Originally posted to Chief Learning Officer Magazine, February 2011 Edition. The magnetic vortex known as the Four Levels of Evaluation, utilized pervasively and at times blindly within the learning industry, has run its course and is in need of an update, if not a replacement. Since 1959, over 50 years ago, learning professionals en masse and across the planet have employed the Kirkpatrick Model as the sole basis of evaluation. Our burgeoning 2.0 Learning is a continuous, connected and collaborative process. assessment learning 2.0 The problem? MORE >>

If you read some of the predictions for 2009  that were compiled by Lisa Neal Gualtieri at eLearn Magazine, you may have noticed that people foresee a resurgence of informal learning, especially in new, e-mediated forms.  While I agree that many people have developed some savvy with really cool tools, using those tools for learning is a different skill set.  One of the challenges I think we need to address is the need to teach people a new way to learn.  Here’s what I mean: Learning Skill. Learning 2.0 One of the promises of web 2.0 MORE >>

tweet (as @stickylearning ) mainly about learning related topics and follow people who also have learning as their main focus. I'm also interested in how design thinking impacts upon learning and the use of visuals to communicate ideas and knowledge.  share articles and thoughts on learning that I hope others will find worthwhile, in return I'm learning heaps!  My Top 25 Twitterers for Learning Not that easy to do I now realise!! Web 2.0 Tags: Ideas Learning Learning 2.0 Why wouldn't you use Twitter?! on Twitter. rnarchana. MORE >>

Ellen’s post focused on how new Learning Designers get “cranky” at the first mention of the ADDIE process (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation).   Throughout the 90’s many Instructional Designers and e-Learning Developers (me included) grew disgruntled with ADDIE (and its mother process Instructional Systems Design—ISD ) as training struggled to keep up with business demands for speed and quality and as we  observed process innovations in software and product development field (Rapid Application Development, Iterative prototyping etc). Add Web 2.0, MORE >>

This past week, I attended the SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas. Those organizations (and frankly public learning institutions) that are clinging to their standalone learning management systems as a way in which to serve up formal ILT course schedules and eLearning are absolutely missing the big picture. This is the nuclear fault of the LMS itself and of anitquated thinking from our learning leaders; it encourages standalone learning by driving people to register for an event … be it an ILT class or an eLearning module. Dinosaur. Soviet Union. MORE >>