Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

I have included Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation in every proposal I have ever written, and I wanted to hear from Kirkpatrick himself regarding his take on the current state of evaluation and whether his four levels are still viable. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.

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Kirkpatrick Social Learning Social Networks Blogging 168

Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. But it wasn’t.

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Evalution Social Networks Social Learning Blended Learning 160

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 20, 2012

Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. Reaction: To what degree did the learners react favorably to the training experience? Kirkpatrick calls this Return on Expectations, or ROE.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? At first I couldn’t think whether I actually applied how training was delivered to these different types of learners. The students directed their own learning.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Social Learning Blogging 140

Learning Visions

APRIL 29, 2011

Today I’m at ASTD’s New England Regional Conference: Learning 2.0 These are my live blogged notes from the opening keynote with Tony Bingham, CEO and President of ASTD. Because learning is the center of strategy. Tom Peters says selling is ultimately about getting engaged in your prospect’s culture – it’s about training.

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Tony Karrer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Mark Oehlert post: I long for this kind of debate in our learning circles. In particular, he laments that as he was reading a discussion in a different domain and "working on the team picking out sessions for the 2007 ASTD conference " he found himself wanting to have better discussion and debate in our world of learning.

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Discussion Bloom Kirkpatrick Cognitive 100

Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 16, 2007

Kirkpatrick's Level 3: Improving the Evaluation of E-Learning Level 3 evaluations measure whether the there was an actual transfer of learning to the actual work setting. Questions you may have include: * What is the reason for the training? I'm working on an article around the use of ROI and metrics in eLearning.

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