Training Skills: Training Design

Course Overview

Develop a framework for a training design based on training need, learning environment and organisational expectations. Produce learning objectives and derive the content to meet them. Design a learning support system to enable the achievement of target workplace competencies. Select and develop appropriate learning methods matching them to content, process and learner needs. Develop the learning event specification, evaluation system and event materials for implementing the completed design. Validate the design, ensuring that key design criteria have been satisfied.

Audience

Training specialists and all those who need to design and write training sessions and training courses.

Skills Gained

• analysing target competencies to produce training objectives for defined training needs; reviewing the training need, the learning environment and organisational expectations.
• Learning Content: derive learning content from objectives to reveal building blocks of material.
• Learning Styles: identify implications for training process design from current adult learning and learning style theories; select learning methods to match different learning preferences; design a learning support system to enable the successful achievement of the target workplace competencies; map the learning content onto a four-stage learning process design model.
• Validation: incorporating evaluation measures into the training itself; planning the validation of the training design.
• Action Plan: participants plan and discuss what they will do on return to work.