The January Big Question is Quality vs. Speed. Sometimes its best to come to the party late because then I can ... about THEM! What about the learners that are out there creating AWESOME learning content and making us ALL look as old as the theories we cling too. When I have a learning need (aka. have a question) and I IM a friend who IMs an answer that solves my problem, or satifies my need, then I have had a RAPID, HIGH QUALITY learning moment. No instructional ... everyone is right. Or at least right about the part of the question that is part of their reality. The part that ...

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional ... 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 ... might even want to learn all the ins and outs of MS PowerPoint because PowerPoint is now the foundation for several quality ... . 57.588 Learning Management System Administration requires students to develop and deploy an actual course using ...

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 Learning? 2007 September 2007 Where to Work? July 2007 : Choosing Tools? June 2007 : Where are all ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past ...

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 Learning? 2007 September 2007 Where to Work? July 2007 : Choosing Tools? June 2007 : Where are all ... Questions Should We be Asking? January 2007 : Quality vs. Speed 2006 December 2006 : Past ...

The Big Question on the LCB for January is: What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? There's a lot involved in this question and I plan to revisit it several times during the ... would have a different cost and effect on performance. So, the real challenge posed by the Big Question is knowing when its really worth it to spend dollars on what we might consider a higher quality solution than providing something simpler that we know won't be as effective at improving performance. And this isn't a theoretical question - it's ...

The Learning Circuits big question for January asks "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" Well, there's an assumption underlying this and I'm questioning it. Who says e-learning materials that take a long time to produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective? There isn't a member of the e-learning community who hasn't worked on projects that were over-engineered, over budget ... . However, the occasions on which these are needed are not that frequent and, even then, the use of e-learning must ...

Some great posts are already out there around the Big Question for January: Quality vs. Speed . You can find them ... design and still maintain quality? Does iteration work? When? If we didn't have constraints on time/cost, would we really be our own worst enemy? Is quality, speed, cost and learning really like sliders that as you push one up others must go down? There also are quite a few questions that the responses raise in my mind that I'm still grappling with... What do you do when you are in an organization that only wants low-quality, rapid - even if it only checks the box?

Clive Shepherd Clive on Learning The big question for February: what questions should we be asking? Tony Karrer eLearning Technology Clive Sheppard What Questions Adele Lim learning & development Feb Big Question: What Qs ... February Big Question- What Question? Tom Haskins growing changing learning creating Asking the right questions Clark ... Schlenker Corporate eLearning Development The February Big Question Anil Mammen Discursive Learning A Question of ... The February Big Question goes to the root of what The Big Question is all about. It is a topic that has ...

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 ... haven't answered the question yet....... I WANT to build quality training. By "quality", I mean effective. Something that ... pretty quickly when you start asking questions about "What do you expect people to do differently after ...

This month's Big Question - What Questions Should We be Asking? - Dave Lee just told us that there are 102 Questions . The original genesis of this question was a combination of my continual desire for Better Questions for Learning ... that I wanted to discuss with people at the next conference or in the next big question. See things that people really were finding as a challenge. Instead, I feel like I'm seeing a lot of philosophical, big, narly questions that I have no ... improve the quality and quantity of conversations?" and "How can I create informal learning experiences for new managers ...

The Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed received some responses that caught me a bit off-guard. Several people have stated in various ways that they question the question (with language that ranges from "implicit assumption" to "dumb" to "insane"). I posted on LCB a follow-up set of questions that gets at some of the contention. But let me drill down a bit on some of the bigger issues being raised. First - a lot of the complaints stem from the word "Quality" (and even more so, the definition of a "Quality Learning Experience" in the original post). Some of the responses ...

May's Big Question in the Learning Curcuits Blog is PowerPoint: what is appropriate, when and why? Now I have just finished a three part posting on the subject of visualisation, so the body of my answer to this question can be found ... right formula for a face-to-face presentation? Well, making the big assumption that the presenter has an interesting and ... foundations for a learning experience (now you're an active participant, you're more likely to be engaged and able to clarify misunderstandings; however, a lot depends on the quality and appropriateness of the interaction). Not exactly ...

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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 ... continue to increase ways in which people can learn. Courseware Quality : Higher quality courseware ...

Over the weekend, I heard from Dave Lee that the Learning Circuits Blog - home of the monthly big question - had been ... , because The Big Question has been such a great success resulting in a large number of links to and from LCB we are a ... the past two years. We'll be back up and running with March's Big Question - "Do you really exist if Google says you don't?" as soon as we can. Dave Lee your exasperated blogmeister As the person who originated idea of The Big Question - I ... . I'm not sure what we are going to do with this month's big question. We'll likely wait a few days and see if ...

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 ... foray into rapid eLearning. The case study also compares requirements vis-a-vis Traditional eLearning (quality learning ...

The latest Big Question for the Learning Circuits Blog is: For a given project, how do you determine if, when ... . All that said...the answer to the "when" question should be "early"...even for the initial analysis because a quality ... 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 ... implications in a game based environment. In 2001, Marc Prensky wrote a popular book " Digital Game Based Learning " where ...

This month the Big Question on the Learning Circuit's blog has to do with rapid e-learning. "What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide?" I have done some previous writing on the topic of rapid e-learning: Learning at Byte Speed Speed is King: Rapid Creation and Deployment of Enterprise ... produce are necessarily high quality, let alone relevant or effective? So, maybe the real question is how to we balance quality, speed and cost, and, I will add, learning. I think of these items as sliders on a stereo system (if ...

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 ... activities + delivery of learning activities = Learning Experience Can go to a big restaurant and have lousy food ... chunks put together and done in a rapid e-learning experience. What if a whole new way of delivering high quality meals ... constant. Look at where you are at on the innovation curve. Questions: Learning Objects: I was always skeptical ...

... that is sustainable the key. What does it mean for learning - Metaverse roadmap Big Questions to ask - How do we ... - Raise question - what constitutes a high quality expectation of performance. How do you place value on a collaborative ... 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 ...

This morning at DevLearn I did an informal session with Lance Dublin on management issues. Several interesting topics came up, but one that really struck me was around producing eLearning that is good enough vs. trying to produce better learning or what you consider to be a better solution. This is a topic that we've discussed before including in the Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed and What Clients Really Want and Big Question Follow-up - Are There Trade ... better or when the learning / behavior change ties directly to metrics the organization cares about, e.g., ...

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 have responsibility for supporting Long Tail Learning? Do they have responsibility for learning beyond what can be ... research questionable? I think corporate learning departments need to go through the same evolutionary process that ...

... quality of learning experiences using blogs - or other technologies. The form for submitting posts regarding the big ... What a great conversation our Big Question generated last week. As Tony has summarized, it seems most everyone agrees that blogs are great tool for acheiving some vital professional development characteristics that every learning ... feedback, understanding our point of view and learning to share it, working knowledge of new technologies, are a few we've identified. But where does that leave us? Of course, the begged question here is - So, What Can We ...

... 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 ...

This month's LCB Big Question is What Questions Should We be Asking? Clive Sheppard posted his response . Clive first questioned if we've run out of questions. The answer is "no" we haven't, but my personal belief is that part of our issue in learning and eLearning is the lack of focus on what our real problems are - what the real questions are. So, I truly think this is a worthy question. Clive also included some questions ... If I retired tomorrow would anyone ... just pointless? While some of these big picture questions are important to think about, I guess I was hoping to ...

... publication. It has various authors and does a monthly Big Question that receives contributions from many different bloggers ... sense of content quality and value of reading blogs. I debated for a while, because I have quite a few blogs that I ... on Learning Clive Shepherd - make learning things happen electronically Corporate eLearning ... e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Mark Oehlert - how culture and technology come together over the space we call 'learning.' eLearning Technology Yes, completely self serving pointer to my own blog. To get a sense ...

The Big Question is back... December Big Question - What did you learn about learning? I'm ... through Disruptive Changes in Learning . and unless you innovate ( Innovators' Dilemma in Learning/eLearning ) you are going to fall prey to alternatives be it do-it-yourself learning or start-ups . A purely virtual conference ( Free Online Conference - Corporate Learning: Trends) with amateur organizers, gorilla marketing through social networks, and a ... LinkedIn are great ways to get specific help for yourself and for others... Making Learning with an LMS Fun?

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 Predictions for Learning in 2008 . Biggest challenges for 2007? I could answer this as the biggest challenges for Learning Professionals generally, and maybe I'll come back and do that, but for now, let me just write what I see as some of my bigger challenges in 2007. Finding high quality people, especially programmers This may come as a ... would have thought. Informal learning will be a big topic and will become more formal Interestingly, I feel ...