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 prediction remains for 2008) that the number one trend will be an emphasis on performance improvement. We've ...

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 ... . Including configuration and planning. Training time provided: 2 weeks. I hate this trend towards speed with "training" ...

... 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 ... to learn new tools constantly? Can they stick with a few tools? Will this trend continue? If so, then what does ...

... 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 ... to learn new tools constantly? Can they stick with a few tools? Will this trend continue? If so, then what does ...

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 ...   0 comments links to April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Permalink: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Bookmark this page at ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal ...

... 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 ... ? Will this trend continue? If so, then what does that imply for us? So, once again, I noted that good design is independent ... that point, the next question is "Can certain attributes of different media be leverage for learning?" For example, ...

Over on LCB , The Big Question for October has been posted: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? This is an interesting question and it's quite timely given recent occurrences. Brandon Hall Closes Free Yahoo Discussion ... to the LCB Big Question. Post a challenge you are facing. If you don't find value, then let me know - because I will be ... Nonstop Hours on a Single Course? Learn Me Happy - Example post - A really worrying trend.... and of course, Corporate eLearning Development - Example - Is Your eLearning Broken? Okay, so to me this is a timely question, but ...

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 because I felt it didn't really affect me too much, but then I read Tom Haskin's wonderful response - Leave a clean corpse ... typically such a big business issue?) insufficient demand for change from employers to force it to happen at any pace.

In addressing this month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog , I was tempted by an observation made by Stephen Downes in his review of last year's eLearn Magazine predictions : ... there are two major types of predictions: one, which identifies a current trend, and says it will continue; and the other, that identifies something novel or unexpected. It seems clear that the former predictions are easy and safe and not especially useful. The latter, while not as safe, were much more useful to people. Guarded because, like Oscar Wilde, I know I can resist ...

Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. I know ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question. :) Learning Trends 2008 - Online - Free ...

... month's Big Question - Network Feedback and in Getting Help . So, I'm hoping that folks can recommend what I should ... per quarter? Oh, and if you know someone who might be a good fit, please let me know. Learning Trends 2008 - ...

An interesting conversation is starting around this month's big question - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should ... - it's all of us. It's a question of what will be happening. Take a look at George Siemens post - Is Print Dying? from a day or so ago and not in any way part of the Big Question. Among other things he says: The challenges of media are ... I have pictured ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors as obsolete, the question remains how long their customers will pretend ... gaps. Even Valerie in her defense seems to acknowledge that the trend is towards alternatives to courses and ...

Posts of 2007. And of course LearningCircuits Big Question: What did you learn about learning in 2007? There are ... favorite comes from Marcel de Leeuwe at Powerlearning who created a pecha Kucha to answer the big question. I believe ... ". Lots of ideas are buzzing in my head for this stuff. 2) Pecha Kucha - very cool. Maybe just a trend but a ...

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 ... responding to trends, it shapes and leads them. Market and industry shifts are a chance to move ahead of the ...

An interesting conversation is starting around this months big question - ILT and Off-the ... - Is Print Dying? from a day or so ago and not in any way part of the Big Question. Among other things he says: The ... April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Corporate eLearning Learning ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... a clean corpse Now that I have pictured ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors as obsolete, the question remains how ...

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 ... determine if a machine was running in tolerance or trending toward non-tolerance. They didn't hold a product up to the ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Network Feedback . You might want to take a look at the question by way of background. The basic question is how do you reach out into the vast network of people ... Media to Find Answers to Questions How to Learn through Conversation Karyn Romeis has an interesting model. She ... place to get help. I think that's part of the question. We know of several and may have different levels of experience ... of asking a question and seeking advice from several different channels simultaneously is so minimal that it no ...

... locating your friends and now proximity dating.    One of the big questions is who will dominate location ... This one's a recent article by Ross Dawson about trends in location-based mobile social networking.  Included, too, is a link to an excellent TechCrunch summary on the state of location-based social networking apps on the iPhone. If you're not familiar with the concept, think: your cell phone with a google map showing where all your friends ... about yourself and your interests on a related online service. Highlights from Dawson's article about trends ...

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 2007.... So I first went back to what I wrote about last year: Some of the more specific memories from 2006: I ... 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 ...

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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 ... I think newbies to e-learning should focus on: history, trends, and direction (history, evolution, impact of ... 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.

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 Pressure It's ... - 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 is going to be BIG ... We won't hear much this year, but in 2009, this will be something you'll hear in a big way.

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Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... questions. The screencast then shows how I would go about formulating a request for help through an ...

... placing that content on four different screens of intense text followed by a multiple choice question. Additionally, the goal of instructional design (and this part addresses ASTD's January Big Question ) is to change behavior or attitude ... projects for hundreds of organizations big and small. I have to say that in my extremely biased opinion...a degree is not ... understanding the underlying theories, developments and ongoing research trends is not believable to me. I've seen too much ...

... guidance result ... The Big Question: to-learn list CCK08 and data overload calmness Ted talk: Sugata Mitra on ... Stephen Downes blog Steve Warburton blog Sue Waters blog Tony Karrer blog Trends in living ...

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 ... have been interesting again, but I'm not sure if that trend will continue. In the meantime, I'm spending more time blogging ... 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 ...

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 ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... - threaded discussions werent quite active enough and the questions werent 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 ...