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Trainings that promise to help people give up their bad habits aren’t all that easy on the trainer, as Froth discovers during and Anger Management training program. What’s your take? Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati...
Bloom’s Taxonomy doesn’t work and the Adult Learning Principles need to be revised… - Sloth Bewildered Moral of this Debacle: Effective trainings and courses are the outcome of a judicious use of Instructional Design principles. The ID Principles need to work in tandem with common sense, only then will we be able to awe our audience. ...
A fuzzy isn’t irredeemably evil. It has its own redeeming features. Right, Sloth? Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
Training Evaluation is a mystery yet unresolved. What is it that defines training effectiveness? How practical is the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation? or… does it all boil down to this? Conclusion: A training is successful when all your objectives are met. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin...
Froth and her cat meet Sloth for lunch. So though Froth’s program managed the first three parameters of the ARCS Model of Learner Motivation, it failed to Satisfy the learners…or so thinks Britney, the cat. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via...
Active Learning Active learning refers to the methods that engage or involve learner in the learning – thus, moving from the plain old lecture-based sessions to more interactive and collaborative ones. (Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison, 1991). Thus Active Learning methods call for activities that initiate and build learner activity in a classroom. Such methods would take...
The Algo-Heuristic Theory or the Algorithmic – Heuristic Theory defines three types of instructional rules. Descriptive rules – describe what the process is. Prescriptive rules – describe what should be done. Permissive rules - provide alternatives to the prescriptive rules. It helps to analyze a term into its constituent words, so let us look at the two words that...
Sloth is found on the bank of a river – bound and unconscious… Morale of the Story: Every once in a while, you’ll bump into an audience that is smarter than you are. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit...
Criterion-referenced instruction is built around the premise that a learner should be able to fulfill the criterion of meeting the learning objective. So it focuses upon designing a training program or a course in a way that it enables all the learners to achieve a specific level of skill or meet the pre-defined learning objectives. The concept of criterion-referenced...
Sloth has returned from an intensive Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program on “How to Design Effective Trainings for a Diverse Audience.” He appears to be a happy, satisfied learner. The question is – is he? ID/Training Terminology Used in the Comic Strip: TTT Program: Train-the-Trainer Program WIIFM: An acronym for “What is in it for me?” First made popular by Robert...
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