By now, we all know how to design training that has a measurable impact on the
jobs people do. We can define the job tasks, write effective objectives and test items, and produce
training materials that deliver the content appropriately. The methodology we follow to do this is
well defined and incorporated into our daily training regimes.
But in the “information age” new ideas are emerging that are beginning to influence the way some
organizations think about the information they produce. For them, it is no longer enough to write a
lesson plan that achieves a defined training outcome for a selected target audience. They want
information that can easily be shared, adjusts to a variety of settings and media, delivered
on-demand, any time, to any group or individual, and even accommodate a recipient’s personal learning
style.
The ability to produce highly effective content that can be used, re-used and shared across the
enterprise (or the world) to anyone that needs it is bringing about new standards for how
information is designed. Fortunately, these standards do not clash with our performance-based
training methods. Rather, they are based on a fresh look at familiar instructional design elements
combined with Internet, database and new software interface technologies.
This presentation will suggest ways to package learning content as independent, re-usable learning
objects that can be more effective than traditional training materials. Primary considerations will
focus on ways to orient learning objectives, the assignment of learning strategies, the addition of
several new kinds of “properties” and adherence to IEEE, AICC and other standards for web-learning
objects.
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