The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for October is about E-Learning, specifically: What advice would you give to someone new to the field (of E-Learning). Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore ... . Understand how to use tools (work) We use Saba, Centra, Articulate, image capturing software, image creating software ... . As much as I hate to admit it, I learned a lot from that class. We used tools like Diigo, wikis, Google Docs, and concept maps to collaboratively construct a class. Although some of these tools wouldn’t work in a ...

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learn so much all the time from ... learning when I taught a class this summer using blogs, wikis, YouTube and other tools that required the students to create ... few of the lessons I have learned. Mostly about the power of the network and Web 2.0 tools. First, I learned how far a ... learned first hand the exponential power of the social network of the web. My blog book tour was a huge success for me both emotionally and from a sales perspective. See Recap of Blog Book Tour for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos . What ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then ... Blog posting Network Feedback . The assumption seems to be that there is one "best" place for asking a question.

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 start? Particular tools you should explore? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? What would your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to ...

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 ... tools have become. We can't ignore them when we have a training class. The next question, Are there differences in ... . Learner creation is a power tool for retention and recall. For the entire blog entry on the subject, see ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design ... Learning? 2007 September 2007 Where to Work? July 2007 : Choosing Tools? June 2007 : Where are all ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences ... future? October 2006 : Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design ... Learning? 2007 September 2007 Where to Work? July 2007 : Choosing Tools? June 2007 : Where are all ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences ... future? October 2006 : Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?

... blogs in eLearning? That's a big question. But I also think its the wrong question. I don't think we can push the use of blogs on our users in the same way that we push eLearning solutions. Blogging is only effective if the blogger is engaged and willing to partipate in the conversation, and express opinions. Perhaps a "blog-style" approach to a new tool ... Dennis McDonald has a great post about Using a Blog for a "Web2.0" Presentation instead of PowerPoint . I love his postscript: "I debated whether or not to use the term "Web 2.0," which has fallen out of favor among the ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Well, I posted on this subject just last week (see Confused of Brighton ) and even listed my own top ten tools , authoring or otherwise, in a subsequent post. Nevertheless, I believe I should address the Big Question in a more measured way than in last week's rant, so here goes ... The answer to the question, of course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're ...

16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question ... Performance Blog The Big Question is... 08-May-2007 07:38:52 Tony Karrer eLearning Technology PowerPoint Preparation is Good 08-May-2007 07:17:18 Jay Cross Internet Time Blog The Big PowerPoint Question 07-May-2007 21:21:14 Mitch Owen Lead2020 Powerpoint: Should you use it? 07-May-2007 19:24:27 Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog This month's big question ...

16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question: PowerPoint ... Blog The Big Question is... 08-May-2007 07:38:52 Tony Karrer eLearning Technology PowerPoint Preparation is Good 08-May-2007 07:17:18 Jay Cross Internet Time Blog The Big PowerPoint Question 07-May-2007 21:21:14 Mitch Owen Lead2020 Powerpoint: Should you use it? 07-May-2007 19:24:27 Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog This month's big question ...

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 ... professionals. When there is a performance problem, we do a great injustice if we automatically pick up our tools for training ... asked the question, "Who reads the instruction manual before playing a game", and one person (out of ~100) actually ...

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 ... you gain experience with blogs, you can start to gain experience with other Personal Learning Tools. Blogs are a ... %). However, learning professionals are way below 1% levels . So, what reasons do people give? Cost or No Blog Tools ... what I am talking about? Note: Wendy got over her fear and does a great job raising interesting questions on her blog ...

... choices. So, this month, The Big Question is... Choosing Tools? Please answer this question by posting to your own ... ASTD Big Question for July Janet Clarey Janet Clarey, Brandon Hall Research Choosing Tools Quintus Joubert eLearning Blog eLearning tool selection ! ... As compared to ten years ago when there were roughly four major authoring tools, today there are a large number of different tools and different approaches to creating content. You can use standard authoring tools, rapid ...

... choices. So, this month, The Big Question is... Choosing Tools? Please answer this question by posting to your own ... ASTD Big Question for July Janet Clarey Janet Clarey, Brandon Hall Research Choosing Tools Quintus Joubert eLearning Blog eLearning tool selection ! ... As compared to ten years ago when there were roughly four major authoring tools, today there are a large number of different tools and different approaches to creating content. You can use standard authoring tools, rapid ...

Learning Circuit's big questions for December are: 1. What will you remember most about 2006? For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs. It took me a while to develop my own blogging style - I have for years written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same. It isn't. In some ways, it's much more like the ... ', i.e. those not calling themselves instructional designers, using simple rapid-development tools. Hopefully at the same ...

... 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 ... learning tool.  I loved reading this book and have recommended to all my friends.   The book can be PRE ... 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 ...

... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... other tools? (Bill Bruck) Should all learning professionals blog at least once? (Mike Oehlert) Should all 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 ... Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More Too Many Social Networks? eLearning ...

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 ... makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added ...

... 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 ... technologies....blogs, wikis, elearning development tools and even PowerPoint. It is not a matter of choosing the right "tool ... I left a comment on Tony Karrer's blog about creating a "Design Day" so that everyone in the blogosphere adds ...

... 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 ... in the topic. I think it is a good use of e-learning tools to develop "rapid instruction." Informal "e-Learning ... 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 ... Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, but ... big market research studies may fall prey to just putting it out there and trying to sell it. We have to adapt to faster ... Models / Tools We need to learn when and how to use eLearning 1.0, eLearning 1.3, eLearning 2.0 and other types of ...

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 ... elearnspace both add their 2 cents regarding the reasons for the failure of collaborative tools. So the question in my mind is....with what we have to work with, how can we encourage adoption of these tools? Especially since the buzz in ... me when I started blogging - fear. How many of us have risked answering a question at school (elementary --> ...

Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been ... powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has ... , because The Big Question has been such a great success resulting in a large number of links to and from LCB we are a ... 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 - ...

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 ... learners or people who would be interested in the topic. I think it is a good use of e-learning tools to develop ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... and development opportunities. Technology obviously plays a part here - by providing employees with the necessary tools, such as social networking software, wikis, blogs, search facilities, RSS, forums, rapid development tools, etc., we ... major point of The Big Question) - does the learning professional have a part to play  in bottom-up learning, and if so ... this question as just a topical response to the increased interest in informal learning - it's an issue that has ...

... he questioned the blogs cited on Gabe's list of top 19 eLearning blogs as ( eLearning Blog: Top 19 eLearning blogs ). His post are good to look at as an example of some of the common questions that people new to the world of blogs have ... there "more substantial discussion" of the "big issues facing eLearning"? In some ways, I have the same question, but ... personal challenges come in. If you look at the LCB Big Question in December, it's a great exercise because it forces you to ... blogs try to cover all the bases i.e. covering news, books, tools, articles, best practices, personal news etc.

Thus, was born the concept for The Big Question - a monthly question that everyone in the community would post and ... an informal e-Learning tool. 8 - Expose our members to blogging as a method of e-Learning and allow them to judge for ... I've been working with Dave Lee on the Learning Circuits Blog (LCB) for about 8 months now. About two months into it, I finally began to understand that the LCB was different than an individual blog because it was designed to serve a community. As such it allowed members who didn't have a blog to post, it attracted a broader audience and more ...

Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? has been ... Updates recent studies show additional reasons: Blogging and Social Networking Boosts Your Social Life. Blogging -- It's Good for You . Update on Nov 21, 2007 - There's been a lot of discussion recently around using blogs for learning and I wanted to point to a few newer thoughts on this: Learning and Networking with a Blog (Deleted Scenes) Blogging - I'm Pushing Harder Now New Debate on Value of Blogs and Wikis in the Enterprise More eLearning ...