Comments on: Where Has All the Accountability to Learning Gone? http://engagedlearning.net/post/where-has-all-the-accountability-to-learning-gone/ Enterprise 2.0 Straight Talk Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Daniel Stevens http://engagedlearning.net/post/where-has-all-the-accountability-to-learning-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-5804 Daniel Stevens Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:43:18 +0000 http://engagedlearning.net/?p=453#comment-5804 A colleague received this response to a training proposal, "With my last employer, if employees were not successful after receiving training, then the trainers were held accountable. Are you ready for that level of accountability?" There was no acknowledgement of the role of management, nor of the individual trainee. My supervisor used to be a trainer. After one training session she and her co-trainer compiled training evaluation forms into a report for management, just as they always did. In the report, however, they also included an evaluation of each learner's participation...The reaction from management was such that she never made that 'mistake' again. I agree with you 100%...or, really, about 94.7% . SL accountability is unique in that the learner has greater oppportunity & repsonsibility to create, contribute, & solicit. ....And I have a slgihtly different take on education, but that's for another time. A colleague received this response to a training proposal, “With my last employer, if employees were not successful after receiving training, then the trainers were held accountable. Are you ready for that level of accountability?” There was no acknowledgement of the role of management, nor of the individual trainee.

My supervisor used to be a trainer. After one training session she and her co-trainer compiled training evaluation forms into a report for management, just as they always did. In the report, however, they also included an evaluation of each learner’s participation…The reaction from management was such that she never made that ‘mistake’ again.

I agree with you 100%…or, really, about 94.7% . SL accountability is unique in that the learner has greater oppportunity & repsonsibility to create, contribute, & solicit. ….And I have a slgihtly different take on education, but that’s for another time.

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