Category: Program design
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Stanford elearning course
I have enrolled in this short program offered through Stanford Uni on Designing a New Learning Environment. I though that some of you might be interested. The price is great – free. Course details are located here.
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New course builder
I haven’t checked this course builder out yet but it looks very interesting and it is put together by Google who does have a pretty good track record. Worth spending a little bit of time looking around and seeing if it is worth it and how easy it is to build online courses. I will…
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Making training and practice real
Making training as close to real and the practice that follows as close to real as possible ultimately brings about a more meaningful and more effective learning experience. If done well it transcends learning and becomes experience. This article describes how officers are trained by spraying pepper spray into their eyes. That is pretty close…
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Practice, Practice, Practice and then some more!
I have written about practice before. I even put a video out about it (see below). There appears to be a lot being written about practice at the moment with all sorts of different terms such as deliberate practice etc. This is a good article to read if you want further information. Practice is an…
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Training should be simple
Experts! Definition of an expert: a person who makes the simple complex. Good training is really a pretty simple process. A made a video back in 2009 on this topic. Watch the video below though. Training should be as simple as this.
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Instructional design
I have written a few posts about writing and instructional design as well as a couple videos (one is shown below). To be a great trainer you need great content. Sometimes that is easy but often it means a great deal of effort, research and creative time. Read this post about writing is acting. It…
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Instructional Design Flaws
Another interesting article on instructional design flaws. I hope you find it interesting. Their three big flaws: Flaw #1: Cognitive Overload Flaw #2: Overreliance on Elaborative Studying Flaw #3: Insufficient Self-Pacing Personally the biggest flaw I find in online and class based learning is just a lack of any instructional design. It’s not rocket science…
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Gamification
I don’t expect that everyone, all the time, follows some of the comments on this blog so if you missed it Nygell Topp, a regular reader, attached a video which does a good job of defining gamification. So if you want to learn a little more about the hot topic out there in training watch…
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Games and Training
Games have always been apart of training. Generally though, from my experience they are short and to the point and quickly summarised so we can move on to the next chunk of content. I have played with longer concept games but they do take up considerable time to design and the outcome ca be variable…
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Too much of a good thing
When is too much of a good thing, bad? Too much fun in training can be bad. Too much theory can be bad. Too much practical can be bad. You need balance. How do you get balance? Be critical, be aware, seek feedback. Check out this webpage for an example of when too much…