Clive on Learning

JULY 3, 2020

Last year I worked on a major project to develop online courses for HR professionals. Most of the content was aimed at influencing behavioural change so, as the principal writer, I decided to major on storytelling as strategy for learning. Over a six-month period, I reckon I must have written hundreds of stories, some no more than simple prompts for reflection and discussion, while some formed the primary means for uncovering ideas and generating insights.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 8, 2020

Back in 2009 , I posted a simple analysis of learning technologies based on Diana Laurillard’s conversational framework. This became the second most popular posting ever on this blog, so I thought I'd give it a further look. I was particularly taken by Diana’s five media forms (the descriptions are mine): Narrative media : explain, demonstrate, describe Interactive media : facilitate reflection, check understanding, encourage exploration, provide feedback Communicative media : allow exchanges be

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Clive on Learning

MAY 4, 2020

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MAY 4, 2020

In my last post, I argued that, although face-to-face learning has been the default since the dawn of time, online learning has changed everything. As we have discovered over the past few weeks, online learning is scalable, flexible, accessible to all but a small minority, economical, environmentally advantageous and, of course, socially distant. What’s not to like?

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 21, 2020

Having spent the past 25 years advocating the greater use of online tools and resources for education and training (not to mention many other aspects of our lives), I've met my fair share of opposition and have to admit that I've been frustrated at how slowly we have responded to the opportunity. I needn't have worried! All we needed was a pandemic.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 14, 2020

This week on The Good Practice Podcast, I join Ross Garner and Owen Ferguson to discuss the promise of e-learning.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 3, 2020

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MARCH 20, 2020

At Skills Journey we have a long history of supporting individuals and organisations as they make their first steps into digital learning. The coronavirus pandemic means that suddenly, without any warning or preparation, thousands of people are having to completely change the way they work. This includes our friends and colleagues around the world working hard to ensure that people still receive the learning that they need.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 31, 2020

Six months of highly concentrated effort by the Skills Journey team has paid off with the launch, on January 23, of a major new online learning resource for 150,000 members of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development ( CIPD ). We worked closely with the CIPD learning team to help produce eight courses aligned to the core behaviours in the CIPD’s New Profession Map: Ethical practice Professional courage and influence Valuing people Working inclusively Commercial drive Passion for lea

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 7, 2019

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

No Regrets is a tale of love and learning, produced in 2014 to accompany my book More Than Blended Learning. It tells the tale of two young people who meet up in Brighton as they begin training in their new jobs. As the week progresses, they reflect on their contrasting learning experiences, highlighting from a learner's perspective what good and bad looks like in the design of learning solutions.

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Clive on Learning

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

About the host: David James has been a People Development professional for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa. As well as being the Chief Learning Strategist at Looop, David is a prominent writer and speaker on topics around modern and digital L&D as well as an active member of the CIPD L&D Advisory Board.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This video follows on from ' Do we still need e-learning? ' It goes back through the 40-year history of e-learning to show that it was at its most promising in the early days, when there was a strong desire to deliver a personalised instructional experience. There are now few, if any, technical obstacles to achieving those goals, as the latest authoring platforms provide increasing adaptive capabilities.

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 17, 2019

'E-learning', by which we mean interactive, self-paced instruction, has had a role in workplace learning, under one name or another, for about 40 years. In this video, Clive Shepherd asks whether e-learning has delivered on its promise - how efficient is it, how effective, how popular and how commercially successful? More importantly, do we really still need it, given that other forms of digital learning have enjoyed more obvious success in recent years?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As learning professionals, it is our lot to try our best to be persuasive, whether we’re trying to convince stakeholders to go with what we believe will be the best solution to their problem, persuade learners and their managers to engage with our interventions, or sell learners on a new way of working. You could say we were in the persuasion business.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 28, 2019

This video provides a light-hearted introduction to the process of needs analysis. It also represents my one and only acting credit (there will be no more). The video tells how Sherlock Holmes uses the three Ls (knowledge of the Learning, the Learner and the Logistics) to solve a case.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 21, 2019

This video provides a light-hearted introduction to the process of needs analysis. It also represents my one and only acting credit (there will be no more). The video tells how Sherlock Holmes uses the three Ls (knowledge of the Learning, the Learner and the Logistics) to solve a case.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 29, 2019

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JULY 22, 2019

A classroom is a space that can be used in many different ways. And there isn't just one way to make the best use of this space. In this Skills Journey animation, we explore the ways that classrooms can be used for presentations, group instruction and facilitated group learning. Each of these uses very different tools to deliver a very different experience.

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Clive on Learning

JULY 18, 2019

A recording of the first webinar in the Towards Maturity Expert Series, in which I went in search of the perfect learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

JUNE 13, 2019

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JUNE 10, 2019

I’ve always been a little suspicious of models in which the titles of the elements share a common initial letter or just happen to spell out a word that sums up the overall message. I would wonder whether important ideas had been omitted because they didn’t fit the pre-determined pattern and how strained the search might have been for synonyms. You will have to believe me that when recently I was exploring ideas for high-level designs for learning solutions, option after option seemed to begin w

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Clive on Learning

MAY 20, 2019

Imagine if you had to satisfy not one set of customers but two. Both were demanding, and each was looking for quite different things. Well, such is the lot of the learning professional. Not only do you have to provide a great service to your clients, business sponsors and key stakeholders, you also have to deliver satisfying experiences to your end users – the learners.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 29, 2019

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APRIL 26, 2019

In their book Transfer of Training, Mary Broad and John Newstrom estimated that merely 10% of the dollars spent on training resulted in actual and lasting behavioural change. And that’s obviously not enough. They did some research into who it was that made the biggest impact on transfer of learning. They found that the greatest difference was made by the learner’s manager in setting expectations before the experience and then following up after.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 15, 2019

When we think of a great learning experience with digital content, we tend to think of the way that the content itself is designed – how usable, relevant and engaging it is for learners. But the learning experience is much more than the content as we shall see. In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how the learner’s experience can be considerably enhanced by the systems and processes we use to deliver our content.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 8, 2019

Data is the fuel that drives effective decision making. Without the right data, you’re relying on guesswork and hoping for the best. Data allows you to accurately assess needs, compare alternative approaches, assess progress and determine results. We look at the arguments for data analytics for learning and performance.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 22, 2019

Sound is a medium that matters. Your audience can listen to a podcast or a radio programme while they’re busy doing other things like walking, driving or keeping fit. You can add narration and sound effects to your animations and videos or leave it to music to set the mood. Sound is a medium the learning professional can master without the need for in-depth technical skills and professional tools.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 13, 2019

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 12, 2019

Humans need humans and never more than when we are learning. As we move from a situation in which most learning is face-to-face to one in which we make use of digital content and perhaps even AI as the vehicle for a learning experience, we don't need to give up on our humanity.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I was looking through some old presentations the other day, trying to find some inspiration on the subject of compliance training, and I found this one. I was amazed to find that it was 10 years old and that there wasn't really anything about it I'd change. For the learning professional, compliance training continues to provide lots of work but I'm not so sure it's not a deal with the devil.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 21, 2019

This animation has been rescued from the archives. It was produced back in 2013 for a client project and then filed away but I think it deserves a wider airing. It uses storytelling to explore some of the most fundamental issues of teaching and learning. I hope you enjoy it.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 16, 2019

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JANUARY 15, 2019

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JANUARY 4, 2019

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2019

‘A rose by any other name would smell so sweet.’ So goes the the line from Romeo and Juliet, implying that the name you put to something is much less important than the characteristics of that thing. While this is certainly true of roses, it may not apply so well to people. Although Juliet certainly felt that it did not matter that Romeo’s family name was Montague, it certainly played a big part in his ultimate fate.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the first in this series of two articles, Making the case for content curation , I described why content curation is such a valuable ingredient in a strategy for workplace learning. This time I’ll suggest a process that you can follow to provide an effective curation service to a population of employees in your organisation. Analyse needs The process starts with analysing the needs of the population for whom you will be curating content.

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