Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Even a context-sensitive performance support system that was worth a patent. Then, at the end of the 90’s, I was asked to lead a team developing an adaptive learning system. The lessons learned, of course, have continued to inform me, including, for instance, my calls for content systems. Also a game that helped real kids.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It’s a step forward in what we can do with systems to bring about a more powerful human-aligned system. That’s what’s led me to be keen on content systems. Many years ago, I led a project creating an adaptive learning system. That is, to separate content from description.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ve had a different view (now over a decade old, admittedly), that we’d moved from producer-generated content, through user-generated content, and the next would be system-generated content. Then systems can use models and rules to individualize the experience. That’s what web content is doing already. Maybe my 3.0

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It starts where if there’s network usage, it’s not org-originated, through some units having a system, to having an organizational focus on communication, and then actively facilitating social learning. We also start looking at informal learning, the continual innovation.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

My realization was that, increasingly, these systems will take over this form of content presentation. Now, I’ve always maintained that such systems aren’t sufficient for real learning. That is, we’ll write a white paper, and an AI will parse it, then present it, and drill it. Which is, after all, way too much of corporate learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

the human information processing system model*), the underlying picture is of a more interactive system. This is particularly true with cognitive research. While we can make distinctions that simplify things in useful ways (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Fourth, I hope for a push towards content systems as well. This, too, may not be in the short term, but ultimately we have to realize that hardwiring experiences may make sense for formal systems, but not for adaptive learning.LXPs are a good move here, even if misnamed (really, they’re smart portals, not learning experience platforms).

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Clark Quinn

MAY 30, 2023

Or the health system? There’s not going to be any actual effect, but it makes people feel better. Of course, the role is different here; the placebo makes the doctor feel better! (Or I’m muddling my metaphor…:) It may not be that in practice, of course.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 19, 2022

It’s been happening for web design for years, but for some reason the notion of content management systems lags in L&D. Without a content management system, as yet, it still makes sense to systematize the resources around a map of the space, ensuring they align to what we know about how people learn and perform.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 7, 2020

Here, we’re recognizing that new technologies, particularly when we get to content systems, require a considerable amount of engineering to put them together. It’s applying computer systems to meet learning needs. Or, we reenergize ID by relabeling it, and come up with a new term for the complex system creation.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

Learning management systems (which is a misnomer, they’re course management systems) manage courses well. However, if they’re trying to also be resource portals, and social media systems, and collaboration tools, they’re unlikely to be good at all that. Our LMS is all we need.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s a big think in the system my co-author on an AI and ID paper , Markus Bernhardt, represents, so I realized it’s time to think about it some more. The benefits of being able to more accurately target your interventions, at least in an adaptive system, suggest that the effort is worth it. What’s yours?

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We got it up and running before, well, 2001 happened and the Internet bubble burst and… In some sense, the system was really both, in the way I’m thinking about it. This is what intelligent tutoring systems do, they just tend to require a rigorous model of expertise. no learning ‘styles’ :).

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 16, 2019

Upon my return to the US, I led a team to generate a learning system that developed learners’ understanding of themselves as learners. And, while they didn’t base it on our system, to my knowledge, it’s the same architecture being seen in Newton.). Last one I’ll mention for now, a content system for a publisher.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 20, 2021

There are many dedicated teachers, but the system is aligned against effective outcomes. What could we accomplish if we had an effective education system preparing youth for the success of our future? Which leads to the third component. We need to develop teachers who can facilitate learning in this new pedagogy.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Concepts like immersive learning, workflow learning, and Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) are some that are touted without clarity.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 9, 2019

And then I read about ‘cognitive engineering’ (applying what we know about cognition to the design of systems). While Don’s students were researching how to build systems for how people think, my twist was about how people learn. I was accepted into the cog program with Don Norman, who’d written the article.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 25, 2023

Employment sector will phase out LMS systems and replaced with AI-powered compliance tools. So, here’s the claim that riled me up: Short-form edutainment is the most effective teaching method for both children and adults. TikTok and YouTube shorts will ultimately replace high schools and universities.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The advent of the digital computer, a general purpose information system, is a natural next step. We regularly take technology as metaphors for mind. Before the digital computer, for instance, telephone switching was briefly used as a model. We’re information processing machines, so aren’t we like computers?

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We always look at the process first, as system flaws need to be eliminated first.). Importantly, they need specific feedback for each wrong answer, btw, so your implementation tool needs to support that! When investigating errors, don’t start with the team. Pretty much everything you need from SMEs plays a role in providing practice.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Thus, you run into all the flaws of complicated systems, and things fall through the cracks. Of course, these are more complicated. They entail large bureaucracies, not just leveraging interpersonal relationships with the principals. They’re also largely immovable objects, so remedying problems is an exercise in calm.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 17, 2018

We can use machine learning to train a system on a historical database (watching out for bias). We can use semantic analysis to read documents and make a system that can answer questions about them. We can’t provide specific data (or we’d train the system on it), so we need to anticipate a spread.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

We also need more network and co-construction across levels, as the old pyramidal system is no longer fit for purpose.” We need more women… more humanities majors… more people of colour… more professionals coming from other jobs… in short, a much bigger diversity of viewpoints at all levels.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 11, 2019

For instance, flight errors are hopefully rare (the systems are robust), typically involve complex situations (the interactions between the systems mean engines affect flight controls), and have big consequences! Otherwise, you’re going to want lot of training. And it’s the interactions that matter.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 13, 2023

These are phenomena that emerge from our HIP system, but are unique to learning (there are others that aren’t as specific to our roles). From there, the next step, and this is where we get L&D-specific, is learning science. Here I mean the role of models, examples, emotion, etc.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 8, 2022

Another piece of evidence is the widespread failure of so-called ‘expert systems’ in the 80s, resulting in the AI winter. There’s evidence of this, for one from the results of research by the Cognitive Technology group at the University of Southern California showing experts can’t access about 70% of what they do!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 6, 2019

Of late, when I call in for assistance, the phone system automatically asks me to verify some information. When pushed, “it’s our systems” And that’s not good enough. You need your systems synched together. So, here I go with a little whinging. And get asked for the same data again.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

We use visuals to tap into our powerful visual processing system, not because they have any particular metric improvement. It does use multiple media, because we use the right media for the message. Yes, we look to engage multiple senses, but for comprehending and encoding information. And variety. We also use audio when appropriate.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Technologically, it makes sense to talk about content management systems, but learning management systems above that is the wrong language. There’s now an Experience API that provides some infrastructure for creating such an experience management system, but there’re still some intermediate steps needed.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 8, 2023

For instance, you might put policies and procedures into a system, but then test the answers across a suite of potential questions. (For instance, I usually reread my posts, but it is hopefully also clear it’s just me thinking out loud.) So, please don’t use AI unsupervised, or at least until you’ve done testing.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Don’s on a new mission, something he calls DesignX, which is scaling up design processes to deal with “complex socio-technological systems” And he recently wrote an article about why DesignX that put out a good case why L&D as well. His other important point is, to me, that he is talking about systems.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 27, 2013

<Clark Quinn> <wrote> <a blog post>), systems can generate records across a wide variety of activity, creating a rich base of data to mine for contingencies that lead to success. One of the projects that had been developed was a series of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) that shared an unusual characteristic.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 3, 2021

Yes, we could do whatever the modern equivalent to Latent Semantic Analysis is, and train up a system to analyze and respond to their remarks. I want learners to be able to self-generate their own thoughts. That’s hard to auto-evaluate. Thus, I’m positing a two stage experience.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 3, 2017

Should you do social learning in the LMS version of that, or have a separate system? I get that it’s not a learning management system, but a course management system, but is that the right metaphor? Do we want a learning tracking system instead, and is that what an LMS if or could be for?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 19, 2019

What I’m talking about are content systems. In the short term, thinking about content from a systems perspective offers you rigor. As part of a good learning design strategy. But there’s something deeper I’m talking about. And I’ve talked about it before.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 9, 2021

Like how a content system would work, e.g. context and rules combining to pull content out by description. And in a presentation, in particular, you want to highlight important points. . However, I also think that there are things worth indicating how they work dynamically. Or how coordinates change based upon trigonometric values.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

To teach trouble-shooting, I would give some practice making conceptual decisions about the systems that could cause the observed symptoms. In internal combustion engines (read: cars), if it’s not running, is the air/fuel system or the electricity? How could you narrow that down?

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