Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 15, 2011

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.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 17, 2011

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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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

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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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

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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