Clark Quinn

JUNE 26, 2013

At the Guild’s recent mLearnCon, I was having a conversation in which I was reminded that designing performance interventions is a probabilistic exercise, and it occurred to me that we’re often not up front enough about it. When we start our design process with a performance vision , we have an idea of what ideal performance would be. That’s why I went from calling it cognitive engineering to cognitive design. design meta-learning strategy

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself. The last time I posted something like this it was a HUGE help and I significantly redesigned the exercise which probably saved me a lot of grief. Please help: Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 7, 2017

I attended a recent Meetup of the Bay Area Learning Design & Technology, and it led to some insights. I was tapped to host the Learning Design conversation (there were three others: LMS, Measurement, and Social Learning), and that meant that a subset of the group sat in on the discussion.

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Tony Karrer

JUNE 18, 2008

I've just posted Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise which describes a workshop exercise that I'm considering using in several different workshops. giving me thoughts on the exercise itself. The last time I posted something like this it was a HUGE help and I significantly redesigned the exercise which probably saved me a lot of grief. Please help: Identify Knowledge Work Tasks - Workshop Exercise

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Beth Kanter

JULY 31, 2017

This post shares a useful exercise for your digital team to reflect on what not to do for your digital strategy! Strategy as We-Care: An Exercise – guest post by Miriam Brosseau, Director of Engagement, See3 Communications.

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Xyleme

MARCH 28, 2014

So what does that mean for the poor instructional designer when over 70% of the learning they create delivers poor customer experiences? The easy thing for an instructional designer to do is to rely on simple instinct and maintain the status quo.

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Adaptive Path

AUGUST 19, 2013

We, the design community, talk (and write and speak) a lot about empathy. Some, at the extremes, position human-centered designers as Platonic figures releasing stakeholders from the shadows of opinion and faceless analytics into the reality of human emotions, needs, and desires.

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Dan Pink

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Design (52). Design (52). Can a 5-minute exercise double your productivity? I having a company mission statement and all those sorts of things aren’t crap as long as you really take those exercises seriously and embed that worthwhile cause into your routines.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

the purpose o the exercise is to give you a feed for using a cloud technology (which is what Feedly is), to get some experience using linked data (which is what RSS is), and to enable you to continue to follow the course without having to rely on a central course website.

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Adaptive Path

AUGUST 19, 2013

We, the design community, talk (and write and speak) a lot about empathy. Some, at the extremes, position human-centered designers as Platonic figures releasing stakeholders from the shadows of opinion and faceless analytics into the reality of human emotions, needs, and desires.

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Nancy White

APRIL 24, 2008

Testing a network mapping exercise Published by Nancy White at 2:31 pm under knowledge sharing , networks I often use a variety of paper networking mapping exercises in my face to face workshops.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 27, 2010

There are some design principles involved. First, the assignment itself needs to be designed to involve valuable processing activities. If you’re asking them to collaborate to apply the knowledge to a problem (which I encourage), then you’ll want to find an application exercises the core knowledge in ways that is as closely related as possible to how they’ll need to apply it in the world. Tags: design social

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Donald Norman’s book, The Design of Everyday Things is a must-read for anyone who creates artifacts or interfaces for humans. At the end, he comes up with a set of design principles: Provide rich, complex, and natural signals. As an exercise, I looked at his design principles to see what might transfer over to the design of learning experiences. design strategy technology

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

MARCH 4, 2015

In this paper I would like to address the core design elements in the development of a personal learning architecture being developed in the National Research Council''s Learning and Performance Support Systems program. The NRC-designed MOOC differs significantly from traditional courses. The NRC LPSS program is a 5-year $20 million effort designed to develop these core technologies and bind them with a common platform.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 22, 2011

I’m at Sydney Town Hall, where iconic Australian designer Marc Newson is speaking at the City of Sydney’s Design Excellence Forum. Marc has had a powerful impact on many facets of design. He is Royal Designer for Industry in the UK. Australia design

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

I’ve been thinking about fresh approaches to instructional design. Instructional design was invented around the time of World War II. A major part of modern instructional design involves creating and nurturing learning ecologies.

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Adaptive Path

MARCH 29, 2010

Experiment #1: You are designing the superhero of _travel. In this experiment, I asked a fellow design researcher who loves to travel to help me design the Superhero of Travel. Experiment #2: You are designing the superhero of _ baseball fandom _. For this experiment, I asked someone who’s not in the UX field to help design the Superhero of Baseball Fandom. Very quickly I realized that some respondents might have trouble with this exercise.

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Dave Gray

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The image above is the sorting exercise I went through to develop a workshop I gave in Toronto in 2006. The approach borrows heavily from the card sorting method used in software design. Working on the workshop , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.

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Adaptive Path

MARCH 12, 2010

How do user experience designers tell their story in a relevant, meaningful way, to audiences who have no exposure to user experience design (UX)? UX practitioners are keenly aware that everything we use in our lives was designed by someone. But, outside of our industry (and related ones), most people aren’t aware of the many decisions that were made (or not made) on their behalf when a product or service was designed.

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Tony Karrer

APRIL 22, 2009

Out of the conversation in Learn Trends around making informal learning concrete, Cammy Bean asked: Cammy Bean: So is there a market for Social Media Instructional Designing Consultants? Jane Hart suggested that we use the term Social Learning Designer to describe the role. Using a common marketing template, I thought it would be a great exercise to have people define our: Buyers Benefits Services Differentiation Here's the template.

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! As a webinar designer, what tricks and tips have worked for you?

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. … Read More Learning Training Design

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Tony Karrer

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Here are some thoughts on the course and the implications for design of similar kinds of online learning courses. I believe that many learning experiences designed to reside in a social network will inherently feel more scattered. And, if I were designing something for new hires or another group of learners, I think it gave a pretty good idea of what the experience would be like.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. Guest Post Organizational Culture Resilience Training Design

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Adaptive Path

MAY 28, 2009

In preparation for teaching the Design Research day of our upcoming UX Intensive in San Francisco, from June 15-18, I’ve been reflecting on the different roles that design research plays in the design process and in the organizations we work with. It seems to me that organizations seeking to evolve their products and services, or even revolutionize their offerings, can benefit greatly from something like a fourth estate for design.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 9, 2019

The alignment (EEA: Effectiveness-Engagement Alignment) I found in Engaging Learning was based upon research I did on designing games for learning. So, really, the goals are implicit in the SeM; you shouldn’t be designing learning unless you have some learning goals!

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Nancy White

AUGUST 4, 2009

I figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To facilitate the lab, I used human centered design techniques (for a good overview see Jen Bokoff’s terrific overview post here ) and more specifically the Luma Institute methods (for more, see my post here.). Has your organization used design thinking to rethink the way it works?

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Engaging in a variety of exercises: thinking, writing, discussing, moving, and making.

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working?

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Adaptive Path

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Last week Adaptive Path brought together designers from IDEO, Adaptive Path, IDEO.org, Rackspace, Granular, Capital One, Samsung, SAP Labs, Narrative, TechSoup, and Chase for what was probably the weirdest workshop we’ve ever done: Laban Movement for Design.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Design.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 22, 2015

A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. Eugene is always thought in the way he designs and facilitates activities to bring people together to learn from one other.

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Adaptive Path

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Our first pop-up is Designing Experiences: Financial Services in a Connected Age. Adaptive Path's offices are right next to the San Francisco Ferry Building, and we are going to start the day with a design research exercise involving the famous Saturday Farmer's Market. We're trying something new at Adaptive Path. Internally we call it a "pop-up event". These are: assembled quickly; held in our offices, and registration is set at a low price.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 1, 2020

So this creates an L&D challenge, if we want to consider it as a design problem. Now, I know it’s not in our control, so this is a thought exercise, but one that’s not easy. design strategyA colleague and friend posted about masks, and I weighed in. He suggested that it’s really a learning issue. I’m not sure I agree, but I thought it might be interesting to explore. So here’s an L&D challenge to consider.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. Training Design

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Van Merriënboer, in his Four Component Instructional Design, talks about the knowledge you need and the complex decisions you apply that to. To test that learners have acquired the underpinning knowledge, you can hav them exercising the models in decisions. design meta-learning

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Bob Sutton

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Design school project teaches bike safety - The Stanford Daily Online. Tim Brown: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation. Bill Moggridge: Designing Interactions. » The Better By Design Summit: Cool Things I Heard in New Zealand.   It was intended to spread knowledge and whip-up enthusiasm about design thinking among businesses in that lovely country.  Good design creates good stories.

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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour

OCTOBER 7, 2005

Re: Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win This must be comedy Friday at Tech Central Station. intelligent design people! intelligent design people! The point is, intelligent design is a religion-driven anti-intellectual position adhered to (and directed toward) mostly uneducated people, and it is Not Science. Asserting this does not make an opponent of intellectual design a loser, merely untactful in stating the truth. Intelligent design and all, you know?

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. From a design perspective, one takeaway is to create micro learning opportunities.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The question is, can we not just illuminate them, but can we ‘exercise’ them. ? design technologyWe’re hearing more and more about AR (Augmented Reality), and one of it’s core elements is layering information on top of the world. But in a conversation the other night, it occurred to me that we could push that information to be even more proactive in facilitating learning. And this comes from the use of models.

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