Clive on Learning

JULY 25, 2007

I was chuffed to find a Kirkpatrick on the bill here at the Asian HRD Conference talking about evaluation. Only this wasn't the Kirkpatrick - Don, of four levels fame - but his son, Jim, who by soem strange coincidence also talks about evaluation. A chance to put a face to the name.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 2, 2010

And some additional revenue can be generated by bespoke, value-added services (skills audits, evaluation and other consultancy). Top dollar can be charged for short, face-to-face workshops which fill in the gaps and meet customer-specific needs.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 1, 2008

The only issue I didn't agree with Charles on was the shift in emphasis in terms of evaluation from return on investment (ROI) to return on expectations (ROE). This echoed the work done by the CIPD as described in my posting, What's Wrong with Kirkpatrick?

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Clive on Learning

JULY 9, 2007

For that reason I had more than a little sympathy for a comment made by Neil Wright, a delegate at a recent event, on the subject of evaluation. Well, I suppose I really do believe that we should evaluate our interventions properly, if for no other reason than to fight our corner when it comes to the next round of budget negotiations.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 26, 2010

In a rare training-related article in People Management magazine, Evaluating Performance Gain from Training , my attention was drawn to an interesting study conducted by training outsourcing specialists KnowledgePool , with input from more than 10,000 learners and their managers over a three year period.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Big Question: the place for instruction in an information snacking culture A new vision for IT customer training April Money’s tight, let’s do some e-learning Shift represents a new commercial model for authoring software (review) Epic evaluation shows the value of preparing students for study Media Chemistry – exploring the elements of online (..)

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Clive on Learning

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation occur once and once only. The e-learning development model is typically applied in waterfall fashion - water can flow down step by step but it can never flow back up. Any iteration is an admission of error. How unlike classroom courses.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I'm unlikely to be the first tossed out (that has to be the evaluation specialist!) Anyway, Phil has decided that I should play the role of 'a leading authority on software for e-learning.' Thanks Phil. but I must be a strong contender.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

The answer, according to Judith - and her evaluation of the available research is convincing - is a complex one: Our genes have a major impact, perhaps 30-45%. The purpose of Judith's book is to solve the mystery of human individuality - why is it that identical twins who grew up together differ in personality?

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

After all, it's hard to argue against the sequence of analysis then design then development then implementation then evaluation - it's logical enough and is probably applied in one way or another in a wide range of human endeavours.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 11, 2009

What he found was not the typical e-learning process of defining the problem, outlining the solution, designing the detail, making and deploying, and then evaluating (if you're lucky). Design processes Still puzzled as to why we weren't seeing more engaging e-learning content, Patrick looked at how design was carried out in other disciplines.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2007

Is it the analysis, the design, the creation of media, the delivery or the evaluation? Bring together forums, blogs, wikis and other social networking tools and every learner becomes a teacher, and content is co-created as an output from learning rather than a formal input. You need a software specialist to sort that out.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

People will evaluate better audio fidelity differently than poorer audio fidelity. In The Media Equation by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass (Cambridge University Press, 1996), the authors make some profound and non-intuitive assertions about the ways in which people relate to computers and TVs.

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

He pokes fun at the instructional design gurus whose pronouncements have been so slavishly followed for decades and which are so rarely evaluated for their real contribution and current relevance. Donald Clark's posting Gagne's Nine Dull Commandments was, true to form, amusing and designed to rock the boat.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 20, 2008

For me, the best tool to make this happen is blogging - it's a discipline that forces me to reflect on and evaluate the various ideas and experiences to which I am exposed in the course of my work. So, thanks to Manish for twisting my arm to make this Sunday afternoon a learning experience.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Now I haven't seen eye to eye with Martyn completely on the subjects of e-learning (see CIPD gives e-learning a mixed report ) or evaluation (see ROE, sorry but no thanks ), but this paper highlights that we have much more to join us than to divide us.

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Clive on Learning

MAY 23, 2007

The creator of Authorware and long-time instructional design guru created something of a stir (at least with me) when he announced his dissatisfaction with the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation) model for e-learning development and put his not inconsiderable weight behind a new process of 'successive approximation'.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

What makes for a rounded learning experience For the most part, Nick was not required to formally evaluate his learning interventions beyond completion, but decided to conduct his own research to find out from employees what had most influenced their career and their behaviour and what resources they used on a day-to-day basis.

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Compliance Training Social Networks Attitudes Social Media 72

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

This draws automatically on their past experience of the particular context, existing knowledge and intelligence and avoids them having to evaluate all new information from the bottom up. Individuals use top-down processing to reduce overload.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Instead of the individual having to evaluate and process every bit of information, she/he creates a personal network of trusted nodes: people and content, enhanced by technology. Knowledge extends beyond the individual to their personal network of trusted 'nodes', both sources of content and other people with specialist knowledge.

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Clive on Learning

JANUARY 3, 2006

The fourth paradigm represents the ultimate learner-centred approach: learners identify their own needs, work out how best to meet these, implement their own training plan and then evaluate their own results. What they don't do is wait for teachers and trainers to do this for them.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 8, 2011

The Big Question on the ASTD Learning Circuits Blog is long enough to fill a post all by itself: How do you assess whether your informal learning, social learning, continuous learning, performance support initiatives have the desired impact or achieve the desired results?

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Clive on Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

With the economic downturn in full swing (assuming, that is, that downturns can swing) and training budgets as ever looking vulnerable as the first candidate for cuts, I'm beginning to hear once more that well-honed argument that training should be regarded as an investment and not an expense. As if that was all there was to it!

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Clive on Learning

MAY 30, 2011

Initial priorities of the Learning Council were to rationalise down from 14 learning management systems to one, establish an evaluation strategy, develop an online learning planning tool, and to create a single system for procurement. Phase two was to move from what Peter called “getting things fixed” to “doing things more effectively.”

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 27, 2007

Document results : Here the authors stress the importance of evaluation in terms of business outcomes and the documentation of the findings so that points can be proved to powers that be.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Evaluator: The consultant cannot hope to obtain long-term credibility if the only way they can validate their work is in terms of happy learners. We know we must do better at evaluation. If things are going to change, we have no choice but to develop our business skills.

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Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Evaluator: The consultant cannot hope to obtain long-term credibility if the only way they can validate their work is in terms of happy learners. We know we must do better at evaluation. If things are going to change, we have no choice but to develop our business skills.

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Clive on Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Before I take a break for Christmas, I thought I'd provide you with this summary of all my posts on Clive on Learning in 2012. I've marked with asterisks a few posts that were particularly signifiant from my point of view.

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Learning Objects elearning vendor 85

Clive on Learning

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

George Siemens described it like this: ‘Instead of the individual having to evaluate every bit of information, he or she creates a personal network of trusted nodes - people and content, enhanced by technology. You could regard it as knowledge that exists externally to ourselves, as a sort of ‘outboard brain’.

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