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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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How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness

CourseArc

Luckily, there’s a proven process that helps you measure the effectiveness of your courses and start to fix any problems in their delivery. Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Approach to Assessing Training Outcomes. For example: Did the course increase productivity? LEVEL 4: Results. Was the overall error rate reduced?

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Virtual Boot-Camp: Games and Learning with the U.S. Military.

Dashe & Thomson

Navy’s new plan to crowd-source the Somali piracy problem may be even more revolutionary. Navy intends to sit back and watch what unfolds, taking advantage of thousands of minds to generate innovative approaches to a real-world problem. As innovative as VBS 2 may be, the U.S. Essentially, the U.S. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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Free learning & development webinars for May 2024

Limestone Learning

PT: Unmasking Truths: Demystifying Training Evaluation with the Kirkpatrick Model Dive into the heart of training evaluation in this enlightening session dedicated to dispelling the four most common myths surrounding the Kirkpatrick Model. Myth 3: The Kirkpatrick Model is inflexible. Myth 4: Results are hard to measure.

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Alternatives to Kirkpatrick

bozarthzone

While the Kirkpatrick taxonomy is something of a sacred cow in training circles—and much credit goes to Donald Kirkpatrick for being the first to attempt to apply intentional evaluation to workplace training efforts—it is not the only approach. More later on alternatives to the Kirkpatrick taxonomy. Enough already, Jane!

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How Social Networks Can Harness the Power of Weak Ties | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

The real discovery came when they posed problems for various employees to solve. They found that the employees near the edge of a cluster were more effective at problem-solving than those in the middle of a cluster. The clustering of employee groups was not the surprising thing. Download the whitepaper » Blog this! Properly d.

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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

And what used to be homework [solving problems] is now done in the classroom.” What happens in class is interactive problem solving – which means, in effect, that the “teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom,” he says. Khan discusses this whole phenomenon in this 20-minute TED talk. Download the whitepaper » Blog this!

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