The potential to improve education due to the large amounts of data on learning and learners is unprecedented and has created an information gap in understanding what to do with all the raw data. Providing a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics, authors John R. Mattox II and Jean Martin show L&amp;D and HR practitioners the power that effective analytics has on building an organization and the impact this power has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage. Martin and Mattox focus on aligning training with business needs and answering the questions “Is training effective?” and “How can it improved or made more effective?” Beginning with an explanation of what learning analytics is and the business need for it, they move on to applying business intelligence principles, linking learning to impact, connecting training content with business needs, optimizing investments in learning, and placing learning development within the larger scope of talent management. Chapters include case studies from Hilton Hotels, Shell Oil, and American Express to highlight best practice and to provide examples of how companies apply various methodologies across a range of industries.

Learning Analytics: Measurement Innovations to Support Employee Development

Business & Money

Martin, Jean

Mattox II, John R

Van Buren, Mark

Management & Leadership

Kogan Page.

Spring 1775 Thirteen Brother Pirates is an adventure set on the cusp of the American Revolutionary War. For Mac, a teenage orphan on the streets of Southwark, London, war is as far away as the new world. He simply needs a place to stay for himself and for his sister Patti. Luckily, he stumbles upon a safe house filled with other teens like him. But safety is short-lived. While playing one evening near the River Thames, he and his new-found friends are pressed into service by the Royal Navy—forced to work as sailors as they travel to the new world with a mission to hunt pirates. The young crew faces challenges they never expected—climbing ratlines, sleeping in hammocks, eating maggot-filled biscuits. Worst of all, the tables are turned. Instead of hunting pirates, they are attacked by them! Half of the brothers are taken captive, leaving the rest aboard a disabled ship floating helplessly in the middle of the Atlantic. The captives must learn to survive while the others must choose to save themselves—or dare the impossible and save their friends. Though young and seemingly feckless, their own struggles mirror those of an emerging nation, and they may someday help shape the outcome of the War for Independence. Along the way, they learn to question authority, fight pirates and set their own course. Different characters narrate each chapter, and in this way their collective voices tell the tale of Thirteen Brother Pirates. Join the brothers on their journey. It begins in London. You will be surprised where it ends.

Thirteen Brother Pirates: The Journey Begins

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Learning Analytics: Using Talent Data to Improve Business Outcomes

About the Author\nCristina Hall is Vice President of Marketing at Explorance. Before this, she worked at Gartner for over 10 years, where she was most recently director of product strategy.\nJohn R. Mattox II is the Head of Talent Research at Explorance. He helps clients develop measurement strategies and improve business performance by measuring the impact of training. Prior to this, John was a Principle Consultant with Gartner and led training evaluation teams at KPMG, PwC and Arthur Andersen.\nPeggy Parskey is a part-time managing consultant at Explorance. She also runs her own consulting firm, Parskey Consulting, which provides organizational improvement initiatives to Fortune 500 firms.\nEffective evaluation and measurement of learning and development initiatives is critical to maximise the impact of training, identify gaps for improvement and ensure that efforts are aligned to the business' needs. Learning Analytics outlines how analytical approaches can respond to these challenges, the types and benefits of technological solutions and how to ask the right questions of organizational data in order to build a learning organization that boosts performance and competitive advantage. 
Drawing upon case studies from organizations who have applied such approaches such as The Gap, Hilton Worldwide University and Seagate Technology, Learning Analytics will enable those involved in learning and development to make the business case for their activities and deliver an evidence-based service to their organizations. Alongside updated chapters on learning technology tools and moving beyond learning analytics to talent management analytics, this second edition also features new content on measuring informal learning, increasing data literacy, and framing L&D's contributions through a portfolio evaluation approach.

Hall, Cristina

Parskey, Peggy

Effective evaluation and measurement of learning and development initiatives is critical to maximise the impact of training, identify gaps for improvement and ensure that efforts are aligned to the business' needs. Learning Analytics outlines how analytical approaches can respond to these challenges, the types and benefits of technological solutions and how to ask the right questions of organizational data in order to build a learning organization that boosts performance and competitive advantage. Drawing upon case studies from organizations who have applied such approaches such as The Gap, Hilton Worldwide University and Seagate Technology, Learning Analytics will enable those involved in learning and development to make the business case for their activities and deliver an evidence-based service to their organizations. Alongside updated chapters on learning technology tools and moving beyond learning analytics to talent management analytics, this second edition also features new content on measuring informal learning, increasing data literacy, and framing L&D's contributions through a portfolio evaluation approach.

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