Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 14, 2011

My answer is almost always SME availability; we simply cannot do our jobs without them. Consider using a SME Readiness Assessment to gauge SME readiness and availability to do their job. Clients will often ask what I see as the biggest risk or roadblock to end-user readiness. Here are some ideas for taking care of your SMEs.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 27, 2010

According to an article released by mlive.com , more than a quarter of new jobs created this past year were temporary jobs. Many consulting firms in our industry become too niche and lose out on work they can easily provide but do a poor job of marketing. Business confidence is still extremely low. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 1, 2011

Another similar (though paid less) group of thousands are the training developers whose jobs are to help others use the software once it’s working. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Delicious 133

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2011

Web-based learning portals are the ultimate brain food — extending brain power by positioning learning and How-To reference material close to the job, 24/7. As instructional designers, we can help create environments that grow better Exobrains. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 11, 2011

We thought we could train them to do their jobs. This position is well-articulated in this post by Jay Cross at his Informal Learning Blog. Cross writes: Once upon a time, people were paid to follow instructions. Now, work is more like improv theater. Workers have to solve problems on the fly. They must perform on the spot. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 30, 2011

However, just as often this makes an instructional designer’s job more difficult. You may think a client who knows exactly what they want is a dream come true. All you have to do is put their words to paper, design the desired instruction and begin training. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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eLearning 24-7

AUGUST 11, 2023

I say it because it should be extremely obvious to anyone, especially when the other course options which I do see are classroom (ILT, Face to Face) or ILT, webinar (not highly used, but that means web based seminar, in EdTech they love to say flipped classroom – it is a web conferencing, with a boring approach). A job role.

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Dashe & Thomson

MAY 8, 2011

Jaime Pappas describes this role: He or she is the one person whose job it is to increase awareness, facilitate adoption, keep the conversations moving, and develop the training, policies, best practices, and escalation paths for any and all of the unforeseen situations that can arise in a community. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Avoid this problem by keeping your queries gentle, and remember – people not only need praise, but they deserve it for a job well-done. But if you make these check-ins “all stick and no carrot,” you will increasingly find that your attempts at communication are met with suspicion, or worse – silence. Don’t skimp. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Avoid this problem by keeping your queries gentle, and remember – people not only need praise, but they deserve it for a job well-done. But if you make these check-ins “all stick and no carrot,” you will increasingly find that your attempts at communication are met with suspicion, or worse – silence. Don’t skimp. Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

MARCH 11, 2011

People love to play games – if they can learn how to do their job by doing just that more power to them. Rob Mueller May 11, 2011 at 6:35 pm # Great post on using games as a training device. I see it as being another nice evolution of training. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff!

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eLearning 24-7

JANUARY 25, 2024

They want ILT (ugh). Maybe You may come with an instructional design background OR at least understand ADDIE to create your online courses and even ILT (which was what ADDIE was designed for, along with those rotten and worthless manuals nobody reads). You They want you to do whatever is necessary to make that happen. They Start at it.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

ILT (Instructor Led Training – Workplace, even EdTech – K-12 and Higher Education). Heck, I was in a doctorate program, whereas the majority of the ‘courses’ was via Lotus Notes, the other was ILT. Why have a system to house courses, when ILT was the main way of learning and training? And people.

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TalentLMS

OCTOBER 29, 2014

eLearning doesn’t really measure, or have the capacity to measure, “Kirkpatrick Level 3 – Transfer of knowledge”, let alone think about Level 4. In my professional experience eLearning is primarily used to replace Instructor Led Training (ILT) or deliver a rapid deployment of a consistent message. Who designs this stuff?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here are some things that stood out right away: Style: The format is simple – there’s little or no animation in order to keep focus on the storyline – but the use of graphic novel illustration shows an understanding of the audience. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Here are some things that stood out right away: Style: The format is simple – there’s little or no animation in order to keep focus on the storyline – but the use of graphic novel illustration shows an understanding of the audience. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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eLearning 24-7

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Books are no better because they ignore that times have changed, that an increased percentage of people have to create the content, typically not by choice, and terms such as Kirkpatrick are as foreign as the former members of the Warsaw Pact, let alone what was the Warsaw Pact? Kirkpatrick. Not web-based, online courses.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Kirkpatrick – I had a great discussion on this term just yesterday (11-9) with a couple of readers, that were in total agreement. Kirkpatrick is something that many of us, Training included, and definitely L&D are told is the way, the only way for learning. Kirkpatrick. One Term that Should be Kicked to the Curb.

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 13, 2018

Determining the right training format (online, blended, or ILT). The selection of the right format is crucial in encouraging the learners to pursue it and also in ensuring that they connect with it, complete it and apply the learning on the job. How Can You Use Kirkpatrick’s Model Of Training Evaluation To Measure ROI?

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EI Design

JULY 11, 2018

Determining the right training format (online, blended, or ILT). The selection of the right format is crucial in encouraging the learners to pursue it and also in ensuring that they connect with it, complete it and apply the learning on the job. How Can You Use Kirkpatrick’s Model Of Training Evaluation To Measure ROI?

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ROI Blended Learning Evalution eLearning Strategy 44

Learning Rebels

JANUARY 30, 2015

Have your participants create their own job aid out of the information being given to them. I call this a “Golden Ticket” because I give them a HUGE yellow index card to write, draw, and create their job aid. No, not a level one Kirkpatrick survey. Golden Ticket. This creates buy-in for the participants.

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Limestone Learning

APRIL 29, 2020

In this webinar, with Jim Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at Kirkpatrick Partners, and Wendy Kirkpatrick, President of Kirkpatrick Partners, will explain why informal learning’s actually an opportunity for you to expand your influence as a learning and performance consultant, and deliver increased value to your organization.

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eLearning 24-7

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Oh by the way, Mollie has no experience in effective learning or training, never worked in either job or knows any modalities. Kirkpatrick? They will see ILT as on-site at a physical location. Does he still play baseball for the Twins? Training techniques – that work?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Subject Matter Matter s – These surveys do a good job of accounting for varying levels of course complexity. However, there they don’t include much discussion about the learning subject matter itself. A course on thermodynamics will clearly take significantly longer than one on basic office procedures. Properly d.

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eLearning 24-7

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

How many of you, have experience in instructional design but only from the ILT or paper-based perspective? It reminded me of other postings for other job roles, where a hiring manager had no idea on what is needed and so they just winged it. . How many of you, are familiar with terms such as ADDIE? Winging is bad. Skill Sets.

Instructional Design 40

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Subject Matter Matter s – These surveys do a good job of accounting for varying levels of course complexity. However, there they don’t include much discussion about the learning subject matter itself. A course on thermodynamics will clearly take significantly longer than one on basic office procedures. Properly d.

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Ratio Social Networks Blended Learning Off-shore 133

Dashe & Thomson

APRIL 11, 2011

I’ve helped design and build many electronic performance support systems (or mega-instructional job aids as expertly described by Cathy Moore ), and have recently started exploring ways to incorporate social learning tools … but nothing like this. What blows my mind when I see Inkling? Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Dashe & Thomson

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Just as water will always find its own level by the path of least resistance, individual learners, working in collaboration and unhampered by the precepts of authority, tend to do an excellent job of finding and sharing what they need to know efficiently and effectively, even if they don’t necessarily know what they are looking for to begin with.

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Because Dashe & Thomson is a consulting firm, we offer a plethora of services to our clients, and we can do a much better job identifying all of our clients’ needs during a consultation or training assessment and customizing our offering to meet those demands. We need to be better at treating our most valuable customers in a special way.

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Dashe & Thomson

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Because Dashe & Thomson is a consulting firm, we offer a plethora of services to our clients, and we can do a much better job identifying all of our clients’ needs during a consultation or training assessment and customizing our offering to meet those demands. We need to be better at treating our most valuable customers in a special way.

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Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki Custom 100

Dashe & Thomson

MAY 2, 2011

We frequently cite a study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which demonstrated that approximately 70% of all on-the-job learning is done informally, through employee-driven initiative, and through employee-to-employee knowledge transfers. Jim: Glad you found the post helpful, Jeff! Properly d.

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Social Media Social Networks Blended Learning Wiki 182

Training Orchestra

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Developed by Jack Phillips in the early 2000s as an additional supplement to the Kirkpatrick Model of Return on Investment, the Phillips Model helps learning specialists work backward in creating effective and impactful training. Upon further investigation, L&D realized that there was an issue with the new on-the-job training module.

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ROI Metrics Guide Blended Learning 52

EI Design

JANUARY 9, 2019

While we use Kirkpatrick’s model of training evaluation and Kirkpatrick–Phillips evaluation model of training as the baseline, we have enhanced this further through a combination of practical approaches and tips highlighted in the eLearning ROI case study given below. Approach Taken. Impact And Gaps.

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Convergence Training

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Many people who wind up having training creation as part of their job roles have never had a full opportunity to learn about the basics of instructional design, how people learn, and how to develop training. Analyze the actual job task or performance so you’ll know how to train people to perform it. Evaluate or Evaluation.

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Instructional Design ADDIE Instructional Instruction 63

LearnUpon

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It educates your employees on the laws or regulations applicable to their job function or industry. Examples include “Location”, “Job Role” or “Department”. An LMS like LearnUpon can send ILT invitations with an attached iCal invite so that your learners can save the session to their calendar. ILT (Instructor-Led Training).

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Compliance Training Blended Learning Authoring Tools Instructional Design 63