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 ... learning when I taught a class this summer using blogs, wikis, YouTube and other tools that required the students to create ... 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 ... . As much as I hate to admit it, I learned a lot from that class. We used tools like Diigo, wikis, Google Docs, ...

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 ... 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 after ... content that learners can contribute towards I'd use a wiki; for a 3D learning world I'd use Caspian's Thinking ...

After returning from a nice, long Christmas/New Year vacation, I've been playing catch-up on emails and blogs (thank goodness for Google Reader ). One of the interesting posts was Tony Karrer's "Big Question" for January . The question is "What are your predictions for Learning in 2008?" Back in October, I did a short post on the numerous amount of claims, predictions, and trends (usually displayed as a Top 10 list). I indicated in the post back in October (and the ... will add Y; a Wiki will result in Z; etc.). This will be the number one hurdle that informal learning technologies ...

... 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 will be remembered as the year of The Learning Triad:  blogs, wikis, and RSS.  Since starting the Corporate ... admired for years. Many new and simple feed readers became available for loading my RSS feeds , and open source wikis ...

... 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 ... 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 ...

... 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 ... 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 development tools, LCMS, simulation development tools, HTML editors, Wikis, and many others including a vast array of media ...

... 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 ... 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 development tools, LCMS, simulation development tools, HTML editors, Wikis, and many others including a vast array of media ...

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 see what kinds of responses come out around this topic. Theres really a lot at stake in this question in that it goes far ...   0 comments links to April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Permalink: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Bookmark this page ...

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 ... theory is interesting, but the real test is whether you practise it. Perhaps start as a passive consumer of blogs, wikis ... 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 ...

... 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 ... on a blog or a wiki without the corresponding audio track. Or, you can use the motion aspects of technology ...

The Learning Circuits big question for January asks "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Well, there's an assumption underlying this and I'm questioning it. Who says e-learning materials that take a long time to produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective? There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget ... collaboratively with their peers using forums, blogs, wikis or chat facilities. Much quicker and much more likely ...

... 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 different types of "e-learning." Traditional Here is some learning sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency. It ... called Web 2.0: Wikis Explained . I consider both the entry and the video as a learning package. Podcast I consider ...

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... , such as social networking software, wikis, blogs, search facilities, RSS, forums, rapid development tools, etc., we 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 ...

Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out ... learning) by my friend Mike Qaissaunee called Web 2.0: Wikis Explained . I consider both the entry and the video as a ... Game Resources Wiki Glossary for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning Recommended Books Training Blogs (collection of many training-related blogs) MSIT Second Life Wiki Industry Web Sites ...

Posts on topics related to Corporate Training: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Hot Topics in Training - A Crude (but mildly interesting) Analysis Open Source Business Model for Corporate Training Will Blogs, Wikis, RSS, Mashups be Used in Corporate Training ? Blog Topics vs. Hot Topics in Training - The ...

... learningcircuitblog.pbwiki.co m/bigquestions and the list is now 112 questions long. Since I'm not tracking comments this month for The Big Question, I thought I'd do something that I hope will be valuable. I've aggregated all of the questions that have been proposed in the participating blogs. You can find the list, which at the moment stands at 102 questions, on the LCB Discussion Wiki on the Big Questions page. On the wiki page I describe a few things that I needed to make educated guesses at. If you don't care for how I've presented your question(s), please feel free ...

... curious if people have thoughts on whether this model might be an interesting alternative to the LCB Big Question ? ... article every other week on a particular topic - in this case Open Source. Each post will have comments, questions, etc. from readers. They have a Wiki ( "Impact of Open Source Software on Education" series, visit WikiEducator ) that ...

Cammy Bean helped spark and work through the February 2008 Big Question with me . Instructional Design - If ... Designers - Don't Miss the Comments Tony Karrer's Big Question Summary - Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional ... - and I agree - is that ID is widely varied. But with that variety comes a big question of the value of ID as compared ... include the Big Question logo. In your comment, provide an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste. In other ... discussions Jay Cross - My two cents . Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional ...

Cammy Bean helped spark and work through the February 2008 Big Question with me . Instructional Design - If ... Designers - Don't Miss the Comments Tony Karrer's Big Question Summary - Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional ... - and I agree - is that ID is widely varied. But with that variety comes a big question of the value of ID as compared ... include the Big Question logo. In your comment, provide an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste. In other ... discussions Jay Cross - My two cents . Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm ... were they easy to use. It's all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ... the use of RoboInfo or other similar programs for reference materials. Wikis are way better even if the end-users don't ... memory of 2006 comes from a comment made during a panel that I was moderating on eLearning 2.0. We had discussed Wikis ... wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better. Social networks through my blog ...

On this month's Big Question - Lead the Charge - we are already seeing some interesting responses. The Learning Revolution: Where have all the leaders gone? It's difficult to not agree with everything that's in Tony's post an my ... apply them to your existing systematic learning system if you don't know what the heck wiki even means? So, yes ... tools and what you should know as: Wikis : How to edit, how to read, how to link to RSS Feeds : What are they, how do ... will find ways to learn the tools. Nobody cared about wikis until wikipedia came along. Nobody cared about RSS ...

The big question for March 2008 is - Scope of Learning Responsibility? Karl Kapp helped me pull this question together and it's been interesting to see the responses so far. I wanted to capture some thoughts as I've been reading these posts so far. First, my earlier posts Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis and Long Tail Learning ... Big Question for March: Scope of Learning Responsibility suggestions: I would suggest building solutions which include ... wiki - although it sometimes doesn't to let the audience know that that's what it is!) The content of these spaces ...

ASTD's Big Question this month (March) is actually two questions and since I helped Tony Karrer tweak the question a bit, I feel I must offer some type of answer (plus I aways enjoy the discussion around the Big Question.) So, here is the big question for this month: Do educational institutions and corporate learning & development departments ... research questionable? I think corporate learning departments need to go through the same evolutionary process that the ... others to create instruction in a wiki, blog or PowerPoint when needed. Learning and development professionals must ...

... first read the question....hence my initial tactic..... Storytelling In my response to the Big Question , I told a ... all that on a resource wiki or site. Stealth Ultimately, whether any of this works is dependent upon the culture ...

... contribute to ASTD's Learning Circuits Monthly Big Question. You can find this on the Learning Circuit's Blog ... October 2006 on the question - " Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging ?" You can find a somewhat tongue-in-cheek ... organization. IBM, well-known for fostering blogs and Wikis, has established guidelines that provide a good model: http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html Common Questions and Issues around Blogging There are a few questions that commonly come up around blogging: What should I write about? The best advice here is to ...

Moodle in Corporations April Big Question - Content Vendor Value ... Authoring Tools Several questions came up recently around Authoring Tools and I wanted to point people to some past ... Tools Satisfaction Use of Wikis as Compared to Authoring Tools Rapid Authoring Tools Shift in Authoring ...

George Siemens asked a really really big question. Does education need to change? This question will, hopefully ... management. - Providing processing tools for knowledge creation / management. This is where I am seeing wikis and blogs ... answer the procedural questions that I am not in the position to answer. Most of the questions that occur during ... implementing a wiki for the cohorts. I'm still researching how best to implement and administer this. We've had some success ... are people having problems with the application currently? What are the most frequently asked questions? What ...

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Here are my predictions, but realistically they ... , PPT + Audio tools will do well with none winning huge shares of the marketplace. Wiki + SCORM + Add-ins will become more ... community and wiki capabilities. Unfortunately, these will be even worse than Sharepoint, the solution you already ... - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions weren't focused. We need a targeted discussion. For ... . Prediction #10 => Knowledge Worker Skills - Just Beginning in 2008, Big in 2009 The discussion of knowledge work skills ...

... by FeedBlitz Recent Posts on eLearning Technology April Big Question - Content ... new e-learning technologies in Boston, which was good and made me think. Someone asked the question about how to bring wikis, blogs and RSS etc., together. Doesnt Moodle provide a good way of bringing lots of e-learning 2.0 stuff together ... Wins in Knowledge Management eLearning Tools - Wikis, Blogs and More ...