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Evaluating informal and social learning using Backwards Planning and Evaluation Model.

Carliner says that Kirkpatrick doesn't work with informal learning (A Model for Measuring and Evaluating Informal Learning). He says that the Kirkpatrick's Four Level (reaction, learning, behavior, and results) model is more appropriate for formal training events rather than for an informal learning process over which the employer has no control.

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With society wrapped in a cultural transformation expedited by technology, we continue to use an evaluation model that, quite simply, was built on the premise that learning occurs solely in a classroom.

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