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. She enhanced it.

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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. This is no longer just evaluating whether you like the course. Level 1: Reaction.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Where Facebook and LinkedIn serve mainly as social dashboards for our personal and professional networks, respectively, I see Twitter as a customized information portal. Tweet – Tweets are almost identical to Status Updates in Facebook, except Twitter users are even less interested to hear about the tuna fish sandwich you just ate for lunch.

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Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 1, 2011

Training uses evaluations, both formal and informal. The key to developing the best employee or the best training is to evaluate and develop them. Take the time to review your evaluation forms. Those being evaluated will also value the response, and hopefully improve their work in the necessary areas.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 21, 2011

View all posts by Jon → ← Re-evaluating Evaluation What Can March Madness Teach Us About Blended Learning? In this case, the corporate learning world can learn a lot from Khan Academy, about how to keep lessons informal, quickly-paced, and ultimately, a lot more engaging. less big companies, for more than 20 years.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 27, 2011

When I was working with that program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, we brought him in on a grant to evaluate what we had been doing and see if it fit in with his theories on learning. I thought some more about the three originators of Accelerated Learning and remembered actually meeting Howard Gardner. He said it was great. Properly d.

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eLearning Learning Posts

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Should Educators be Afraid of Having a Facebook Profile? What Training Costs Part I: Converting Content from ILT to WBT - Leveraging Learning , July 30, 2009. Part 2: A four-level framework for evaluating social network ROI. Google Wave in education - Dont Waste Your Time , November 16, 2009.

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