What do you like about LCB?

I like that people get to expound on their pet topics with honesty and candour. In an environment where things are changing so rapidly, nobody is an expert. There are no rules, rights, or wrongs. All we really have is experience, opinions, and passion. LCB provides a forum for that, a canvas on which we can all paint.

(Godfrey Parkin)

It may be our opinion that there are no experts, but many people would consider someone who pays daily attention to trends, and has experience with systems and theories and practice to be experts and so would I, so I'd really like to see a number of "experts" talking about interesting things that have the blog devolve into a "newbie" blog with lots of people "asking questions" about things that are fundamental. (On the other hand, ASTD may in fact be about that...) "Quality" to me means that we have experts who write about things that are really neat, and current, and important, and people can interact and ask questions if they wish. (Jim Schuyler)

Godfrey alludes to one of the things that I like the most about Learning Circuits Blog is the fact that we are free to do, say, be, whatever we feel is important. While LCB is affiliated with Learning Circuits, ASTD's online magazine, enabling us to use the Learning Circuits name and draw readership from the ASTD website and members. Short of railing against ASTD, we've been given the mandate to explore and try new things. debate and discuss alternative ways of creating learning experiences. To freely look at changing the way we do things. LCB is and can truly be a space for collaborative, negotiated learning. (Dave Lee)

I'm kinda siding with Jim on this one. My education is really in history and anthropology - later in life, some ISD but if you ask me, I'll say I'm a historian/anthropologist. One of the defining characteristics of both those fields is a continuous, sometime rancorous debate over the pre-dominant theories which guide the field. Historiography is an entire field of study dedicated to looking at how historians DO history. Sometimes I feel we lack that kind of critical examination and re-examination in the learning field (which strikes me as a bit ironic)- especially considering the fact that so many of the very people who have helped create what is considered the canon of adult learning are still us! I mean in history, we still debate the validity and utility of theories that were formed hundreds if not thousands of years ago. So to make a short story long...I really like the idea that the LCB has both the visibility and freedom to occupy this role

(Mark Oehlert)

If you look at models for transition to expertise, at the bottom it's almost all formal, and at the top it's all negotiated understanding. Which is what we can do. I like the (potential) opportunity to engage in mutual expertise building, in a fishbowl where others can learn. We have other channels for our own particular thoughts, so I'd welcome a chance to focus on issues we agree are important to work together on, or what our audience asks for.

(Clark Quinn)

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