Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2013

And the tools that they already have at their disposal, in the form of learning management systems and virtual learning environments, allow them to do this with varying degrees of success. So let's leave to one side the formal delivery of learning interventions, where there seems to be a clear path forward for the learning profession.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2009

About virtual classrooms or about virtual worlds? I'm a consultant in e-learning and blended learning, yet very few people would have a common understanding of what that meant. Is e-learning about the delivery of self-study lessons or about the use of social media at work? Is it about content or about collaboration?

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In an ideal world, we would probably provide personalised support for every learner, but this gets more and more unrealistic as online learning groups get larger. In short: 'Relationships matter when attempting to teach human beings.’

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 19, 2012

An example would be a great speaker at a conference or a world-renowned teacher. Others events for which a webinar or virtual classroom session would be quite adequate. This list can be applied similarly to learning: Events that you would take the trouble to travel to because they may well turn out to be milestones in your life.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Here’s what you’ll find: Mixed messages from the market Learning for real in virtual worlds Three tiers in the content pyramid Statistics are like a bikini There’s life in Kirkpatrick yet CIPD survey paints a confusing picture Tough times bring opportunities as well as threats Training’s long tail Learning 2.0

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 3, 2009

Beyond the cosy confines of the classroom, technology has come on in leaps and bounds, we've had two bubbles and two recessions, the future of the world has shifted eastwards, and our planet's become uncomfortably hot (although it doesn't seem that way sometimes in England). Now that's brought us back to earth with a bump.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 12, 2007

When I sat down on the train tp read Leadership in a Distributed World - Lessons from Online Gaming, a paper from IBM Global Business Services, I thought I knew right up front what the conclusion would be. I was already preparing my arguments for and against corporations constructing their own MMORPGs to train the next generation leaders.

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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. Captivate simulations and role plays. One-to-one coaching sessions.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 20, 2010

As the authors point out, if you went by the themes of most l&d conferences, blogs and magazines, then you’d believe the classroom was in terminal decline and that self-paced e-learning tutorials were being fast replaced by games, sims, 3D worlds, and all forms of social and collaborative learning, much of it mobile.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2007

This new two-tier structure is good news for those offering rapid tools and services, and for those with the skills to develop leading edge interactivity.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 17, 2007

Do we only subscribe to those blogs which are likely to support our own view of the world? I'd like to think that educational and training bloggers are not just a cosy, deluded clique, that we're reaching out for alternative views on the world that will challenge our own and give us food for thought. am I mixing metaphors?

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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. With any luck (and careful design) this process will provide the learner with insights which they can take forward and test in the real world.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 24, 2007

I don't know about you, but I get pretty confused these days ('these days' by the way is the talk of an ageing reactionary, as my wife never ceases to remind me) when I hear people talking about games, sims and 3D worlds. A 3D world is a key ingredient in what used to be called 'virtual reality'. Second Life ?

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 19, 2008

technologies have the potential to transform management and leadership development activities and that in the next ten years virtual worlds and gaming technology will enable all development to be experiential. forecast, but not the virtual worlds and games. "A significant minority of managers (28%) agree that Web 2.0

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 5, 2008

When behaviour change is required and motivation is low, throw in everything including the kitchen sink, e.g. media-rich scenarios, games, virtual worlds, all with high interactivity.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 26, 2007

In the corporate world, however, e-learning is all too often synonymous with structured instruction through self-study and perhaps the occasional virtual classroom event.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

On the synchronous side we have the ability to talk with each other while on the move; online, we have chat rooms, instant messaging, the ability to make voice calls using the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), as well as the fully-featured capabilities of web conferencing, including virtual classrooms.

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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. I particularly like this book because it appears to be primarily aimed at the academic world, where there is a richer tradition of collaborative online learning.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 7, 2007

Cubase 4: Music is my original love and I've spent 1000s of hours with Cubase, one of the world's most popular sequencers and digital audio workstations. Cubase absolutely eats up processor power, hard disks and memory, giving me the perfect excuse to buy the world's most powerful PCs.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And if all these were unnecessary for my project, I'd go the rapid e-learning route and pay a quarter of the cost.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

You will be able to add many more examples of your own (and please do reply to this post to tell us about them). But this is only the beginning and we all have a part to play.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 13, 2010

Certainly this is the scenario that will have been played out in many private sector organisations across the world, less so at this point for the public sector. As far as I can tell there has been quite a pick up of interest in the UK, although most trainers remain blissfully ignorant of what can be achieved in the virtual classroom.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 4, 2008

Several colleagues, notably Lars Hyland and Nick Shackleton-Jones, prompted me to re-think this list of examples. They felt that you didn't have to be doing leading-edge work to be at the high end, you could be generating what is relatively simple content, but with great care and professionalism.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Fidelity comes at a cost (many millions of dollars if you're talking flight simulators or similar, many hundreds of thousands if you're looking to enact a critical incident with multiple players in a virtual world) but cost has, of course, to be balanced against risk. and on the ability of the players to behave realistically.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 29, 2009

For me, the issue is not whether these products are over-priced (because, after all, there are limited numbers of design professionals in the world, and the products are finished to a very high standard), but rather how much you can really justify investing in what are essentially the tools of your trade.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Who knows, changing economics may yet have an impact on the way Gen Y sees the world, and the shock may be hard to bear. Clearly, 3D worlds are becoming more and more accessible, but the effort to create them is still likely to be restricted to large organisations and publishers serving large populations.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Last week I participated in a webinar hosted by Video Arts , one of the world's most successful vendors of training films, perhaps most famous for the comic 'see how not to do it, then learn how it should be done' videos featuring John Cleese and other comedy stars.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Julie explained, “We wanted to use virtual classrooms because a lot of people would not come on a full or half-day course – particularly if they only needed a bit or a recap or a top-up. Thinking synchronous Next in line was to introduce synchronous online learning.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

It's been a while since I've designed any sort of simulation, and I haven't yet had a chance to work in real-time 3D, so I consulted with a good friend of mine Graeme Duncan from Caspian Learning , which specialises in developing virtual worlds for education and training. They are brain washed with post-release mentors and help.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Exocentric sims The player has an angled overhead view of a 3D world and has control of characters and objects within the world, typically with a point and click interface. Virtual worlds Real-time, multi-player 3D environments in which the user takes on a specific role, represented on screen by an avatar.

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