CASE STUDY: Maintaining Educational Records: The Move Away from Paper

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Pam Edwards

Employee educational records have historically been captured on paper and kept in employee personnel files at the unit level. Some challenges presented by this method are the reliability of records, the challenge to produce official reports for regulatory agencies, and ... 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 »

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 »

Seven Golden Rules for Calculating ROI

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Simon Clayton

There are seven golden rules that hold the key to constructing workable and accurate ROI calculations. They are: Everyone starts from a different place. Benefits need to be calculated in financial terms. It is your business case. Estimate conservatively. Everything has ... More »

Chatting Up Your LMS

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Catherine King

Among the many features that an LMS contains, chats and forums are perhaps the most underused and under appreciated. Yet, academia has long used discussion as the best way to build community and promote learning. So can you, by leveraging the power of chat in your LMS. ... More »