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 ... promote collaborative learning environments. Authored by gminks . Hosted by Edublogs . ... , because it’s great. I also create E-Learning as a technical course developer at EMC . My list will ...

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 ... special cases can’t be handled by a script). So I posed the question on EMC ONE and in Yammer. I was hoping some ... resolution in EMC ONE, because I would imagine this question will come up again. Here are my answers to some of ...

RESPONSIBILITY for informal learning. In another Big Question rant I have already discussed how the status-quo for ... 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-old debate on informal learning for a piece in CLO magazine. Then I see that Tony K and Karl brought this topic up as this month's Big Question . Finally, today I was on a call with Andrew Paradise from ASTD Research today as they are gearing up for a new survey on - you guessed it - informal learning ; ) I many ways, my position (or commiseration) ...

... where they can find a particular function. Because people forget. And the REAL learning occurs when people are attempting to apply what they were taught during training in their real environments. - Give me basic infomation, then ...

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 ...

The Learning Circuits Blog big question for April is "What would you like to do better as a Learning Professional?" The simple answer to this question is " push back more ." This can be applied on many levels, but I am primarily speaking of pushing more on ROI and evaluations . I learned very early on that Analysis and Evaluations are the first things to get cut from a learning project. In actuality, the same is true for many technology related projects. While ... an environment where there are many needs, and often times the first gut reaction is a piece to the larger puzzle.

The Big Question on the Learning Circuits Blog for May 2008 is whether or not there are or should be learning ... ) . Some of the sub-questions to the "Big Question" include: Do you believe that we have to design, develop and deliver ... questions above is that of learning styles (bullet #2 above). I've written previously about the attacks on learning styles ... , I will just point folks back to the importance of motivation rather than learning styles . My conclusion for the Big Question, is that we need to get serious about addressing learning design for everyone...not just Digital Natives .

... headed in that direction.  What a GREAT virtual environment.  The learning posibilities are truly endless.  ... 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 ...

... virtual environments are going to make a big move into the Learning world in 2007.  Efforts like SLOODLE which mashes ... 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 ... Shaffer hits the shelves very soon.  I believe it will begin to move Games into the learning world as a legitimate learning tool.  I loved reading this book and have recommended to all my friends.   The book can be ...

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 ...   0 comments links to April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Permalink: April Big Question - Content Vendor Value Bookmark this page at ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ...

... 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 ... Learning - points to examples such as TV, Music, Press, etc. If you are a producer of content, you are now competing with ... makes all of the O'Reilly books fully searchable). One of the most important questions is: What's the added ...

What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? I don't know how many of you are in the same boat I'm in, but I find that the decision is not entirely mine. In my environment, I have 4 considerations: - What do I need to train? - Who is my audience and what is the best way to tackle training for 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 ...

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 ... Nonstop Hours on a Single Course? Learn Me Happy - Example post - A really worrying trend.... and of course, Corporate eLearning Development - Example - Is Your eLearning Broken? Okay, so to me this is a timely question, but ...

... 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 to accommodate such a wide variety of tools? How does the tool selection process need to change? What should learning ... that point, the next question is "Can certain attributes of different media be leverage for learning?" For example, you ... "Big Question" How does the eLearning design process need to change to accommodate such a wide variety of tools?

The Big Question for March on the Learning Circuits Blog is 'what is the scope of our responsibility as ... 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 been ... be 'responsible' for anyone's learning, but they help to create an environment in which learning takes place in ...

Karl Kapp Kapp Notes Learning Circuits April Big Question: Are We There Yet Tom Crawford thcrawford Learning Circuits Big Question April 2007 ... ! Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning April's big question - backed up at the ... . interactive learning Harold Jarche Harold Jarche LCB Big Question for ... services groups inside organizations. So, this month, The Big Question is... ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - ...

In addressing this month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog , I was tempted by an observation made by ... -learning authors, but progress along this path will be slow. We'll see more online rapid e-learning authoring environments come on the market, perhaps even open source. At the higher end of asynchronous e-learning, we'll see increasing ... except temptation, I decided not to be useful to people but to be honest in my forecasts. I believe learning and ... brief and to the point. Where asynchronous e-learning is used - and it will probably be needed to compensate for ...

... this in a second... Separately, Dave Lee ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Throwing a Big Community Net ) has provided a ... place: Should more learning professionals be blogging? (Barry Sampson) Independently, Dave Lee suggested that question ... that there's a few who should stop blogging. Of course, then it raises a couple of questions: Which learning ... Out of the original October 2006: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? , we've seen some pretty amazing discussion. But, we've also reached an interesting point. As Peter posted ( The Learning Circuits Blog: Community Net ...

Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning ... Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ODriscoll ... using the term Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with capitals to mean a put together system that integrates and supports your personal learning and a personal learning environment (lower case letters, no acronym) as the set of tools you use to help yourself learn (likely not very integrated). I believe that we all have a personal learning environment ...

Del.icio.us Links Tags ADDIE assessment big_question Blogroll constructivism creativity ... _environment learning_environment_design learning_suite LED Miscellany Objectives performance Pixar reflection ... Learning Environment Design Learning Environment Design Model is my vision of how ... learning environment design - which focuses on a broader range of tools for learning.  I’m actively working on ... (I think) in the Learning Environment Design model is that I suggest we should look at the degree to which these parts ...

Posts So Far: Karyn Romeis (Karyn's erratic learning journey) - The Big Question for March: Scope of Learning Responsibility Clive Shepherd - The big question: What is the scope of our respons... Note: Both Karyn and Clive have ... Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is: What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer ... professional can never be 'responsible' for anyone's learning, but they help to create an environment in which learning ...

Posts So Far: Karyn Romeis (Karyn's erratic learning journey) - The Big Question for March: Scope of Learning Responsibility Clive Shepherd - The big question: What is the scope of our respons... Note: Both Karyn and Clive have ... Karl Kapp helped me with the March 2008 Big Question which is: What is the Scope of our Responsibility as Learning Professionals? This question comes from several recent experiences. One was a Chief Learning Officer ... professional can never be 'responsible' for anyone's learning, but they help to create an environment in which learning ...

The latest Big Question for the Learning Circuits Blog is: For a given project, how do you determine if, when ... implications in a game based environment. In 2001, Marc Prensky wrote a popular book " Digital Game Based Learning " where he ... question is..." it depends ". There are so many variables that play into a performance problem that will change the answers to the if/when/how much questions. How much should you use a developer? Well, it depends on what you're building ... . All that said...the answer to the "when" question should be "early"...even for the initial analysis because a ...

... personal learning environment Improve content findability. Obsessive attention to enterprise federated search, cross-linking ... for this month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? Just add "How can I/we ..." in front, so for example: How can I help employees discover and refine their own personal learning environment? We further could generate ... : How can I help new managers discover and refine their own personal learning environment? ... Great post by Ray Sims - What To Do On Behalf of Informal Learning? He provides a list of things he can do to ...

... technology?" Hey! That sounds like one of the BIG QUESTIONS! at Learning Circuits I would encourage the many ... ! 2) I'm working in Nursing education creating learning environments for nurses working at Hospice of the Valley. So ... by asking this question: "What is the role of learning theories and instructional designing principles? And what is the ... I discovered this post via Google Alerts that I have set up for "learning design". ( If you don't use Google ... record additional reflections related to online communities and online learning, instruction and design." This is ...

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 ... service = Dining Experience Learning and environment technologies + requirements gathering + preparation of learning activities + delivery of learning activities = Learning Experience Can go to a big restaurant and have lousy food ... Environments Personalization Rapid e-Learning Semantic Web Simulation Tools Social Bookmarking Social ...

Clark Quinn from Learnlets welcomes Tony O'Driscoll to the learning bloggosphere. And so do I...in a BIG way ... like the long thoughtful posts...its inspiring to read what I'm thinking, clearly. His blog titled Learning Matters! at wadatripp.wordpress.com Tony's answer to the February BIG QUESTION is right on the money. You gotta read this one ... not enough has been placed on what the fundamental value proposition of learning is to the organization." "In the ... contexts that engender true generative learning experiences. 2L is a true Context Creation platform. Let's promise ...

... that is sustainable the key. What does it mean for learning - Metaverse roadmap Big Questions to ask - How do we ... V-Learning: The Skills Needed for Success in Today's Real World Presenter: Ellen Wagner, Adobe Physical World ... wanted to do in instructional design. Expectations about learning redefined by social media, gaming. - As professionals, we ... learning is supposed to be doing. Learning technologies have changed. - Look at the games - that is the 3D web that is ... value of baseline eLearning. When you are out there as a learning person and see emergent technologies - You see a ...

... best way (possibly the only way) to really learn languages. While I like the new tutoring systems such as EduFire , the idea of putting someone in a virtual environment to learn the language is fantastic. I've mentioned before that I also think Second Life as a Learning Tool can be fantastic if you set up an environment like Plymoth Plantation - a recreation of Plymouth where actors playing the part of Native Americans and Colonists told stories and answered questions ... could sponsor putting this together? This is good timing given the LCB Big Question ...

... commenting on this post and I'll be sure to find something for you to do! Now, back to the Big Question for now Dorothy, the ... Hi everyone. Some of you may have caught glimpses of some work I'm doing behind the scenes of LCB. If you had a chance to see Peter Isackson's post on improvisational learning from May of 2002 that accidentally was at the top of this ... consolidating all of the posts of LCB from 2002 to the present into one environment. This effort is in anticipation of a migration to a new environment sometime in the near future. If your the type to volunteer to do some grunt work, keep ...