Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2019

As part of a push for Learning Engineering , Carnegie Mellon University recently released their learning design tools. I’ve been aware of CMU’s Open Learning Initiative for a suite of reasons, and their tools for separate reasons. CMU’s tools align, largely with doing the right thing, and this is important.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 11, 2018

I’ve often complained about how the tools we have make it easy to do bad design. So here’re some thoughts on tools. Authoring tools, in general, are oriented on a ‘page’ metaphor; they’re designed to provide a sequence of pages. That was my thinking: what would be ideal for tools to support?

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

I wrote an article for Jane Hart’s Modern Workplace Learning magazine, triggered by my thought that in her tools survey, I didn’t see a lot about a certain set of reflection (c.f. last weeks posts on diagramming) and experimentation tools: meta-learning tools. The post Meta-Learning Tools? And our success.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2018

Every year of late, Jane Hart has polled about people’s top 10 learning tools. From this, she creates a list of the top 100 learning tools. Keynote is the presentation tool I use, and I create the stories I present at conferences in Keynote. OmniOutliner: another tool I use to be organized is OmniOutliner.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 22, 2014

Jane Hart compiles, every year, a list of the top 10 tools for learning. Google: the core tool in my searching for answers for things. Mail: email is still a major tool for getting pointers, staying in touch, asking questions, etc. A different tool for the same purpose. What tools do you use? Sense & Share.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 19, 2017

Jane Hart is running her annual Top 100 Tools for Learning poll (you can vote too), and here’s my contribution for this year. LinkedIn is another tool I use to see what’s happening (and occasionally engage in). Skype let’s me stay in touch with my ITA colleagues, hence it’s definitely a learning tool.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Let’s be clear: what’s typically referred to as a template is usually a simple screen type for a rapid authoring tool. Whether the guidelines are in a template or a process tool like a checklist, it helps to have cognitive facilitation. Systematic creativity is not an oxymoron!)

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ll suggest it’s not massive consumption of heinous chemicals, but instead think that we might want to look to our tools and methods. For instance, rapid elearning tools make it easy to take PPTs and PDFs, add a quiz, and toss the resulting knowledge test and dump over to the LMS to lead to no impact on the organization.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2016

I woke up this morning thinking about the tools we use at various levels. Seriously, this is important, as the tools we use and provide through the organization impact the effectiveness with which people can work. What we’re talking about here, starting at the bottom, are the tools you personally use for learning.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Among the many things my colleague Jane Hard does for our community is to compile the Top 100 Tools for learning each year. Here are my tools, in no particular order: WordPress is how I host and write this Learnlets blog, thinking out loud. Google is my search tool.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 12, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Learning poll. All of mine fall in the latter category, because my performance support tools are productivity tools! So here’re my votes, FWIW: Google Search is, of course, still my top tool. Word is my go-to writing tool, and while I use Pages at times too (e.g.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 22, 2010

Owing to sins in my past, I not only am speaking on mobile learning at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions conference e-Learning Foundations Intensive session, but also introduced the tools section.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 7, 2015

Jane Hart has been widely and wisely known for her top 100 Tools for Learning (you too can register your vote ). As a public service announcement, I list my top 10 tools for learning as well: Google search: I regularly look up things I hear of and don’t know.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 3, 2010

My ITA colleague Jane Hart regularly collects the top 100 learning tools via contributions from lots of folks. There are several categories of tools here. In the capture and share category, major tools include: WordPress – I blog as a way to reflect and get feedback on my developing thoughts.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2008

The charts below show use of different tools, sites, etc. The key is for the charts is: Darkest blue - daily Medium blue - weekly Light blue - monthly Gray - never Tool Use in Corporations Some things that jumped out at me: Much more blog reading that I expected. I guess they must be using a lot of tools other than delicious.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 28, 2009

I had several options: continue to maintain it, pay someone to do a better job, or find some tool that makes it easy to make reasonable sites. If I were a professional web designer, I’d want power tools; if I were an amateur I’d want hand-holding. I didn’t want to have to tweak everything myself.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 25, 2008

However, I'm going to guess based on the list of tools that you are really talking about creating self-paced (asynchronous) eLearning experiences. Download a free trial of one of the more common authoring tools. Then I would go and download a second tool out of these and try creating similar things with that tool.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 30, 2008

I received a question on my post - Flash Quiz Tools - asking about any tools that were free that allowed you to create a Flash Quiz. The only free Flash Quiz Tool that I know anything about is Class Marker - a free flash quiz tool. So are there other free flash quiz tools that I'm missing?

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 21, 2023

Over time, the tools got better. You could create a draft solution pretty quickly, with rapid tools. Now, folks believe that with a rapid tool and content, you can churn out learning by turning the handle. Thus, teams worked on instantiations: instructional designers, media experts, technologists.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Ok, I’ve had my iPhone a bit now, and some things are very useful, some things are cool, some are way fun, and some things are still irritating. Note that most of the apps I download are free; I’m cheap and there are great free apps (and games).

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 2, 2021

Here, I look at tools, asking IDs to ‘support thyself’ As usual, the transcript: One of the things I do is help organizations improve their design processes. That’s where tools help. Instead, I mean a tool that leaves stubs for the important things that should be included. And you can do this in your authoring tool.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 20, 2023

This enabled some companies to make tools that could handle the backend, and so individuals could create. I note that this blog was contributing to Google C5 (according to a tool I can no longer find), for instance. I’m erring on the side of not using such tools, for now. Pages were static. this blog!).

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Good practices help, and tools that document approaches and outcomes can assist. This includes having good collaboration tools, and assisting people in using them well. Then you can augment with ‘show your work’ tool. It’s also about ongoing support for development, e.g. coaching.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 21, 2020

I usually use Omnigraffle as a diagramming tool, to represent my conceptual understandings. It’s a ‘thinking tool’ I’m also copying part of the the activity map and linking things together to capture the actual flow between content and activities. Then, I realized I hadn’t designed the tools first!

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 2, 2023

I also don’t work a regular job, and have gotten reasonably effective at using tools to get things done. I’m cheap, so I’ve used fancier tools, but have found these suffice.) For instance, I’m now using Apple’s Reminders to track ‘todos’, along with its Calendar. (I’m

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Clark Quinn

MAY 16, 2023

So far, it seems like it’s a mix of awareness, policy, and tools. That is, the design team must understand the principles in practice, there need to be policy adjustments to support the necessary steps, and the tools should support the practice. How do we bake learning science into a practical process that clients can comprehend?

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 30, 2020

This article made what I thought was a pretty good case against tools like MBTI and DiSC. Instead, I rail against the tools. They also do make money selling exhibit space to folks with these tools. And, yes, there are voices that cry out for the tools. For instance a TD article claimed that such tools popular.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We need to know what interim deliverables, processes for evaluation, times when we shouldn’t be working solo, and tools we need. Too many design processes are carry-over from industrial approaches: one person, one tool, and a waterfall process. Which is why we need to address this strategically. We need to do better.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Worse, too often we see this being done with fancy new tools. The new tools may have a short-term effect of novelty, but that’s it. Sure, I get as attracted to shiny new objects as anyone. However, I want to understand their core affordances for learning. Or maybe being presented with animated presentations of lots of facts?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 25, 2019

I was talking with a vendor of a robust suite of tools. And, really, I have no problem with their tools; they seem pretty enlightened. So I asked whether they used their own tools. Customer research is an important tool here as well, but it’s not the only one. Using your own tool is a form of this.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 11, 2020

What tools, aids, guides, etc., Look, mobile hasn’t gone away, and we’re possibly using mobile tools more now even though we’re not on the road! And aligning with how we really learn, because it really does have to be effective. Similarly, with folks working from wherever, thinking about the support they need is important.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 26, 2022

The rise of rapid elearning tools and a lack of understanding of learning has led to the situation where someone will be handed a stack of PPTs and PDFs and a rapid authoring tool and expected to turn out a course. You can develop meaningful learning in a couple of weeks. Which goes back to the first two problems.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 4, 2021

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. Further, you want the right tool for the job. One all-singing, all-dancing solution isn’t the way to bet for IT in general, and that holds true for L&D as well.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This includes both formal learning tools including the LMS and LXP, but also informal learning tools such as social media platforms and collaborative documents. It also involves other elements. For one, the technology to hand; what solutions are in use and ensuring a process of ongoing reviews.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2019

And, as with some other endeavors, I’ve been using some tools to make this work. We’re using one social media tool to coordinate. In both cases, we’re using Slack as the primary tool for asynchronous communications. We’re using different tools for synchronous sessions.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 9, 2021

I use diagrams a lot, not only to communicate, but as a tool for my own understanding! I haven’t done much of this, for the simple reason that I don’t have a good animation tool. In my categorization, these are dynamic diagrams, useful when the conceptual relationships change in important ways depending on other factors.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 17, 2007

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