Category: Learning Design

The observation of real work involving high-level competencies is not always a practical option. For example, it is difficult for assessors to directly observe candidates generating designs and ideas, analysing and solving problems, leading teams and developing long term plans....

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is learners focused training, therefore training in the VET sector must be personalised, customised to learner’s needs.  VET training is training for a purpose, in other words, training outcomes must be identified and must be...

A Training and Assessment Strategy (TAS) helps you to plan and document key aspects of your program such as what it includes, how the training and assessment is organized and who will be involved. The Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations 2011...

Every hour, approximately 1.25 million PowerPoint presentations are being delivered in conference rooms, lecture halls, training centers and hotel meeting rooms around the world (Levasseru & Sawyer 2006). Presentation experts estimate a waste of $250 million per day from bad...

We begin learning by pretending. Play is an essential learning experience in our development, for in our childhood imaginations; the real world exists for us with all its possibilities, but none of the risks. As adults, too, we learn well...

For routine tasks, your examples should mirror the work environment as closely as possible. This means incorporating the equipment, application screens, forms that would be used on the job into your example. Describe graphics with audio (narration or instructor) and...

What Kind of visuals work best? As we discussed in the part 1 of this article, decorative visuals don’t help. In the table below, I summarised the four types of explanatory visuals that show relationship among content elements. Use relevant...

No matter which learning architecture you use, slide after slide of text and more text makes for a boring session. And slides and screens that are walls of words fail to leverage one of the most powerful tools proven to...

No matter which architecture or blend of architectures you are using, you will need to decide which mix of delivery media you will use, how you will communicate most effectively with the three modes of visuals, text, and audio; and...

Cognitive psychology research suggests that three major factors influence how much and how well we learn: ability, prior knowledge, and motivation. Ability The capacity with which we were born that enables us to acquire new skills and knowledge varies among...