After reading this INFORMATION SHEET, YOU MUST be able to identify the factors to be considered in developing training design.
Training is a set of a systematic processes designed to meet learning objectives related to trainees' current or future jobs. These processes can be grouped into the following phases; needs analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The phases are sequential, with the outputs of the previous phases providing the inputs to those that follow.
There are many instructional design models but many are based on the ADDIE model with the five phases:
1. analysis - analyze learner characteristics, task to be learned, etc. Identify Instructional Goals, Conduct Instructional Analysis, Analyze Learners and Contexts
2. design - develop learning objectives, choose an instructional approach Write Performance Objectives, Develop Assessment Instruments, Develop Instructional Strategy
3. development - create instructional or training materials
Design and selection of materials appropriate for learning activity, Design and Conduct Formative Evaluation
4. implementation - deliver or distribute the instructional materials
5. evaluation - make sure the materials achieved the desired goals Design and Conduct Summative Evaluation
Robert Gagné’s (1999) model useful in providing a structured approach of learning. This provides a nine steps that can assist you in your plan:
1. Gain Attention – to orientate and motivate the learner
2. Inform Learners of Objectives – to guide learners and to assist them to organize their thoughts around what they are about to learn
3. Stimulate Recall of Prior Knowledge – because adults learn by establishing relationships with what they know and a new knowledge or skill
4. Present the material – in a way that appeals to the different learning preferences and is easy to digest
5. Provide guidance for learning – by providing opportunities to integrate new information into their existing knowledge base
6. Elicit performance by providing safe opportunities to practice
7. Provide feedback – to reinforce or correct learning
8. Assess performance – learners should be given the opportunity for assessment to gain recognition of their success in learning
Enhance retention and transfer – by encouraging learner to plan the application of what they have learnt