher-learner conversation - and we can fashion branching scenarios that simulate real-world problem-solving situations.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Preparation: Any sort of formal input - from a series of virtual classroom sessions, to an online simulation, to the meeting of an action learning set - needs a clear purpose. PIAF is helpful because it does not unduly focus on the Input phase; it blends this in to a process that starts and ends in the real-work environment.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2012

Let's clarify what we mean by e-learning: content of all sorts, top-down or user-generated interaction with experts and coaches interaction with peers can be real-time or self-paced can be delivered through a multitude of devices E-learning allows to exploit the power of computers: all forms of digital content, including audio, video, animation, text (..)

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 28, 2013

Some practical courses require students to interact with equipment in ways that cannot feasibly be simulated online. Of course, not all learning can be brought online while maintaining quality, for example: Some interpersonal skills courses require tutors and/or participants to be able to accurately monitor the body language of others.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2012

Every type of e-learning - self-study tutorials, games and simulations, virtual classrooms, digital online content, collaborative distance learning - has its own unique advantages and disadvantages and therefore very different potential applications.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

An immersive and highly-realistic training tool, such as a flight simulator, has no meaningful traditional equivalent other than practice in the real world. In both of these cases, e-learning is providing something different from what we had before.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2008

Sims and games Simulations are used sometimes or often in 56% of organisations, and learning games in 31%. Again the breakdown is interesting: the biggest use of learning games is in Asia Pacific; the most likely sector to use both simulations and learning games is finance, banking and insurance. what's a simulation?),

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Media form Example learning technologies The role of content Narrative media Online articles and papers, slide shows, podcasts, online videos, software demos Content is the input Interactive media Scenarios, quizzes, games, e-tutorials Content is the input Communicative media Forums, virtual classrooms, email Content is an output Adaptive media Simulations, (..)

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Just in case you weren’t one of the 500 at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in London last night, here are the lucky ones for this year: Best use of mobile learning Gold Winner: Learnosity Best use of rapid e-learning content Gold Winner: Bupa Health and Wellbeing UK and Brightwave Silver Winner: Everything Everywhere Bronze Winner: ispeakuspeak (..)

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 7, 2012

Similarly if you test your skills and knowledge out with a game, simulation or quiz. If you figure something out for yourself by trial and error or you read something in a book and then successfully put it into practice then YOU KNOW you've learned something. Take the view on this from classic Bandura style Social Learning.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2012

The end result of all this won’t always be learning, but it will be enhanced performance and surely that’s what really matters. As Clark says in the summary of the eLearning Guild report: "Mobile learning isn’t about courses, but about using personal digital devices to assist us in performing knowledge work wherever and whenever.”

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

Courses are for stories, scenarios, simulations and discussions; resources are where you go to find the information you need to follow up on your interest. The case for resources There’s nothing wrong with courses as such, it’s just that we place too much attention on them and not enough on what happens afterwards.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2011

True, you can’t get away from the need to carefully analyse and articulate the ideas contained in your materials, but you might not have to have much in the way of specialist e-learning skills.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Now I know this idea doesn't make sense when the learner needs to be on a computer to engage in a simulation, practise using software or complete an assessment, but I'd be surprised if it didn't work well in other cases, particularly when you're looking to achieve deeper learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 2, 2009

" The report forecasts especially rapid growth for collaborative e-learning, mobile learning, self-paced learning, and simulations and games. In addition, the use of social learning is up in 30% of cases, games/simulations in 12%, and user-generated content in 29%.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And some learning activities require a lot more than 5-10 minutes to achieve results, notably those that involve a major challenge such as a case study, a simulation, a game or a real-world project. Even the most prolific of Duolingo users have to talk to a real person using their new language at some point.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Courses are for stories, scenarios, simulations and discussions; resources are where you go to find the information you need to follow up on your interest. Where the organisation does find it necessary to push an idea home, then he uses the course as a vehicle for stimulating emotional engagement, not for passing over knowledge.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 23, 2007

Use simulations where learners take the role of their opposites, e.g. customers rather than salespeople. Use of stories: Stories provide an element of simulation (knowledge about how to act) and inspiration (motivation to act). "A A credible idea makes people believe. "A A credible idea makes people believe. So there you are.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

Games and simulations? Either way, it deserves a response. First of all, some clarification. What type of e-learning are you talking about? Virtual classrooms? Online video? No, that’s not what people mean. They mean instruction delivered in the form of interactive tutorials for the individual learner to complete at their own pace.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

The authors claim that "While direct experience is key to enhancing mental capacity, your brain also has specialized nerve cells that enable you to form new neural networks through indirect experience such as observation, simulations and case studies."

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And some learning activities require a lot more than 5-10 minutes to achieve results, notably those that involve a major challenge such as a case study, a simulation, a game or a real-world project. Even the most prolific of Duolingo users have to talk to a real person using their new language at some point.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Media form Example learning technologies The role of content Narrative media Online articles and papers, slide shows, podcasts, online videos, software demos Content is the input Interactive media Scenarios, quizzes, games, e-tutorials Content is the input Communicative media Forums, virtual classrooms, email Content is an output Adaptive media Simulations, (..)

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2011

Of course, you could use an online simulation, in which no-one gets to laugh at your mistakes, but these can be expensive to produce and may not always provide the necessary realism.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

I'll be one of a handful of designers wrestling with a thorny design problem set by Mark which we have to solve using some form of immersive learning simulation. On Thursday 13th at 10.45, I'll be participating in The Great ILS Challenge, hosted by Mark Oehlert. This will be a very participative session and should be great fun.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2012

And here I have to define learning technologies very broadly to include not just self-paced e-learning but also virtual classrooms, electronic performance support, collaborative distance learning, mobile learning, games and simulations, as well as the many uses of social media.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Use cases, problems, exercises, scenarios, simulations or whatever it takes to provide the learner with the opportunity to test out the idea and, where relevant, to build skill. Use plenty of relevant examples and your idea is much more likely to be understood and remembered. Encourage the learner to work with the idea.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

At their most sophisticated, they can be thought of as simulations. This is laboratory learning in a safe environment - not as powerful as real-life decision making but a whole lot safer. At their simplest, scenarios are just case studies with questions on which the learner can reflect. Scenarios are the future of e-learning.

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