In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning. What should I do first?" My first recommendation would be to decide where it is that you see yourself fitting into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a ... you prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences ... based in Europe. There will, of course, be other local options, but it definitely pays to keep an ...

... problems. Certainly a big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a conference ... Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Conference Preparation and Better Questions for Learning Professionals ... The Big Question type topics where we get to exchange ideas with other experts in the field would be a fantastic learning ... corporate eLearning, facilitated by me and someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big questions and ... as a member of this community. While I know that getting big name speakers is a tried-and-true formula for conferences ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm ... started my blog in February 2006. I started using del.icio.us and Yahoo MyWeb to save bookmarks - locally saved ... wanted local editing via a Word add-in locally installed - I advocated providing a pure web delivered solution. I lost ... going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups . A purely virtual conference ( Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and ...

ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” This month it’s: I’m interested in [the field of] eLearning. What should I do first? I’m responding to this question from the ... Attend webinars Attend conferences Subscribe to blogs & start your own Read - trade journals, periodicals, books, presentations, white papers, research, etc. Join e-learning associations (local, national, global) Take a ... .) Attend conferences (online and face-to-face) Learn to use authoring and other software and platforms; HTML & ...

I 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 ... I should be speaking more or less at conferences? I love going to conferences when there's energy and I meet interesting people with interesting problems. I hate hearing the same presentations over and over. The last couple conferences ... and in virtual sessions. Those seem to have been a good replacement for my conference time. I'm still unsure how I ... conferences. My expectation is that I'll be doing more speaking in 2009 based on some new work. But, I've increased my ...