The January Big Question is Quality vs. Speed. Sometimes its best to come to the party late because then I can ... designers required. So that's the small stuff. What about the big stuff like, "I want to be a fireman." I don't want to sit ... Instructional Designer. NO! I want to BE A FIREMAN! NOW! I can tell you are all either clicking delete, or firing up the ... everyone is right. Or at least right about the part of the question that is part of their reality. The part that truly ... the theories we cling too. When I have a learning need (aka. have a question) and I IM a friend who IMs an answer ...

This month's Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog asks, given the advent of all the 2.0 stuff: Should ... ? Great question. Totally unfair but great question. Why unfair? Let's look at Tony's background - a top engineeer, a ... job?)...but all kidding aside...where is the academic background in pedagogy? ISD? Learning theory? Neuroscience? Look ... many 'pure breds' do we have out there? People who have come up through the academic chain with degrees in education or ISD ...

... 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 ... keeps hitting me in the head...where's the added value from ISD? Here's what specifically smacked me in the head ...

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 ... Department of Instructional Technology offers many online courses that include, as a standard part of the ...

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 ... styles or can we just design good instruction and know that it meets all generational needs? If you have an audience that includes natives and immigrants, how can you effectively design instruction without breaking the bank? First of ...

... 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 ... instruction out of context and if we don't wake up we are destined to go the way of the dinosaur. Many of us have lamented ... provides them with something. How does our profession respond to these teachable moments? Trick question or sad answer: ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions. November 2006 : Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in ...

This is the new home of the master list of Big Questions: May 2008 - Learning Design Differences for Digital Natives? April 2008 - Do Better? March 2008 - Scope of Learning Responsibility? February 2008 - Instructional Design - If? When? How much? January 2008 - Predictions for Learning in 2008? December 2007 - What Did You Learn about ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past experiences. Present Challenge. Future Predictions. November 2006 : Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in ...

November's Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog has been posted. The question this month is: Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning? To me, this is ... Make the Worst Learners? ) So, back to the question - are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant? My answer is a definite: Yes, but. And the "but" is that they will be marginalized unless you do the following: Figure out Rapid HPT, ISD, ADDIE Even ... . It's a radically different model, but I believe there's still relevance in ISD/ADDIE/HPT for this as well.

... yet related. I've recieved a lot of feedback possitive and negative regarding my response to the February BIG QUESTION ... suffers from the same problem as Instructional Design. Marketing combines many of the different -ologies for their work as ... great next BIG QUESTION. ... While the workweek is for surfing the Learning feeds, I enjoy catching up on my DESIGN and MARKETING folders on the weekends. This is sad because MOST of what I do IS design and marketing. (Remember, much of marketing is ...

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 ... design and development when that's possible. In summary, I would recommend anyone interested in the design and development of learning experiences to explore the various models relating to instructional design and to develop their own ...

The Learning Circuits Blog: November's The Big Question Are our models (ISD, ADDIE, HPT, etc.) relevant in the future? I really hate to say this, but I often see a huge gap between what we design and what happens in the classroom whether we use these models or not. I'm in the (not so) envious position of doing both the design and the training in my ... " and "Instructional Designer" are becoming irrelevant. I know Karl Kapp believes we should start pushing back and ... our students. Harold Jarche eloquently observed in his response to the Big Question: Training often worked before, ...

The latest Big Question for the Learning Circuits Blog is: For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much an instructional designer and instructional design is needed? I think the really obvious answer to this ... instructional designer will be able to identify if this is, in fact, a project that requires a training intervention. An instructional designer doesn't add much value if he is brought in after the system is developed. Another variable is the skill of the individual instructional designer. Yes...not all instructional designers are created equally. Some ...

The Learning Circuits Blog Big Question for July is 'how should e-learning developers choose their authoring tools given the proliferation of tools on the market?' Well, I posted on this subject just last week (see Confused of ... should address the Big Question in a more measured way than in last week's rant, so here goes ... The answer to the question, of course, is that it depends on what you are trying to create. If it's an e-learning tutorial that you're after ... involving teams of specialists (project managers, instructional designers, graphics people, subject experts, testers, ...

I am a big fan of big questions. I think that sessions like the Game Design Challenge and its "imitation ... to ask questions about what we can do. I love the Learning Circuits Blog Big Question of the Month (BQOTM) and ... that the BQOTM has a big brother out there and it asks REALLY big questions. The Edge describes it's purpose ... , and if you doubt the bigness of their questions, past ones have included; What is your dangerous idea?, What's you law ... room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves." The main way that Edge ...

Learning Circuit's big questions for December are: 1. What will you remember most about 2006? For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging and from the content of my colleagues' blogs. It took me a while to develop my own blogging style - I have for years written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same. It isn't. In some ways, it's much more like the ... ', i.e. those not calling themselves instructional designers, using simple rapid-development tools. Hopefully at the same ...

The November LCB Big Question was "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to ... , there were quite a few people who said, ISD/ADDIE/HPT - huh? That was actually quite a big surprise to me. Maybe they are ... instructional designer will be to use the ADDIE model to determine what baseline structure can be built into the formal ... irrelevant. The models listed in this month's Big Question were designed for a type of training that was relevant for the ... When I Started I'm questioning whether we really know what the next generation of ISD, ADDIE, HPT really looks ...

... goal of instructional design (and this part addresses ASTD's January Big Question ) is to change behavior or attitude ... designer. I think people believe that if they understand ADDIE then they understand Instructional Design and so they don't ... instructional designer or whether or not you even need to know instructional theories to be called an instructional designer. The argument "I develop instructional design and therefore, I am an instructional designer" is like saying, "I ... years I'll never be able to know everything about instructional design (or any topic for that matter.) Yet this person ...

... month's big questions is... So, this month, The Big Question is... Where to Work? Please answer this question by ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer and ... . 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 ... make sense of this? How does this differ for different roles such as Manager, Instructional Designer, Trainer and ... . 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 ...

SoulSoup Big Question: ISD / ADDIE / HPT: Still relevant? Karyn Romeis Karyn's blog The future of learning design ... . November's The Big Question is: Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster ... ! Tony Karrer eLearning Technology The Big Question for November - Future of ISD / ADDIE / HPT? ... October's The Big Question was great fun and a great success. We had 38 posts regarding the topic "Should all ... sidebar. To follow The Big Question, click on any of the links to participating posts below. Please feel free to comment ...

... 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 elearning design process (which is not dis-similar to the instructional design process) has always included an element ... comment about the importance of instructional design as opposed to focusing on technology. And then Dennis Coxe over ...

Cammy Bean helped spark and work through the February 2008 Big Question with me . Instructional Design - If ... Designers - Don't Miss the Comments Tony Karrer's Big Question Summary - Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional ... discussions Jay Cross - My two cents . Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional Design ... Design Cammy Bean - The Big Question: Instructional Design as Spectrum Mick Leyden - Here is my take Michael Hanley - My Reply: ISD - on the precipice of a crossroads? Anil Mammen - Instructional Design - If, When and ...

Cammy Bean helped spark and work through the February 2008 Big Question with me . Instructional Design - If ... Designers - Don't Miss the Comments Tony Karrer's Big Question Summary - Significant Work Needed to Help Instructional ... discussions Jay Cross - My two cents . Learning Circuit's big question for Feb 2008 Instructional Design ... Design Cammy Bean - The Big Question: Instructional Design as Spectrum Mick Leyden - Here is my take Michael Hanley - My Reply: ISD - on the precipice of a crossroads? Anil Mammen - Instructional Design - If, When and ...

Interesting blog discussion going on that relates back to LCB's November Big Question (you can find my earlier summation ). Part of the discussion is Where Will the Change Come From? and reading the comments on the post: If You Believe It's Broken - How Do You Change Our Industry/Models/etc? is interesting. As is Tom's post: Providing a change model . But, Tom is way off when he says: I found that software developers have a change model in mind for the widespread adoption of Web 2.0 tools. They think it will never happen. Quite the contrary is true. Web 2.0 is having ...

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 ... Virtual ... Storytelling and Instructional Design What We Can Learn From The Blue Man Group Keynoting in Vegas ... Discussion Help, I have an Instructional Design Master's Degr... Blog Field Trip: Cognitive Technologies Time ... Thoughts on Innovation and Technology... Some Questions and Answers Not to Cause Trouble But... Instructional ...

Lately there has been some talk about what exactly instructional designers do and what value they add to the process. Brent Schlenker in his response to the ASTD Big Question asks , Well, I think the biggest question is STILL, "Why US ... answer for radio, television, video, and computer-based instruction is...that when well designed instruction is created and ... , a well design simulation may be better than poorly designed classroom instruction but given an equally well designed classroom experience and a simulation...it will always be a tie. So it is the design of the instruction that matters ...

... value or lack of value of instructional designers. I think they have value, others are not so sure. Check out the the comments section of my post Value of Instructional Designers , please chip in your ideas, however, be warned it is a lively discussion. Are you with me? Do you think instructional designers have value or do you tend to agree with Brent and think designers do not have value?...Bart...I think he is in the middle but leaning more toward no value. All this spanned from The Learning Circuits Blog: February Big Question: What Questions? So join in the ...

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 ... - Instructional Design for Online Learning); learned theory, application, some tools, web design, project management, how to ... - Instructional Design, Development, and Evaluation) for a still unknown reason…perhaps status, earning right to be ... -learning, of course, encompasses many areas - courseware designer, curriculum development, online trainer, ...