Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2013

By and large, we would do well to teach much less and provide much more in the way of support. 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

MAY 28, 2013

So, yes, you can teach maths and science to millions at practically no cost using videos and quizzes, and this is a fantastic step forward, but can we make similar gains in workplace learning? L&D needs a plan B; one that much better leverages limited subject expertise and teaching skills. Coming next: The vision: 4.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

As reported on MSNBC , Thrun said: "Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again. We need new ways to learn in which a much greater share of the responsibility for teaching and assessment falls on learners themselves, working collaboratively. We're not going to do that face-to-face, nor with high-touch online tutoring.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2012

This has to be preferable to teaching what you like teaching or what you personally believe in. So, someone who can do a job on the basis of their work experience or their private study is judged the same way as someone who obtained those same competencies through formal learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2013

It would be easy if all you had to do to teach an important general principle was to describe it. Psychologists Richard Nisbett and Eugene Borgia conducted a number of studies with their students at the University of Michigan back in 1975 which led them to the conclusion that psychology was very hard, if not possible to teach.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. As a result, it is easy to believe that there is only one valid approach to teaching on a computer and instruction is it.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

An ability to empathise with their audience: this is a critical ''teaching'' quality and sometimes lacking in those who view e-learning as an engineering discipline. Someone who is enthusiastic about technology and certainly not afraid of it: this is not the same as being seriously technical.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 3, 2011

We were discussing the all-too-common tendency to over-teach and under-practise in formal workplace learning interventions.Here's how one of the participants in the meeting summarised how the principle should read: Provide just enough information to allow the learner to practise and no more I'm really taken with this.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2010

They say that the best way to learn something is to teach it, and when you blog on a topic you are doing something similar to teaching - exciting interest, summarising, putting into context, stimulating action. But that's not quite enough - I certainly haven't adequately processed the information just by recording it.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 11, 2011

We have to get used to working smarter and for l&d that's likely to mean: less courses, more resources : teach the really important things well and back this up with information available on-demand. There's nothing new in this list, but there's even more urgency now to put it all into practice.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 19, 2011

The research also backs up the idea that much less time should be spent trying to teach information that can now be easily accessed on-demand. Siemens explains how: "Instead of the individual having to evaluate and process every bit of information, she/he creates a personal network of trusted nodes: people and content, enhanced by technology.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Well, I mean more than the teaching of the knowledge (facts, concepts, rules, etc.) Yesterday I demonstrated how the four phases could be applied to a typical skills development intervention. Today, I will attempt to do the same for an intervention that explores ideas. First of all, what do I mean by exploring ideas?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2011

So, yes, you can teach maths and science to millions at practically no cost using videos and quizzes, and this is a fantastic step forward, but can we make similar gains in the teaching of other skills?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2010

That's what I invited Jason Baptiste to teach. How do you get your first $10,000 in sales with a part-time project and a "ghetto launch"? He launched PadPressed, which enables blogs and other publications to automatically make their content iPad friendly.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2018

And as someone who is familiar with evidence-based principles of learning and teaching you will be well aware that a learning experience has got to feel believable, authentic, convincing.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

Once you’ve established what you need to teach, your learning design is the major factor in whether you’ll achieve your objectives. After all, it doesn’t matter how well the content is designed and developed, if it’s saying the wrong things to the wrong people at the wrong time then it’s a complete waste of effort.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2010

Cathy challenged us to see whether we could lose the information completely (don’t teach the knowledge when you can teach them to use the job aid); while Patrick maintained that nobody learns from content anyway, only from experience. Both took fairly controversial positions.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2013

You may be an expert in what you are teaching. A little bit of care is needed in putting this into practice, because you probably do not have the same tasks to perform or the same starting position as your potential users. You may do a very different type of work. What helped or hindered you to bridge the gap?

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2012

goalgetter can be used standalone of content delivery and learning implementation and also works well as part of a blend of teaching methods (for example as an implementation and support system bolted on to face-to-face workshops.' I had a play with the beta, and worked on a personal goal to help improve the way I handle email.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Yes, much training misses the mark but there is, of course, a great deal of fantastic, life-changing training out there, just as there is some pretty incredible teaching (which for some reason does not suffer from the same stigma). The key word here is 'tendency'.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 7, 2013

An intervention also needs to teach the right things. Well, we have already established that the process has to start with alignment to the organisation''s and the learners'' requirements, something that will not happen by magic or guesswork.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In short: 'Relationships matter when attempting to teach human beings.’ This person needs to be friendly and show respect for learners while at the same time setting high standards and exhibiting confidence in the ability of learners to achieve great things.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 21, 2012

Unfortunately, the pedagogy of attitude change is much less certain.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 25, 2009

A 2-day workshop to teach all aspects of a new company system to all employees, regardless of whether or not they will be using it? A one-hour podcast to teach manual handling skills? You'd like a 6-hour e-learning package to train customer service staff to sell over the telephone? No problem. Hang on a minute.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 1, 2009

For best results, combine adaptive teaching with adaptive software. John's cites research carried out by Carol McDonald Connor which showed, when teaching reading skills, that a combination works better than the teaching or software used alone. What does this mean for in the context of workplace learning when delivery is online?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

She has been working for three months on a 4-hour e-learning programme that teaches employees how to use her organisation’s new CRM system. Compelling is not the same as compulsory Meet Meili. So far the only people who have used the programme are those for whom it was made mandatory.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Whether the world as a whole will enthusiastically embrace the internet When the majority of the teaching and training community will join the rest of the world. Why there is still something magic about being face-to-face which you can't quite capture in other ways (see Chris Anderson’s presentation at TED).

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

But now my principal activities as a consultant seem to be writing, presenting, teaching and advising, which I suppose collectively put me fairly and squarely within the sharing stage. I've done my fair share of learning and doing and I'd like to think I've achieved some success at both.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Steady on Hollywood can teach us a thing. He contrasts this with the typical opening to a course in which you go through the agenda and list the objectives. Worthy, perhaps necessary, but not that interesting and certainly not surprising. Surprise in e-learning? Remember the last Bond film you went to. The titles came later.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 24, 2015

She has been working for three months on a 4-hour e-learning programme that teaches employees how to use her organisation’s new CRM system. Compelling is not the same as compulsory Meet Meili. So far the only people who have used the programme are those for whom it was made mandatory.

Content 40

Content iTunes Wikipedia Screencast 40

Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The rise of instruction From the earliest days of computer-assisted learning, way back in the mid 1970s, the dominant teaching strategy has been instruction. As a result, it is easy to believe that there is only one valid approach to teaching on a computer and instruction is it.

Blended Learning 40

Blended Learning Instructional Instruction Predictions 40

Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2012

Teaching and training has historically been a rather isolated profession, particularly for those spending their lives in classrooms. To keep up-to-date and search out opportunities, l&d professionals need to be more connected than ever before.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Assuming that, as a learning designer, you're not Leonardo re-incarnated, the following people will have plenty to offer: Subject experts : Obviously you have already consulted them, because they know the content, but they will also have ideas about how to teach this content, even if only at a tactical level.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Bert may have meant to ask whether teaching will be any different on this fateful day. Teaching and training are conservative professions and three years is nowhere near long enough for anything major to have happened. Will these have shifted noticeably in another three years? Well, that’s unlikely.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Bert may have meant to ask whether teaching will be any different on this fateful day. Teaching and training are conservative professions and three years is nowhere near long enough for anything major to have happened. Will these have shifted noticeably in another three years? Well, that’s unlikely.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 17, 2012

If we teach our designers this way, it’s not surprising that they then go on to develop self-study content for their audiences which is equally unbalanced. In fact this is the problem with nearly all corporate training - lots of abstract theory and insufficient opportunity to develop confidence and, ultimately, competence.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 25, 2014

An ability to empathise with their audience: this is a critical 'teaching' quality and sometimes lacking in those who view e-learning as an engineering discipline. Someone who is enthusiastic about technology and certainly not afraid of it: this is not the same as being seriously technical.

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Design eLearning Guild Quality Engineering 40