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 ...

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 ... compete with each person's ability to find information via a Google search or through access to a service like Safari (which 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 ... pretty quickly when you start asking questions about "What do you expect people to do differently after this ... talking software projects - I'm also including customer service initiatives, new sales procedures, etc. OK, I really 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 ... 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 ...

... 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 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 ... training department acting as a support service. Now many organisations see this as a shared responsibility, with ...

... 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 example: How can I help employees discover and refine their own personal learning environment? We further could generate ... personal learning environment Improve content findability. Obsessive attention to enterprise federated search, cross-linking ... other means. Make outside connections easy. Funding for information and research services, conference attendance, ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm going after this just a little bit different. I wanted to go back and figure out what things really struck me during ... were they easy to use. It's all pure service. And this experience kept coming all during the year with Wikis, and more ... - organizational adoption is going to lag: Web 2.0 - Consumer vs. Enterprise Use. Companies are going to have a big problem trying to handle this: More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments. Signs of the times: End of ...

Understanding e-Learning: The Restaurant Analogy Restaurant Dining Room + ordering service + food prep + delivery service = Dining Experience Learning and environment technologies + requirements gathering + preparation of learning ... 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 ... different content formats Emerging e-Learning Services: 24 different services e-Learning Timeline: 1920s ...

Value from LinkedIn Big Question is Back Semantic Web Applications - Mundane or ... looks like they also have a somewhat social/collaborative authoring environment . It would be very interesting to see how ... workforce. Another question, how is it possible that there can be a successful business model around tools you can get ... downplaying of Firefly on the Mzinga site. Based on Tonys post and other users I have talked too, I have to question the ... Sales. Tammy is still running LMS development; Mike is still running services. Hopefully this clarifies things a bit.