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Telecollaboration and Project Based Training

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Not only will this facilitate the sharing of best practices but it will also contribute to a database of solutions to customer objections that can be used as a job aid. Participants of the showdown will improve their ability of overcoming customer objections by competing to post the best solutions to customer objections on a discussion board.

Project 56
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Opportunities for Performance Support – Allison Rossett

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I love creating job aids because they allow me to make a bigger difference across the organization. If I teach a class I am only reaching a handful of people but by creating a job aid I can reach every person in the organization. In many cases if not most, a job aid or tool can be more effective than investing in ILT or eLearning.

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Cheat Sheets

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I stumbled upon Tim's Blog which is chock full of “One Page Guides” that are simple, one page job aids covering a variety of topics. A well designed job aid such as the one page guides can be much more effective than a day long training course.

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Moodle: Email Notfication Problems

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The first and more complicated issue is not having a Cron job set up on the web server hosting moodle and the second issue had to do with using SMTP to send email from Moodle. Before researching this issue I didn't even know what Cron Jobs are which made it difficult for me to troubleshoot the issue.

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Rapid Performance Analysis

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After reading " Job Aids & Performance Support " by Allison Rosset , and " Analyzing Performance Problems " by Robert Mager and Peter Pipe, I am sold on the notion that a "course" is not always the answer and if a "course" is the answer it is crucial to conduct an analysis to produce an effective instructional product.

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3 Steps to a Driving Question for Project Based Learning

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Think about what is going to happen on the job that will trigger the performance being taught and capture that in the form of a question or multiple questions. Whether it be creating a business proposal or simulating a sales presentation the project should mimic what will be required on the job. Is it complex?

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What is Project Based Learning?

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In project based learning students use a variety of resources such as the internet and books or even better, resources used to perform their jobs such as company intranets, software, job aids, manuals, and wikis to construct their own solutions to the problem they are being asked to solve.

Project 53