Some interesting discussions are going on in the Big Question for February The Learning Circuits Blog: Instructional ... is a blended solution that involves various touch points including activities for managers, posters and a series of small (15 minutes or less) eLearning pieces that focus on reminding, reinforcing and on likely bad habits. Content around ... eLearning I think careful planning is required, especially for self-paced courses. For classroom training, and maybe ... really horrible safety training eLearning in the world today.

Learning?This really relates to the questions being discussed in this month's Big Question (Instructional Design - If? When ... I don't remember what I was reading, but the post/article differentiated learning as what the learner does and training as what we do to the person - and hopefully they learn.What's interesting is that eLearning has become pretty much ... responsible for our learning,where learning and work are often not separate activities,where there's just too much for ... going with these thoughts, but it really struck me that confusing eLearning with Online Training is problematic.

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008. Here are my predictions, but realistically they are more about trends in eLearning and eLearning Software.Prediction #1 => eLearning 2.0 - Increasing PressureIt's safe to predict that you'll be hearing more and more about eLearning 2.0 during 2008. While large scale adoption will be slow ... put together wasn't quite right - still a lecture - threaded discussions weren't quite active enough and the questions ... us to understand eLearning 2.0 for ourselves in order to apply it within our organizations (eLearning 2.0 - An ...

... question - "Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?â¬ý You can find a somewhat tongue-in-cheek summary - Top ... can be found at: http://www.articulate.com/blog/the-19-best-elearning-blogs/ http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2007/02/top-ten-elearning-blogs.html Then you will want to sign up on a blogging system such as Blogger, and begin to ... leave comments on their blog. Another way to get connected is to contribute to ASTD's Learning Circuits Monthly Big Question. You can find this on the Learning Circuit's Blog. Once you are comfortable with blogging, you can ...

... of the reasons for my recent Big Question - Examples of eLearning? was that it is often hard to see demonstrations of ... think that doing this similar to an unconference style or doing it around The Big Question type topics where we get to ... someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big questions and also identify topics they would want to discuss ... big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a conference, but are much less ... Professional Conference Attendee, Conference Preparation and Better Questions for Learning Professionals may be ...

As November's Big Question, Learning Circuits asks Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?Well, I always thought ISD and ADDIE (never heard of HPT) were pretty much common sense. Pretty much any logical model for any activity consists of a bit of digging around to find out what's needed (analysis) and then some form of plan-do-review cycle. We need to be reminded of this discipline to avoid jumping to solutions, without having a proper understanding of the problem. However take this too much to heart and you'll end ...

... a second...Separately, Dave Lee (The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net) has provided a couple of ... going through and creating my lists (eLearning Technology: Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog), I personally ... 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 Attendee (at eLearningGuild's DevLearn).