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The iceberg has melted, long live the evaluation duck

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 21st February 2013

Getting your head around evaluation and social impact assessment (evaluation’s sexy stage name) can be a complicated process. more >

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From Problems to Conclusions - How do we Share Understanding of Research

By: Simon Knight
On: 13th November 2012

Making sense of our evidence

In her recent Nominet Trust blog Annika talked about the ways Nominet Trust is trying to make sense of the information they have on how technology might be used to open up new opportunities. Creating stories, spotting themes, and mapping ideas have been key to this work. more >

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Measuring Impact by Tracking Open Content in the Wild

By: Simon Knight
On: 3rd October 2012

How do we track the impact of data and documents once we’ve “let it out” into the wild for anyone to use, reuse, reappropriate, and open up for re-downloading? That’s the question I’m looking at this week, and that I’ve been thinking about for the last couple of days.
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Wikipedia in Education, and tracking how 'knowledge' is used...

By: Simon Knight
On: 16th September 2012

EduWiki Conference & the power of 'paradata'

Last week I went to the EduWiki conference in Leicester.

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Evaluation - 10 reasons why you should

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 28th June 2012

People always seem to post pictures of rulers or tape measures when they talk about evaluation, which, frankly, have to be some of the dullest objects in the world.

image Wikimedia Commons

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Evaluation...lost in translation?

By: Kieron Kirkland
On: 30th January 2012

In my last post, The quest for the holy metric? I argued that the heart of the shared measurement issue in social development is not an evaluation problem, it’s a translation problem. What we really want to know is how can I translate the social value that I have captured into a language that you understand so that you value the work too? more >