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How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness

CourseArc

Every course or training initiative has at least one of two goals: to bridge knowledge gaps , and/or to transform the learner’s behavior. 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. LEVEL 3: Behavior.

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Fast forward to more recent history, and we’ve gone from gleaning survival skills from our social group to trying to figure out the most effective means of transmitting skills to individuals new to our organizations and integrating them into our workplace cultures.

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How to Make Sure Your Course Meets Its Learning Objectives

CourseArc

To be effectively measured, these objectives must be framed in terms of the ABCD guidelines proposed by educational psychologist and theorist Robert Mager to include: A = Audience. B = Behavior. Unambiguous behavioral statements will help instructional designers create content that clearly aims to achieve those objectives.

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Why Mixing It Up With Employees Makes Trench Instructors More Effective

Mindflash

But by having an instructor there to help frame these kinds of conversations, employees are learning to keep the discussion focused on the topic and behaviors, not personalities. Call it intimidation, or call it learning, I see a change in behavior. Meetings became more effective. That’s practical, on-the-spot learning.

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Standard deviation

Learning with e's

First there is the social impact: Communication technology may create a psychological distance between people; it can have detrimental effects on our concentration. Such deviation from tasks can seriously effect productivity, and may compromise the health and safety of self and others. Unported License.

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Four Core Elements of Great Learning — and How to Avoid ‘Teaching by Telling’

Mindflash

What was meant to be a program on global HR became a program on teaching, learning, and changing behavior. A follow-up process to assess the effectiveness of the lesson — how did the class or audience understand and use the new information? Image used under Creative Commons by Flickr user Geetesh Bajaj.

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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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