Instructional design refers to a systematic process used to develop training and seminar programs, used to ensure high quality, relevant training that meets the organization's needs. Learn about various instructional design models.
Training needs assessments are crucial in ensuring that training yields a return on investment and is not wasted. Learn how to conduct a needs assessment from these resources.
By Peter Grazier
- Even experienced trainers sometimes fail to maximize their teaching potential simply for a lack of a few strategically placed techniques to enhance the learning. Therefore, most trainers will "kill" for a new technique. My purpose in this session is to share unique ideas for enhancing training and presentations that have worked well for me over the last 18 years, so that we will be able to move the concepts of quality, participation, and human potential forward more forcefully and effectively.
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By Anne Thornley-Brown
- Few experiences can be more challenging than presenting highly technical or complex information to a non-technical audience. It's time to take some risks and use props, games, game shows, and action learning to convey technical content.
(Added: 1-Jun-2001 Hits: 106
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By Ruth Weiss
- Neuroscientists, educators, psychiatrists, geneticists, and yogis are examining the mind-body link to figure out how we learn.
* Our ability to generate new brain cells accounts for the brain's plasticity--its ability to continue to learn and update its database.
* Our minds and bodies work together to help us pay attention, solve problems, and remember solutions. Our physiological states support our mental efforts. Movement and exercise can enhance optimal learning states.
(Added: 7-Apr-2002 Hits: 34
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By Robert Bacal
- More and more writers are publishing books on psychology for the general public. The good news is that people unschooled in psychology can learn from these kinds of books even if they unlikely to read psychology textbooks or professional journals . The bad news is that people unschooled in psychology can learn from these kinds of books even if they are unlikely to read psychology textbooks or professional journals.
(Added: 16-Oct-2000 Hits: 54
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By Wayne Parker
- How the classic Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory apply to the work of consultants and trainers. Can following these laws make us better at our work, as it has for teachers for over a century?
(Added: 15-May-2001 Hits: 53
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