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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

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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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Organizational Change Management Cited – Again – as Key.

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Organizational change management, as usual, is right near the top of the list: A major contributor to the importance of change management stems from the impact on workers’ job roles, and the degree to which those changes can affect their careers.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. Company executives are typically interested in the bottom line, not how well their employees apply the learning from a training class. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Leveraging the Law of the Few to Manage Change in the Workplace.

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I believe user adoption or training should be developed with the intent of creating a social epidemic, or should we say ‘workplace epidemic.’ If the Pareto Principle holds, then these extraordinary few must be identified and leveraged to ensure a change in behavior occurs, enterprise-wide. And this shouldn’t be very hard.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

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Some of my favorite passages are as follows: As the situation is now in terms of game-changing use of technology, we are asking faculty to take on all the risk of change, but without the effort to make that change work. It is like encouraging faculty to use automobiles in 1910 at a time when there were no roads to drive on.

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

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When Im not busy helping to change the face of corporate learning, I like to train with the Dashe & Thomson company bike team, travel and read. View all posts by Jim → ← What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS? Properly d.

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Who's Going to Build the Social Learning Roads?

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Some of my favorite passages are as follows: As the situation is now in terms of game-changing use of technology, we are asking faculty to take on all the risk of change, but without the effort to make that change work. It is like encouraging faculty to use automobiles in 1910 at a time when there were no roads to drive on.