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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

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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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Evaluating Social Learning

Dashe & Thomson

In the spirit of my blog posts on Re-evaluating Evaluation and Revisiting Kirkpatrick , I decided to start with Don Clark ?Big and his take on using Kirkpatrick’s four levels to create and evaluate social learning. Now, Clark is not actually working with the Kirkpatrick’s original four-level evaluation model.

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Evaluating Informal Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

But how do you evaluate something that is as unpredictable and serendipitous as informal learning? Kirsten Ellenbogen describes some of these methods on the American Evaluation Association blog. She writes about “embedded evaluation”: Embedded evaluation integrates “invisible” tools for evaluation into the existing program activities.

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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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What is Blended Learning, and Why is it Important?

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Perhaps you yourself have tried to incorporate it into your training programs. According to Wikipedia: “Blended learning is a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or pace.”.

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Deliver your training programs from any device with Paradiso LMS App

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The synchronization of changes and movements that users have made within the LMS App, evaluation notes or activity reports , is done once the smartphone is connected to an internet network. The post Deliver your training programs from any device with Paradiso LMS App appeared first on Paradiso eLearning Blog. Assignments.

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Learning to Learn from Evaluation of Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Each approach to evaluation of training has something to contribute to assessing the impact of formal training on employee learning. However, the value of evaluation is not in the data. The real value is in organizational learning from evaluation. Learning from evaluation depends on asking the right questions.

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