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How social are our intranets?

E-Learning Provocateur

By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability.

Social 180
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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Suppose a special training program is implemented to improve an organisation’s flagging culture metric. When the employee engagement survey is run again later, the metric goes up. What actually caused the metric to go up? Congratulations to the L&D team for a job well done, right?

Evalution 180
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Re-thinking Workplace Learning: extracting rather than adding

Performance Learning Productivity

By almost any standards the sample in this study was large – 8,500 cases drawn from 14 organisations across six industries in nine countries. The focus can no longer be on learning and learning metrics, but on performance and performance metrics. And it changes viable measurement approaches as well.

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How intersectionality and immersive learning help companies address gender inequity in the workplace

CLO Magazine

When we again disaggregate these statistics, 67 percent of Latina and Asian women agree, 63 percent of white women agree and only 49 percent of Black women agree. This offers a lesson that organizations must dive deep into their metrics. In future reporting, we hope to drill down into non-binary or gender fluid employee trends.

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How social are our intranets?

E-Learning Provocateur

By “SII” I mean Social Intranet Index – a metric I have proposed to measure the degree of social functionality afforded by the platform. I tailed my previous blog post with the question: What is the SII of your organisation’s intranet? From 1 through to 10, the SII represents an increasing level of sociability.

Social 100
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The unscience of evaluation

E-Learning Provocateur

Suppose a special training program is implemented to improve an organisation’s flagging culture metric. When the employee engagement survey is run again later, the metric goes up. What actually caused the metric to go up? Congratulations to the L&D team for a job well done, right?

Evalution 100
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SOLUTIONING IMPLICATIONS OF HEGEMONY

Learnnovators

For example, most studies on digital practices do not ensure that their samples include older people or happen to include inaccurate open-ended categories that lump together people at different life stages. We need to be able to recognize the inherent skews in the domain that the SME may not notice or think to mention.

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