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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. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.

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Measuring ROI of Custom eLearning Development Solutions

Infopro Learning

Adopting innovative methods of training delivery can help you achieve maximum ROI and improve business results. Organizations may evaluate the overall impact of learning from the following different levels of the Kirkpatrick Model: Reaction—How does the learner feel about the training program? Creating a Learning Success Plan.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Misconceptions?

Clark Quinn

The problem with the latter category is that folks will eagerly adopt, or avoid, these topics without understanding the nuances. They may miss opportunities to leverage the benefits, or perhaps more worrying, they’ll spend on an incompletely-understood premise.

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Misconceptions?

Upside Learning

The problem with the latter category is that folks will eagerly adopt, or avoid, these topics without understanding the nuances. They may miss opportunities to leverage the benefits, or perhaps more worrying, they’ll spend on an incompletely-understood premise.

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Who's Building the Social Learning Roads? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Trent Batson wrote a great piece on technology adoption in the classroom a couple weeks ago entitled Faculty ‘Buy in’ – to What? Anthony “[hopes] that college educators will adopt this tool as a way to engage the students with technology without having to drastically change their teaching methods.” Sad, but true. Properly d.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

Dashe & Thomson

It sounds like Weejee is growing quickly with Ian and Tracy at the helm, but they too are frustrated with the slow adoption of informal learning. The slow adoption of social learning is not localized to Minnesota and North Carolina. Last week I had a phone conversation with Ian Huckabee of WeeJee Media. Go take a peek. Properly d.