Train The Trainer: How To Design Engaging Training Content
Teaching content for a training course can often seem like quite an easy task. You know what you’re talking about, and how to explain it to beginners, so you’re halfway there already. However, it’s hard to gauge what your learners think about the way the content is taught. Is it engaging? Do you explain it well? Are the learning objectives easy to obtain?
In this course, we are going to be training the trainer. By giving you all the right tools to design your own course, you will be able to produce content that spikes the learner’s curiosity and leaves them wanting to understand more. Learning can be addictive – it’s just a case of getting them into the mindset in the first place.
The order of the content can be just as important as the way in which you teach it, so you will also learn how to structure a training course correctly. You will also come to appreciate the importance of learning objectives, and how they can boost a learner’s confidence. By giving them achievable, realistic but still challenging objectives for each section of your course, your learner can perfectly monitor their growth over time.
As well as using the ADDIE model and capability building exercises, you will soon have the perfect skillset to not only teach content in an exciting manner but structure it in a way to keep your audience hooked. Over the next few lectures, you will gradually understand how to create a training course, specifically one that is rich with information and has the learner coming back for more every time.
Defining Your Course Requirements
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Introduction: Outline Of CourseIn this opening lecture, we introduce what you will learn in the upcoming sections and go over the structure we will follow, so you can walk away with the ability to design your own training course.
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Is Training Right For You?
What personality traits contribute to being a great trainer? In this lecture, you'll learn whether you possess the qualities required to succeed with training and how best to develop them.
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Pain Points, Learning Barriers and Solutions
In this lecture, you'll learn what can get in the way of a person's learning experience and how to combat this with pre-prescribed solutions.
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The Flow And Aims Of The Course
In this concluding lecture of Section 1, we'll explain how the following sections will take you on a training course development journey, from identifying the problem your course aims to solve to designing the solution.
Designing Your Course
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How To Define What Problem Your Course Is Solving
Section 2 is all about defining your own training course's requirements. At the heart of every great training course, there should be a problem that the course aims to solve. In this lecture, you will learn more about identifying yours.
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Adult Learning Concepts
We explore Adult Learning Concepts in this lecture in order to understand the different considerations when working with adult learners.
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Neuroscience Considerations For Learning
This lecture dives into how neuroscience plays a role in people's learning experience.
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Working With SMEs
Central to a great training course is a skilled Subject Matter Expert. In this lecture, you will learn how to get the most out of your relationship with yours.
Download the SME Questions supporting document, which provides a list of important questions to ask you SME when conducting your analysis meeting.
Delivering Your Training
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Defining Your Learning Objectives
Section 3 looks at what is involved in designing your course. We start by looking into how defining effective learning objectives can be a catalyst to developing a great training course.
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Considerations For Instructor/Virtual Instructor Led & Digital Training Delivery
Different environments need specific considerations. In this lecture, we look at some key considerations for each environment.
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Addie Model: Design And Develop
In the last lecture of Section 3, we cover the key components of the Design and Develop phases of the ADDIE model.
Course Follow Up And Evaluation
Conclusion
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Why It's Important To Evaluate Your Training
Section 5 addresses the course follow up and evaluation required for your training program. This lecture considers the potential benefits of effective evaluation and how it can drive future improvements.
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Addie Model: Evaluate
Here, we cover the key components of the Evaluation phase of the ADDIE model.
