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5. Teaching Procedures in the Classroom:

 In instructor-led face-to-face environments, learners will
typically have a record of the steps in a training manual,

view an instructor demonstration, and practice the steps in
a hands-on mode using whatever equipment is involved in

completing the procedure
 Procedures are most cleanly presented in the training

manual in action and decision tables
 If you are teaching a procedure with several steps that

apply to a single screen or piece of equipment, consider
displaying each step close to the relevant component of the

screen or equipment
 Decision procedures are best documented using decision

tables decision procedures include two or more linear
procedures. Sometimes it is most efficient to embed the
decision table in the action table, particularly when the

decision is relatively simple and directly tied into a larger
action sequence

 If your target audience is familiar with flow charts, consider
using them to document procedures with many embedded

decisions as a more space-efficient alternative to decision
tables

 Along with the steps of the procedure, the instructor needs to
provide a follow-along demonstration to illustrate how to

apply the steps
6. Teaching Procedures in e-Learning

 Some e-learning is designed to be self-study. We call
this asynchronous e-learning

 In other situations, procedures are taught synchronously in the
virtual classroom

 Software tools make production of both asynchronous
and synchronous e-learning software demonstrations easy

 Some tools will