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 ...

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 ... learned first hand the exponential power of the social network of the web. My blog book tour was a huge success for me ... distribute content that is open and accessible to as many learners as possible. Look forward to next month's question ...

... the party? That's the question I want answers too. (My apologies to Ruth Clark for this. I am a big fan and highly ... What Questions Should We Be Asking? Well...here we go again! Everybody says all of the really great things ... . Oehlert's unique perspective and you'll also get links to the other smart people. Me? Well, I think the biggest question is ... learning...how it should be done...who should create it...and how should others consume it? Maybe the question is "Do we ... the anthropologists for social behavior...and see your local high schooler for text messaging tips...and ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and ... and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then ... social network for Learning Management System questions and, perhaps another, for a question about learning strategies or ... could be more efficient in finding answers. I think the question sort of misses the power of social networking and Web ... Web 2.0 and social networks, the cost of asking a question and seeking advice from several different ...

The Learning Circuit Blog’s Big Question for November is all about Network Feedback, specifically if you need ... information you need, when you need it. He posed the following questions: Where to go in what cases? What works and ... get help ahead of time? Are there places you can go if you are relatively new and needing to ask questions? At EMC, our official internal social media platform is called EMC ONE . It is for the most part product based, and the culture ... special cases can’t be handled by a script). So I posed the question on EMC ONE and in Yammer. I was hoping ...

... 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 ... , videocasting, Corporate YouTube, Tagging, folksonomies vs. taxonomies,  social networking, are a few of the ...

What are your predictions for 2007? 1.  Enterprise Learning2.0 :  With the coming of Vista and the inevitable LMS upgrades, corporations will begin to see, touch, and feel the collective power of RSS, tagging, social 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 ...

I thought that in honor of the success of the Big Question series, I would introduce my other favorite question and answer series; the question of the year from the World Question Center . This series is populated by the members of the Edge Foundation: "The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual,philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society." You think we're asking big questions, try some of the Edge's past entries like What Now ? or What Do You Believe ...

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 ... , social networks and the like, but edge forward by being someone who comments, responds, edits and otherwise joins in ... 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 ...

... 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 ... should give some attention. Val Evans Social Software Research Knowledge Sharing Case Studies 16-Jul-2007 13:25:50 Val Evans Social Software Research Teaching and Learning Case Studies 16-Jul-2007 13:20:36 e-Learning Tyro ...

... 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 ... should give some attention. Val Evans Social Software Research Knowledge Sharing Case Studies 16-Jul-2007 13:25:50 Val Evans Social Software Research Teaching and Learning Case Studies 16-Jul-2007 13:20:36 e-Learning Tyro ...

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 ... discussion groups and BH is starting an eventually paid social networking service. This sparked heated response from people who ... , Corporate eLearning Development - Example - Is Your eLearning Broken? Okay, so to me this is a timely question, but ...

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 ... Reminder: Upcoming Webinar Questions about Second Life Who is in Charge? Meeting the Guys from Unity 3D ... Thoughts on Innovation... List to Learn, Learn to List Games for Change Social Networking Not Corporate ... Thoughts on Innovation and Technology... Some Questions and Answers Not to Cause Trouble But...

Value from LinkedIn Big Question is Back Semantic Web Applications - Mundane or ... , 2007 Communities / Social Networking and LMS Merger : eLearning Technology ... of the eLearning simulation tool - Firefly) and Shared Insights - a community / business social networking software ... + community / social networking. Im not sure I quite get what that means yet. I wonder if mzinga does? The description ... relevant files in a shared file repository... He also pointed me to a Gartner quote: Enterprise social software ...

... 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 ... location-based social networking: The advent of next generation phones including the iPhone combined with people's familiarity and engagement with social networks means that the space is - finally - ready to take off.  ...

Needing help to Make Me Better is a common issue. April 2008's Big Question was What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional? I appreciated part of Karyn's answer - "How do you plan to achieve that?" Oh crud, I don't know. I think this is a common problem. We often define goals and then we struggle with the specific steps to help make me better. One of the beauties of blogging is that you can enlist the support of lots of other people who help you ... Conference Social Tool Participation Social Conference Tools - Expect Poor Results Blog Learning I have ...

... the majority of potential users. It's easy to implement, requiring just a line of HTML code on a page. The big questions ... I was interested to have a play with FlockPod , a new social interaction tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, the people who market Raptivity, the rapid e-learning tool. According to the blurb: "FlockPod is about adding social interaction to any web page to serve a dual purpose - facilitate social learning and augment the content itself! The central ... ideas, opinions, experiences, and anecdotes or sometimes even to question, reason or debate." I was interested to see ...

... at the level that helps us apply it. I would also suggest that each of these items suggest possible great questions for this month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? Just add "How can I/we ..." in front, so for ... , social tagging, content reuse strategies, etc. Improve people findability. Both expertise location applications and ... fantastic questions by looking at particular common audience segments, e.g., new managers, distribute sales force, ...

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 ... to apply social networks to improve organizational performance is a prerequisite for shaping learning and ...

... quickly become a favorite of mine. I love the 10min rule. But that's another post. My question to the e-Learning Development community is... How are we going to respond? Maybe this would make for a good BIG QUESTION ... the lecture when its convenient for them and discuss it perhaps on Facebook or some other social network setup for ...

... saved to any number of social bookmarking sites using the button provided in the sidebar. A Matter of Good Forms As a part of The Big Question , I've been trying out a few of the new database/forms tools. I took a look at all the ... . I've also used Zoho Creator to create a form for submission of possible future The Big Question questions and a ... services going belly up, and no more Comcast accidentally wiping out my FTP content. If you have a question that ...

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 to get help. A lot of my basic thoughts are captured in: How to reach out and find expertise How to use Social 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 ...

... blogs in eLearning? That's a big question. But I also think its the wrong question. I don't think we can push the use of ... Dennis McDonald has a great post about Using a Blog for a "Web2.0" Presentation instead of PowerPoint . I love his postscript: "I debated whether or not to use the term "Web 2.0," which has fallen out of favor among the cognoscenti. I decided to use it, though, simply because it has to an extent emerged into popular usage and it takes less space to type than the words "social networking and social media." Here is how I defined "web 2.0" for the group: The ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm ... Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and a wiki for it's main page worked out pretty well. And I'm sure it could be better. Social networks through my blog or ... - organizational adoption is going to lag: Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use. Companies are going to have a big ... me is that I personally find myself working on helping lots of organizations figure out how social media, ...

... organizations and workplace learning professionals. It is THE big question today. It represents a shift in ... LCB Question Bank Mark Oehlert - July's Big Question...Tony K and the "Learning Discipline" Kimberly McCollum: The ... I'm trying something a little different this month. I'm taking a bit more of a position in the question (maybe you ... opportunities. So, if we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning , etc ... figure out how knowledge workers can be helped to improve their skills to take advantage of things like social media ...

... learning organizations and workplace learning professionals. It is THE big question today. It represents a shift in ... - The LCB Question Bank Mark Oehlert - July's Big Question...Tony K and the "Learning Discipline" Kimberly ... I'm trying something a little different this month. I'm taking a bit more of a position in the question (maybe you ... opportunities. So, if we have responsibility for informal learning, social learning, eLearning 2.0 , long tail learning ... trying to figure out how knowledge workers can be helped to improve their skills to take advantage of things like social ...

... simply attack Bill. All that said, as a person who as a panel moderator, or the proctor of the Big Question, likes to ... of socialism and misconception that socialism is somehow not the answer (see Decomposting Socialism ). This is ...

This month's question comes out of part of the dialog that occur during the recent Work Literacy course . While discussing social networking for personal learning, the question came up around being able to reach out and get help from ... : eLearningTechnology Posts so far (and read comments as well): Karyn Romeis - November's Big Question: getting feedback ... Feedback In Getting Help , I discussed some aspects of the central question being raised. I've got a question about a ... skills that include being able to: How to reach out and find expertise How to use Social Media to Find Answers ...