We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ...The Big Question for December is:
What did you learn about learning in 2009?
If you are a blogger, I would highly recommend taking this as an opportunity to go back through your blog [...]
We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ...
I've received various forms of the same question from different people over the past few years. The basic question is:This month's big question comes from an inquiry that I received as a result of my presentation on the Social Grid. The question is the basis of the May 2009 Big Question:
There were some really interesting posts last month in - Challenges Plans and Predictions for 2009. This month's topic was suggested by several people and was touched on by some of the posts last month.We are going to continue a tradition in the Big Question ...This month's question comes from a series of questions I've received recently on my blog all asking some form of, "I'm interested in eLearning. What should I do first?"
Just a quick FYI that due to my vacation, I will not be holding a Big Question in August. See you back in Sept. [...] This month's question came from a reader the June 2008 Big Question is:Virginia Yonkers inspired the April 2008 Big Question which is:Cammy Bean helped spark and work through the February 2008 Big Question with me.Happy New Year! As promised ...We've somewhat lost our fearless Blogmeister, Dave Lee, so we've not been doing the Big Questions the past few months. I'll be doing the moderating. But, we are starting again ...
One can imagine the time in our pre-paleolithic history when formal learning consisted of two balanced parts:
During the day, people with skills would show others how to do something. "Grab the spear here," the teacher might say, taking the hands of the apprentice and putting [...]
There is a pact between corporate students and corporate trainers (and, I think, IT, budget holders, the lawyers, and middle management) that essentially says, "We all know that training does almost nothing. Given that, let's all agree to make it as frictionless as possible so that we can all check'" [...]
There is a new field emerging, dealing with interactive content. I have created examples of it and written books about it, as have many others. But there is no universal name for the space (as in, "For our next program, we will use a" [...]
This question was sent to me a few weeks ago and I think it's great. The basic question is what are the best places to work. I'm sure we've all thought a bit about the different trade-offs with internal vs. external, different size/shape companies, types of [...] 
I was doing some benchmarking the other day between a few different organizations. One question that was asked was, what are the "no-brainer" groups of employees to train? (And there may be a second question, what are the no-brainer topics to train, like leadership, ethics, [...]
We are all faced with a hobbling paradox. Most agree that employees make or break an enterprise, but the HR team often seems to be constantly catching up.
Business leaders complain that they have to "break in" new HR people, and that individuals with HR degrees in college are not [...]
As compared to ten years ago when there were roughly four major authoring tools, today there are a large number of different tools and different approaches to creating content. You can use standard authoring tools, rapid development tools, LCMS, simulation development tools, HTML editors, Wikis, [...]
Capability based content is developed specifically with capability assimilation as its primary expectation outcome. This directly contradicts the majority of learning content developed today using [...]
One of the things that has always been somewhat surprising to me is that there seem to be relatively few examples of different kinds of eLearning available out there. So, this month I wanted to ask a slightly different kind of question that hopefully can [...]
Phd: I heard you think you have a great program.
Me: I do. I have this great program to develop people.
PhD: Why is it so good?
Me: Because it makes people more productive in the workplace.
PhD: So it's vocational? That's not really my thing.
Me: [...]
Dear Hollywood,
I bring you tidings from the Corporate training world. I hope you are doing well, and am looking forward to your summer fare.
I just have two pieces of bad news for you, and as a friend, I thought I would break it to you directly. Here is the first: [...]
Regarding the Big Question, I love PowerPoint to create graphics and present findings. What is great about them is that I can first play with them for a while to get them right, then embed them in Word documents, where they are small from a size perspective, remain editable, but [...]
I had a high school teacher who observed that the male students seemed to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to be male students, and the female students seemed to spend a lot of time trying figure out how to get male students.
As I work with [...]
I've been having some connection challenges the past few days, so I'm almost belated with this post but not quite - I've still got an hour until midnight here on the US Pacific Coast.
Five years ago, today - April 29, 2002, Jay Cross made the first official post to [...]
How often have you been in a situation where the training was absolutely wrong for the participant?
I don't mean wrong as in, person will never use these skills, or wrong as in, person should be out selling instead of being in a formal learning program, or wrong as in, [...]
How many of you knew Lucinda Roy? (I didnt). How many of you know her now? Probably a lot more.
Our educational institutions were already in a deep crisis and didnt need a mass killing to help sort things out. But in the midst of a senseless, heart-breaking and deeply [...]
