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 ... group email via our CAC Conference web site which has registered members Total time to post the question in all five ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for the learning and development community. We aim to exceed expectations. If you have a to-learn list and are willing to share, and willing to share how you work with that list, that would likely be helpful information. I constantly have a "to-learn" list. Some of the items are necessary and some are "pie-in-the-sky." I tend to have two methods of working on ... they different than undirected learning through work, blogging, conferences, etc.? I don't totally agree that ...

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 ... and NOT another health care vendor conference. As a result, I managed to escape my isolation from the eLearning industry. More importantly, I found a group of like-minded people both at the conference and in the "blogosphere." It's still ... conference I went to that was so life-changing was eLearnDev 2006 in Utah. I hope next year to make both this conference ...

... 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 ... .  After meeting Mark Oehlert at Learning2005 we partnered up to present at the Serious Games conference in SanFrancisco as part of the Game Developers Conference.  Awesome good time!  Mark knew everyone there and ...

... that I wanted to discuss with people at the next conference or in the next big question. See things that people really were finding as a challenge. Instead, I feel like I'm seeing a lot of philosophical, big, narly questions that I have no ... This month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? - Dave Lee just told us that there are 102 Questions ... actionable suggestions. I truly could imagine asking these as a discussion question in a session at a conference or as a future Big Question. I'd likely get lots of great ideas and discussion. And the discussion is not just theoretical ...

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 moderator/instructor? You also need to be clear whether you see yourself working primarily in education or in workplace ... you prefer a more informal, self-directed approach, start reading books, blogs and magazines and attending conferences ...

... 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 ... that point, the next question is "Can certain attributes of different media be leverage for learning?" For example, you ... attributes that matter more. Go to conferences, attend webinars, read blogs and talk to fellow professionals to stay ...

April's big question in the Learning Circuits blog is 'ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? ', in particular about the fact that good content is now freely available on the web, customers want their classroom 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 ... more books than before and visit more conferences to hear those same people speak and to meet them face-to-face. Do ...

The Learning Circuits Blog has started up its monthly Big Question again and the question, perhaps appropriately as we see out what remains of the year, is 'what did you learn about learning in 2007?' I'm tempted to say 'most of it' because I've revised and revisited most of my assumptions at one point or another, not least in response to some whole new 'macro theories' ( George Siemens and Connectivism , Jay Cross and Informal Learning ) and a whole raft of ... as a formal course (on-job, classroom, online, blended) or be as informal as reading an article, attending a conference ...

... different about this exercise than in a discussion group, half of the response posts to any question is a response of "Here's why you are asking the wrong question..." Now before you assume that's negative, in most cases my firm belief is that having the right question is the whole battle - eLearning Technology: Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference ... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... the conversation by forcing you into a question you didn't want to ask. There were many posts that did challenge ...

I went back to look at some notes I had created before around getting ready for conferences ... Be an Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee And the net of it was that you really needed to be prepared with good questions, which I had talked about in: Better Questions for Learning Professionals Then, I realized that the LCB Big Question from February would be a good thing to look back at: Continuing Thoughts on Questions What Questions Should We be Asking? http://learningcircuitblog.pbwiki.com/bigquestions I also ran across this good post: Conference Survival ...

... 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 ... around The Big Question type topics where we get to exchange ideas with other experts in the field would be a fantastic ... I'm pretty sure it's not just me... I believe we can build better conferences. And, I need you to help by doing one or ... for what you'd like to see in future conferences (add comment). If you don't vote, then we'll assume you either ...

... 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 ...

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 ... Conference Social Tool Participation Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results Blog Learning I have ...

... blogging? I need to revive the Big Question - where's Dave Lee. ... Small edit on 11/19. Is it my imagination, or is blogging slowly taking off among eLearning folks? The past few conferences I did, I didn't see many bloggers talking about sessions who weren't presenters or long time bloggers. This time I've seen quite a few more mentions in relatively new bloggers: Blog, Blogger, Bloggest eLearning 2.0 ... - Day 1 to Day 3 DevLearn conference Good night San Jose And I'm intentionally not pointing you to all ...

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 ... , what a bad way to start a conference!

Ray Sims has been doing great stuff over on his blog: Sims Learning Connections . I've just read his answer to this month's big question - What Would You Do to Support New Managers? - Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning - good stuff. Worth taking a look at. While I'm on it - one of the most important aspects of helping managers transition is to effectively support and coach them over time. The question is always how do they get that coaching support ... conference calls with fellow new managers to discuss issues?

... at the level that helps us apply it. I would also suggest that each of these items suggest possible great questions for this month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? Just add "How can I/we ..." in front, so for ... other means. Make outside connections easy. Funding for information and research services, conference attendance, guest ... fantastic questions by looking at particular common audience segments, e.g., new managers, distribute sales force, ...

The Learning Circuit’s Blog Big Question for December is “What did you learn about learning in 2008?”  It’s good to reflect, and using the end of the calendar year is a traditional time.  Consequently, I trolled back through a year of blog posts.  Whew! I saw several recurrent threads, but the strongest one is on learning to ... .  But that’s another month’s big question. ... Work Literacy effort, and a lot of the discussion at the Corporate Learning Trends conference (most recently).

... future Big Questions or as part of a group discussion in a panel or at a morning breakfast table at a conference. I'm ... just lamenting Is the Big Question Half-Full or Half-Empty? basically saying that I wasn't sure I was getting much value ... understanding more about what I'm really looking for. Now I could probably write a much better Big Question that asked ... I've actually found the BigQ this month - What Questions Should We be Asking? - to be really interesting, but not quite the way that I expected. You can see a list of questions gathered by Dave Lee a few days ago at: ...

Responding to the Big Questions (s) of the month: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? Shouldn’t they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it ... future. Our job is to help create the environment like that IBM describes. Back to the Big Questions . (You thought I ... the needs of the organization of the future in our replies to the big question instead of working on the needs of people ... works. At the Online Learning conference ten years ago , Gloria Geary told the audience,”Training will be ...

... quickly become a favorite of mine. I love the 10min rule. But that's another post. My question to the e-Learning Development community is... How are we going to respond? Maybe this would make for a good BIG QUESTION . DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - ...

... suggested that classroom teacher Carla Dolman be invited to do a session on her use of cellphones at the recent TLT conference. She brought along some of her students to help her, and between them they fielded the Big Questions so often asked by ... for learning?" Dean relates that not only did the students handle these tough questions, but they were even able ...

... post. The Learning Leaders Blog Response To-learn list: The Big Question To Learn Lists: The Big Qustion Karyn Romeis: The Big Question: To-learn list My To learn list The E-learning Curve Blog - To-Learn Lists indicate ... This month's question comes out of something that Catherine Lombardozzi wrote pointed me to: Jim Collins, in an essay in Learning Journeys , wrote, "A true learning person also has a "to-learn" list, and the items on that list ... undirected learning through work, blogging, conferences, etc.? Are to-learn lists really important to have? Are they ...

... post. The Learning Leaders Blog Response To-learn list: The Big Question To Learn Lists: The Big Qustion Karyn Romeis: The Big Question: To-learn list My To learn list The E-learning Curve Blog - To-Learn Lists indicate ... This month's question comes out of something that Catherine Lombardozzi wrote pointed me to: Jim Collins, in an essay in Learning Journeys , wrote, "A true learning person also has a "to-learn" list, and the items on that list ... undirected learning through work, blogging, conferences, etc.? Are to-learn lists really important to have? Are they ...

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 ... 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 a ... - organizational adoption is going to lag: Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use. Companies are going to have a big ...

... certainly a big question, I want to skip over this for now. I'm going to assume that since you are reading this blog post ... making sure you get the most you can from the conference is determining what the questions are that you should use to focus ... much from the conference. What Questions Are We Asking So, before going on, consider what the most important questions are that you face as a learning professional? At training and/or eLearning conferences where this question was ... types of questions. Going back to my example of preparing for a conference by formulating better questions, I think ...

The Big Question The Learning Circuits Big Question this month is about learning professionals, leadership, and literacies. Tony breaks it down as several questions, but the Learning Revolutionary summed all the questions up nicely: Should learning professionals be leading the charge around new work literacies such as social media and informal learning? Because I’m outside the corporate world, I’m going to look at this from the perspective of ... communities, workshops, conferences, university courses, and mentoring all play a part. Since I work in the higher ed ...

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Here are my predictions, but realistically they ... at eLearningGuild in the Fall, success of the virtual conference with George Siemens, discussion with Jay Cross and others about a conference for people with more experience, and discussion by Luis Suarez about a targeted virtual conference ... topics. The format of the virtual conference that George and I put together wasn't quite right - still a lecture - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions weren't focused. We need a targeted discussion.

... plans here or post them on your blog and just add the link here in the comments (tip o the hat to LCBs Big Question ... Standards The Application Becomes the Platform The Big Question ... Collaboration Conference News Cool ...