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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ... how Google is our biggest competitor. This is because Google is often the only lifeline that these good folks have when the work environment surfaces a deficiency in their ability to add value or get their job done. At least Google ...

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 ... asked the question, "Who reads the instruction manual before playing a game", and one person (out of ~100) actually raised his hand...Mark and I both were shocked that even one person raised their hand). Another good example is using Google ...

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 ...

... 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 ... '05, but '06 was when I discovered that people were actually reading it thanks to technorati and Google analytics ... . Perhaps the Google and Yahoo shopping sprees, and of course the Blackboard thingy , make the cut in my book.  ...

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 ...

... month's Big Question from LCB - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? I'll be curious to see what kinds of responses come out around this topic. There's really a lot at stake in this question in that it goes far beyond the question. The reality is that all providers of content are competing in a flat world, with easy access to virtually ... compete with each person's ability to find information via a Google search or through access to a service like Safari (which makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added ...

Google Analytics Thursday, June 07, 2007 Show Me the 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 ... Reminder: Upcoming Webinar Questions about Second Life Who is in Charge? Meeting the Guys from Unity 3D ... ... Your Help is Needed in Atlantis Google Announces "Chrome" Another ...

... technology?" Hey! That sounds like one of the BIG QUESTIONS! at Learning Circuits I would encourage the many ... I discovered this post via Google Alerts that I have set up for "learning design". ( If you don't use Google Alerts...you should. Basically setup a term or phrase and everytime anyone on the internet posts something with that word or term then you get an email "alert". ) Shelly is a Graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and in her words ... by asking this question: "What is the role of learning theories and instructional designing principles? And what is ...

... and How Much? - The Learning Circuits Blog The Big Question - For a given project, how do you determine if, when and ... Note: this article came out before the big annoucement , however, it would make an excellent case study. By many ... those "big company" controls had a downside: they caused people to think about how to protect their own turf and put ... don't really seem to understand what they want to do with these devices. The Google Enigma - strategy+business Is its approach to management and innovation a cause of its success or a product of its success? Google is starting ...

... the past two years. We'll be back up and running with March's Big Question - "Do you really exist if Google says you don't?" as soon as we can. Dave Lee your exasperated blogmeister As the person who originated idea of The Big Question - I ... . I'm not sure what we are going to do with this month's big question. We'll likely wait a few days and see if Google ... Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been ... , because The Big Question has been such a great success resulting in a large number of links to and from LCB we are ...

... during May (see the Learning Circuits blog Big Question for May), but this video proves points rather than proposing them. ... I was on Tony Karrer's blog watching a video of David Weinberger's talk at Google on the subject of his book Everything is Miscellaneous . Now not only is this a really great talk on a really interesting subject (see Donald Clark's posting on the book - his recommendation is READ this NOW), but it's also a near perfect example of how to use PowerPoint . Just about every concept is enhanced by the slides and, although there's plenty of them, you just can't imagine ...

February 18, 2007 The Numbers Behind Informal & Formal Learning - The Learning Circuits Blog We are using the government's term of informal and formal learning -- if the money invested in learning falls under a training department's budget, it is counted as formal learning; if it falls only under payroll, then it is being counted as informal learning. The Big Question - Learning Matters The workplace is where learning happens. Furthermore, the work context ... don't know how. . . let me Google it real quick). Growing, changing, learning, creating - Harold Jarche ...

A few weeks ago, I posted a summary around the November LCB Big Question "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?": eLearning Technology: Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional Designers Some interesting thoughts in the comments. One thing that just struck me was a ... speakers was Matt Glotzbach, Head of Products at Google Enterprise. He made a really interesting point that with ready access ... organizations. Thus, much of the focus of Google Enterprise was to see what works in the consumer space and help bring it ...

A somewhat indirect response to the Big Question Lead the Charge? : The Learning Circuits Blog ------------------------------------------------------------------- I may be wrong about this - but isn't our primary goal to encourage behavior change? SMEs come to me because they need their employees to do something different. They want help accomplishing this. That's where folks like us come in. In the day-to-day, we still need to look at - Who is the audience and how ... (thanks folks!), Captivate, storyboarding techniques from my time at EdTech school, Google. If it proves to be ...

... publication. It has various authors and does a monthly Big Question that receives contributions from many different bloggers ... RSS reader, e.g., Bloglines or Google Reader and subscribe to each blog. I've provided links to each blogs feed and also buttons to quickly add it to Bloglines, My Yahoo or Google Reader. Also, if you feel I should have put other people in ... . Big Dog, Little Dog Great aggregated links to all sorts of interesting articles.

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... 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 ... , then you should first sign up with an RSS Reader such as Bloglines or Google Reader. Then subscribe to blogs. Two ... : 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 ...

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 short answer would be: yes they should, and the good ones already are. So, of course, I say, great post. :) There are some interesting thoughts in the post, but also Most learning professionals can only do so much. There's a vacuum of ... 6 and I've come across some that restrict javascript and all cookie. This makes using something like google docs ...

... 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 are at this moment.  It can also show people who--or things and locations that--match a profile you ...

... most recent LCB Big Question - Supporting New Managers? Some authors link to the original post, some don't. Some use ... I received some great questions from Christy Tucker in reference to my recent post Types of Blog Discussions I ... prior to that because I never remembered to go back and look. Having the comment threads in Google Reader with ... understand your readers better, as they say it will? And you know I love good questions ( Continuing Thoughts on Questions , What Questions Should We be Asking? , Better Questions for Learning Professionals )... So, thanks Christy.

Happy Holidays from Enspire Learning Things That Light Up My Life I'm a Gamer 3.0! The Big Question ... company offerings. A big explosion in the last 2 years. In the 90s there were one or two ways to do e-Learning: CDRoms ... activities + delivery of learning activities = Learning Experience Can go to a big restaurant and have lousy food ... into one creative work. On the web = hybrid -- take content from multiple sites and put them into one. example: Google ... to it. Move from page metaphor. "Browserless web" -- ala Google Earth -- full networked application -- like CD ...

... that the response to The Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be ... ... eLearning 2.0 Adoption - Early Adopters LCB's Big Question - Should All Learning ... question. I wonder who came up with such a lame question. Sheesh. But, letâ??s try to muddle through this anyhow. Oh, and ... over the place. â??all learning professionals need to exchange ideas with others, to test their ideas, to question their ... . I dont think Neomyz has the type of question tool wed need. But Im sure Ive seen something in the price range 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 ... RFID chip in it. Then I want a google mashup displayed prominantly on a big screen (and on mobile devices) ...

... blog posts related to the most recent LCB Big Question - Supporting New Managers? Some authors link to the original ... Technology I received some great questions from Christy Tucker in reference to my ... threads in Google Reader with everything else makes it much easier for me to keep track of. I still dont do enough ... MyBlogLog really does help you understand your readers better, as they say it will? And you know I love good questions ( Continuing Thoughts on Questions , What Questions Should We be Asking? , Better Questions for Learning ...