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Entries Tagged as 'case study'

Corporate social networks, long tails, weak ties

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Today’s post is really a (very) mini case study in the power of integrated corporate social networks, the benefits of long tails in learning, and the strength of weak social ties.
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If you’re not familiar with the latter two concepts here’s a little background: the idea of the strength of [...]

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Tags: Corporate social network · Long Tail · case study · conditions of learning · strength of weak ties

Corporate social networks, long tails, weak ties

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Today’s post is really a (very) mini case study in the power of integrated corporate social networks, the benefits of long tails in learning, and the strength of weak social ties.
Now read on…
If you’re not familiar with the latter two concepts here’s a little background: the idea of the strength of [...]

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Tags: Corporate social network · Long Tail · case study · conditions of learning · strength of weak ties

Guidelines for Evaluating Training Programs

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

An advantage of the retrospective pre-test model is that it can assist in addressing some of the gaps exposed by the lack of range-of-transfer of learning metrics provided by a Level 2 analysis of learners: in effect - to borrow a phrase from Jens Bjornavold – “make learning visible” (2004, p.64). This is essential, because [...]

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Tags: Kirkpatrick · Pretest design · case study · e-learning · evaluate · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · measurement · metrics · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model

Guidelines for Evaluating Training Programs

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

An advantage of the retrospective pre-test model is that it can assist in addressing some of the gaps exposed by the lack of range-of-transfer of learning metrics provided by a Level 2 analysis of learners: in effect - to borrow a phrase from Jens Bjornavold – “make learning visible” (2004, p.64). This is essential, because [...]

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Tags: Kirkpatrick · Pretest design · case study · e-learning · evaluate · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · measurement · metrics · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model

Assessing learning programs: advantages and disadvantages of the pre-test design

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

When choosing to integrate the retrospective pre-test design method into your learning program evaluation and measurement methodology, the selection must take place in the after very carefully evaluating arguments both for and against its utility. The method has many advantages for the practitioner-researcher (see Table 1) but one must be cognisant of the threats to [...]

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Tags: Pretest design · case study · e-learning · evaluate · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · measurement · metrics · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation

Assessing learning programs: advantages and disadvantages of the pre-test design

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

When choosing to integrate the retrospective pre-test design method into your learning program evaluation and measurement methodology, the selection must take place in the after very carefully evaluating arguments both for and against its utility. The method has many advantages for the practitioner-researcher (see Table 1) but one must be cognisant of the threats to [...]

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Tags: Pretest design · case study · e-learning · evaluate · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · measurement · metrics · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation

Evaluating learning initatives: the Retrospective Pretest Design

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Retrospective Pre-test method is an interesting if controversial data collection design. I will examine its advantages and negative aspects here, as well as an argument for including this strategy in in assessing organisational learning initiatives. The retrospective pre-test method (see Table 1 is an extension of the one-shot case study design where data are [...]

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Tags: Pretest design · assessment · case study · e-learning · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · non-formal learning · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation

Evaluating learning initatives: the Retrospective Pretest Design

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Retrospective Pre-test method is an interesting if controversial data collection design. I will examine its advantages and negative aspects here, as well as an argument for including this strategy in in assessing organisational learning initiatives. The retrospective pre-test method (see Table 1 is an extension of the one-shot case study design where data are [...]

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Tags: Pretest design · assessment · case study · e-learning · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · non-formal learning · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation

Evaluating Non-formal e-learning initatives: Case Study Techniques

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

As I asserted in a previous post, case studies allow naturalistic methods of enquiry such as individual interviews to be carried out, side-by-side with quantitative data gathering from surveys, archival records, server access logs and so on.
Interestingly in discussing the flexibility of the case study design, Yin (1994, p.285) contends that in the future, researchers [...]

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Tags: assessment · case study · e-learning · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · non-formal learning · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation

Evaluating Non-formal e-learning initatives: Case Study Techniques

April 1st, 2008 · No Comments

As I asserted in a previous post, case studies allow naturalistic methods of enquiry such as individual interviews to be carried out, side-by-side with quantitative data gathering from surveys, archival records, server access logs and so on.
Interestingly in discussing the flexibility of the case study design, Yin (1994, p.285) contends that in the future, researchers [...]

[Read more]

Tags: assessment · case study · e-learning · evaluate learning · learning outcomes · non-formal learning · research methodologies · research methods · training evaluation model · triangulation