Clark Quinn
Chief Learning Strategist, Upside Learning
Clark Quinn, PhD is the executive director of Quinnovation, co-director of the Learning Development Accelerator, and chief learning strategist for Upside Learning. With more than four decades of experience at the cutting edge of learning, Dr. Quinn is an internationally known speaker, consultant, and author of seven books. He combines a deep knowledge of cognitive science and broad experience with technology into strategic design solutions that achieve innovative yet practical outcomes for corporations, higher-education, not-for-profit, and government organizations.
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Quinnsights: No Room for Complacency in L&D
There is no room for complacency in L&D, and plenty of indicators are signaling problems with the status quo. Work is changing; so must L&D.
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Quinnsights: Building a Learning Culture
Building a learning culture is important for modern organizations. This article illuminates why the practice should be a priority for today’s executives.
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Quinnsights: Musing on the L&D Ecosystem
A robust L&D ecosystem allows us to proactively deliver and customize training to employees, driving performance and development.
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Quinnsights: Skipping the Hierarchies
For learning leaders, skipping the hierarchies and embracing diversity is key to innovative thinking and leads to business success.
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Beyond the Next Button
It’s increasingly important to change up standard learning delivery methods. In this eBook, leading learning professionals share how to push industry limits.
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Quinnsights: Working Smarter
Findings in situated cognition, distributed cognition, and social cognition help us understand how to work smarter, and how to help others do so.
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Deeper Design: Putting It All Together
The end of any eLearning development project comes when you deliver the product. For the team of developers in this story, that will happen the week of September 12 (next week!). Here is the final chapter, in which the team deals with the authoring and user experience issues.
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Deeper Design: Tweaking the Media
With the high-level issues resolved, the design team began to wrestle with and fine-tune key choices of implementation for those decisions. This was necessary before final development within an authoring tool could be successful. This is a short story, but without it the course could never be realized.
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Deeper Design: Beyond Traditional Instructional Design
“Deeper design” goes beyond traditional instructional design to reflect on what’s known about how we learn and what that implies for the strategy. Too often we talk about “content” without talking about the subtleties. Continuing the story of how a team of designers implemented these ideas, here is their high-level process as they move from the objectives to deciding on pedagogy.
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Deeper Design: Working Out Loud
This is the start of a narration, a story—working out loud, in other words—about how a small group of designers decided to build a better way to support learning. The end of this narration will come in September, when the team releases its product, free of charge, to the world. Enjoy the view as you travel along with the team under the guidance of The eLearning Guild’s first Guild Master.