eLearning Guild offering August 18th

[MBritz]

On August 18th at 8:30am PST (11:30am EST?) Dr. Will Thalheimer will
be presenting on Learning Measurement Blind Spots: Insights from the
Learning Research

Here's the description:

Measuring learning is mission-critical in at least three ways: It
helps us respond to stakeholders, it helps us support our learners,
and it helps us improve our learning designs. Unfortunately, when it
comes to learning measurement, we as learning professionals are often
so confused and prone to blind spots that we really mess up things!
According to recent eLearning Guild research, only 17% of us were able
to do the learning measurement we wanted to do, and over half of us
thought we should be doing better. We need a new clarity. The
traditional models of assessment (Kirkpatrick-Phillips) are incomplete
at best and perilously misguided at worst. We need to begin with a
deep understanding of learning — workplace learning in particular —
and build a measurement approach that enables us to create virtuous
cycles of continuous improvement.

Participants in this session will learn about the most common blind
spots associated with learning measurement, and how you can improve
the ways you measure learning success.

In this session, you will learn:

- About the three major goals of learning measurement — and how each
goal demands a different measurement method
- How to avoid several common ways that most of us bias our
measurement results
- About the potency of developing scenario-based assessment questions
using the Situation/Evaluation/Decision/Action (SEDA) model
- How to use a full-source learning evaluation mindset
- How to better use eLearning measurement

I'm a member of the guild - I can participate for free...Maybe we
could have a meeting where I can watch and everyone else can "look
over my shoulder" :)