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Hey, That's Social Learning!

Dashe & Thomson

As the band director explained, the students organize the ensembles, recruit student musicians, and show up between one to four mornings a week – before school – to rehearse. The band director provides a safe environment and plenty of opportunities. The concert featured six chamber ensembles, five of which were self-directed.

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Hey, That's Social Learning! | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

As the band director explained, the students organize the ensembles, recruit student musicians, and show up between one to four mornings a week – before school – to rehearse. The band director provides a safe environment and plenty of opportunities. The concert featured six chamber ensembles, five of which were self-directed.

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What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

by Paul on March 23, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Opening weekend of March Madness is over. Blended learning may be a newer phenomenon in the corporate world, but coaches have been using a mixture of video, instructor-led, experiential and peer-to-peer learning for decades. Yes, it hurts just typing it.

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ROI of continuous training: HR Directors’ unsolvable problem?

Coorpacademy

In the 50s, PHD and former president of the American Society for Training and Development Donald Kirkpatrick described an evaluation model of training efficiency in a 4 levels pyramid: The Four Levels of Training Evaluation. How to maximize your impact as a HR Director? How do we calculate the ROI of continuous training?

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Free L&D webinars for January 2021

Limestone Learning

You Can Evaluate Soft Skills Training with the Kirkpatrick Model Have you been tasked with showing the value of a major soft skills initiative, such as leadership development, onboarding or change management? Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 9 a.m.–10 Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 11 a.m.–12 Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 10 a.m.–11

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MTA: Why the Kirkpatrick Model Works for Us

CLO Magazine

That summer, Michael Wiedecker, a 25-year veteran of the MTA, was appointed director of operations training, which meant this became his problem to solve. As he settled into his new job, Wiedecker read Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick’s book, “Training on Trial,” which inspired him to implement the Kirkpatrick training evaluation model at the MTA.

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

Dashe & Thomson

View all posts by Paul → ← Kirkpatrick Revisited Embracing Innovation in Learning → Download Free Whitepaper The Top 10 Pitfalls of End User Training – and How to Avoid Them Given the current state of the economy, businesses large and small are looking for ways to improve productivity while maintaining quality.