The time has come to ask: what should be my next book? I’ve written four so far:
Engaging Learning was something I felt was needed because people had written about the importance of games but no one was writing about how to design them, and I could.
Then, while I wanted to write about elearning strategy, my publisher wanted a book on mobile and I realized one was needed and the other likely candidates deferred. Hence, Designing mLearning.
After that, my publisher’s sister company wanted a book on mlearning for higher education, and I ended up writing The Mobile Academy.
And then I finally convinced my publisher to let me write the elearning strategy book, and Revolutionize L&D was the result.
Let me be clear: I’m proud of each and every one of them. I think each does the job it was designed to do, well. However, each was written because either I or the publisher felt there was a need. Which isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not the only approach. While I have some ideas, and of course it’s up to my publisher (unless I self-publish), it occurs to me to ask you what book I should write next.
So what is the next book you would like to see from me? What book do you want or need that isn’t out there yet, and that is one that I am the person to write? Here’s your chance; I’d greatly appreciate it if you took just a minute or two to give it some thought and write out your ideas. What do you think?
This may not be your cup of tea, but I woul dlove to see a book for the people doen in the trenches on how to advocate for effective practices. In other words, a leadership book that’s not aimed at the C-level. (Or, maybe closer to home, a book on how to dig into the research to build interventions for common learning problems. I’ve had some excellent results with that lately and have a conference talk proposal out there to share the results)
Dear Sir:
I think that your next book should focus on the significance of videos for microlearning in Learning & Development.
Hi Clark,
How about a book on the future of learning?
There’s a lot of noise around browsing without screens (Amazon Echo, Google Home), apps and other mobile (not exactly new, I know), worker enhancement through contextualization algorithms, online social & collaborative learning and AR/VR. Maybe you could look at each one, debunk the myths, talk about the research and evidence, examine a project or two and give people some pointers on how to experiment and consider using the technology.
You’d need to update it every few years, or keep it current with blog posts (which you do anyway), but I think that you would be great to fill the void of sound advice on these emerging technologies in learning.
Cheers,
David
Interesting idea. Rather than update it every couple of years, I’m thinking I might try to provide a principled basis for judging technology, e.g. the affordances they provide for learning. Will let it percolate. Thanks for the feedback!