Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I''m not referring to virtual classrooms, online content such as web articles and videos, or any form of social media. Just those things that we used to call CBT - computer-based training - and which we''ve been trying to get right since about 1975. People don''t dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 23, 2011

Can a classroom event act as therapy? My client was primarily engaged in soft skills training (or 'hard skills' as they jokingly call it) for which the style was likely to be relaxed, informal and non-directive. A virtual classroom provides no protection from interruptions. It may as well be us."

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Clive on Learning

JULY 2, 2012

What people really want to know is whether e-learning has any relevance beyond the obviously restricted domain of regulatory/compliance training. In particular they want to know whether it has the potential to challenge what they are currently doing in the classroom.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 26, 2012

An immersive and highly-realistic training tool, such as a flight simulator, has no meaningful traditional equivalent other than practice in the real world. Live group sessions in a virtual classroom? In both of these cases, e-learning is providing something different from what we had before.

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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. If you want to compare the effectiveness of face-to-face instruction and online instruction as alternative media then you need to hold the method constant.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I must admit that, up until the event, I thought I had a pretty good handle on how to use virtual classrooms and other synchronous technologies successfully. The first myth to be exploded was that virtual classrooms are OK, but for no more than an hour at a time. The course was a sensational success.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 9, 2009

knowledge sharing and training. Tags: virtual classrooms web conferencing. I am joined in this venture by two well-respected colleagues, Phil Green and Barry Sampson, who share my belief that the move from face-to-face to online real-time communications is currently poorly supported with advice. The onlignment blog.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 14, 2013

The most obvious examples are classroom courses and on-the-job training sessions, but also in this category we must place the use of the telephone and live online tools, such as instant messaging, Skype and virtual classrooms. Scalable : Here''s a real plus, because many more people can be learning at the same time.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2012

Virtual classrooms? What once was called computer-based training (CBT). I don’t know what proportion of e-learning is mandatory, regulatory training of some sort, but it’s a lot. Unless this type of training is incredibly well designed and delivered it is going to be resisted or, at best, tolerated. Online video?

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And don't forget those organisations - typically cottage industries - that provide training services to the big boys, but have had neither the capital nor the technical expertise to integrate e-learning into their offerings. But this year we have seen a major shift.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Recently we have seen the release of two annual reports - the ASTD's 2007 State of the Industry Report and Training Magazine's 2007 Industry Report. As a share of total formal training hours, the ASTD shows e-learning at approximately 25% (up from 11% five years ago), while Training Magazine shows e-learning at 30%.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2007

Web Conferencing's Expanding Role in Training , from Wainhouse Research and, from what I can gather, sponsored by web conferencing vendor Citrix, makes some interesting claims about the growth in support for web conferencing or, as it's often called in the context of l&d, virtual classroom software.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 18, 2010

Nearly all employees in all four countries receive classroom training. Spain uses virtual classrooms the most (39%), with UK second (30%) and France, well you’ve got the idea. What forms of training do employees want? “In What contributes most to the success of the training? How successful is the training?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Of course some needs will still have to be met using a face-to-face classroom approach, but that won't keep everyone who's currently a classroom trainer in a job, unless you want to earn half as much. Could I re-train as - what did you call it - a learning architect? Or should I re-train as a learning technologist?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 24, 2007

It took me a while to adjust to the idea of virtual classrooms, what with unreliable connections and then endless online death by PowerPoint. However, even this small step requires support, whether that's coaching from an experienced failitator, a formal training programme or a book, perhaps all three.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I'm not referring to virtual classrooms, online content such as web articles and videos, or any form of social media. Just those things that we used to call CBT - computer-based training - and which we've been trying to get right since about 1975. People don't dislike all e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Continuing my review of last Friday's eLearning Network Thinking Synch event, I was surprised by several case studies that seemed to suggest that better results could be achieved in the virtual classroom than face-to-face. " "Best training I ever had." With these results, perhaps they should charge more.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

In 2009 I predicted : Classroom training will be decimated. Many classroom trainers will lose their jobs, become freelance and find that there is not enough work to go round, causing daily rates to tumble. If nothing has changed in a couple of years, then we can start to worry.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2005

And yet, without some common understanding, how can we expect to bring managers, learners and, most importantly, the training and teaching professions, with us in making the most of the opportunities provided by new technology. This takes us to paradigm three , the use of virtual classrooms. Let's take a look at the contestants.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 26, 2008

It would be fair to assume that all of the respondents work in HR and therefore are likely to be responsible for training that works across their organisations, e.g. management, induction and compliance. Few will be responsible for technical training in specific functional areas. live online events using virtual classrooms?

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

You will buy books, watch TV documentaries, consult with experts, even go on training courses, but only if you can't find what you need on Google. For a while I felt smugly self-satisfied with this analysis, as it seemed to encompass all the current offerings to the learning public currently being made by professional trainers and educators.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

In this next profile we meet Julie Wedgwood who, almost single-handedly, transformed a very traditional IT training team into enthusiastic innovators capable of showing that formal training can be flexible, effective and fun. For Julie, their commitment was vital: “All trainers do is communicate.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 14, 2009

In case you're interested in synchronous comms, whether that's for online meetings, webinars or virtual classrooms, I thought I'd update you on my postings so far: The importance of being synchronous How being online can trump face-to-face Functionality or fidelity – choose your weapon So are webinars effective?

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