Clive on Learning

MARCH 14, 2013

Historically, all social learning activities, whether one-to-one or group, would have been synchronous (real-time). Synchronous learning also benefited by technology; first the telephone and then online tools such as text chat, instant messaging, internet telephony and web conferencing. But individual it remained.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

If you want to share an experience with other learners in real time, you go synchronous , using some sort of virtual meeting platform. The default position is now asynchronous and online, giving you complete control over time and place.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Synchronous online communications for learning (this is the term that Xyleme used to describe the podcast I just made with them; it's not bad, but I've yet to meet a learning and development professional outside the e-learning field who even knows what the word 'synchronous' means, let alone it's implications for learning).

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Next: Keep a balance between the synchronous and asynchronous. You need to discover the big ideas for yourself, either through hard experience or through a learning activity that has been designed specially to encourage those ‘aha’ moments. blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 30, 2007

I've just booked a four-day trip to Indianapolis to participate in a client problem-solving meeting. There are just four of us participating, two from the UK, to from the USA. The meeting lasts just two days, so the remaining two days are largely wasted in travelling.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2011

While some sort of policy response is obviously called for if some of Atos' employees are wasting half their working week handling email, banning this medium completely in favour of a synchronous alternative may be a little rash. Communication through synchronous media is quick and relatively informal, but it is extremely intrusive.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I then established a vision for workplace learning and development that is: aligned economical scalable flexible engaging and powerful I moved on to look at some of the changes that can be made to realise this vision, expressed as six shifts: from generic to tailored from synchronous to asynchronous from compliance to competence from top-down to bottom-up (..)

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2012

I then set out a vision for workplace learning and development that is: aligned economical scalable flexible engaging and powerful I moved on to look at some of the changes that can be made to realise this vision, expressed as six shifts: from generic to tailored from synchronous to asynchronous from compliance to competence from top-down to bottom-up (..)

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It is unlikely to be obvious to the decision makers that they are actually bundling a whole load of decisions together: synchronous to asynchronous, collaborative to individual, face-to-face to online. It is probably fair to say that we need less synchronous learning, less group learning and less face-to-face learning, but we don't need none.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 5, 2011

Another issue is the balance we strike between learning that is synchronous (live) and learning that is asynchronous (self-paced). Synchronous learning can be easily blocked out in the diary, and it allows learners to get quick answers to their questions and immediate feedback on their performance.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 7, 2009

So, if the classroom experience is synchronous and collaborative, then the online experience needs to be the same, which probably limits you to virtual classroom sessions. As a classroom intervention is always synchronous, the issue here is not whether you are moving the learning online, but the change of method, from live to self-paced.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2011

If you want to share an experience with other learners in real time, you go synchronous, with Skype or web conferencing. The default position is now asynchronous and online, giving you complete control over time and place.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 1, 2011

This got me thinking about the differences between what I regard as the four primary social contexts for learning: Self-study - you learn alone One-to-one - you learn with an expert, coach or teacher Synchronous group - you learn in a live event with peers (typically in classrooms, physical or virtual) Asynchronous group - you learn at your own pace (..)

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Clive on Learning

MAY 31, 2013

Synchronous learning (that takes place with others, at a specific time, perhaps in a virtual classroom) can be powerful, but it is certainly not flexible. Adults expect to have control over what they learn, when and where and will increasingly demand it. It means you have have to compromise on when you learn in order to suit others.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For at least ten years I have been trying to broaden the use of the term 'e-learning' to include any use of technology to assist the process of learning, whether that's synchronous or asynchronous, interactive or linear, collaborative or self-study. The fifth of ten 'insights' is that ‘E-learning design is changing'.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

blended learning'

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

On-demand On-demand learning occurs at the point of need PeopleCloud provides an alternative, social intranet where knowledge can be shared in the form of content, news feeds or through social interaction, both synchronous (chat and live meetings) and asynchronous (forums and groups). There's also a facility to track down an expert.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

What caught my attention was how this 25-30% was made up, with about 2/3 asynchronous (self-paced) and 1/3 synchronous (live/real-time), although the majority of the non-e-learning elements are synchronous as well, using the traditional classroom. Synchronous communication is speedy and responsive; it gets things done right away.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 11, 2013

Coming next: Strategies for transformation 2: from synchronous to asynchronous. Powerful : You would expect tailored interventions to be more powerful because they are aimed at real needs and respond to individual differences. And, in the end, powerful learning is what it''s all about. transformation'

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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

JANUARY 25, 2013

It would be easy to just miss out this element for self-directed learners, but this would be second best. The trick here, I believe, is to have learners engage with their work colleagues (and perhaps even their family and friends) to ensure that have the opportunity to externalise their views and benefit from other perspectives.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2011

However, it will change dramatically in nature, i.e. less synchronous, less face-to-face, more fully integrated with informal learning. The remaining 10-20%, typically the responsibility of training departments - traditional or otherwise - and colleges, will not go away, because some degree of formal learning is essential.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 17, 2013

In this series of posts, I''ll start by developing a vision for a transformed learning and development function; one that is aligned, economical, scalable, flexible, engaging and, above all, powerful in terms of the results it achieves.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 21, 2008

I'm going to pick one particular favourite of mine and that's Marc Gamble's piece on Using Radio Production Techniques to Improve Synchronous Communication. There are plenty of interesting ideas in here to chew on, but what I like most about the Guild's publications and events is the practical how-to stuff.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 6, 2010

Synchronous (live) online events, using web conferencing, instant messaging and so on. ‘Online learning’ is a medium which supports a wide variety of educational and training methods. These can be categorised as: The use of online content, in its many forms, typically asynchronously (self-paced).

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

One advantage of synchronous training is that it represents a comparatively familiar environment for classroom trainers (perhaps not in appearance but certainly in function) and that it requires only a relatively small step for them to engage with e-learning as an online facilitator. This has been my experience too.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 11, 2009

The term 'instructionally sound' implies, of course, that there is some instructional element to the learning activity, as will be the case with most formal interventions (whether synchronous, asynchronous or blended) and some non-formal (on-job instruction, coaching, etc.).

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2008

A year ago I posted about Telepresence: upping the stakes in synchronous communication. Cisco's 21st century video conferencing solution certainly sounded like something special. This afternoon I was lucky enough to receive a demonstration of the system at Cisco's European head office in Feltham and for once reality exceeded the hype.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This integrates their free web conferencing solution directly into Moodle, so Live Class sessions can be implemented as Moodle activities and students can have seamless access to synchronous events, within the context of a blended Moodle course.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

There's no doubt that, something like ten years after their initial launch, web conferencing and other synchronous communication tools are now enjoying a huge surge in popularity. knowledge sharing and training.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 30, 2009

Now e-learning's a big subject if you include all its many variants - formal and informal, synchronous and asynchronous and so on - and if you take into account all the issues relating to its management and marketing. Cath Ellis recently set out her ten commandments of e-learning and this prompted me to try and articulate my own.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 27, 2006

Text chat would not be many learners' medium of choice for synchronous communication with their group during a course. I was interested, therefore, to read Synchronous Discussion in Online Courses: A Pedagogical Strategy for Taming the Chat Beast By Craig W. The order of preference probably goes: Face-to-face communication.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Note that I'm not suggesting that you select methods or media inappropriately in order to manipulate a process of transformation; of course, it must also make sense to carry out an activity online rather than face-to-face or asynchronously rather than synchronously.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2007

But the argument also applies to e-learning, synchronous or asynchronous. It's long been claimed that, in a classroom session, you should change what the group has to do every 20 minutes and it makes sense to limit presentations to this duration as well. That way your students will develop their brains rather than their backsides.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2008

asynchronous and synchronous e-learning and even the classroom were showing increased usage, mobile learning was down 10% and serious games down 6%. Three-quarters of executives plan to maintain or increase technologies that encourage user collaboration (McKinseys). While Learning 2.0, Surprising you might think.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2008

Synchronous (live) e-learning is used sometimes or often in 63% of organisations, and again more so in bigger organisations and more in the US than other regions. The report looks at the take-up of various forms of e-learning as reported by an ongoing survey of Guild members, the majority of whom are located in the USA.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

CBT-style, self-paced) has been largely overcome, with the increased use of synchronous online learning, online books, content generated by subject experts and so on. For: Andy McGovern, Reuters Reuters adopt a broad definition for e-learning. The criticism of the narrow view of e-learning, (i.e.

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