Masterclasses

Hier lees je meer over leerlijn 1:

De L&D Talks worden op wo. 22/10/25 geopend met 2 masterclasses. Er kunnen op beide classes slechts een beperkt aantal mensen aansluiten. Iedere deelnemer wordt verondersteld voor aanvang van de class een aantal documenten door te nemen en/of zich voor te bereiden. Beide masterclasses gaan door op dezelfde locatie als de keynotes do. 23/10/25.


Masterclass 1:

Op wo. 22/10/25 komt Will Thalheimer (USA) deze class verzorgen: PERFORMANCE-FOCUSED LEARNER SURVEYS: A RESEARCH-ALIGNED APPROACH TO GATHER BETTER DATA

De prijs hiervoor is vastgelegd op € 450.00 ex btw. Niet-Stimulearners betalen € 750.00. Wie uiterlijk 15/09/25 inschrijft ontvangt van ons het boek Performance-Focused Learner Surveys.

Bio

Will Thalheimer (US) PhD, MBA, Consultant, Speaker, Researcher at Work-Learning Research. Will is a world-renowned thought leader focused on research-based practices for learning, work performance, presentations, and evaluation—and an advocate for learning professionals. Through Work-Learning Research, Will empowers organizations to build maximally effective learning-and-performance solutions and strategies. Will wrote the award-winning book Performance-Focused Learner Surveys (second edition) and the CEO’s Guide to Training, eLearning & Work: Empowering Learning for a Competitive Advantage (2024). Will created LTEM, the Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model and conducts popular workshops like the LTEM Boot Camp. He co-created The Learning Development Accelerator and the eLearning Manifesto.

Abstract

Learner surveys are the most common way we evaluate learning, but much too often we use ineffective survey questions that provide data that gives us faulty information, pushing us to make poor learning-design decisions. In this workshop, Will Thalheimer will show us how to utilize performance-focused learner surveys, based on years of experience helping organizations around the world through his consulting, workshops, and award-winning book, Performance-Focused Learner Surveys.
Topics:
  • The Fundamentals of Learning Evaluation
  • The Science of Learner Surveys
  • How Traditional Smile Sheets Produce Poor Data
  • How to Replace Likert-like and Numeric Scales
  • How Learner Survey Questions Can Send Messages
  • How to Write an Effective Learner Survey Question
  • How to Use Standards to Reduce Bias and Create Meaning
  • How LTEM (The Learning-Transfer Evaluation Model) Brings Wisdom to Evaluation
  • How to Use Follow-Up Learner Surveys
  • How to Think about Survey Response Rates; and Raise The Rates
  • Displaying Learner-Survey Data

Performance Objectives

Upon successful completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
  • Avoid the common mistakes that harm evaluation effectiveness
  • Tailor learner-survey questions to specific learners and topics
  • Place learner surveys in the larger context of learning evaluation
  • Consider LTEM as a method for planning evaluation work

Prework

Before attending this class, participants should think, read, make, ... SEE PM

Agenda

  • 08h30 - 09h00: Welcome coffee
  • 09h00 - 12h00: Workshop part 1 & 2, including a break
  • 12h00 - 13h00: Lunch
  • 13h00 - 17h00: Workshop part 3 & 4, including a break


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Masterclass 2:

Eveneens op wo. 22/10/25 zal Matthew Richter (USA) een workshop verzorgen over INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR LEARNING gebaseerd op het boek dat hij en Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Thiagi) vorig jaar schreven.

Ook deze class kan je meevolgen à € 450.00 ex btw. Niet-Stimulearners betalen € 750.00. Wie uiterlijk 15/09/25 inschrijft ontvangt van ons het genoemde e-boek Interactive Techniques for Learning in het Engels. Laat het ons weten als je een Franstalige versie wenst.

Bio

Matt is the President of The Thiagi Group - which is less impressive than it sounds since there are only two people in the company and he is ranked number two. He is a facilitator, game designer, instructional designer, and management consultant. Matt has consulted and delivered training with many organizations, including Grant Thornton, Twilio, VMWare, SanDisk, Redwood Trust, CenturyLink, Imerys, EA, Microsoft, Carolina Power and Light, IGT, Cadence Design Systems, and Sony. Along with his expertise in the delivery of learning and application of learning science, he is also an expert in the areas of management, leadership, motivation, and performance technology.

Matt is also the co-director of LDA (The Learning Development Accelerator), a professional membership group for people in the learning and development field, where we encourage the use of research-inspired and evidence-informed practices.

He is also an intervenant and thesis advisor at EMLyon in France, as a part of their executive MBA program. His book, The Leadership Story: A New Model for Leadership, was published in 2016. In 2020, he co-authored LOLA: Live Online Learning Activities with his partner, Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Thiagi). In 2024, the two were at it again, publishing Interactive Techniques for Learning. He also published a booklet, available for free at LDA, called Leadership Development: The Four Issues That Undermine Traditional Leadership Development Programs. And in late 2025, his latest book, Sustainable Leadership: How to Develop Leaders and Leadership More Effectively Given the Issues with Traditional LD, will be published by LDA Press.

Abstract

How does learning happen? How should L&D design and manage the learning process so that its outcomes work, yielding the desired results? What does the science say to support the learning process? And how should L&D engage key stakeholders to ensure their buy-in and support?

Well, as the title of this master’s program implies, learning must be interactive! But many mistake engagement as having learned. Nope! We use different interactive techniques as a method to engage the information processing loop… the cognitive architecture… the cognitive psychology for how we humans actually do learn.

Based on the book, co-authored with Sivasailam Thiagarajan (Thiagi), Matt will break the day into four sections:

  • How do Humans Learn? The session will open with an exploration of the mechanisms for how people learn for mastery. He will map our activities around the Loop to maximize the likelihood of a greater effect.
  • Analysis. But, as cool as activities aligned to cognitive psychology might be, organizations, better first take a step back and explore how to identify the problems L&D can either help or solve. It does no one any good to have a wonderfully designed learning experience that doesn’t ultimately solve a problem… or two. This also makes stakeholder management easier and more effective.
  • The Motivated Learner. How does the motivation of the learners affect the learning process? More importantly, what can those of us in L&D do to foster more autonomous motivation (motivation where the learner engages because the program is meaningful, purposeful, and significant)? What are we also… inadvertently (one hopes) … doing that undermines the motivation of our learners?
  • Testing, Assessment, and Evaluation. Did it work? Did your participants learn? Can you use testing and assessment more effectively to support the learning process? How do we know we were effective?
To build this vision for successful usage of interactive techniques, Matt will walk the walk and talk the talk… he will use activities to teach, discuss, ruminate, and reflect on the content for the day. Each participant will also get a e-copy of the book in either English or French.

Take Aways

By the end of the session, participants will:
  • Explore how to design learning engagements that better align with the science of how humans learn.
  • Use a template and rubric to improve the analysis of the problems that learning might solve.
  • Receive a checklist for how to engage key stakeholders about their learning initiatives.
  • Identify strategies and tactics for creating a more sustainable and supportive motivational learning environment.
  • Build in assessment and evaluation techniques into learning designs. Explore using testing and assessment as an actual interactive technique that supports learning happening.
  • Experience minimally ten activities that are frames, or templates, that they can then take and adapt to their own environments.

Prework

Before attending this class, participants should think, read, make, ... SEE PM

Agenda

  • 08h30 - 09h00: Welcome coffee
  • 09h00 - 10h30: Welcome & How Learning Happens
  • Break
  • 10h45 - 12h00: Analysis
  • Lunch
  • 13h00 - 14h30: Motivation
  • 14h30 - 15h30: Testing and Assessment
  • Break
  • 15h45 - 16h30: Putting it All Together
  • 16h30 - 17h00: The Final Activity and Review

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