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Program evaluation

Program evaluation

- [Instructor] Why are some entrepreneurs more successful in business than others? Are they smarter, more driven, or do they have better opportunities? You're likely to spark a debate if you try to simplify Steve Jobs' success by saying he was just smart. If we want to mimic and recreate success, we must first understand why it happened. For learning analytics, that means finding the source of success. Let's take a real-world scenario in which we work for Sauder Manufacturing and we're training managers to take advantage of newly implemented enterprise planning software. We've successfully executed the program and measured improvements in financial and operational metrics, but now the challenge is that we have to plan next year's program with less budget. But we need to evaluate the learning program to ensure we don't cut something hugely successful. Learning program evaluation is the act of determining why your learning program was successful. Designing a measurement plan based…

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