Month: August 2010
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E learning programs: Case studies
Last week I looked at a case study regarding a simple but extremely effective training system at Jiffy Lube. Today please examine these two e learning programs operating in two completely different fields. One at Pizza Express and the other an innovative doctor who broadcasts his operations over the internet. Two great examples where people…
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Quality training is not complicated
Please read the linked news report here regarding quality training at Jiffy Lube. Jiffy lube is a pretty big organisation with over 20,000 employees across America who have developed and implemented an impressive training and development system that would be the envy of most medium to large organisations. The have all of the right components…
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Great training is easy!
The 14th episode of Ask Logical has just been released and covers the three simple concepts that ensure great, effective training. It can be viewed at all of the usual locations or by watching below. This carries on from a bit of a theme that has developed in my recent posts of keeping things simple…
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Assessment Quiz
We are constantly bombarded in the Australian training system with the importance of assessment. Too much I feel but more on that later. How much do you know about the history of assessment? Here is a simple quiz that like all good quizzes will end up teaching you new information, more than assessing your knowledge.…
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The big trick, the big conversion!
This weeks Training Tips 56 video looks at how easy it is to convert learning objectives, outcomes and competencies into one of the other formats. This is commonly misunderstood. They aren’t different they are all the same. It is just the format that they are written in that is different. If you have trouble writing…
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Jargon and more jargon
I wrote a post a couple of days ago on How to complicate training and just by coincidence I found this funny website called Unsuck It today which helps you to demystify the world of business jargon. Try it out. If you type in a term and it hasn’t heard of it before you can…
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Predicting the future of education
It is a tough job trying to predict what the future of education will look like. Many try. Many fail. It is precarious because it is changing rapidly as technology changes and as we as people change. Bill Gates has had his go at it (please read article and watch video here) recently and he…
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How to complicate training
Just about every time I open a training or educational textbook I am struck by the great lengths that many authors go to in attempt to complicate the training and educational process. Of course you can get very technical if you want to. But lets leave that to the academics. In the day to day…
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Competency & Rugby
What does competency and rugby have to do with each other? To find out you will need to check out the latest Training Tips 56 video. So far we have looked at learning objectives and learning outcomes and now it is competencies turn. Next week we will have a look at how they all…
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Overseas internet is crap!
My apologies for not sending out the regular posts but I have been traveling overseas and there is still a lot to do in regards to international internet connection. Because the travel has been constant there hasn’t been much time to sit down, connect to the net and type up posts. The cost overseas for…