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    Does education need to change?
    Friday, November 21, 2008
    George Siemens asked a really really big question. Does education need to change? This question will, hopefully ... education that has always bothered me is the multi-hour / multi-day sit-in-a-classroom model of "training." I hate teaching that way and I hate training that way. It is grueling for all parties. And, in the end, I never got the feeling that ... / kicking around: - Short online courses and quick references will be made available for general tasks and broad training ... than creating a "general" project. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. They get work done and trained at the same time. - For ...
    		 Online Language Training
    Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. I know there's a lot going on in online language training. In our brief exchange, I mentioned EduFire and Myngle - but the ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question ...
    		 Learning Circuits Blog Big Question: E-Learning
    Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    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 ...
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  • July's Big Question...Tony K and the "Learning Discipline"
    This month's Big Question from the Learning Circuits Blog asks, given the advent of all the 2.0 stuff: Should workplace learning professionals be leading the charge around these new work literacies? Shouldn't they be starting with themselves and helping to develop it throughout the organizations? And then shouldn't the learning organization become a ... avocation that has somehow landed us in the learning/training field. So what's your point Mark? My point is why are all ... ? Great question. Totally unfair but great question. Why unfair? Let's look at Tony's background - a top engineeer, ...
    e-Clippings (blogoehlert) - Monday, July 21, 2008 - Comments
  • Learning Circuits Blog Big Question: E-Learning
    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 ...
    Adventures in Corporate Education - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - Comments
  • January BIG QUESTION...a little late
    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 ...
    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Saturday, January 20, 2007 - Comments
  • Everyone is a Manager - March - The Big Question
    What Would You Do to Support New Managers? I was just reminded of the big question while cruising reader.google.com ...my RSS reader of choice these days. Our fearless uber-learning-blogger Tony Karrer points out Dave Lee's concern that there hasn't been much discussion about this month's question. So, I'll add some fuel for thought! I'm not sure I totally understand the question. It looks like some of us are answering the question by discussing how much training we give to management/leadership programs and, as a trainig department, how we support the middle manager ...
    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Thursday, March 22, 2007 - Comments
  • What I Need NOW
    ... share..... - Help me with the implementation process. Implementation is ugly. And it's not all about training. They ... 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 ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Thursday, April 5, 2007 - Comments
  • List to Learn, Learn to List
    This month's ASTD Big Question is, again, a series of questions. Apparently one BIG question is not enough for the learning and development community. We aim to exceed expectations. If you have a to-learn list and are willing to ... magazine Meet with students Invoice clients Conduct training needs analysis Create game treatment I have to learn some ... "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 ...
    Kapp Notes - Monday, September 8, 2008 - Comments
  • Do we really need to design differently for the so called "Digital Natives"?
    This month, I worked with Tony Karrer to help create the ASTD Big Question (which always seems to be multiple questions under one big theme.) The main question is Learning design differences for Digital Natives? Of course I have ... training to meet the expectations of the digital natives...we need to run away from boring, page turning e-learning courses and ... scholarly approach...The sub-questions for this month's big question are: Do you believe that we have to design, develop and ... tools have become. We can't ignore them when we have a training class. The next question, Are there differences ...
    Kapp Notes - Thursday, May 1, 2008 - Comments
  • Questions, Questions and More Questions
    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 solve it before? How? What was the result? Why do you think training is the answer? If the problem is ...
    Kapp Notes - Friday, February 9, 2007 - Comments
  • The Big Question
    Tony Karrer is moderating "The Big Question" on the Learning Circuits blog . The question for December is "What did you learn about learning in 2007?" Obviously, there were many things I learned in 2007 (I think most people can say this or else there are some serious issues). I've learned just how small the training community is and how if you ... . more). I've also learned that I do not like the dissertation process very much (it's done, so I will never be doing that again). But I think the biggest thing I learned about learning is the importance of informal learning on ...
    Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, December 3, 2007 - Comments
  • April 2008 Big Question
    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 ... colleagues come to me with a problem worded as a solution (I need XYZ training), and given the lack of time (both at ...
    Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Friday, April 4, 2008 - Comments
  • The Big Question (May 2008)
    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 ... are training Digital Immigrants is good at all, and we owe it to all learners to have comparable learning opportunities ... 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 ...
    Learning Design and Performance Improvement - Monday, May 5, 2008 - Comments
  • The big question for December
    Learning Circuit's big questions for December are: 1. What will you remember most about 2006? For me, it will probably be my first complete year of blogging. I have learned absolutely masses from both the process of blogging ... written columns in training magazines and I thought this would be the same. It isn't. In some ways, it's much more like the ... corporate learning and development community is inherently conservative. If you strip away the warm and cuddly layer ... 'sage on the stage', who believe e-learning is another name for CBT and who do not recognise any learning that is ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, December 7, 2006 - Comments
  • December's BIG QUESTION!!! Part I
    ... 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 Corporate eLearning Development blog in August '05 ( post #1 ), I've discovered so many of fabulous, passionate, Learning ...
    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Thursday, December 7, 2006 - Comments
  • December's BIG QUESTION! Part II
    What are the biggest challenges for you/us as head into 2007? Without a doubt, heading into 2007 learning industry practitioners need to focus on change management in their organizations. All of the tools of Web2.0 applied ... savvy content experts begin realizing that they don't have to "wait in the training department's cue of projects". We will begin to find more and more professionals avoiding the training department all together and "doing it themselves" (good ... form of training and mentoring others as a part of their own career growth. As a matter of fact...yes...the sky ...
    Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development - Monday, December 11, 2006 - Comments
  • March Big Question: Supporting New Managers?
    Connections Supporting New Managers With Informal Learning Clark Quinn Learnlets LCBlog's big question of the ... month's big question - a few days late. This month's big question actually was a question asked by an attendee at Jay Cross' presentation on informal learning at ASTD TechKnowledge. She was in charge of designing training and support systems ... needed to consider, and how to balance what approaches were taken. So, this month, The Big Question is... What ... - learning & development - Mar Big Q: Supporting New Managers shehnaaz - Interlinked Learnings Learning CIrcuits Big ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Monday, March 5, 2007 - Comments
  • Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed
    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 ... often use in presentations to illustrate a point: Expenditure on training has a limit on the performance gains you can achieve. After a certain point, the cost of the Training exceeds the value of the performance gains. And ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - Comments
  • April Big Question - Content Vendor Value
    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 ...
    Tony Karrer delicious links - Wednesday, April 4, 2007 - Comments
  • April Big Question - Content Vendor Value
    ... 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 ... face real challenges. And this isn't just in corporate training and education. My post - Disruptive Changes in Learning - points to examples such as TV, Music, Press, etc. If you are a producer of content, you are now competing ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, April 3, 2007 - Comments
  • Trading Off - the Big Question Jan 2007
    ... haven't answered the question yet....... I WANT to build quality training. By "quality", I mean effective. Something that ... What are the trade offs between quality learning programs and rapid e-learning and how do you decide? I don't know ... have 4 considerations: - What do I need to train? - Who is my audience and what is the best way to tackle training for the majority of them? - How much time do I have to design and implement my training? - What resources do I have to work ... , I am forced to build the minimum, get the training out there so that "training" box can be checked and ...
    In the Middle of the Curve - Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - Comments
  • The Big Question: Leading the charge
    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 organisations: Q: Must learning professionals be literate in these things? Well I don't know about must , but they certainly should, if they want to remain credible as sources of expertise on organisational learning. This is sadly a a long ... process risk becoming ever more peripheral to the big issues, as the emphasis on formal learning interventions ...
    Clive on Learning - Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - Comments
  • The big question: making a start in e-learning
    In the Learning Circuits Blog, the big question for October is "I'm interested in a career in e-learning ... into the e-learning landscape - as a manager, a consultant, a salesperson for a vendor, a designer, a developer, or a ... learning, as there are considerable differences in the approaches that each of these sectors adopts when it comes to the ... education or training that's appropriate for your role. The sources for this will vary enormously from country to country. If ... I'd also recommend joining the main e-learning associations, i.e. eLearning Guild , wherever you are in the world, ...
    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - Comments
  • April's big question: backed up at the crossroads
    April's big question in the Learning Circuits blog is 'ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do ... training in smaller and smaller chunks and various other adverse trends. Now I wasn't going to respond to this question ... being a little romantic / idealistic / arrogant? to believe the old media and training world is simply crashing around us. In my regretable experience, there are few professions more conservative than training and (because training is not typically such a big business issue?) insufficient demand for change from employers to force it to happen at any pace.
    Clive on Learning - Friday, April 6, 2007 - Comments
  • Show Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for June
    ... spice up" your e-learning. Take a few minutes and browse the content. Clark Aldrich's blog entry for the big question ... This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we are supposed to consider both good and ... different types of "e-learning." Traditional Here is some learning sponsored by Environmental Protection Agency. It is called the EPA Watershed Academy . It is a web site that has a number of e-learning courses which are very text ... Administration called Tour of the FDA . It is what I would call first generation e-learning. It has a lot of good interactions ...
    Kapp Notes - Thursday, June 7, 2007 - Comments
  • The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be Blogging?
    The Big Question is a new monthly feature on Learning Circuits Blog. We want everyone in the LCB community to ... - Half an Hour - Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? Harold Jarche - The Big Question Bill Bruck ... ? Barry Sampson Learn Me Happy The Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All Learning ... All Learning Professionals Be Blogging? Karl Kapp Kapp Notes The Learning Circuits Blog: The Big Question for ... - Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: The Big Question for October: Should All Learning Professionals Be ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - Comments
  • April Big Question - ILT and Off-the-Shelf Vendors - What Should They Do?
    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 ... . Smaller Increments : Customers want to purchase training in smaller increments to minimize time away for learning ...
    The Learning Circuits Blog - Sunday, April 1, 2007 - Comments
  • The big question: What is the scope of our responsibility as learning professionals?
    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 there as long as we have had learning professionals. Certainly when I first took up a position as a training specialist ...
    Clive on Learning - Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - Comments
  • The big question: What are your predictions for learning in 2008
    In addressing this month's question on the Learning Circuits Blog , I was tempted by an observation made by ... except temptation, I decided not to be useful to people but to be honest in my forecasts. I believe learning and ... , at best difficult and possibly recessionary. As we all know, training budgets are the first to go and we could see some scaling down this year. So, here's what I think will happen over the next twelve months: Classroom training ... peddling the same solutions they've been offering for the past 30 years. What classroom training there will be, will ...
    Clive on Learning - Thursday, January 3, 2008 - Comments
  • Kapp Notes: Show Me the Examples! ASTD Big Question for June
    Examples! ASTD Big Question for June This month the question is "Where are the Examples of eLearning?" and we ... Aldrichs blog entry for the big question has a great list of games and simulations that you need to check out ... experience training CEOs and front line staff provides him with a unique perspective on organizational learning. In 2007 ... Game Resources Wiki Glossary for Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning Recommended Books Training Blogs ... : Learn to Live Stephen Downes Web Site Susan Hendrichs Leadership and Training Innovation Thoughts about ...
    delicious Random Mind - Saturday, June 9, 2007 - Comments
  • Online Language Training
    Over on the Big Question, we are discussing Network Feedback which is basically how can you reach out and get help around a question. Almost the same time I posted the question, I received a question from a reader around Language Learning. The person works in a corporation in Turkey and is looking to find eLearning to teach employees English. I know there's a lot going on in online language training. In our brief exchange, I mentioned EduFire and Myngle - but the ... thoughts on how you would go about finding answers to this inquiry, you can use that as your answer to the Big Question ...
    eLearning Technology - Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - Comments
  • Online Training vs eLearning
    ... supporting Personal Learning ? This really relates to the questions being discussed in this month's Big Question ... I don't remember what I was reading, but the post/article differentiated learning as what the learner does and training as what we do to the person - and hopefully they learn. What's interesting is that eLearning has become pretty much synonymous with Online Training as opposed to use of technology for various kinds of learning. In a world: where we ... Training is problematic. This relates to the discussions in Learning Systems and EPSS and ePerformance.
    eLearning Technology - Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Comments