DQ 1-2

DQ 1

This week’s lecture describes the advantages and disadvantages of using Kirkpatrick’s taxonomy. As a human resources employee tasked with creating and evaluating a training course for your organization, how would you use Kirkpatrick’s taxonomy to evaluate the training?  What could you do to minimize the disadvantages of the tool? 

DQ 2

Read the article “Apple is BetaTesting an Update that Kills Evasion Jailbreak.”  In the textbook, beta testing is described as used for formative evaluation and for fine-tuning. How does the story of Apple’s betatest meet the criteria?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/02/25/apple-is-beta-testing-a-fix-for-evasi0n-jailbreak/