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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I said in my last post that Kirkpatrick’s four levels were all about the training itself rather than how the training affects organizations. He suggests evaluation checks throughout the training?skill skill practice, role plays, and training simulations?with to training?to It was an opportunity I couldn’t miss.

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Our Blog Turns One Today

Upside Learning

It’s been a year since we started blogging (March 03, 2009) and we are raring to go another notch high. In the process of writing & sharing our thoughts, we now have a whole bunch of people (bloggers) at Upside who follow a large number of related blogs daily. There has been some important learning too on the blog front: 1.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Some companies will use “Level 2: Learning” to measure whether the learners have mastered the training course content. The focus is on the training event itself and the follow-up to that event. Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class.

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Embracing Innovation in Learning | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

If you think about the traditional model of corporate training, managers and leaders have control (sometimes way too much) over the formal training that their workers receive. In both cases, the managers had complete control over the training their workers did or didn’t get. It was for their own good after all.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?”

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eLearning: Top Posts of 2009 - Upside Learning Blog

Upside Learning

As we knock on 2010’s doors, it’s a good time to look at what we did on this blog in 2009. We started this blog in March 2009 and in its 10 month existence has more than a 100 posts. The blog now has about 500 subscribers and has received more than 53000 page views and more than 200 comments. eLearning Outsourcing.

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The Return of the (Digital) Native | Social Learning Blog

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Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Return of the (Digital) Native by Jim on March 25, 2011 in mobile learning In recent years, we’ve all heard a lot about digital natives. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In?