Clive on Learning

AUGUST 20, 2008

This trend is amplified by the pressure to reduce the length of training programmes, making it impossible to incorporate any meaningful element of practice. I agree with Chris that, for many subjects, there is potential in using 3D immersive simulations to reverse the trend of error avoidance in training.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cases in custom content development – 4 Cases in custom content development – 3 Cases in custom content development – 2 Cases in custom content development – 1 You can't get a cloud in your hand September Profile of a learning architect: Charles Jennings Sometimes you need to take risks to avoid risk * Asynchronous and online should be the default (..)

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Clive on Learning

JULY 14, 2008

Tight funding and the need to fit training in around day-to-day work are driving a trend towards shorter, bite-sized training programmes, with the rise in e-learning and blended learning playing a pivotal role in reducing costs."

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In his own inimitable whirlwind fashion, he interviewed 30 or so major UK employers this summer to get a handle on the key trends in workplace learning. Over the next few weeks I'm going to provide my own commentary to the excellent Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I've just been browsing L&D 2020: Phase 1 Report: Trends, scenarios and emerging conclusions , which can be downloaded from the Training Journal site. This one nearly passed me by completely. The report was compiled by Paul Fairhurst of the Institute for Employment Studies and first released in September 2008.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I hate to say it, after so many years of trying to reverse the trend, but it seems that far too many people (finance directors excepted) really dislike e-learning. First let me be clear, I am using a narrow definition of e-learning here.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In addition, support material covering the Microsoft Office applications was added to the LearningGuide system, further reinforcing the trend. It also helped that Hirewire, a new intranet, was set up around the same time by the corporate communications team, and this got employees used to going online for important information.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 5, 2009

The economy will eventually recover—and demographic trends in most rich countries will make clever young workers even more valuable. Net Geners will certainly have to temper some of their expectations and take the world as it is, not as they would like it to be. But their older bosses should also be prepared to make concessions.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Early adopters like to be starting trends, not following them. Music lovers will have experienced a similar phenomenon - the fans who find a great new band when they first start out, will feel somehow let down should the band become commercially successful.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 19, 2009

Even if you divide by four, you still have evidence of a significant trend in a hugely conservative profession. These are fascinating results, even allowing for the fact that respondents are self-selecting and that the question doesn't specifically ask whether these media are used for learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 18, 2008

I enjoyed Daniel Wain and Graham O'Connell's session, Ten Years of Changing Trends in Learning and Development at the CIPD's HRD 2008 show in London this week, mainly because both presenters were honest enough to admit that not much had changed at all.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2008

In addressing this month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog , I was tempted by an observation made by Stephen Downes in his review of last year's eLearn Magazine predictions : there are two major types of predictions: one, which identifies a current trend, and says it will continue; and the other, that identifies something novel or unexpected.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 6, 2007

, in particular about the fact that good content is now freely available on the web, customers want their classroom training in smaller and smaller chunks and various other adverse trends.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 6, 2008

Hierarchies, unlike networks and ecologies, do not permit rapid adaptation to trends outside of established structure. As George Siemens pointed out in Knowing Knowledge : "Mass media and education have been largely designed on a one-way flow model (structure imposed by hierarchy). The teacher instructs, we learn.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

And that could reverse the trend and see us a little less isolated in future. So, at least for me, social networking has a useful role to play, not only in maintaining a professional network, but in building relationships that may start off superficial but have the potential to be lasting. The very cheek of it!

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Hierarchies, unlike networks and ecologies, do not permit rapid adaptation to trends outside of established structure. After all, he claims in the book that: "Mass media and education have been largely designed on a one-way flow model (structure imposed by hierarchy). The teacher instructs, we learn. The news is broadcast, we listen."

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Outside this field, the trend seems to be towards shorter and shorter courses. In IT training we've seen the rise of 'boot camps' (extended immersion courses, often lasting several weeks) to get IT professionals through their vendor certifications.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 23, 2009

The trend historically has been for consumers to spend roughly the same amounts on hardware and software while achieving ever more power and functionality. The Economist article argues that there is an increasing trend for purchasers to look not at ever-increasing power, but at the same power for a lower price. or playing 3D games.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 3, 2015

Still images (photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams) show what things look like, clarify cause and effect relationships and depict trends and proportions. It requires the barest minimum of bandwidth. They are memorable. Speech is more expressive than text and combines brilliantly with moving images (animations and videos).

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 3, 2015

Still images (photos, illustrations, charts and diagrams) show what things look like, clarify cause and effect relationships and depict trends and proportions. It requires the barest minimum of bandwidth. They are memorable. Speech is more expressive than text and combines brilliantly with moving images (animations and videos).

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