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Wall Street Journal Says Its What Happens After The Training That Determines Whether Its Effective...

The Wall Street Journal had an article in a special section on training....

Lessons Learned...The key to effective training isn't necessarily what happens in the classroom.  Its what you do afterward.  by Harry J. Martin. Wall Street Journal, Monday, December 15th.

Excerpt:

"With some studies suggesting that just 10% to 40% of training is ever used on the job, it is clear that a big chunk of the tens of billions of dollars organizations spend annually on staff development is going down the drain."

The article suggests some steps to help reinforce training once it happens.  These things can work whether its traditional classroom training or e-learning, so I thought they were worth a mention.

1) Putting it on paper.  Write an action plan detailing how they were going to put what they learned into action.

2) Measuring the results.  Performance assessments pre then post training say six weeks, then three months after.

3) Help from peers.  Peer meetings of the training participants before, during, and after the training are helpful in getting employees to apply what they have learned.

4) Supportive superiors.  Absolutely, I say.  Superiors should be supportive of the training their people are receiving and help them to implement the changes necessary.

5) Access to experts.  Article suggests letting employees have access to experts after the training to help them to implement what they have learned.

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Slapping Power Points Online....Like Putting Lip Stick On A Pig-Does Your e-Learning Add Value?

Cathy Moore has a great post on her blog, Elearning ROI: Can we lead the way?

Excerpt:

"Want to show that your elearning adds value? Tom Kuhlmann recently suggested these steps:

• Meet your customer’s expectations
• Align your projects to real measurable objectives
• Control production costs

Measurable goals and controlled costs are vital. Of course, we also want to meet our customer’s expectations–but are those expectations always best for the business?

Sometimes we get the best results by challenging our customers’ expectations–in a helpful way, of course.

“Put this PowerPoint online and make it look slick. We need it in a week.”

Many of our customers want us to put lipstick on a pig, fast."

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Is education, training, and learning really the same thing?

Education vs. Training Vs. Learning

Excerpt:

"I remember someone recoiling at the idea of being a training department.  “You train dogs not people.”  To that I always say, “Do you want your surgeon to be well trained or well educated?”'

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Book on Training Evaluation....

Found this up on Jim Kissane's blog...

How Do They Know They Know?: Evaluating Adult Learning

by Jane Kathryn Vella, Jim Burrow, Paula Berardinelli

Synopsis: "Applies principles and concepts of popular education to evaluation?a critical piece in program development and training with adults. Using real-life case studies, the book shows how the model works in a variety of settings to help trainers evaluate adult learning."

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The Learner's Perception of e-Learning Quality

Quality of e-Learning: An Analysis Based on e-Learners’ Perception of e-Learning

by Rengasamy Elango, Vijaya Kumar Gudep, and M. Selvam Majan University College, Sultanate of Oman Skyline College, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Alagappa University, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract:

e-Learning, of late, has been witnessing an unprecedented expansion as an opportunity for higher education. This expanding alternative mode calls for ensuring and imparting a sound and qualitative education. The present study made an attempt to investigate the issues related to the quality dimensions of e-learning. Our results revealed the presence of both strengths and weaknesses in the e-learning system. It is interesting to note, that the e-learners have expressed diverse opinions with regard to administrative issues, instruction materials, instructors’ support, viper sessions (VIPER, Voice Internet Protocol Extended Reach is a software which helps interactive learning through the Internet) , grading and assessment. The findings of the study further demonstrate that if the concept of e-learning is imparted with a better approach and perspective, the reach will be phenomenal. This study reiterates the relevance of imparting qualitative education through e- learning.

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Book on Developing Student Assessments...

While its not particularly  on e-Learning per say,  here is a resource on how to develop student assessments and many of the concepts can be translated to an online context.

Assessment of Student Achievement

by Norman E. Gronlund, C. Keith Waugh

Synopsis

Gronlund (University of Illinois) offers a guide for testing and performance assessment. Although the book's emphasis is on achievement assessment, assessment is viewed as an integral part of all phases of the instructional process.......

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Paper on Developer's Perspectives of e-Learning Assessment

Conducting assessment online: educational developers' perspective by Peter Anthony Donnan of the University of Wollongong, May 2007

Abstract:

This study investigated educational developers' on conducting assessment in Australian Universities when online components were introduced into courses or subjects...

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Electronic Assessment vs Pencil and Paper...

Advancing Electronic Assessment by Nikolaos Doukas, Antonios Andreatos

Abstract:

"........This paper focuses on some new, advanced types of questions enabled by electronic assessment; it then compares paper-and-pencil exams to electronic exams; results from a small
student poll on the electronic exams are also presented. Finally, the directions for
planned future work are outlined."

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Episode 27: Error Analysis

The next episode of the e-Learning Lingo Podcast Series is up!   This week's word is  "Error Analysis".

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The e-Learning Lingo Podcast #27: "Error Analysis"

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Article on Developing Training Efficiently....

Here is one for the folks who are analytically bent....

Forecasting Costs to Maximize Efficiency By J. Baylis

The focus of the article is to maximize training efficiency by looking at the cost of development.

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