So, this month, The Big Question is... PowerPoint - What is Appropriate, When and Why? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points to Consider: As you write your answer, please consider some of the following aspects: How should you use PowerPoint differently for different kinds of presentations? Are there times when PowerPoint (or slides in general) are just wrong to use? You can find tagged pages at: [link]

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?" Here are several ways to help sell Social Media in an organization. Position Social Media Differently Than It's Intended Use For example, the Twitter question is "What are you doing?" Address a Business Need The most important element in communicating the value of Social Media is to solve a pressing business need. If you try to sell the use of social media as a technology play, it will not work.

This month's ASTD Big Question relates to a person who graduated from a theory-only program in Instructional Design and was not provided with the experience of actually creating instruction using any of the latest tools. So the question is: What advice would you give to someone who has no experience with e-learning development tools? Holding Where do you start? Particular tools you should explore?

This month's Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is In skills development Learning Circuits Blog Big Question Learning Professiona In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more... The

So, this month I wanted to ask a slightly different kind of question that hopefully can produce something of value. The Big Question is... Where are the Examples of eLearning? Please answer this question by posting to your own blog or commenting on this post. (For further help in how to participate via blog posts, see the side bar.) Points to Consider: Please point us to all sorts of examples. Good examples, bad examples are 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.

The Big Question posed on Learning Circuits this time,as always , is thought provoking – Social Learning – Social learning has made it big this year. Related posts: The Big Question: Time Spent CIPD Learning and Development Survey 2009 Top 50 Mobile Learning Resources ...Tags: What did you learn about Learning in 2009? I

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?

The Big Question is a new monthly feature on Learning Circuits Blog. Each month we will pose a question we think is of interest to the learning community. For info on how it will work, please see the Sidebar. The Big Question for October is: Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? Posts Discussing This So Far (26): Dave Lee - eelearning - did your great-great-great-great grandfather write a novel? Tony Karrer - eLearning Technology - LCB's Big Question - Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging? Brent Schlenker - Corporate eLearning

The ASTD Big question this month is What did you learn about learning in 2008? The third big learning was that organizations who seemed the least open, most secretive and most regulated jumped into Social Media with both feet while other industries are still floundering. Examples include the United States Intelligence community and the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer I wrote a number of posts this year about Social Media for Learning: Adopting Social Media in Your Organization: I learn so much all the time from students, clients and colleagues, it is hard to narrow it down to just two or three things, but I'll try.

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 How to reach out and find expertise -How to use Social Media to Find Answers to Questions -How to Learn through Conversation And then the questions are even broken down further into more sub-questions which you can read for yourself at the original ASTD Blog posting Network Feedback .