Meet Coffeebeans - The Pup with an Education.
Designing Training Games – The Challenges and the Rewards (Train-the-Trainer Series) Every good trainer knows that a single good training game can salvage the most boring of training programs. However, what irks a trainer most is that it’s next to impossible to find a game that can boast of a holistic relevance to the training program. The absolutely...
I know that there’s a strong echo of the term “instructional design” in the job market. I also know that you’ve heard this term from a friend of a relative of yours, and you feel that you have it in you to become an instructional designer. However, a quick check never does anyone any harm, does it? While I...
The first sessions of Creative Agni’s Instructional Design Courses (The IDST Course and the IDCD Course) have ended and the course participants have sent in their views on the courses. You can read these views on the Creative Agni Participants’ Views page here. I would like to thank all the participants for taking out time to send me their...
His bed was set against the window. The caretaker had laughed when he said that he liked to look outside his window the first thing in the morning. “You don’t know what’s outside that window or you won’t be so sure,” the grizzly old man had said in a voice that shook with age, and with mirth. Vineet...
Types of Creativity – The 4C Model by James Kauffman Traditionally, creativity was thought to be of two types: 1. Eminent Creativity (Creativity of those who achieved eminence in their chosen creative field.) 2. Everyday Creativity (Creativity that everyone has – and which manifests itself in our daily acts.) In 2001, James C. Kauffman (of the Sylvia Plath...
Most trainers have excellent…almost magnetic personalities. They look confident, they speak well, and they have the ability to lead their training groups into great learning experiences. These competencies however are behavioral and have been developed through years of practice. As any good trainer has developed these competencies over many years and they all are quite good at what they...
Dear Readers, Here’s a quick update. I had repeated the IDP-ST Workshop -the Instructional Design Primer for Senior-professionals and Trainers (IDP-ST) on 5th February. This workshop found participants among trainers, senior instructional designers, training managers, and project managers, and was attended by professionals working in IBM, Binary Semantics, Educomp, DLF Pramerica, and Piron Corporation. I thank them for their...
Sanjay decides to join an Instructional Design Course (Motivation in Action – A Short Story) Sanjay threw the cigarette stub down and stomped upon it. It was his third cigarette and he was no closer to calming down than he was an hour earlier. Though he realized that the cigarettes weren’t helping, he couldn’t stop himself from lighting another...
Click the image to visit the IDCD Certificate Course Page. (Next Course Group Starts on June 03, 2012. )
Click the image to visit the IDST Certificate Course Page. (Next Course Group starts on July 08, 2012.)
My Cognitive Psychology and Learning Blog.
The Website for Wavelength eLearning Consulting & Training.
follow: RSS Tweet with me