I was very excited to find that my "Opportunity Knocks" question from 10/14/08 (see below) was the basis for The Big Question for November on Network Feedback on the Learning Circuits Blog? Thanks for the mention, Tony! I'll be watching the replies to this month's question very closely.

The January Big Question is Quality vs. Speed. Sometimes its best to come to the party late because then I can ... everyone is right. Or at least right about the part of the question that is part of their reality. The part that truly ... the theories we cling too. When I have a learning need (aka. have a question) and I IM a friend who IMs an answer that ... designers required. So that's the small stuff. What about the big stuff like, "I want to be a fireman." I don't want to sit ... point: It's an old question trying to answer old problems applying new tools to old systems. Nobody cares how long ...

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2007? I learn so much all the time from students, clients and colleagues, it is hard to narrow it down to just one or two things, but I'll try. Here are a 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 digital asset can travel if people find it has value.One of my student's YouTube videos Educational Uses of Second Life ... distribute content that is open and accessible to as many learners as possible. Look forward to next month's question ...

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? Resources you should read? Videos/screencasts you should watch? What would your To Learn List look like? I’m a current grad student in the Instructional Systems program at Florida State University . I can’t bash my program, because it’s great. I also create E-Learning as a technical course developer at EMC . My list will ...

... the party? That's the question I want answers too. (My apologies to Ruth Clark for this. I am a big fan and highly ... What Questions Should We Be Asking? Well...here we go again! Everybody says all of the really great things before I get a chance to, so all I'm left with is "yeah, go look at what these cool people said". Check out Mr. Oehlert's unique perspective and you'll also get links to the other smart people. Me? Well, I think the biggest question is ... learning...how it should be done...who should create it...and how should others consume it? Maybe the question is "Do ...

First, can Tony Karrer make me feel any more like I don't do enough? Geez. His blog wins an EduBlog award last year and so what does he do? Starts another really good at Work Literacy . Thanks a lot Tony. ;-) But seriously.... This month's Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog asks, given the advent of all the 2.0 stuff: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? Shouldn't they be starting with ... ? Great question. Totally unfair but great question. Why unfair? Let's look at Tony's background - a top engineeer, ...

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 the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ...

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 always had the last flap inside out. Instead of the nice map cover, I had an obscure piece of Pennsylvania highway ...

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 ... resolution in EMC ONE, because I would imagine this question will come up again. Here are my answers to some of ...

What Would You Do to Support New Managers? I was just reminded of the big question while cruising reader.google.com ...my RSS reader of choice these days. Our fearless uber-learning-blogger Tony Karrer points out Dave Lee's concern that there hasn't been much discussion about this month's question. So, I'll add some fuel for thought! I'm not sure I totally understand the question. It looks like some of us are answering the question by discussing how much training we give to management/leadership programs and, as a trainig department, how we support the middle manager ...

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 the list. One way is what I call "wandering." Using that technique, I will open up a piece of software or google a ...

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 ... designed for these digital natives. Thanks to Tony for the question. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games ...

Maybe it's the stress I'm suffering - but I can only look at what I need right now.... For an ILT or content provider to be worthwhile to me - they need to be able to do the following: - Give me case studies. The good content folks listen to their customers and figure out how their customers have adapted their content to their purposes. Then they share..... - Help me with the implementation process. Implementation is ugly. And it's not all about training. They need to be around for the support weeks. The weeks where we are all being bombarded by phone calls from people wondering ...

To answer the question at ASTD's Learning Circuits Blog , I am going to try to stick to Tony's initial thought of specific questions and dive very deep into the technique I use when consulting for a needs assessment or evaluation. I use a technique I call the 360 Needs Assessment. This process involves asking questions at several levels within an ... minority opinion. So, I first ask questions of the stakeholders: Why do you think this is a problem? Have you every tried to ... stakeholders (usually management) know what is going on in the trenches (hint, they rarely do).I use similar questions but ...

... meme is prompting me to write about this month's big question. A few days ago I was asked to put in my .02 on the age ... this month's Big Question . Finally, today I was on a call with Andrew Paradise from ASTD Research today as they are ... RESPONSIBILITY for informal learning. In another Big Question rant I have already discussed how the status-quo for ... provides them with something. How does our profession respond to these teachable moments? Trick question or sad answer: We ... is precisely what the client hears from us at their most acute moment of need. A big fat NOTHING . The sound of ...

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 - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about 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 ...

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 - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about 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 ...

... yet related. I've recieved a lot of feedback possitive and negative regarding my response to the February BIG QUESTION ... great next BIG QUESTION.

Just a quick FYI that due to my vacation, I will not be holding a Big Question in August. See you back in Sept.

Just a quick FYI that due to my vacation, I will not be holding a Big Question in August. See you back in Sept.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that because of lack of time during August, I'll not be posting a Big Question for August. See you again in September. As always, if you have thoughts around the big question, feel free to leave a comment here or send me an email (akarrer [at] techempower [dot] com).

Just a quick note to let everyone know that because of lack of time during August, I'll not be posting a Big Question for August. See you again in September. As always, if you have thoughts around the big question, feel free to leave a comment here or send me an email (akarrer [at] techempower [dot] com).

I just wanted to alert folks that Learning Circuit's Big Question has been revived. We've lost Dave Lee's forms, but we are going back to the old manual approach. I hope you'll join the party and submit your thoughts on the question: The Big Question for December is: What did you learn about learning in 2007? If you are new to blogging, this is a great way to get your blog noticed.

PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. So, this month, The Big Question ... ? Claudia Escribano LifeLongLearningLab A Big Question on PowerPoint 30-May-2007 20:58:36 Tom Crawford ... ! 16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... Keith Peter bodmas.org PowerPoint Big Question 12-May-2007 02:59:43 Jacob McNulty Revolutions What's the ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question ...

PowerPoint, how to use it appropriately, when it makes sense or when it doesn't and why. So, this month, The Big Question ... ? Claudia Escribano LifeLongLearningLab A Big Question on PowerPoint 30-May-2007 20:58:36 Tom Crawford ... ! 16-May-2007 00:00:00 LCB Learning Circuits Blog Big Question - PowerPoint 14-May-2007 09:44:15 Jim MacLennan ... Keith Peter bodmas.org PowerPoint Big Question 12-May-2007 02:59:43 Jacob McNulty Revolutions What's the ... PowerPoint: The Tool People Love to Hate 11-May-2007 03:31:14 Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The Big Question: ...

Some great posts are already out there around the Big Question for January: Quality vs. Speed . You can find them listed in the post. One thing that is definitely clear from the posts so far is that there seems to be a really difference of opinion around: While you may be able to reduce development time via rapid tools, can you speed up analysis and design and still maintain quality? Does iteration work? When? If we didn't have constraints on time/cost, would we ... must go down? There also are quite a few questions that the responses raise in my mind that I'm still grappling ...

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 some of the projects I'm involved in do include an Analysis and Evaluation, there are other times where customers ...

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 bringing up the last department on the Electronic Medical Record. 5 years of paper to computer conversions in 2 different institutions comes to a close. Not a moment too soon..... 2) Bribing my boss into letting me attend eLearning 2006 and NOT another health care vendor conference. As a result, I managed to escape my isolation from the eLearning ...

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 know a few key people, you can pretty much cover the community (I've appreciated getting to know Tony, Mark, Karl, etc ... asked the question, "Who reads the instruction manual before playing a game", and one person (out of ~100) actually ...