Learnlets
The Quinnovation blog

Learnlets is a blog capturing Clark Quinn’s learnings about learning. I’m an independent consultant making companies smarter by improving their organizational learning infrastructure.  I’ve a PhD in applied cognitive science, and my interests are at the intersection of learning, organizational strategy, technology, design, and wisdom.

Many years ago now, in the early days of the internet, I responded to a request for predictions about the future of computing, and I wrote (and I paraphrase, I can’t find it now) “in the future there will be lots of little interactive and engaging applications that will teach you anything you need to know, including how to make little interactive and engaging applications”. He liked my suggestion, and it was included in the published collection (now if I could only remember who, where, and when). Those little interactive and engaging applications are learnlets.

BTW, I think that there’s an incredible opportunity in marketing for such learnlets (marketing is really customer education), and if you’d like to talk about it, feel free to contact me.

Of course, for the purposes here, the learnlets are my learnings about learning (and, occasionally, about life, the universe, and everything).

I work through Quinnovation, am the author of Engaging Learning: Designing e-Learning Simulation Games, am a member of the Internet Time Alliance, and speak and publish regularly in the usual places.

I have worked with new media for learning for about 30 years now in a variety of roles focusing on the design of innovative and yet pragmatic solutions. I’ve been an academic teaching interaction design while researching learning technology design, and held several senior management positions in the elearning space.  Learning technology is my passion (I like helping people, and I like doing it through technology since I’m a boy and I like toys), and I’d be doing it even if I were independently wealthy (and you’re welcome to make that happen).

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