Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Of course, if you’re running out of time and money faster than you’re getting close to your goal, you have to decide whether to relax your standards, or apply for more resources, or abandon your work, or…but at least you’re doing so consciously.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 27, 2017

I’m using a standard for organizational learning quality in the process of another task. What does matter is that there are two problems in their standard that indicate we still haven’t overcome some pernicious problems. Why or for whom doesn’t matter. And we need to! Appealing to them is a waste of time and effort.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 17, 2021

In the long term, we can lift our industry to an evidence-based, professional standard. More importantly, get someone who understands learning to actually guide your products and/or service design, and then you can tout scrutable opportunities. In the short term, we need to focus on questionable claims, and shoot for real value.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Our orgs need it, the employees need it, and our professional standards demand it. Other groups can and will take it on if we don’t but we’re supposed to be the ones who understand how we learn. And learning, going forward, is the key to not just surviving, but thriving. Thanks for listening. The post The Future of L&D?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 25, 2014

Of course, we realize that clients may not be willing to pay for testing and revision, but that’s the second part… …we’d like purchasers of custom content to ask that their learning experiences meet these standards, and expect and allow in contracts for appropriate processes. It’s certainly possible!

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2018

Sometime after the game launched, I became aware of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) standard for the web. Yay, standards!). High schools were using it to explore life after school as well. That was a nice outcome. Another occurrence brought new action. In short, web pages could react based upon what had happened before.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Establishing the consistent use of a standard can help build a powerful, and valuable, ecosystem. There may be better alternatives, but getting consistently behind one standard makes the investment amortize effectively. I can wish that the providers in the US would work and play together a little bit more!

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Establishing the consistent use of a standard can help build a powerful, and valuable, ecosystem. There may be better alternatives, but getting consistently behind one standard makes the investment amortize effectively. I can wish that the providers in the US would work and play together a little bit more!

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Mobile Pedagogy Poll Social Media 100

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Note that the US standard set by FEMA doesn’t correspond to the international standard from the International Search & Rescue Advisory Group, interestingly). And when I heard what the standard was, I realized it didn’t have a memorable structure. So, here are the four things to record: the group who goes in.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 5, 2010

Mobile technologies are taking off, we’re getting real power in technology standards (and still some hiccups), and we’re crossing boundaries between reality and virtual worlds. This can be facilitated by standards. Virtual world standards are emerging too, and hopefully some convergence will have happened by 2015!

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Learning Technologies Technology Virtual World Augmented Reality 166

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Standard, abstract, rote problems unlike kids will actually face. The fact that she believes standard test results means much of anything isn’t really helpful. And there are substantial cognitive benefits from learners working together. This teacher did tout the success of her students on tests.

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Cognitive Problem Quiz Standards 164

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2018

So I’ve gotten involved in standards and competency work. Of course, I’ve been on a pretty continuous campaign for this, but I’m wondering what other levers we have. And, oddly, I think competencies may be one. Let me make the case for competencies and innovation.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 7, 2010

She was bringing some clarity to the Adobe Flash – HTML 5 debate, pointing out that HTML 5 is not yet a standard, and emphasizing some moves by Adobe to make Flash more open. What’s necessary, besides the devices and the market (and we’re getting those) is a meaningful interactivity standard.

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HTML Simulations Flash Adobe 154

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Cross Platform issue/ lack of standards – html 5 not standard yet but if it were would be great but there will be, of course, resistance by software companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. to meet individual’s needs better. What important problems do you think still need to be resolved in mobile learning?

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Mobile HTML iPad Performance Support 179

Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The issue on the table is what sorts of standards might be necessary or desirable to support social networking on the web in interoperable ways. If, instead, there are open standards, you’re free to approach things in different ways. If not for the http standard, we wouldn’t have have the world wide web.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Yet in each case, we’re still in the stage before standards emerge that will make a real market. Fortunately, analytics is seeing a boon from the standardization around xAPI. And VR has reached the stage where it’s easy to experiment. AR and content strategy are still nascent, but there’s much potential.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2011

And the standards change over time as new procedures and tools come in. A social process, with criteria of their own about acceptable standards. If they can’t perform, then there are knowledge resources, whatever might be helpful, but it’s not like they have to take a course, unless they want to.

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Compliance Simulations Portal Classes 180

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Worst case, you listen to those who carry the standard of rigor in evaluation. You need to be prepared for the variety of ways people can mislead you (and even themselves). Without a decent understanding of scientific validity, you might be swayed by statistical sleight-of-hand.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 11, 2013

Ultimately, these activities can or will be tracked through standards such as SCORM for formal learning or the new experience API (xAPI) for informal learning. I add, as a caveat: Note that this is merely indicative, and there are other approaches possible.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 3, 2012

He demonstrated that you could get almost as good a performance on standard tests using meaningful problems, and you got much better results on problem-solving skills (21st century skills) as well. He did deep work on problem-solving that more should pay attention to. I continue to apply his principles in my learning design strategies.

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Cognitive Conference Problem Classes 178

Clark Quinn

JULY 6, 2017

I note, by the way, that my readability index for this blog always falls too high according to her standards ;). If you write prose for elearning, you definitely should read, and heed, this book.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2012

Getting there requires a different type of learning design that one focused on standards. They don’t align well with standardized tests” Exactly. The benefits, and the resistance to knowledge dump and fact test forms of learning, drive this perspective.

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Pedagogy Design Cognitive Performance Support 195

Clark Quinn

MARCH 1, 2016

Ok, so you can do this with your own data generating mechanisms, but standardization has benefits (how about agreeing that red means stop?). We can look to see if those more active in the community perform better, or any other question tied to a much richer picture than we get other ways. And, second does this help, at all?

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

It’s just a foundation, just a standard, just plumbing, just a start, but valuable as all that. You could even send your learners out to do a flash mob ;). Learning is not about content, it’s about experience, and now we have ways to talk about it and track it.

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DevLearn Portfolio Social Media Flash 188

Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The ebook standards don’t yet support it, though they could. However, we can’t quite do what I want with ebooks. Yes, we can put in richer images, digital audio, and video. The interactives part is still a barrier, however. Apple’s expanded the ePub format with the ability to do quick knowledge checks (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2016

But for things that need to be known by rote, I recommend tarted-up ‘drill and kill’ And it became clear, they’re fine at developing standard knowledge checks, it’s the more important ones that needed work. Ok, so not every formative evaluation should be such a situation.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 18, 2016

And, in fact, it’s now an ISO standard, 27500:2016 , not that I’ve made it past the paywall to view the whole thing.) And, the evidence seems to be that such organizations are more successful. Interestingly, I searched the term “Human Centered Organization”, and came across this proposal. adopt a total system approach.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Yes, there are issues in creating and developing abilities with a standard ‘model-building’ language , particularly if it needs to be aligned to the world, but the outcomes could be powerful. If we can provide mechanisms (e.g. gestures) for people to not just consume, but create the models ‘in world’ (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The opportunity to wrap quality standards around the content adds another opportunity for benefits. A panel of implementers mentioned reducing tool costs, reduced redundancy savings, and decreasing time to create and maintain information. Server storage was another benefit.

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Content IBM Performance Support eLearning Consultant 179

Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2015

They use the standard methods of storytelling, strip away unnecessary details, have (even unlikely) heroes and villains, obstacles and triumphs). They can convey drama or comedy, and comment on the human condition with insight and heart. The best are truly works of art (oh, Bill Watterson, how could you stop?).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Topics at the VSS ranged a bit higher in scope, with issues about government policies, quality standards, and operational methods and assessment. I was somewhat surprised to not see as much on things like new pedagogies at VSS, but wish we were talking more about standards at DevLearn. mobile) and approaches (e.g. social).

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Conference DevLearn Pedagogy Simulations 133

Clark Quinn

JUNE 23, 2015

A commissioned study in the UK (like the one above, independent, etc) led by Coffield evaluated a representative sample of instruments ( including the ubiquitous MBTI, Kolb, and more), and found (PDF) only one that met all four standards of psychometric validity. And that one was a simple one of one dimensions.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 25, 2008

At what point do lowered standards become the standard? What really got me to post about this is the last question - "lowered standards". How does this equate to lower standards? Also, different needs will necessitate different solutions. My quality concerns: Is it instructionally sound? What about the user experience?

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We can use the standard PIM software (e.g. And I use apps to try to find the best places to eat in airports and around wherever I’m staying. App use is one of the tools we have to accessorize our brains.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 25, 2012

Of course, I believe you also should not replicate the standard garbage elearning, and take advantage of rethinking the learning experience, as Barbara Means suggested in the SRI report for the US Department of Education, finding that eLearning was now superior to F2F. I believe they’re valuable for regular elearning, certainly.

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Performance Support iPad Apple Mobile 174

Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

And that’s the point. If they help you think better, it’s good enough.

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Cognitive Picture Standards Issue 100

Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2010

Then, of course, there are the more standard thought capture and share tools: Word – while I like Pages, it’s outlining just does not meet my needs, as I outline as part of my writing process. OmniGraffle – I diagram as another way to capture my thinking, trying to map conceptual relationships onto spatial ones.

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