As L&D professionals, our credibility and reputation depend on our ability to produce relevant learning from training, and to do so efficiently. This is the very least we must deliver, for without guaranteed learning there can be no payoff in the workplace, and the investment is a waste of time and money.
To achieve this requires a solid understanding of practical design techniques that can be used when formally developing programs and to ‘design on the run’. The latter is especially important since every facilitator is a training designer.
Designing for Learning is largely based on unique research conducted by Professor Sylvia Downs at the Industrial Training Research Unit, Cambridge, and subsequently at the Occupational Research Unit of the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST).
This early research focused on identifying ways to help make learning processes more effective by looking at how people actually learn and what trainers actually do when training. Sylvia investigated why some learners and trainers were more effective than others and what factors were blocking learning. Her research has been used to develop highly practical models and techniques that simplify training design and maximise learning.
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