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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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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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How to Design Effective Training for Learning Evaluation & Analytics

Watershed

We talk a lot about learning evaluation and measuring the effectiveness of training on the overall business. First Stop: Designing a Delicious Course. So, we'll start our series by digging into this challenge while also examining the question: Why is learning evaluation so hard? Key Ingredients: Measurable Learning Programs.

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How to Design Effective Training for Learning Evaluation & Analytics

Watershed

We talk a lot about learning evaluation and measuring the effectiveness of training on the overall business. First Stop: Designing a Delicious Course. So, we'll start our series by digging into this challenge while also examining the question: Why is learning evaluation so hard? Key Ingredients: Measurable Learning Programs.

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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?

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Benchmark for better or worse

CLO Magazine

While not a necessary step, the practice of mise en place is used by many successful professional kitchen staff, as it can ensure optimal performance in the kitchen and can help to reduce the number of challenges along the way to completing a delicious dish. What makes the program so vigorous is its use of data.