Training Assessment Education

Month: May 2011

  • Cheating – why? Why not?

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    I read a good article on cheating this morning. The article makes a few good points and some excellent further reading. There is a lot of talk in training and education on cheating particularly since elearning continues to grow in popularity but I don’t think there is anymore or less cheating than say 10 years…

  • Motivation – what’s new

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    By coincidence I have been training a number of groups across different programs the importance of motivation. I have a number of different strategies that I use to cover this very big topic but I recently found a great video clip which has proven to be extremely useful. I haven’t read Daniel’s book on this…

  • Brain posts

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    Thanks to the guest bloggers who posted last week. Great work. I recently found two small articles on the brain. I think it is important that all trainers keep up to date with what is going on in the world of brain research as we have to deal with the brain and any tips into…

  • Know your Stuff & Know your Audience

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    Guest Blogger – The Blonde Kiwi L&D is a balance between delivering a message and giving people the tools to discover that message for themselves. Case studies are perfect to give people the tools to have that Aha moment and discover the message for themselves. So whats in writing a good case study? The experts say multiple…

  • What makes a good training workbook?

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      Fiona, Olga and Roxana Our challenge!  To find out what we think makes a good training workbook.  After a lot of searching (and some our collective experience thrown in),  this is what we came up with.  Tell us what you think? Can you do better? We think the ADDIE model sums it up neatly: …

  • When Google Doesn’t Know Everything!!!

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    Written by Guest Blogger Craig 🙂 While searching through the online world looking for information on writing better case studies, why was I so shocked that all the answers lay around writing business case studies? Could it be that us trainers are the forgotten breed? Could it be that education isn’t important? Well let me…

  • The Blackhole of Learning Activities

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      What is an activity? What is your definition of an activity in the learning environment? When I think about activities within a face to face sphere, I think team work, collaboration, role plays, discussion and debate. For me it is the formal and informal activities that involve collaboration and team work in a learning…

  • Instructional design

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    I am running a instructional design session tomorrow with some Diploma participants which meant that I started looking around on the internet for any useful resources (a must for any session planner). I have always thought that instructional design was pretty straight forward but I have been doing it for a long time and I…

  • Great Training Introductions

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    As promised here is our first Training Tips 56 video for the year. Sorry for the delay but it has been a very busy year so far with a number of critical career and business changes and hence I just haven’t had the time. I will be posting new videos regularly so ensure that you…

  • Elearning Tips

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    There are a truckload of tips and hints on how to design and deliver elearning. Most of it is useless and a waste of time, much of it is just an attempt to sell you something. Here is a quick little slideshare resource which I think is great for people getting into elearning and it…