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On Talent Development Reporting principles

Matrix

L&D principles were borrowed from accounting, which has four types of measures—revenue, expense, assets, and liabilities—and three standard statements—income or profit & loss, balance sheet, and cash flow. Level 4 of the Kirkpatrick model indeed does some of this job, but there is a stringent need for more.

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The Essential Guide to Learning Analytics in the Age of Big Data

Lambda Solutions

Evaluating Learning Analytics and Measuring ROI. Data Points to Prove the ROI of Learning Analytics. The Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model and the related Phillips’ Model (see the next chapter) were developed to evaluate the effectiveness of online learning based on the impact it has on your organization. Adding ROI to Kirkpatrick.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Kirkpatrick levels, Gagne, kinesthetic) when talking to executives. It’s better to talk about cost/benefit analysis or meeting specific goals than to speak of ROI. Many managers use the strict accounting definition of returns: changes in the assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.