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 ... you, dear fellow blogger, but it's those other people out there, you know who. The people who are wedded to their role ...

... 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 ... New Managers Up to Speed Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog March's Big Question: What would you do to support new managers ... Connections Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning Clark Quinn Learnlets LCBlog's big question of the ... to help people transition into management roles throughout the organization (customer service, sales, operations, ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best places ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us using ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best places ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer ...

In the Learning Circuits Blog , Tony Karrer poses a whole series of  questions related to the role of learning and development professionals in promoting informal learning / social learning / learning 2.0 within organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Well I don't know about must , but they certainly ... 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 ...

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 ... education or training that's appropriate for your role. The sources for this will vary enormously from country to country.

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 ... challenging is that as we look at eLearning 1.3 and 2.0, we change roles from direct content creation and control of delivery to a set-up, aggregator, guidance role. We also take responsibility for helping people "learn how to learn." (Of course ... Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... can provide an infrastructure which will support bottom-up learning. The question then arises (and this may be the 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 been ... probably saw HR having the major role here, because managers could not always be trusted to act objectively when it ...

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 ... coding ( w3schools is good) Visit the Learning Circuits blog and find others’ suggestions on this question ... vendors with a sea of questions. tried everything subscribed to periodicals, email lists, listserv, read blogs. Had ... about systems through Brandon Hall KnowledgeBase (this big implementation was the point in time where I knew I would ...

... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... 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 ... the conversation by forcing you into a question you didn't want to ask. There were many posts that did challenge ...

... by asking this question: "What is the role of learning theories and instructional designing principles? And what is the role of technology in online learning? What are the interrelationships of learning theories, instructional design and technology?" Hey! That sounds like one of the BIG QUESTIONS! at Learning Circuits I would encourage the ...

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 ... ’re some new thoughts brewing, of course, and maybe that’ll play a role in my predictions for next year.  But that’s another month’s big question.

Dave Lee just posted on LCB - I'm a little verklempt! - where he points out that this month's big question - March Big Question: Supporting New Managers? - didn't get as many posts as in the past few months. He wonders what's the cause ... on these, feel free to contribute to: March Big Question: Supporting New Managers? ... question was not of interest. Wow, this is a surprise to me. This question really spawns from what I thought was a great question at a session with Harold and Jay Cross. Someone asked how informal learning might apply to new managers.

Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is: What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer ... Posts So Far: Karyn Romeis (Karyn's erratic learning journey) - The Big Question for March: Scope of Learning Responsibility Clive Shepherd - The big question: What is the scope of our respons... Note: Both Karyn and Clive have ... all non-referred research questionable? Karl and I feel this is an important question for all of us to think ...

Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is: What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer ... Posts So Far: Karyn Romeis (Karyn's erratic learning journey) - The Big Question for March: Scope of Learning Responsibility Clive Shepherd - The big question: What is the scope of our respons... Note: Both Karyn and Clive have ... all non-referred research questionable? Karl and I feel this is an important question for all of us to think ...

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 ... be the driver for the organization. Learning plays a supporting role, not the lead. That’s not the way the ...

Interesting blog discussion going on that relates back to LCB's November Big Question (you can find my earlier summation ). Part of the discussion is Where Will the Change Come From? and reading the comments on the post: If You Believe It's Broken - How Do You Change Our Industry/Models/etc? is interesting. As is Tom's post: Providing a change model . But, Tom is way off when he says: I found that software developers have a change model in mind for the widespread ... say about the possible role of academia, I still feel like we shouldn't expect academia to lead the charge until we ...

... the majority of potential users. It's easy to implement, requiring just a line of HTML code on a page. The big questions ... ideas, opinions, experiences, and anecdotes or sometimes even to question, reason or debate." I was interested to see a ... compare views with colleagues. The fact that it works asynchronously suits it's role in self-paced learning. FlockPod ...

The Learning Circuits Blog: November's The Big Question Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in the future? I really hate to say this, but I often see a huge gap between what we design and what happens in the classroom ... answer their question NOW than wait 30 minutes. In some ways, eLearning makes it easier to enforce these models on the delivery end. The next question is....do we want to? The longer I work, the more I realize that the old roles of "Trainer ... our students. Harold Jarche eloquently observed in his response to the Big Question: Training often worked before, ...

The November LCB Big Question was "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to ... irrelevant. The models listed in this month's Big Question were designed for a type of training that was relevant for the ... crux of the question as Mark Oehlert from e-Clippings put it: If the question of whether or not your job is relevant ... general consensus that as Jay Cross put it : This is the wrong question. And as Russ Crumley put it : we've already answered that. So, again, Dave Lee and I are continuing our consistency in asking bad questions. Also as ...

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 ... technology if they’re determined they don’t need to learn anything anymore. Until they accept their role as ...

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 ... opportunities to create front-end tools? I am a big believer in the ability of web sites to provide simple forms that a ... things because they still have the great potential to make a big difference for learners. Find Lots of Examples of ... LMS? Does a Learner WANT an LMS? I somewhat got this wrong as the big LMS vendors seem to now refer to themselves in ... that if the picture is a loosely coupled collection of tools, then what's the role of a central piece of ...

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 ... one who is excited about whats happening here. 5. Demos One of the reasons for my recent Big Question - Examples of ... different things might it be would be exactly the right question. I love your idea of the Big Question live. But Im not sure ... problems. Certainly a big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a ...

Value from LinkedIn Big Question is Back Semantic Web Applications - Mundane or ... workforce. Another question, how is it possible that there can be a successful business model around tools you can get ... downplaying of Firefly on the Mzinga site. Based on Tonys post and other users I have talked too, I have to question the ... or similar roles. Yes, our CEO went back to being Chairman of the Board, but he was in an interim role as the CEO anyway ... Exchange which we OEMd to some big enterprise players. In 2000, we added NLQ capability to this. Unfortunately, we ...