Why we started R4D’s evaluation & adaptive learning practice

A little over seven years ago, I was with a trusted colleague at lunch and an idea struck. The only thing I had to jot it down on was a napkin. But somehow that felt fitting. In the moment, I felt a fleeting rush: lots of wild and innovative ideas started on a napkin, right? Am I on to something?

I lost the napkin and forget the details — but the ideas formed the core of a new R4D Evaluation & Adaptive Learning practice that we built, in fits and starts, over the ensuing years…..more