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Week 8
Topic 8: Organizing Your Training Content

Readings

Clark R.C. (2008). Developing Technical Training—A Structured
Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-Based

Instructional Materials. (Third Edition). California: John-Wiley
& Sons.

Study notes

1. How to Define the Content of Your Training

 There are five common pitfalls that associated with course and
lesson planning:

 First, often content is organized around the structure of a
product or the knowledge domain, rather than around the
context of the job

 A second common flaw is the inclusion of content that is nice to
know merged with content that is essential to the job

 Third, important supporting knowledge in the form of essential
concepts or processes associated with the lesson procedural or
strategic tasks is omitted

 Fourth, courses where too much content—including essential
content—is crammed into a single lesson

 The last common problem is a failure to include regular
meaningful practice exercises

2. Start with a Focus on the Job

 The first rule to guide your training development efforts is: Begin
with the job