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MTA: Why the Kirkpatrick Model Works for Us

CLO Magazine

In early 2012, the MTA had a problem — too many of its recently trained bus drivers were involved in accidents. As he settled into his new job, Wiedecker read Jim and Wendy Kirkpatrick’s book, “Training on Trial,” which inspired him to implement the Kirkpatrick training evaluation model at the MTA.

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Insights: Evaluation and follow-up matters

Clive on Learning

This post completes my commentary to the Learning Insights 2012 Report produced by Kineo for e.learning age magazine. Encouragingly the insights report is telling us that: 'Budget appears to be available where you can prove value to the business. The tenth and final 'insight' is that ‘Evaluation and follow-up matters'.

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

eLearning 24-7

Who knew this was not a good business plan? Instructional designers, Instructional Technologists and e-learning developers who worked at a company, association, firm, and other business entities, saw a solution called Captivate, that offered a more nuanced course build that allowed complexity if so chosen. The Depression of 2008-2012.

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Coldwell Banker: Sealing the Deal

CLO Magazine

The company’s corporate university, Coldwell Banker University (CBU), continued to thrive in 2012 after it emphasized performance-based courses and used new technology — such as cloud computing and online video — to train its agents and managers.

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2013 Strategy — Division 2

CLO Magazine

But in fall 2012 the company needed to slow down its fast-paced growth to maintain profitability amid the broader forces in the industry, namely the economy and an increase in fuel prices. The company needed to create a learning and development function from the ground up.

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Social, Informal Learning Can Be ?Measured

CLO Magazine

A 2012 Towards Maturity benchmarking study (Figure 1) showed that: • 95 percent of companies surveyed want to use technology to increase best practice sharing, but only 25 percent are achieving this. • 92 percent seek to use learning technologies to respond faster to business change, but only 25 percent achieve this.

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Learning to the Rescue: The FDIC’s Thom Terwilliger

CLO Magazine

In 2011 and 2012, there were 92 and 51 bank failures, respectively. He said by 2015 the function’s goal is to have evaluations that reach all five levels of Donald Kirkpatrick’s evaluation taxonomy. “I always thought I’d go on to a career of business in some sort,” he said. from 2002 to 2007.