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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My thinking about training evaluation was turned on its head by a presentation at the February 2011 MNISPI meeting by Beth McGoldrick of Ameriprise’s RiverSource University. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. But it wasn’t. She enhanced it.

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Kirkpatrick Revisited | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I have included Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation in every proposal I have ever written, and I wanted to hear from Kirkpatrick himself regarding his take on the current state of evaluation and whether his four levels are still viable. We need to let the stakeholders define their expectations for the program.

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Program Evaluation: A Process for Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

I was recently asked, “What is your view of program evaluation? At the risk of over-simplifying these two approaches to knowing, I would say that the purpose of evaluation is to improve programs, services, and organizations and to be accountable for results. How does it differ from research?” cost per person served).

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Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

But how do you evaluate something that is as unpredictable and serendipitous as informal learning? The following post first appeared on this blog in November 2010. . Kirsten Ellenbogen describes some of these methods on the American Evaluation Association blog. These evaluation tools could easily be applied in work settings.

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Resources for Finding Out How Long it Takes to Develop eLearning

Kapp Notes

You can find a table of our results in an article we wrote Time to Develop One Hour of Training for example we found that to create one hour of high interactivity; multiple animations within a template took between 136 and 324 hours (big range) those hours include everything from analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation.

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Accelerated Learning: Where Does It Fit In? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I started thinking about this during a program on Accelerated Learning at the Minnesota Chapter of the International Society of Performance Improvement (MNISPI). Then I remembered a series of highly successful training programs designed to address the three learning styles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He said it was great.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Users can split the program into columns which show different things, including your Twitter feed, your Facebook feed, Twitter mentions, saved searches, etc. It also allows users to split people they follow into groups and supports on-the-fly URL shortening. View all posts by Paul → ← Can Games Transform the World?