Category: Instructional Design

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Designing Results-Driven Facilitator Guides

Posted on 17 February 2012 by David Wilson

This instructional design tip will help you develop effective facilitator guides and resources to make sure your courses achieve the learning results you want! A facilitator guide is much more than just a document that lists training content and activity … Read more »

Training Needs Analysis – Getting it Right

Posted on 9 November 2011 by David Wilson

Designing an effective, results-driven training program can be a long and expensive process. Too often business managers are in a hurry, wanting the new training program to be delivered yesterday. This puts a lot of pressure on the Training Department … Read more »

5 Ways to get Participants Out of their Chairs & Learning

Posted on 30 January 2011 by David Wilson

If you design or deliver training sessions that run for a day or more where your participants remain seated for long periods of time, chances are, they’ll get tired, uncomfortable and distracted, and lose concentration. During any training course, unless … Read more »

How to Learn that Training Material Faster!

Posted on 26 October 2010 by David Wilson

As Instructional Designers or trainers, we’re constantly in the process of learning. When you’re under pressure to read and learn a lot of material for a new training project, the stress levels can sky rocket! Over my career as both … Read more »