Walk this Way: Healthcare Leads the Way in Mobile Learning

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Jill Parsons Burger

Ambient Insight analysts track eight types of learning products, one of which is mobile learning. Ambient Insight restricts the definition of mobile learning to events, content, and applications accessed on handheld devices. Mobile learning is starting to gain traction ... More »

Maintaining Momentum: Keeping ROI And Results-Based Training Efforts On Track

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Holly Burkett

Keeping a results-based evaluation and ROI process on track is one of biggest implementation challenges for evaluation professionals. In many ways, it's equivalent to training for a marathon. You start small with manageable goals, stretch your muscles, change your habit... More »

ASTD Working to Promote International Standards for Education and Training

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Alexandra Griffin

ASTD has joined with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to form a U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US/TAG) to coordinate U.S. input to a newly formed International Organization for Standardization (ISO) technical committee (ISO/TC 232) on Educational Service... More »

Case Study: Linking Employee Engagement to the Bottom Line

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Juan Riboldi

While the jump from employee engagement to ROI may be more than an intuitive leap of faith, little research has been able to draw a direct link between the two. With the help of a national restaurant chain, DecisionWise compared engagement measures with performance fact... More »

The Purposes and Benefits of Evaluation

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Donald V. McCain

Why do we conduct an evaluation of a learning experience? Many times, we do not use the information or only give it a cursory review. Are there real benefits to conducting training evaluations? Some of the purposes for conducting evaluation include: To build relationshi... More »