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 ... question for free, offer to help for a fee, or refer you to another person. If they referred you to another person, ...

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 ... behavior between groups.  I think this sort of background helps me understand how social media can be used to build ...

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 ... themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organizations? And then shouldn't the learning organization become a ... ? Great question. Totally unfair but great question. Why unfair? Let's look at Tony's background - a top engineeer, ...

The Learning Circuit Blog’s Big Question for November is all about Network Feedback, specifically if you need ... get help ahead of time? Are there places you can go if you are relatively new and needing to ask questions? At EMC ... information you need, when you need it. He posed the following questions: Where to go in what cases? What works and ... called the benefits help line, but they were not a lot of help (they have to stay on script, I understand that, but special cases can’t be handled by a script). So I posed the question on EMC ONE and in Yammer. I was hoping ...

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 ... your "To Learn List" look like? Holding myself back, I will calmly answer the question as per Tony's request to not ... the same as having the actual software, it can provide some help. And if you are using the software with the book, ...

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 ... written on envelopes, the back of other pieces of paper and in the margins of books...help. How does a to-learn ...

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 ... help them learn. Good instructional strategies are still good instructional strategies but we need to be more creative ...

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 ...

... 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 ... informal. Is it true that we are CHOOSING not to help these good folks because of semantics? If so, come on people! WAKE UP! If not, lets face our fears now and get on with our job of helping develop talent that drives ...

... yet related. I've recieved a lot of feedback possitive and negative regarding my response to the February BIG QUESTION . BTW - I love the feedback...good and bad...it helps me clarify my thinking. But to my point...I think Marketing ... great next 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: ...

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 ...

The February Big Question goes to the root of what The Big Question is all about. It is a topic that has bothered ... , you could easily see great questions getting raised by both the presenters and the audience. "How can I help my ... month, The Big Question is... What Questions Should We Be Asking? Please answer this question by posting to your ... Blogs: The form for February's Big Question has been closed. If you have a post in response to the February Big ... . Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The big question for February: what questions should we be asking? Tony ...

... month's big question - a few days late. This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay ... needed to consider, and how to balance what approaches were taken. So, this month, The Big Question is... What ... New Managers Up to Speed Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog March's Big Question: What would you do to support new managers ... Connections Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning Clark Quinn Learnlets LCBlog's big question of the ... to help people transition into management roles throughout the organization (customer service, sales, operations, ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us using ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the ... . We have created a del.icio.us tag for The Big Question. Please feel free to bookmark your participating post, your comment rss for your post, other web-based resources you feel relate to the June 2007 Big Question to del.icio.us ... This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best ...

... choices. So, this month, The Big Question is... Choosing Tools? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points ... ASTD Big Question for July Janet Clarey Janet Clarey, Brandon Hall Research Choosing Tools Quintus Joubert ...

... choices. So, this month, The Big Question is... Choosing Tools? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points ... ASTD Big Question for July Janet Clarey Janet Clarey, Brandon Hall Research Choosing Tools Quintus Joubert ...

The Big Question on the LCB for January is: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? There's a lot involved in this question and I plan to revisit it several times during the month. I'm hoping to see some contributions that will help thinking. Let me start with some important words of wisdom ... would have a different cost and effect on performance. So, the real challenge posed by the Big Question is knowing ... simpler that we know won't be as effective at improving performance. And this isn't a theoretical question - it's ...

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 ... makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added value ... district manager. Helped them remember needed steps and track progress. Prompted the district manager's ...

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 ... appropriate to the organisation, and this is open to question when you're looking beyond knowledge workers. Assuming it ... , someone else from another business function will step in. Q: Shouldn't they be starting with themselves and helping to ... process risk becoming ever more peripheral to the big issues, as the emphasis on formal learning interventions ...

We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... . If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark Quinn Kapp Notes: ASTD's Big Question for December: New Learning How to leverage a Network: What I Learned in ...

We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ... The Big Question for December is: What did ... . If you post on a blog, please include a link to this post. Ideally, you would also include the Big Question logo ... The big question: what did you learn about learning in 2007? René Meijer - The Echo of Teaching Clark Quinn Kapp Notes: ASTD's Big Question for December: New Learning How to leverage a Network: What I Learned in ...

This month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? - Dave Lee just told us that there are 102 Questions ... that I wanted to discuss with people at the next conference or in the next big question. See things that people really were finding as a challenge. Instead, I feel like I'm seeing a lot of philosophical, big, narly questions that I have no ... reached full depression, I went back and re-read the questions that were the genesis: "How can I help my organization ... future Big Question. I'd likely get lots of great ideas and discussion. And the discussion is not just theoretical ...

... question that hopefully can produce something of value. The Big Question is... Where are the Examples of eLearning? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to ... 09-Jun-2007 08:34:26 Karl M. Kapp Kapp Notes Show Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for June 07-Jun-2007 14:41:56 ... is a "good example"? 13-Jun-2007 00:00:00 Adele Lim learning & development LCB Big Q for June: Eg of ...

... question that hopefully can produce something of value. The Big Question is... Where are the Examples of eLearning? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to ... 09-Jun-2007 08:34:26 Karl M. Kapp Kapp Notes Show Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for June 07-Jun-2007 14:41:56 ... is a "good example"? 13-Jun-2007 00:00:00 Adele Lim learning & development LCB Big Q for June: Eg of ...

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 ... - and that got me thinking. While I agree wholeheartedly with Tom's sentiments, I couldn't help feeling that we were ... typically such a big business issue?) insufficient demand for change from employers to force it to happen at any pace.

November's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog has been posted. The question this month is: Are ISD ... one of the most important questions facing us today. If you look at the shift between eLearning 1.0, 1.3 and 2.0 - and ... a set-up, aggregator, guidance role. We also take responsibility for helping people "learn how to learn." (Of course, it would be helpful if we all first became experts in learning how to learn ourselves - see Do Learning Professionals Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, ...

... services groups inside organizations. So, this month, The Big Question is... ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help ... now? Participating Blogs: The Big Question for April has been closed. If you'd still like to submit your post to the April Big Question, please contact the Blogmeister by using the Dear Blogmeister form found at the link at the top ... The FPG Notepad April's Big Question Claudia ...