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What is Instructional Design? Our Guide to Everything you Need to Know

Growth Engineering

Most will start with a training needs analysis to work out what organisational knowledge is missing, then they’ll work through a series of steps until the learning campaign finishes with an evaluation that checks knowledge intake and application. 5: EVALUATION. Evaluations give you the recipe to make training even better.

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back. In practice there’s far too much talking at people and phoney break-out groups.

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Maturity Models and the Learning Organization

CrossKnowledge

Following the example of quality management processes, which will be explored in more detail in Part 2 of this series, maturity models now seek to evaluate and improve training management within companies. From Maslow to Kirkpatrick: The Pioneers of the Maturity Model. Bloom’s taxonomy. Was it worth it?

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