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Selling Social Media for Learning: ASTD Big Question

Kapp Notes

This month's ASTD Learning Circuit's Blog Big Question is "How do I communicate the value of social media as a learning tool to my organization?" The question then should be "What you are thinking?" or "What problem are you trying to solve?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization.

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ASTD's Big Question for December 2008: New Learning

Kapp Notes

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2008? The powerful little computer literally has dozens and dozens of games that teach every thing from Spanish to French to Problem-Solving and even how to cook. Tags: ASTD Big Question.

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The Big Question: Breaking down the organisational walls to learning

Clive on Learning

In the ASTD Learning Circuits blog this month, they comment on the fact that, in many organisations, learners are reaching outside of the organisation to enhance their learning experience, through social networking and other media. It's inside that the problems come. I have to admit I can't see why there would be any problem here.

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The LCB Big Question Reframed: Should More Learning Professionals Be Blogging?

Tony Karrer

But, I didn't feel like we arrived at the next level of questions nearly as well as a discussion group might have. Certainly, some of the questions raised that I remember: What's a learning professional? ASTD - that's an ouch given that's how you define your audience right?) Is that a problem? Do people feel cheated?

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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

And every year I use this as a Big Question – see: Learning 2010. And a big part of the problem is just how many there are and how fast they change. 6) iPad (5) SkillSoft (2) Social Learning (15) Virtual Classroom (5) ASTD (8) eLearningGuild (2) And here were my top posts based on social signals.

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Better Conferences - Response Needed

Tony Karrer

If you've been a reader of my blog for a while, you may have figured out that I'm almost continually surprised by what I consider to be obvious problems with the conferences I regularly attend - and no offense to the eLearningGuild, ASTD, etc. because most conferences have these same problems. Learning is changing.

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Clive Sheppard - What Questions

Tony Karrer

This month's LCB Big Question is What Questions Should We be Asking? 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.

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