This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and ... Blog posting Network Feedback . The assumption seems to be that there is one "best" place for asking a question. One ... someone who might be able to answer the question. Then you had to call that person, reference the discussion with your friend and launch into an explanation of the question you wanted to have answered. That person would, possibly, answer your question for free, offer to help for a fee, or refer you to another person. If they referred you to another person, ...

The Learning Circuit's Blog question for this month is " ILT and Off-The-Shelf Vendors, What Should they Do ?" I am going to answer that question by recanting a story from Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning . In high school, I literally had a lesson on how to fold a map. The lesson was part of a six week class on how to read and use maps. I vividly remember the lesson because it confounded me how re-folding a simple piece of paper could be so darn frustrating. I ... burden of knowing from the person to the object or process. Just like fast food establishments with cash registers ...

The Learning Circuit Blog’s Big Question for November is all about Network Feedback, specifically if you need ... information you need, when you need it. He posed the following questions: Where to go in what cases? What works and ... get help ahead of time? Are there places you can go if you are relatively new and needing to ask questions? At EMC ... special cases can’t be handled by a script). So I posed the question on EMC ONE and in Yammer. I was hoping some ... spend the next couple of weeks playing phone tag and swapping emails with a benefits person just to find out I could ...

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Where do you ... your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to not ... Masters Student. Any one who is interested can leave a note on my blog and I will contact them. Here are two ...

This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have ... scholarly approach...The sub-questions for this month's big question are: Do you believe that we have to design, develop and ... 1994 was born the same year that Newsweek Magazine named the Internet "Person of the Year." This means such a person ... tools have become. We can't ignore them when we have a training class. The next question, Are there differences ...

The Learning Circuits Blog big question for April is "What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?" The simple answer to this question is " push back more ." This can be applied on many levels, but I am primarily speaking of pushing more on ROI and evaluations . I learned very early on that Analysis and Evaluations are the first things to get cut from a learning project. In actuality, the same is true for many technology related projects. While ... project level and personally), quickly moving out seems to be the only viable option. The good thing is that I work ...

I do a variant of this exercise 3-4 times per year. This iteration of the Big Question allows me to think about past, present, and future on a more professional and public level. What will I remember most about 2006? 1) Finally ... challenges for me as I head into 2007 1) Personal: Implement and train a new program to 2500 people in 90 days ... 365 days 2) There will be at least 1 more post from a blogger on blogging 3) There will be at least 1 more podcast ... you who read my blog, lurkers and commenters, thank you for making 2006 a life-changing year. Correction: ...

Tony Karrer is moderating "The Big Question" on the Learning Circuits blog . The question for December is "What did you learn about learning in 2007?" Obviously, there were many things I learned in 2007 (I think most people can say this or else there are some serious issues). I've learned just how small the training community is and how if you ... asked the question, "Who reads the instruction manual before playing a game", and one person (out of ~100) actually raised his hand...Mark and I both were shocked that even one person raised their hand). Another good example is using ...

Over on LCB , The Big Question for October has been posted: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? This ... why YOU should. Blogs are a Great Personal Learning Tool As learning professionals, we should all be at the forefront of knowing how to learn ourselves. Writing is probably the single best way to codify personal knowledge. A blog ... you gain experience with blogs, you can start to gain experience with other Personal Learning Tools. Blogs are a ... person to come through. Personally, I've connected with several bloggers and have got to know them through their blogs.

Professionals from across the globe.  It truly is a much flatter world to me personally.  Sure I started the blog in ... with a Dell XPS, the iMac simply ROCKS! Stay tuned for my response to Part II and III of THE BIG QUESTION ... What will you remember most about 2006? I've been planning my year in review post and just noticed THE BIG QUESTION .  Cool! 2006 has been a GREAT year!  I have several events to be remembered but most importantly 2006 will be remembered as the year of The Learning Triad:  blogs, wikis, and RSS.  Since starting the ...

... networks, and user-generated content.  But the biggest surprise to many of the big players will be the introduction of new startups with extremely POWERFUL webservices and OPEN APIs at a FRACTION of the cost of the big boys.  (I will ... virtual environments are going to make a big move into the Learning world in 2007.  Efforts like SLOODLE which mashes ... value in Me Inc. and the real players will begin to use wikis, blogs, and RSS to increase their circle of influence, learn, share, and create value for their personal brand.  If you haven't done this for yourself, then 2007 is the ...

Question --- What Would You Do to Support New Managers? Michele Eby Media Partners Trainer's Blog 6 Ways to Bring New Managers Up to Speed Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog March's Big Question: What would you do to support new managers ... month's big question - a few days late. This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay ... needed to consider, and how to balance what approaches were taken. So, this month, The Big Question is... What Would You Do to Support New Managers? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on ...

... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... Blog ), I personally learned quite a bit about reasons on both sides. It was a fantastic exercise for my own learning ... place: Should more learning professionals be blogging? (Barry Sampson) Independently, Dave Lee suggested that question ... that there's a few who should stop blogging. Of course, then it raises a couple of questions: Which learning ... Out of the original October 2006: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? , we've seen some pretty ...

April Big Question - Content Vendor Value : eLearning Technology ... jump on this months Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? Ill be curious to ...   0 comments links to April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Permalink: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Bookmark this page at ... eLearning Technology Tony Karrers eLearning Blog on ...

This month's the Big Question from Tony Karrer's Learning Circuits blog is 'What is your to-learn list'. The ... list. My learning list has varied through the years and it always featured a big amount of informal learning , but ... practical way. The skills and techniques I need to learn for my work, I put into my personal to-do list. My eLearning blog (this one) keeps track of part of what I learn in eLearning. This enables me to track back when I need to. On a personal note and building on my informal learning, my capacities expand (if the informal learning works) so I just ...

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 ... compete with each person's ability to find information via a Google search or through access to a service like Safari ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of  questions related to the role of ... what is happening with technology, and too personally committed to the top-down, authoritarian training orthodoxy. And ... theory is interesting, but the real test is whether you practise it. Perhaps start as a passive consumer of blogs, wikis ... appropriate to the organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. Assuming it ... process risk becoming ever more peripheral to the big issues, as the emphasis on formal learning interventions ...

If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... Predictions. I personally am going to be looking back at some of my blog posts and look for those "aha moments ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark ...

If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... Predictions. I personally am going to be looking back at some of my blog posts and look for those "aha moments ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark ...

... outlining 3 elements of good design. Around the same time, the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog had the July "Big Question" which was "Choosing Tools" which is actually a series of questions: How does the eLearning design process need to change ... "Big Question" How does the eLearning design process need to change to accommodate such a wide variety of tools? The ... I left a comment on Tony Karrer's blog about creating a "Design Day" so that everyone in the blogosphere adds a ... that point, the next question is "Can certain attributes of different media be leverage for learning?" For example, ...

April's big question in the Learning Circuits blog is 'ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do ... training in smaller and smaller chunks and various other adverse trends. Now I wasn't going to respond to this question ... typically such a big business issue?) insufficient demand for change from employers to force it to happen at any pace. Yes ... personally now, I'm not sure if my own usage of 'traditional media' has changed much since I became more immersed in the culture of blogging and informal learning. I think not. Stimulated by what I read in other blogger's postings, I now ...

... spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big question ... This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we are supposed to consider both good and bad examples as well as give some thoughts on why the example should get some attention. I've decided to look at several ... this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting instruction on how to build in the world of Second ... of the learning. Here is a link to a blog entry (another form of informal learning) by my friend Mike ...

November's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog has been posted. The question this month is: Are ISD ... one of the most important questions facing us today. If you look at the shift between eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 - and ... in a Nut Shell ): I personally believe that a lot of what we know about analyzing the business issues, human ... Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, but ... personally believe that everywhere in business we are being forced to make choices between fast and best. In software, ...

I was recently asked for a list of the top ten blogs that relate to corporate eLearning by someone who wanted to get a sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I subscribe to and my personal style is to quickly scan a lot of blogs, selectively reading posts that I think are going to be ... publication. It has various authors and does a monthly Big Question that receives contributions from many different bloggers ... of these blogs are by practitioners who I believe exemplify smart blogging as a personal learning mechanism.

Within the blogs, I am starting to see discussion on why people don't use collaboration tools (or LMSs for that matter). The big question is WHY? Dave Pollard did a little experiment in August 2006 trying to get people to help him edit ... me when I started blogging - fear. How many of us have risked answering a question at school (elementary --> grad ... elearnspace both add their 2 cents regarding the reasons for the failure of collaborative tools. So the question in my ... potential downsizing? I had to fight through ALL of these emotions when I started blogging. - Will I be accepted ...

Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been ... the past two years. We'll be back up and running with March's Big Question - "Do you really exist if Google says you don't?" as soon as we can. Dave Lee your exasperated blogmeister As the person who originated idea of The Big Question - I ... , because The Big Question has been such a great success resulting in a large number of links to and from LCB we are a ... . I'm not sure what we are going to do with this month's big question. We'll likely wait a few days and see if ...

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 ...

Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out ... Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Kapp Notes This blog discusses issues concerning learning, e-learning and the ... create a better understanding of learning design. ~ Blog Content Guide ~ Subscribe to this Blog ~ My Home Page ... Build Tiny Prims in Second Life . I view this as e-learning since the person watching the video is getting ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... major point of The Big Question) - does the learning professional have a part to play  in bottom-up learning, and if so ... (our managers, our 'customers', our learners) and what do we personally feel committed to achieving? I don't regard this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has been ... that now - the last person I would ask to put together a usable guide to doing anything would be a technical ...

... been an interesting discussion related to The Big Question on LCB . What's been most enlightening for me is the "bad rap" that blogging gets from people who've probably only visited a few blogs and have been inundated with a general media bias against blogging. Below I've listed a few of the more interesting reasons that people don't like blogs: "you have ... -a cult of personality. Why is it that the words "me" and "I" are so prevalent in blogs?" What a loaded statement. One ... stop pretty quickly. On "I" ... Blogs are mostly written in first person because they are an opportunity to share ...