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

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? I am a member of the Dashe & Thomson running and biking teams, and captain of its small but emerging chess team. More about me here. Search the blog Popular Latest Comments Tags Web-Based, Instructor-Led, EPSS?

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 13, 2011

Since I became an active Twitter user a few months ago, the application has grown on me to the point where it’s now far-and-away my favorite social media tool. From its childish name to its complex language of re-tweets and hashtags, many people tend to criticize the application before they try it. Twitter is a marketer’s dream.

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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. Properly d.

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EI Design

JUNE 10, 2020

Over the past decade or so, corporate training has gone through several iterations, moving from in-class, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) to Virtual-ILT and ultimately to 100% Self-Directed Learning with little or no instructor-led components. The ILT mode will move to VILT (synchronous or live sessions with the facilitator/trainer).

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