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 ... , because it’s great. I also create E-Learning as a technical course developer at EMC . My list will include the things I have learned on the job as well as in my studies: Learn and practice a systems-based approach ...

This month's ASTD Big Question on the Learning Circuit's Blog is about Social Networking and finding help and expertise if you have a question or a concern for which you need input and/or advice. The basic question is " If you need input from people, where's the best place to ask?" But, then the question breaks into sub-questions. -How to reach out 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 ...

This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for ... "to-learn" list. Some of the items are necessary and some are "pie-in-the-sky." I tend to have two methods of working on ... with no real objective just a need to "learn more about" a particular term, item or piece of software. The other method ... . Using the targeted method means I have a specific goal in mind and I need to learn how to achieve that goal. Interestingly, I find the wandering method tends to have better retention than the target. I target learning when I have ...

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 .

... inside Second Life with ways for companies to foster more collaborative learning methods. Says Intel Corp. learning ... 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 ...

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 - ...

... knowledge. This post can also be read as my personal answer to the Big Question for December, since the Hole in the ... confirmation of one's favorite hypotheses (concerning both social learning and e-learning as a resource), but as with ... success of HiW is the notion of "self-organized groups" who learn on their own. If education is to become truly non-invasive ... to learn as the medium of instruction). She stole some money from her mother to phone her uncle in Delhi, who she hoped ... the motivational factors of learning are similar and that, with some imagination in the "learning design", ...

... knowledge. This post can also be read as my personal answer to the Big Question for December, since the Hole in the ... confirmation of one's favorite hypotheses (concerning both social learning and e-learning as a resource), but as with all ... HiW is the notion of "self-organized groups" who learn on their own. If education is to become truly non-invasive, as ... concerned a girl who was overwhelmed by the exposure to the micro-biology courses in English (a language she had to learn ... of learning are similar and that, with some imagination in the "learning design", similar results could be produced ...

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 perspective of a person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. a person who knows little about the term. I ... ) Tools of e-learning - authoring tools, systems (LMS, LCMS, Live Online Learning, social media) Methods ... coding ( w3schools is good) Visit the Learning Circuits blog and find others’ suggestions on this question ...

Learning Circuits has posted its Big Question of the Month for January : "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Thus, today's links will focus on that theme. . . Exploring the Definition of "Rapid e-Learning" - The eLearning Guild Does the term refer to A) fast, and perhaps cheap, development of e-Learning applications, or B) methods that increase the speed at which people learn, or C) technologies that speed up the connection between SMEs and learners, or D) services that enable organizations to add e-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 ... learning through electronic methods. (Jay Cross in 1998) Not just self-directed learning, not just page turners ... activities + delivery of learning activities = Learning Experience Can go to a big restaurant and have lousy food ... constant. Look at where you are at on the innovation curve. Questions: Learning Objects: I was always skeptical ...

... everything a blend? The argument for blended learning The Big Question: Leading the ... Clive on Learning Clive Shepherd has spent the past 25 years working with computers trying to make learning things happen electronically. Hes still trying to figure it out ... . Im not a great fan of these simple correct / incorrect question formats, but I know they work for many people. Output ... -learning posted by Clive Shepherd @ 5:46 PM #   5 ...

Thus, was born the concept for The Big Question - a monthly question that everyone in the community would post and ... excellent guidance into what topics are in demand. 7 - We're an e-SIG so we should be using e-Learning! This blog is an informal e-Learning tool. 8 - Expose our members to blogging as a method of e-Learning and allow them to judge for ... I've been working with Dave Lee on the Learning Circuits Blog (LCB) for about 8 months now. About two months into it, I finally began to understand that the LCB was different than an individual blog because it was designed to serve ...

Brent Schlenker in his response to the ASTD Big Question asks , Well, I think the biggest question is STILL, "Why US?". Why do we ("learning professionals") continue to think we have the answers that are special to learning...how it should be done...who should create it...and how should others consume it? Maybe the question is "Do we still add value to the new learning equation? Over at ASTD's Learning Blog, Clark Aldrich asks Is it possible to have a universal argument, Simulations work better than traditional formal learning programs? To his question I answered in the ...

... learning is just another hype-filled, buzzword that pretends to be a radical change from the past but is really bits-and-pieces of other learning methods badly packaged. Cross' definition of informal learning is so wide open it can mean ... simply attack Bill. All that said, as a person who as a panel moderator, or the proctor of the Big Question, likes to ... serious... With that preface... I've got to say that in comparison to other worlds of blogging, all us folks in the learning ... no sense in measuring return on investment for training (p. 165). Ray Sims - Informal Learning Dustup at ...

The November LCB Big Question was "Are ISD / ADDIE / HPT relevant in a world of rapid elearning, faster time-to-performance, and informal learning?" I was planning to try to write up a summary at some point (similar to last month's ... 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 ...

The Learning Circuit's big question -- For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much ... learn -- they are the science behind our profession. Yet with each step or concept that we create, some precision is ... no experience, a 2:1 ratio would bring about the best possibility for learning. A different situation might tell her ... , learners can become extremely bored with this method. In addition, it is has little or no context, thus rote memorization can ... composer's fugue in that we base learning on one theme or concept, yet is played (learned) on different ...

Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question ... -Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning Corporate eLearning eLearning Design Authoring Tools Rapid e-Learning Tools eLearning (e-Learning) e-Learning Software Blended e-Learning e-Learning Tools Open Source eLearning e-Learning ROI and ...