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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. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.

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Re-evaluating Evaluation | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.

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Addressing On-Demand Learning and Performance Needs #LCBQ | Social.

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That said, I’d like to share some of my ideas about how we need to change what we do to address on-demand learning and performance needs during design, development, and deployment of a training program. A current project I am working on is a national program for training workers in basic bulk propane plant operations.

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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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Social Media: The Virtual “Over-The-Partition” Learning Network.

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Walmart announced last week (April 18, 2011) that it is – … buying Mountain View-based Kosmix , a heavily funded social media technology provider that has built a platform that enables users to filter and organize content in social networks, in order to connect people with information that matters to them, in real-time.

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The Wisdom of Experience: Simplifying Complex Learning Targets.

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This effects workers in northern states more often than in the south so we have made that point abundantly clear throughout the program. Most recently, Ive been working on training programs for the propane industry. In my free time, I enjoy reading, medical lectures, belly dancing and regular visits to my massage therapist.

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Why Companies Should Spend More on Social Learning | Social.

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technologies into our training programs, but rarely do we find a client that wants to create a robust learning environment comprised of both formal and informal components. Leaders have to be willing to put some money behind training programs and they have to trust the statistics validating informal and social learning principles.