Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation, an Overview
This is an overview of the Four-Levels training evaluation model. The Four-Levels model was first published in 1959 by Dr Donald Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick's four-levels are designed as a sequence of ways to evaluate training programs.
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How to Install Moodle on Mac OS X Yosemite
Moodle is a great Learning Management System (LMS) for education or corporate. It’s a super complete application. However, for some people, moodle is too complicated. Many people fail to learn Moodle because they don’t know how to start with it. How can they like Moodle, if they never try it.
Let’s try Moodle out in our local laptop, so we can look and feel it.
First of all, download the latest moodle version at https://download.moodle.org. Moodle is totally free!
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| https://download.moodle.org |
There are some options in this page, but we will download the easiest package. Choose Moodle Installer Package for Mac OS X if you are using Mac, or you can choose a package for Windows if you are using a pc.
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| Choose a package |
For this example, we choose the package for Mac. Wait until the download is complete. After that click the downloaded dmg file.
Move the MAMP folder into application folder.
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| Move MAMP folder into Applications folder |
Then click the MAMP app to run the local server.
If you are using OS X Yosemite, the MAMP server will not work. You must do a little trick for this issue. Go to application/MAMP/library. Find envvars file, then rename it. The new name must be _envvars.
Let’s try to run MAMP server again. If MAMP page appears on the browser, we are successfuly running the server.
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| Click "Start Servers" to start |
It’s time to launch Moodle by typing Moodle address in local host, localhost:8888/moodle/ or by simply clicking ‘link-to-moodle.webloc’ file.
You have successfuly created the new moodle instance. Sign in by inputting admin as username, and the password is 12345. Now, you can explore Moodle by your self.
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| Moodle LMS |
After using moodle, remember to sign out and close the local server.
The following video is also explaining "How to Install Moodle on Mac OS X".
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Creating Knowledge Every Day
Tony, a senior staff, was reviewed by his manager. The
results are not so good. Even John is better than Tony. John is junior staff. The reviewer said that John is better and smarter than Tony.
The senior staff, of course have a lot of experiences, more
than their junior. Why some of them not so smart? Why are some staffs being an expert while the
others are still the novice? Some of them have more experience but their
quality is different. Why?
Well, experiences are a collection of data/information.
Experiences are not knowledge. Experience are not represent the quality,
knowledge are.
Experiences are only the raw materials. Every man needs to
process the experience in order to create knowledge in their mind. That process
is called as "Learning".
How to process an experience becomes knowledge? To answer
this question, David Kolb has formulated "Learning" Cycle (a.k.a.
Experiential Learning Cycle).
(Experiential) Learning Cycle
For instance, a staff has an experience on something. Having
experience is just the first step. The experience needs to be reflected (2nd
step) and conceptualized (3rd step). A new knowledge is created
after the third step.
Next, you should test the new knowledge. You will find, may
be some parts of it are true and some else are false. Then you have a new
experience again (or at least new point of view). The experience should be
reflected and conceptualized again. This cycle should always be performed.
Each cycle creates new knowledge and new quality.
Now imagine, John performs learning cycle every day. He
creates new knowledge every day. Of course, his quality increases.
Tony, never do that. He just repeats the same job with the
same way. If he has worked for 10 year, actually he is only has a day-knowledge
that is repeated 3650 times. Nothing is new.
John is better than Tony because John always learn, changes his experience to knowledge.
Knowledge Cycle
In the 8th Habit, Stephen Covey describe that now we are in knowledge era. Take a look at the picture below.
Thanks God, we have passed the 'Hunting and Gathering' era. An era when we should sharpen our knives, then go to the jungle for killing wild animals and cutting the trees!
We have passed the Agricultural era too, so all of we did not have to plant and grow crops. Just let the modern farmer perform these jobs.
We also just left the Industrial era behind us! The legendary 5Ms (Money, Machine, Material, Man, and Method) are no longer the most important things. Now, we can not say that human is equal to machine, money or materials.
What is the most important thing now? Knowledge! Of course, we are in the knowledge era! Anyone can be rich if they have knowledge and utilize it in the right way.
In this era, the inventions are very fast. A good product or service will be replaced by a better one, only in a short time. Company and its employees have to think and act fast to win against their competitor... or die.
The problem is 'smart' employee is very rare. Event they are exist in your company, they easily being stolen by competitors who can pay them much better. If their go, so do the knowledge in their head.
Well, it is not easy to develop a smart employee. Although information is everywhere, but information is information. The abundance information can not make an employee become smart. Knowledge will make them smart.
If knowledge is a dress, data are the fibers, and Information are the fabrics.
Data - are the materials (facts, measurements, statistics) that have not been interpreted and thus, have no meaning.
Information - are the organized data with a meaning. Like data, information can be saved on computer, paper, tape, cloud, other media.
Knowledge - information that has a purpose or intent attached. Emergent, socially constructed, and exists in the head of a person.
In knowledge era, a company should manage the knowledge. Any creation of knowledge should be captured and refined. Then knowledge should be stored in the repository, not only in the smart-employee's head.
These knowledge have to be reviewed periodically for its accuracy and relevance. And of course, company have to make the knowledge are available at all times to anyone.
Okay, this is only a theory. Managing knowledge is not as simple as the KM cycle above, but remember, Knowledge Management is a must. So we must start now!
We have passed the Agricultural era too, so all of we did not have to plant and grow crops. Just let the modern farmer perform these jobs.
We also just left the Industrial era behind us! The legendary 5Ms (Money, Machine, Material, Man, and Method) are no longer the most important things. Now, we can not say that human is equal to machine, money or materials.
What is the most important thing now? Knowledge! Of course, we are in the knowledge era! Anyone can be rich if they have knowledge and utilize it in the right way.
In this era, the inventions are very fast. A good product or service will be replaced by a better one, only in a short time. Company and its employees have to think and act fast to win against their competitor... or die.
The problem is 'smart' employee is very rare. Event they are exist in your company, they easily being stolen by competitors who can pay them much better. If their go, so do the knowledge in their head.
Well, it is not easy to develop a smart employee. Although information is everywhere, but information is information. The abundance information can not make an employee become smart. Knowledge will make them smart.
If knowledge is a dress, data are the fibers, and Information are the fabrics.
Data - are the materials (facts, measurements, statistics) that have not been interpreted and thus, have no meaning.
Information - are the organized data with a meaning. Like data, information can be saved on computer, paper, tape, cloud, other media.
Knowledge - information that has a purpose or intent attached. Emergent, socially constructed, and exists in the head of a person.
In knowledge era, a company should manage the knowledge. Any creation of knowledge should be captured and refined. Then knowledge should be stored in the repository, not only in the smart-employee's head.
These knowledge have to be reviewed periodically for its accuracy and relevance. And of course, company have to make the knowledge are available at all times to anyone.
Okay, this is only a theory. Managing knowledge is not as simple as the KM cycle above, but remember, Knowledge Management is a must. So we must start now!
Training Needs Analysis
What is Training Needs Analysis? How to conduct TNA? Please find them at the video below.
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Is Training the Right Solution?
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Confidence comes from discipline and training.
~Robert Kiyosaki
