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On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses.The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone?It's difficult to not agree with everything that's in Tony's post an my short answer would be: yes they should, and the good ones already are.So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but alsoMost learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of leadership in the adoption of enterprise/web/learning 2.0 tools from learning professionals in senior positions and too many barriers ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - CommentsVirtual Language Immersion
... sponsor putting this together? This is good timing given the LCB Big Question is: Second Life ... Plymouth where actors playing the part of Native Americans and Colonists told stories and answered questions about ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - CommentsMake Me Better
Needing help to Make Me Better is a common issue. April 2008's Big Question was What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?I appreciated part of Karyn's answer -"How do you plan to achieve that?" Oh crud, I don't know.I think this is a common problem. We often define goals and then we struggle with the specific steps to help make me better. One of the beauties of blogging is that you can enlist the support of lots of other people who help you think through things and help make me better.Take a look at some of the comments in recent posts:Reframing Conference Social ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - CommentsBusiness Value of eLearning - Elevator Pitches Needed
April 2008's Big Question was What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?The responses to this question were quite varied. It was interesting to see that the first two responses both dealt with selling the business value of eLearning.Shaun tells us:I need to be able to sell the ROI on learning better. andHow can I better impress the value of eLearning across the organization?And from his post, its clear he's not unsophisticated around it. Jay Cross will tell you to forget ROI, but I'm not so sure that you can dismiss the notion that you have to explain the business ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - CommentsLearning Objectives, Performance Objectives and Business Needs
This month's Big Question - Scope of Learning Responsibility? (see my posts: Learning Responsibility, Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape) has raised some interesting questions in my mind. It also just triggered something for me around Learning Objectives vs. Performance Objectives vs. Business Needs.Mick Leyden - Professional Responsibility??? tells us:The learning professional is responsible for ensuring learning objectives are achieved regardless of the delivery mode.This sounds quite reasonable at the surface. However, it dawned ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - CommentsLearning Responsibility
The big question for March 2008 is - Scope of Learning Responsibility? Karl Kapp helped me pull this question together and it's been interesting to see the responses so far. I wanted to capture some thoughts as I've been reading these posts so far.First, my earlier posts Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape lay out that I believe the space in which Corporate Learning (and realistically all learning professionals ... address the last bullet helps the most. So, I naturally liked Karyn Romeis - The Big Question for March: Scope of ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, March 10, 2008 - CommentsFight in the Blogosphere - Finally
... as a person who as a panel moderator, or the proctor of the Big Question, likes to instigate interesting discussion, debate, disagreement, I'm perversely happy to see this. On the other hand, I'm somewhat worried that the tone may put off people.So, I'm curious:Are these kinds of debates good or bad?If it helps excite the crowd, is a little blood okay? Or should we always keep it civilized?Do you think it's go ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, March 7, 2008 - CommentsSafety Training Design
Some interesting discussions are going on in the Big Question for February The Learning Circuits Blog: Instructional Design - If - When - How Much. I thought I'd take a cut at an answer based on something we've been involved with recent - the design of safety training. This includes topics like driver safety, defensive driving, following rules, workplace safety, OSHA, operating machinery, wrist safety, food preparation, kitchen safety, first aid, fire, etc. There are striking similarities to most of the topics:Most of the core information is already known by the learner. They ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 14, 2008 - CommentsOnline Training vs eLearning
Learning?This really relates to the questions being discussed in this month's Big Question (Instructional Design - If? When? How much?) where I've argued that Common Sense and Intuition Not Enough to justify ID. But maybe my concern stems partly from the targeting of smaller audiences, niche learning needs, diverse backgrounds - all that suggest a hard time for instructional design - although not necessarily for the right kind of instructional designer ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 7, 2008 - CommentsCommon Sense and Intuition Not Enough
Jay Cross jumped in early with a response to this month's Big Question. The question this month is:For a given project, how do you determine if, when, and how much an instructional designer and instructional design are needed?Jay Cross response concludes with:The answer this month's Big Question is: common sense and intuition.I love mixing it up with Jay. Neither of us is shy about our opinions. And while I would agree with him that the current answer to the question is common sense and intuition, this shouldn't be the answer going forward. It's clearly insufficient. How do you back ...
eLearning Technology - Friday, February 1, 2008 - CommentsTen Predictions for eLearning 2008
The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008. Here are my predictions, but realistically they are ... put together wasn't quite right - still a lecture - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions ... thinking this is going to start happening - A LOT.Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009The discussion of knowledge work skills is going to be BIG ... We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way.
eLearning Technology - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - CommentsLooking Back at 2007
... said in this post to see how I did for the year. Shortly, I'll be responding to this month's Big Question with my ... a simple, clear answer.Why am I not finding more opportunities to create front-end tools?I am a big believer in the ... find additional examples of these sorts of things because they still have the great potential to make a big difference for ... LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS?I somewhat got this wrong as the big LMS vendors seem to now refer to themselves in terms ... learning will be a big topic and will become more formalInterestingly, I feel like there's been less discussion ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, December 31, 2007 - CommentsAha Moments in 2007
The Big Question is back...December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm going after this just a little bit different. I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during 2007....So I first went back to what I wrote about last year:Some of the more specific memories from 2006:I started my blog in February 2006.I started using del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved favorites seem rather limited ... going to lag: Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use. Companies are going to have a big problem trying to handle ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - CommentsBig Question is Back
I just wanted to alert folks that Learning Circuit's Big Question has been revived. We've lost Dave Lee's forms, but we are going back to the old manual approach. I hope you'll join the party and submit your thoughts on the question:The Big Question for December is:What did you learn about learning in 2007?If you are new to blogging, this is a great way to get your blog noticed.
eLearning Technology - Friday, November 30, 2007 - CommentsMore eLearning Bloggers
... look at this list.What's up? Are people now blogging?I need to revive the Big Question - where's Dave Lee.
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 - CommentsIs Good Enough Good Enought?
This morning at DevLearn I did an informal session with Lance Dublin on management issues. Several interesting topics came up, but one that really struck me was around producing eLearning that is good enough vs. trying to produce better learning or what you consider to be a better solution.This is a topic that we've discussed before including in the Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed and What Clients Really Want and Big Question Follow-up - Are There Trade-Offs? This morning's discussion was interesting because it felt that while we'd like to produce ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - CommentseLearning Examples
I just saw Cathy Moore's great post - Elearning samples. She points to quite a fewWhere was this when we were doing the Big Question - What are the examples of eLearning?Which gave us links to the following:e-Learning DemosExamples of E-LearningWhere are Examples of eLearning? Lots Right Here!exemplary elearning solutionswhat is a "good example"?LCB Big Q for June: Eg of e-LearningThe Power of ThreeWhere are the Examples of eLearning?Example of eLearningDesigning e-learningShow Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for JuneTwo examples of elearningCreating a Blog in BloggerBest Examples ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, October 25, 2007 - CommentsLearning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes)
... question - "Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?â¬ý You can find a somewhat tongue-in-cheek summary - Top ... leave comments on their blog. Another way to get connected is to contribute to ASTD's Learning Circuits Monthly Big Question. You can find this on the Learning Circuit's Blog. Once you are comfortable with blogging, you can begin ... established guidelines that provide a good model:http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html Common Questions and Issues around BloggingThere are a few questions that commonly come up around blogging:What should I write about? The ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, September 4, 2007 - CommentsValue of Blogging - Thanks Tracy
... the Big Question around Blogging and some of the responses - see Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog - particularly:Karyn Romeis & Barry Sampson both said - I've learned more via blogging over the past year than I learned in the preceding several years!Read more from Tracy on this in: eLearning 2.0 - I'm trying to DO ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 20, 2007 - CommentsBetter Conferences - Response Needed
... think that doing this similar to an unconference style or doing it around The Big Question type topics where we get to ... someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big questions and also identify topics they would want to discuss ... of the reasons for my recent Big Question - Examples of eLearning? was that it is often hard to see demonstrations of ... big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a conference, but are much less ... Professional Conference Attendee, Conference Preparation and Better Questions for Learning Professionals may be ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 18, 2007 - CommentsBlogging - I'm Pushing Harder Now
For people reading my blog for a while, if you had been at my recent ASTD presentation on eLearning 2.0 - you would have heard a much stronger appeal for learning professionals to blog as compared to a gentler push that I was giving last fall. When I asked The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? and then posted some of my thoughts in Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? while I suggested that YOU should, I didn't push. In my summary of the responses to the Big Question - Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog - I again didn't push ...
eLearning Technology - Wednesday, June 6, 2007 - CommentseLearing 2.0 - Great Response and Some Feedback
... feedback was VERY positive which is gratifying. I took suggestions from the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? and PowerPoint More Questions to heart and tried to improve my presentation. Some of the positive ... . More time for Discussion / Questions Some of the questions in the feedback - What about intellectual property ... , that's going to be a big conflict with my issues of time. Other issues of speaking style: Remember to repeat ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, June 4, 2007 - CommentsCorporate Training
Posts on topics related to Corporate Training:April Big Question - Content Vendor ValueHot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) AnalysisOpen Source Business Model for Corporate TrainingWill Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate Training?Blog Topics vs. Hot Topics in Training - The ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 14, 2007 - CommentsPowerPoint - More Questions
Okay, I'm going to blame this on Karl Kapp, because in response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? - Karl created a presentation and a blog post that inspired me to revisit a presentation I recently gave and try to improve it using some of his suggestions (and a few others that I've recently read).The presentation is aimed at folks who manage or are hands-on in the development of eLearning and it's designed to introduce them to eLearning ... going through and trying to improve the slides I found that I had more questions than I had answers. I'm hoping that ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 10, 2007 - CommentsPowerPoint - Fantastic Resource by Karl Kapp - A Question
In response to the LCB Big Question - PowerPoint: What is Appropriate? When and Why? - Karl created a presentation and ... ) to provide insights into the topic itself.At the same time it raised a bunch of questions for me that I asked as comments on his post. One of my questions was on the use of images. I took a look at a couple of other resources linked to by other people answering the Big Question and found that they helped the question become more concrete.Take for example ... was that simple title, then I'm not sure I'd devote a whole slide to it anyhow.In Karl's presentation, my question ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, May 10, 2007 - CommentsPowerPoint Preparation is Good
This month's big question on the Use of PowerPoint has already sparked some discussion and some good links. We'll likely get agreement that PowerPoint itself is not evil, but poor use of PowerPoint is. However, I'd also want to add that in my experience presenters who don't use slides often don't do a good job providing information, they are often ill-prepared, seem to ramble through stories, don't necessarily draw it to a conclusion, and make it really hard on the audience to extract the meaning.Now that I blog, I often sit at a presentation and capture notes that are of interest to me ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - CommentsBackground Reading - Use of PowerPoint
This month's LCB Big Question is on the Use of PowerPoint. In scanning around a bit for resources on this topic, I've found a few good starting points. I have tagged these in del.icio.us using the tag: lcbPowerPoint. I will continue to do so and you can find a current list at:http://del.icio.us/tag/lcbpowerpointResearch points the finger at PowerPointReports of the "Death of PowerPoint" greatly exaggeratedCreating Presentations That Don't Suck!Stop your presentation before it kills again!Is it finally time to ditch PowerPoint?The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPointPowerPoint Is ...
eLearning Technology - Monday, May 7, 2007 - CommentseLearning Business Alternatives - Good Discussion
An interesting conversation is starting around this month's big question -ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do?Tom Haskins is telling us that we had better: Leave a clean corpseNow that I have pictured ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors as obsolete, the question remains how long their customers will pretend the world ... . It's a question of what will be happening. Take a look at George Siemens post - Is Print Dying? from a day or so ago and not in any way part of the Big Question. Among other things he says:The challenges of media are providing ...
eLearning Technology - Thursday, April 5, 2007 - CommentsApril Big Question - Content Vendor Value
Since I'm likely not going to be blogging for about a week starting Friday, I thought I'd get an early jump on this month's Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do?I'll be curious to see what kinds of responses come out around this topic. There's really a lot at stake in this question in that it goes far beyond the question. The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually every ... all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is:What's the added value provided ...
eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - CommentsBlogs, Community and Discussion Tracking - What's Really Needed
... to even search. For example try searching for blog posts related to the most recent LCB Big Question - Supporting New Managers? Some authors link to the original post, some don't. Some use the same question text. Some don't. Basically it's ... I received some great questions from Christy Tucker in reference to my recent post Types of Blog DiscussionsI have ... your readers better, as they say it will?And you know I love good questions (Continuing Thoughts on Questions, What Questions Should We be Asking?, Better Questions for Learning Professionals)...So, thanks Christy.Your question on ...
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