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 ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for ... result in a direct work product. For example, a knowledge worker may need to learn how to write a report more effectively but still may produce a report (work product) on time for the boss by working on the weekend. It would be great for the worker to learn to write more efficient reports but learning to do so is not a work product. The products the ... indicated, I just don't view what I have "to-do" as a work product in the same way as what I have "to-learn" and maybe that ...

To answer the question at ASTD's Learning Circuits Blog , I am going to try to stick to Tony's initial thought of specific questions and dive very deep into the technique I use when consulting for a needs assessment or evaluation. I use a technique I call the 360 Needs Assessment. This process involves asking questions at several levels within an ... minority opinion. So, I first ask questions of the stakeholders: Why do you think this is a problem? Have you every tried to ... stakeholders (usually management) know what is going on in the trenches (hint, they rarely do).I use similar questions but ...

... yet related. I've recieved a lot of feedback possitive and negative regarding my response to the February BIG QUESTION ... 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 getting people to "know" about a product and service...i.e. Learning) I think its mostly because I just can't handle another ...

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 ... , manage all your own assets, and upload the finished product when it's done. Experience shows that, for large ...

... this. They have a particular product/project in mind and they want you to get that done. As Karyn said in her post, the ... pretty quickly when you start asking questions about "What do you expect people to do differently after this ... haven't answered the question yet....... I WANT to build quality training. By "quality", I mean effective. Something ...

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 ... can demonstrate how they are applying it productively, then they are in a good position to lead the charge. If not ... process risk becoming ever more peripheral to the big issues, as the emphasis on formal learning interventions ...

... services groups inside organizations. So, this month, The Big Question is... ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What ... 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 Escribano LifeLongLearningLab Thinking about BIG Questions Guy W Wallace The ...

... 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 ... ideas, opinions, experiences, and anecdotes or sometimes even to question, reason or debate." I was interested to see a product like this coming from a developer associated with conventional self-paced e-learning. It's encouraging that they can see the potential for a product that allows learners to break out of self-study isolation and express, share ...

Virginia Yonkers inspired the April 2008 Big Question which is: What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional? Simple question, but I'd expect some interesting answers. How to Respond: Option 1 - Simply put ... What Would I Like To Do Better As A Learning Professional? - From, TATA Interactive Systems thoughts on the question. my list of wishes My thoughts on the question... Peter Shea Here's my ambition Not be a production pixie ... Locally Ray Cole - This Month's "Big Question" From Jacob... Learning to be better Sameer Lele What I would ...

Virginia Yonkers inspired the April 2008 Big Question which is: What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional? Simple question, but I'd expect some interesting answers. How to Respond: Option 1 - Simply put ... What Would I Like To Do Better As A Learning Professional? - From, TATA Interactive Systems thoughts on the question. my list of wishes My thoughts on the question... Peter Shea Here's my ambition Not be a production pixie ... Locally Ray Cole - This Month's "Big Question" From Jacob... Learning to be better Sameer Lele What I would ...

Captivate, you'll find that most of the design ideas are incorporated in the product. So, the question about what design ... just lamenting Is the Big Question Half-Full or Half-Empty? basically saying that I wasn't sure I was getting much value ... future Big Questions or as part of a group discussion in a panel or at a morning breakfast table at a conference. I'm ... understanding more about what I'm really looking for. Now I could probably write a much better Big Question that asked ... I've actually found the BigQ this month - What Questions Should We be Asking? - to be really interesting, but ...

This month’s Big Question from the Learning Circuit’s blog is, basically, where do you begin?  Of course, that begs the question: what do you already know? Design, ID, a tool, ? However, it appears that the question sort of assumes a preexisting master’s in ID/IT.  Which, if it’s done well, includes several different tools, lots ... one major project with project planning, prototyping, testing, and production.  Which, of course, is a dream ... you’ve figured out the best design). For production, there are lots of tools out there. Apparently Udutu ...

... 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 ... new products were subject to review by committee. Departments became responsible and rewarded for their own profits, much ... those "big company" controls had a downside: they caused people to think about how to protect their own turf and put ... Is its approach to management and innovation a cause of its success or a product of its success? Google is starting ...

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 ... randomly stopped and inspected products to find defects. If a defect was found the entire box or lot or whatever measure ...

Took a closer look at the Big Question . If I had start my career over again. The one thing I would do first is. Look at lots and lots of elearning. The good, the bad, the ugly. Then I would ask questions about each. - Did I learn something from this? (i.e. am I really able to do something with the information presented in the tutorial?) - What was really cool about this tutorial? - Was I bored? - How would I do this better? - What would my product look like? Then - build a tutorial with what you know from your experience and what you discovered from your research. Use whatever ...

... linked all over the web) The Learning blogosphere's own Karl Kapp asks the May BIG QUESTION: Avoiding Death by Powerpoint. And there's actually a BOOK - Death by Powerpoint From Microsoft Office product Manager another MS ...

The ASTD Big Question for January is "What are your Predictions for Learning in 2008?" First, I am going to borrow from the December 2006 Big Question which I really liked. The three questions, now modified for 2008, are: What ... predictions for 2008? These are not easy questions to answer but here they are: What will you remember most about 2007? I ... that seems to occur all at the same time. Time management is a big issue that I need to get some more control over in ... Allen's 2nd e-Learning annual. Write another book and create some products useful to people as they struggle to make ...

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 comment by Mark Oehlert that suggested we re-engineer the way professors teach ISD. In thinking about that comment, a few ... speakers was Matt Glotzbach, Head of Products at Google Enterprise. He made a really interesting point that with ready ...

... interesting question: Where is the real innovation happening in e-learning? (And by innovation I mean the type that leads to products that can actually be used, as opposed to blue skies thinking.) First - Ben - if you see my post - can I suggest that you submit your question to the LCB Big Question for February as something like: What will the next generation of eLearning tools look like? That's a great question! Interestingly, I used to be involved in many more projects ... , lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and ...

Moodle in Corporations April Big Question - Content Vendor Value ... Authoring Tools Several questions came up recently around Authoring Tools and I wanted to point people to some past ... think that these tool increase the productivity. The arent fully customizable, but Im always getting new ways, ...

The November LCB Big Question was "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to ... irrelevant. The models listed in this month's Big Question were designed for a type of training that was relevant for the ... crux of the question as Mark Oehlert from e-Clippings put it: If the question of whether or not your job is relevant ... general consensus that as Jay Cross put it : This is the wrong question. And as Russ Crumley put it : we've already answered that. So, again, Dave Lee and I are continuing our consistency in asking bad questions. Also as ...

... around The Big Question type topics where we get to exchange ideas with other experts in the field would be a fantastic ... problems. Certainly a big part of the issue is that attendees are quite willing to hop on a plane to attend a conference ... Insanely Great Professional Conference Attendee , Conference Preparation and Better Questions for Learning Professionals ... , managers of corporate eLearning, facilitated by me and someone else that will help them identify their key issues, big questions and also identify topics they would want to discuss with others, what they would be willing to present as a ...

The Big Question this month are Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Here are my predictions, but realistically they ... can ask all you want, you will still be doing a lot of work with LMS products this year. Prediction #8 => Serious Games ... - 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.

The Learning Circuit's big question -- For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much an instructional designer and instructional design is needed? The quick answer is "it depends." However, I think it goes a little deeper than that. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. - Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize Winner & Carnegie Mellon professor) Simon went on to argue that ... product that emerges on the wheel is likely to be in the tradition of her past work, but she may break away and embark ...

Standards The Application Becomes the Platform The Big Question ... mediated by our own individual/collective contexts. What learning is NOT is a product. It can NOT be shrink-wrapped. It ... its a product. Hey LMS CEO - you ever manage "a learning"? Hey authoring tool person - you ever make ...

... learning capabilities. We already have too much to do. We lack the right questions. While the motivation question is certainly a big question, I want to skip over this for now. I'm going to assume that since you are reading this blog post ... for Learning Professionals A big part of what I've come to realize that the barrier to us moving beyond being The ... right questions to be asking. The Value of Questions Now, let me start this diatribe with a brief rant on the importance of asking the right questions. In my mind, it is THE most important skill or ability to have. Maybe it's just ...

... everything a blend? The argument for blended learning The Big Question: Leading the ... . Im not a great fan of these simple correct / incorrect question formats, but I know they work for many people. Output ... had no trouble at all in using this product and never had to resort to the help files. This is what rapid development ... /False, Cloze Text, Short Answer, Matching, Lickert Scale questions § Set up and deliver Surveys § Track user responses ... of the finesse and control that you often get with products developed in a more programming reliant environment such ...

... guidance result ... The Big Question: to-learn list CCK08 and data overload calmness Ted talk: Sugata Mitra on ... Anticon productions music Henry Rollins research Cognitive Edge team digital chalkie team women ...

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 ... 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 in terms of talent management and workforce productivity rather than innovating around the learning itself.