Research in Elearning Supports the Need for Best Practice Evaluation

Key Reasons to use LEFframework in Today's Era of e-learning.
 
An important Research by Claire Schooley et al entitled "Questions Senior Executives Ask About e-learning
Specifics" published by independent research company Forrester Research, Inc. highlights some important facts.

Research backs up the need for proper evaluation of e-learning events, consequently this supports the need to follow the learning life cycle. The advantages of following the learning life cycle are:

• Aligning learning goals to organizational goals.

• Training for continuous improvement of employee competency and goal attainment.

• Ensuring that training L&D personnel become known throughout the organization and more strongly associated with the business.

The report also identifies important facts such as online learning earns companies a 69% return on investment (ROI) in less than a year.

For your own copy go to www.trainingzone.co.uk or visit http://www.forrester.com to access the full research article.

LMS Global Opens Partnership Program

Why are we in need of partners?
We have a newly launched groundbreaking training evaluation product LEFframework that's been developed over five years through working with a fortune 500 company. Because of the e-learning revolution, this product is hitting the market at the right time. LEFframework is an event and delegate management system whose primary aim is to save training department time, money and energy on the management and evaluation of training.

We are interested in partnering to provide the right solutions to your clients’ needs and we offer a win-win solution that will substantially give added value to your clients, whilst reducing their cost.

What is in it for me?
Are you losing client share to the e-learning revolution?
From our experience we are finding that training consultants are keen to seize the opportunity to diversify. By partnering with us, it provides you, the consultant, the resources to offer your clients a ready-made solution for evaluating formal and informal training and the ability to provide solutions that can be realized through our IT services.

What we offer?
We offer you a service and products that’s has been built from a strong reputation in delivering IT L&D solutions consistently to multinational companies. We have a highly organized business operation, sales office, and have recently been accredited with ISO 9001 along with all our suppliers. Our ten strong IT development team specialize in L&D applications using Microsoft technologies.

If you are interested to learn more about LMS Global’s partner program, you can contact us at contact@lms-global.com or ring us up over a cup of tea at +44(0) 207 893 8718

LMS Global's Approach to Coaching Evaluation

Drawing on LMS Global's 8 years in training evaluation it is offering to share its case study expertise which will provide organizations with an insight into how to tackle its own issues in order to create an effective evaluation strategy. Abridged sample is available below:

LMS- Global Honors Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels Methodology

To Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation LMS Global is offering a free evaluation of any formal or informal learning event using the LEFframework system for 3 months*

LMS Global is offering a selection of free services that include: learning event evaluation, consultancy services, time managed standalone surveys, and customized reports for your own evaluation strategy.

The LEFframework is a learning management solution designed with Kirkpatrick’s “Four Levels” in mind. It offers a powerful but flexible evaluation framework for managing, delivering and assessing the entire lifecycle of a learning event, while centrally gathering and analyzing evaluation data to understand ROI and cost benefits. Powerful, yet, easy to use, our system is designed to substantially reduce the costs of administering training evaluation by increasing the value of feedback thus substantiating the value of the learning intervention. LMS Global focuses on ensuring that all training interventions are directed at improving learner performance resulting in organizational goal attainment. Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation make this possible by identifying the stages of Learning and Development: Reactions, Learning, Transfer, and Results.

Who We Are & What We Do

LMS Global is an industry leader in learning evaluation who specializes in training evaluation solutions for the LMS industry. We are the only dedicated LMS specifically designed for training evaluation. As an ISO9001 company, we bring industry “best practices” in learning management systems and assessment tools, to help organisations meet their learning and development needs. The solutions we provide are well known within the pharmaceutical, IT and financial industries and the public sector.

LMS – Global’s Free Evaluation Offer of the LEFframework
To commemorate Kirkpatrick you could be awarded a free license for the LEFframework. LMS- Global will be conducting a drawing for 3 free licenses on April 2010. Additionally, LMS-Global continuously offers One Day Free pass and tuition*. Booking required to schedule a brief consultancy appointment.

To learn more about this commemorative offer please visit http://www.lefframework.com/contact.asp?n=co&m=kirkoffer or click the button below:



For more information:

Registered Office (UK):
88 Devon Avenue, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 8BT, United Kingdom.
Contact Tel (UK Office):
+44 (0) 207 183 5185
Email: contact@lms-global.com
Terms & Conditions:
The free evaluation is valid through November 30, 2009. Services may vary depending on request.
*Conditions Apply

Using Assessment & Evaluation Data to Create Benchmarking Reports

Scenario: Three months ago your sales team participated in a training course to boost sales statistics. Right now, it’s 3 pm on Wednesday and the Director of your department is demanding a Benchmarking report by the end of the week. She wants to see how effective the training course was. What do you do?

Here’s what LMS Global did:

LMS Global was charged with the task of creating a comprehensive Benchmarking report, for *Demo Co, which documents the outcome, performance improvement, and business benefits that occurred as a result of an in-house employee learning event.

To achieve this goal, LMS Global collected data using their Assessment and Evaluation Service. The focus was to generate reports meeting the requirements of *Demo Co’s L&D team 2006-2008, by encompassing feedback and key evaluation criteria to assess the value of the training activity.

Using Kirkpatrick’s 4 Levels of Evaluation, and the assessment and evaluation results obtained from a Learning Evaluation Framework (LEFframework, LMS-Global was able to generate a customizable report which was both professional and comprehensive enough for L&D stakeholders/Directors. Since the original pre, post, and 2/3 month follow up reports were automatically produced by the LEFframework, and readily available for analysis and comparison, LMS Global was able to adhere completely with *Demo Co’s defined evaluation requirements.

The unique existing data, taken from the pre, post, and 2/3 month follow up reports, provided us with the ability to produce reports that are relevant to the major stakeholder (i.e. L&D team).

Therefore we produced two different types of reports:

~ Benchmarking reports comparing individual workshops against the relevant Cluster Group.
And

~ Average of the workshop title against Cluster Group.

These reports were integral to *Demo Co’s purpose because they demonstrated the performance of:

• individual trainers delivering the same workshop
• training suppliers wishing to evaluate their own performance against a benchmark
• Stakeholders/directors who wish to review where training has had the greatest impact on improving competencies etc.

Additionally, the Benchmarking reports were of interest to stakeholders needing to identify a higher level of business benefit. For example, which group of workshops delivers the greatest improvement?

Scenario: Three months ago your sales team participated in a training course to boost sales statistics. Right now, it’s 3 pm on Wednesday and the Director of your department is demanding a Benchmarking report by the end of the week. She wants to see how effective the training course was. What do you do?

If you answered:

“Compile my benchmarking report from existing assessment and evaluation data”

Then you are absolutely correct!!

If you answered:

“Pull 3 months worth of departmental statistics to compile and analyze in preparation for developing a Benchmarking report”

Then you’re wrong!

Save time, money, and frustration by getting a learning event assessment and evaluation system. Systems like the LEFframework have a proven track record and make your organization more efficient and productive without the added hassle. Learning event assessment and evaluation systems do some much more than evaluate learning events. Their reports can be a valuable resource when writing Executive Summaries and Benchmarking Reports. LMS Global highly recommends this wise investment!!

*The company name has been changed to protect the privacy of our Clients

Is LEFframework the Only LMS Modeling Kirkpatrick?

LMS- Global is a solutions provider and industry leader in learning evaluation using Kirkpatrick 4 levels of Evaluation. Using the Learning Evaluation Framework (LEF) gives organizations a leg up on developing and delivering effective learning events that increases Return on Investment (ROI) and Cost Benefit. For in-depth information visit http://www.lefframework.com/