Evidence-based management – the basic principles
Editor’s note: What is evidence-based management and what can learning professionals learn from it? This paper explains all and provides some practical example of evidence-based practice.
Browsing: evidence
Rob Briner: Spend longer on evidence-based decision-making
Editor’s note: A simple way to break down evidence-based decision making here. I like the assumption that senior executives are paid to make decisions, so it follows they should know how to make good ones.
Andy Wooler on learning data and xAPI
Editor’s note: Collecting the right data in the first place is going to be a key challenge for L&D professionals looking to build an evidence-based approach. Andy Wooler describes how his organisation is approaching the challenge.
Why Analytics Trumps Intuition in Today’s L&D
Editor’s note: The Towards Maturity Benchmark 2015 is now open and is an opportunity for organisations to reflect on their L&D activities and compare what they do against peers and top learning companies in their sector. This piece sets the context around the need for an evidence-based approach to L&D.
Evidence-based learning: it’s time to show what works
Editor’s note: OK, so this was written by one half of the LearnPatch team, but I still think there are some useful insights here from L&D practitioners.
Do you want to make a difference in L&D, or do you want to be liked?
Editor’s note: Evidence needn’t just apply to your own L&D initiatives, it can equally be applied to the theories that permeate L&D. Donald Taylor makes this point well and urges all L&D professionals to put evidence before learning myths.
Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims
Editor’s note: With the almost daily claims of neuroscientific research and the push for evidence of learning effectiveness, L&D professionals would be wise to know how to cast a critical eye over research. This article helps with that. Thanks to @owenferguson for sharing.