For this reason surveys can be a great tool to gather feedback to be used to improve future courses. Many learning management systems provide a way to administer surveys. However, you may find these surveys are not adequate or your project may not even involve an LMS. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to embed a survey created in Google Docs into a Lectora project. You can learn how to create a Google Survey in Google Docs Help section (creating forms from spreadsheets) or simply search for "How to create a Google Survey". by Jonathan Shoaf. MORE >>

Here’s the invitation as I received it, with permission to pass it on directly to all aLearning Blog readers: Ventureneer (an online education and peer support company for social-impact organizations) and Caliber (a cause-marketing consulting firm) are conducting a survey to learn which social media are used by nonprofits, how effective those media are and what best practices should nonprofits be using. Your participation and the participation of other nonprofits is key to the success of the survey. This survey closes August 20, so add your two cents (or more) today! MORE >>

The ID survey on this blog now has over 200 responses: 62% do not have advanced degrees. Tags: instructional design survey I stumbled across this on a writer's blog today: "Officially, I’m now an Instructional Designer. fancy term for writing training material." Blog link not provided to protect the innocent]. Koreen Olbrish asks "Is Instructional Design Dead?" If all we do is write training material, then perhaps yes. The debate has raged here and elsewhere as to whether instructional designer's need to have advanced degrees in ID. Some folks are "writers of training material." MORE >>

It’s been a slow start to the 2010 Unofficial Salary Survey of eLearning, Content Development and Training jobs. So far the survey seems to be dominated by male responders (72%). Some changes I had introduced in this year’s survey were: Number of years of experience is more specific rather than a range. The survey can be useful only if more people participate. There's nothing official about this survey. The survey is not based on responses by companies but based on responses provided by you, the employee. The survey is anonymous. MORE >>

The Centre for Performance Development has released the results of their Learning & Skills 2011 survey – which was held both at the event and online. Read more about it on the survey page on their website. The survey asked people to put blue or orange m&ms in various jars representing the L&D activities they expected to do more or less in 2011. This CLO survey says Classroom Training is Still King and the proportion of use is growing; yet most respondents in US are also looking to do more technology assisted learning. Blue for more and Orange for less. MORE >>