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How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness

CourseArc

Instructional designers aim to provide the necessary content to accomplish these goals, but sometimes the delivery of a course or training isn’t very effective. Luckily, there’s a proven process that helps you measure the effectiveness of your courses and start to fix any problems in their delivery. LEVEL 1: Reaction.

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How Well Does Your Company Know its World?

Mindflash

How have your customers’ spending attitudes changed? What is popular, effective, and attention-getting? Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user RambergMediaImages. Social trends — What is popular and important to your customers? What are people buying, thinking, and saying? Where are they moving to, or from?

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The labelling game

Learning with e's

Our attitudes towards each student begins to harden and we think we can predict what they will do next. The Pygmalion effect , as it''s known can be beneficial. The reverse (or the Golem effect ) can also occur. Often we spend just a short amount of time with our students before we build an impression of their characters.

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Someone once remarked that the lecture is the most effective way to transfer a lecturer''s notes into a student''s notes without having to pass through two minds first. Photo by Steve Wheeler Shifting sands by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Moving the goalposts

Learning with e's

The bottom line is this: In the UK, exams are used by Government more to provide indicators of school effectiveness than they are for providing students with qualifications. Many assessment methods are substantially more effective in assessing for learning. It's as if all schools are now being punished for simply following the rules.

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The Best (and Worst) Practices in Sales Training: Q-and-A with Geoffrey James

Mindflash

When in fact, that may have some value and people may pick up some new ways of thinking that will help their attitude, but sales training, to be effective, really has to be targeted at specific behaviors that working a specific environment. Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user velvettangerine.

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Why Your Diversity Training Is Backfiring

Mindflash

And rather than changing attitudes of prejudice and bias, it solidified them.” A study of 829 companies over 31 years, published in the journal Contexts in November 2007, showed that diversity training had “no positive effects in the average workplace.” Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Sanj@y.