Category: Competency
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Are you learning anything?
Please read this article from the Huffington Post. Basically it states that 45% of college students don’t learn much in college. Pretty disappointing really, especially when you consider the amount of money and time that goes into the process. Is it the same in your country? I don’t think we have had a similar study…
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Cheating
Can we stop participants cheating in an assignment, exam or essay? Technology has made it easier to cheat and at the same time it has created some great software that can detect cheating and plagiarism. I think that the more you try to stop cheating the cleverer participants get at finding ways to cheat and…
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Smart, Smarter, Smartest.
Check out this new post from Seth Godin on Getting smart about the hierarchy of smart It is a slightly different take on the one that trainers often adopt or Unconscious incompetence Conscious incompetence Conscious competence Unconscious competence His final point though is very interesting and I am very aware of it. Treat an expert…
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Writing an assessment is SIMPLE!
I think we have definitely over complicated the assessment writing process. This weeks Ask Logicool video outlines a simple five step process on how to write an effective assessment. In fact if you practice this you will be able to write an assessment in less than 15 minutes for a unit of competence. You will…
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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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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…