Learning Evaluation by Design ~ a Dialogue Education Course by Global Learning Partners

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Making Learning the Point

Coaching Through Dialogue:
Conversations that Transform

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Six Factors of Adult Learning

Conducting a Learning Needs and Resources Assessment

Building a Solid Learning Design

Creating Engaging and Meaningful
Learning Tasks

Effective Use of Visuals & PowerPoint

Evaluation: Learning, Transfer, and Impact

Giving and Receiving Feedback

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Learning Evaluation by Design_©

Your training event just finished and the participants' feedback forms suggest that most everyone enjoyed it and felt they learned something. But, now what? What did they really learn? What will they use? What difference might it make?

What is the focus of this workshop?

This “two-day plus two-hours” course provides a common-sense approach to designing a learning evaluation of any educational event, from workshops to conferences. Applying structured, but flexible tools to a learning design you bring with you, by the end of this course you will have:

Assessed your training program in light of the principles and practices of Dialogue Education™;

Drafted or edited feedback forms so that participants synthesize what they learned and how they might use it;

Created or edited your draft objectives so that they serve as indicators of learning;

Outlined how participants might use (transfer) their learning in the real world, and planned how to document that transfer;

Predicted what impact the training program might have on participants’ organization or community;

Noted changes you might need to make in the design of your training program in order to evaluate it more effectively;

Documented how the context of the participants’ lives or work might influence the outcome of your training evaluation.

How will this workshop be facilitated?

During the two-day face-to-face workshop, the facilitator will model and teach the principles and practices of Dialogue Education™ through a series of Learning Tasks that stress accountability and relevance. The participants will work through a range of group and individual exercises that are engaging and provide a structure for learning.

The workshop is based on the work of Dr. Jane Vella, in particular her book with Paula Beradinelli and James Burrows, How Do They Know They Know?, as well as insights from the fields of learning and program evaluation. The book is included as a gift for each participant.

Following the two-day workshop, to continue the development of an evaluation plan for their particular training program, each participant will receive two hours of personal feedback and consultation by the workshop facilitator via email, telephone and/ or face-to-face meeting, as appropriate, as well as electronically delivered evaluation tools such as a Dialogue Education™ Evaluation Framework and Accountability Planner.

When and Where is this workshop offered?

In 2009 GLP will offer only one public workshop – open to anyone who registers. Please visit our Schedule & Registration for details. Global Learning Partners can also arrange customized in-house workshops for the staff, board members and volunteers of an organization. Please contact us for a quotation: 1 877 923 3393.

Class size: 16 (due to participative, learning-centered approach)

Length: 2 days, plus 2 hours private consultation. (16 hours total course time)

Pre-requisite: Participants should have read the book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach (Vella, Jane. Jossey-Bass, 2002). Prior completion of the Learning to Listen - Learning to Teach course is helpful, but not required.