Yesterday’s blog post was number 600 published on here. It’s a metric but, on it’s own, relatively meaningless. The same as delivering a certain number of courses, to a certain number of people. Relatively meaningless. Or launching a certain number of e-learning modules which achieve a certain completion rate. Relatively meaningless. Or This is blog… Read More 600
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Barcelona Principles and the benefit in reviewing these as a tool for measurement in learning. The next principle I amended says: The effect on organisational performance can and should always be measured It seems obvious, but what impact did your learning activity have on the business bottom… Read More Effect on organisational performance
Please rate how you feel about this post so I can understand how effective it is. “There is very little reason to believe that how trainees feel about or whether they like a training programme tells researchers much, if anything, about: a) how much they learned from the program, b) changes in their job-related behaviors… Read More Happy, happy, happy
I came across the Barcelona Principles a few months ago. They refer to the Barcelona Declaration of Research Principles, a set of seven voluntary guidelines established by the public relations (PR) industry to measure the efficiency of PR campaigns. First drafted in 2010, they were revised in 2015 and state: Goal setting and measurement are… Read More Measurement Principles
It’s a rare day when I disagree with Seth Godin but Monday was one of them. In his blog post about data he said: Reassurance isn’t going to come from more data–that’s a stall. The disagreement I have is that LnD rarely collects the right data. We’re so focused on input metrics – how much,… Read More Mo’ data
Lost and Desperate 