Training Needs Assessment Step-By-Step Helpcard guides you through conducting a training needs assessment, and it’s all on two sides of an 8.5 x11 inch “card”. Meant for busy people who haven’t time to read books on the subject and need to get the job done NOW. Also an economical job aid to keep with you.
Training Needs Assessment Helpcard (Partial Picture)
As our first in the Special Tweet Series (on leadership styles) ended, we’re about to begin the next one. This time the topic is Learning theories as applied to instruction.
Many trainers and learners have had some contact with the more popularized concepts and theories of learning, and limited contact with some of the more important ones, which tend to be talked about in journals, rather than pop psychology forums.
Don Clark, who is a prolific internet poster and website owner and I had a conversation about understanding the differences between concept and skill. Although we didn’t solve the issue, it’s interesting for trainers, since what we teach affects (or should) how we teach.
Don starts off (the parts with the >)
Knowledge Management in Instructional Design. ERIC Digest.
Instructional designers engage in activities related to the planning and implementation of instructional and performance support solutions. Available tools and technologies influence the way in which instructional designers accomplish their tasks. Knowledge management represents a technology that is changing how instructional design professionals work. This article will review what instructional designers do, describe knowledge management, and indicate how knowledge management is influencing instructional design.
Short Description: Forward-thinking organizations are turning to enterprise learning in their quest to be better informed, better skilled, better supported at the point of need, and more competitive in their respective marketplaces.
Long Description: It is clear that as enterprise learning becomes a central part of strategic business alignment, the anytime, anywhere promises of eLearning are more likely to be met by extending the metaphor of the classroom and taking better advantage of today’s informal learning tools, resources, and techniques. Continue reading
Older Worker Training: An Overview. ERIC Digest No. 114.
A number of economic and demographic trends are focusing attention on older workers: individuals over age 55 will continue to constitute a larger proportion of the total population; people are living longer, healthier lives and many see full- or part-time employment as a means of remaining productive in their later years; increased longevity coupled with higher inflation have created economic pressures for older people, causing them to remain in the work force; and low birth rates during the past two decades have decreased the number of younger entrants into the labor market (Johnston and Packer 1987).
ERIC Identifier: ED470032
Publication Date: 2002-10-00
Author: Driscoll, Marcy P.
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology Syracuse NY.
ERIC Identifier: ED481716
Publication Date: 2003
Author: Boston, Carol
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Cognitive Science and Assessment. ERIC Digest.
At least since the 1990 publication of Senge’s The Fifth Discipline, the concept of the learning organization (LO) has been promoted as a way to restructure organizations to meet the challenges of the coming century. What are learning organizations-in theory and in practice? Are they a real solution or the latest in a series of reform fads? The myths and realities are explored in this publication. Continue reading
We know from psychological research that human beings tend to discount information, data, or viewpoints that conflict with their pre-existing positions on any issue. We all do that to some degree. What is jarring is seeing learning professionals, trainers and teachers deliberately avoiding interacting with those who have views different from their’s.
I’ve seen this among the leading proponents of social networking as it is used to promote learning, i.e., social learning people. For example, Elliott Mazie, an elearning guru refused public discussion on an article he posted that clearly mis-stated some research numbers. Others have done similar things on Twitter. In fact, when challenged on the basic tenets of social learning dogma, the majority shut down. Avoid & deny.