Wikipedia

I had the opportunity to hear Dr. Donald Kirkpatrick speak this past Wednesday on his training evaluation model. Before he spoke to us I went to Wikipedia and did a search on Dr. Kirkpatrick. I was surprised that there was so little information posted in Wikipedia about Dr. Kirkpatrick and his training evaluation model. I was surprised since this model means so much to instructional designers and eLearning courses. I thought to my self here I am in an eLearning website and there is so little posted about the topic. There was a link you could go to that gave more information but none the less I still was surprised by the lack of information at Wikipedia.

Maybe there is some copyright issue but none of the graphs or diagrams that Dr. Kirkpatrick showed are on Wikipedia's page on Dr. Kirkpatrick.

It has shown me that Wikipedia is useful but it certainly is not the end all for accessing knowledge.