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How to evaluate social and informal learning

Jay Cross

Dan Pontefract had a great post on TrainingWreck about the inadequacy of the Kirkpatrick model in a world where learning is increasingly collaborative and networked. In brief, the Kirkpatrick levels are good for events, not processes. Kirkpatrick is about push, not pull, learning. Network analysis.

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LearnTrends: Backchannel

Jay Cross

Asif: Kirkpatrick talks about 'ROE -- return on expectations'. Gillian: As jobs become less 'for life', surely the indiviudal is assisting in breaking down the 'do unto' mode of course provision and actually fostering self-reliance and curiosity in learning - if only for personal economic survival. IT, HR, Communications, legal.