Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Kirkpatrick Revisited by Barbara on April 18, 2011 in Instructional Design After I finished my post a few weeks ago on Reevaluating Evaluation , I found out that Donald Kirkpatrick , the granddaddy of the Four Levels of Evaluation, was taking a farewell tour before his retirement and would be presenting a workshop at the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) in Minneapolis. Level 2: Learning. He says unless one or more of the learning objectives?knowledge, MORE >>

This are my live blogged notes from a session at ASTD Learning 2.0. Understand the role and value of CM Social business becomes a strategic imperative. Companies need to be truthful with themselves – who you are as a company with social will rear it’s head Policies & Governance policies are the legalese; guidelines are how you want people to behave (guidelines are firmly rebooted to your goals) Tools Don’t feel like you have to use every SoMe tool or channel There’s not one tool that’s go it all. astdl20 community social media social learning MORE >>

With great anticipation I entered the huge expo at ASTD International show earlier this week. Learning has been minimal. Mobile Learning. Some angle to game based learning – either an app or actual product. Social Learning. If you think they used the ASTD app and wrote down some notes, I think you would be surprised. If you are a LMS vendor and they are looking at you – they have some inkling on e-learning and a LMS – hence they are looking at them – so why do some lame pitch about what is a LMS, what is e-learning, etc. MORE >>

The session was on HPT and Social Learning: Organizational Performance in the Cloud b y David Wilkins, VP of Product Marketing at Learn.com. keen and passionate believer in the power of Social Networking (SN) in improving organizational performance--not marginally but manifold--this session was an eye-opener for me. We should! ~@ dwilkinsnh #ISPI #ASTD GenY has a tribe. What costs could be avoided/lessened, and to what extent, if Informal Learning tools were embraced in work processes? And Dave (@dwilkinsnh) made getting up at 4:00 a.m. so totally worth it. MORE >>

I am VERY excited for my first ASTD TechKnowledge experience. When I was invited by Cammy Bean (@cammybean) and Michelle Lentz (@writetechnology) to talk SCORM, AICC and Future Learning Experience Project during a TK Chat with Kris Rockwell (@hybridkris), I was giddy. ASTD is such a storied community and for all my experiences, I’m only just getting to know it. I’m not going to be shy about it — I hope our TK Chat is the biggest TK Chat at ASTD. Learning SCORM Social Learning adl astd conferences discussions project tin can tk11 MORE >>