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A tribute to Dr Donald Kirkpatrick, pioneer and veteran of Instructional Design

Origin Learning

Facebook 1 Twitter 5 Google+ 0 LinkedIn 1 Pinterest 1 Origin Learning mourns the loss of a great innovator. Dr. Donald Kirkpatrick is one of those few people that have achieved eternity by virtue of their contribution. Dr. Kirkpatrick was the keynote and featured speaker at many events in the world of workplace learning.

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To “Kirkpatrick” or not to “Kirkpatrick”, that is the Question (or is it?)

Learning Rebels

To “Kirkpatrick” or not to “Kirkpatrick”, that is the question. Many a person has debated the Kirkpatrick evaluation taxonomy. To name a few: Dan Pontefract: Dear Kirkpatrick’s: You Still Don’t Get It (a personal favorite). Jane Bozarth: Alternatives to Kirkpatrick .

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The Kirkpatrick Model: Leveraging Feedback for Better Training

Everwise

Feedback is so important in the context of training that it is one of the pillars of the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Framework. Developed by Donald Kirkpatrick, PhD in the 1950s, the Kirkpatrick Model is comprised of four levels of evaluation: reaction, learning, behavior, and results.

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Training evaluation: Ask the right questions

Ed App

Kirkpatrick has been writing about evaluating training programs for close to 60 years. Kirkpatrick and Wendy Kayser Kirkpatrick. The Kirkpatricks are specialists in helping trainers understand how to evaluate a program’s effectiveness. So, what are the most effective questions to ask when evaluating training programs ?

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Twitter as Social Learning: Seven Ways to Facilitate the Exchange.

Dashe & Thomson

For those of you that use web-based aggregators like Google Reader but have not yet made room for Tweets, Twitter is an aggregator on steroids. Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. Properly d.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

If you question whether organizations can succeed by treating employees like members of an improv theater troupe, just look at Google – where employees are encouraged to spend one day a week working on “own” projects. As it turns out, this practice has produced more than half of Google’s current offerings, including Gmail.

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Conducting Post-Course Evaluations

CourseArc

The industry standard Kirkpatrick model measures training based on the four levels of analysis: Level 1: Did the learners enjoy training? Here is a link to a sample Level 1 evaluation using Google Forms embedded within CourseArc. Level 2: What did the learners learn? Level 2 evaluations usually take a form of a test.

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