strategyI was defending Kirkpatrick’s  levels the other day, and after being excoriated by my ITA colleagues, I realized there was not only a discrepancy between principle and practice, but between my interpretation and as it’s espoused. Perhaps I’ve been too generous. The general idea is that there are several levels at which you can evaluate interventions: whether the recipient considered the intervention appropriate or not. whether the recipient can demonstrate new ability after the intervention. whether the intervention is being applied in the workplace, and. MORE >>

LMS is a fairly common and used (or over-used) phrase in eLearning parlance and means, primarily a software system that allows customers to do a few or many things when it comes to adopting eLearning as a part of the overall Learning strategy. Are more customers looking it as a mere tool which automates tasks and increases the productivity and efficiency of training department or are they looking it as a ‘solution’ or maybe something much bigger than that as well – strategy? Is it strategy or is it just a tool? And a few more such questions. don’t know!) MORE >>

Your governance plan should include a schedule of when the group meets, what policies guide the role of governance, what metrics the governance group uses to look at the performance of the group  implementing  the plan (ie how the executors of the strategy are doing, not how the strategy is doing), and what partners are included. The strategy will need partners including fundamental ones providing necessary components (e.g. Support capability will include supporting the team with any questions they might need answer, and also the folks for whom the strategy is for. MORE >>

This is either in terms of specific needs, e.g., improve customer satisfaction, or as part of an overall eLearning strategy. I've spent several hours this morning trying to find good resources on eLearning Strategy development and particularly looking for examples to use in this post. It's interesting working closely with L&D Technology Groups because you are a key influencer, but you don't really decide much about the performance and learning strategies. Predicting Needs The starting point for an eLearning Strategy is predicting needs. This is very hard. MORE >>

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