The Training Design Podcast

Technology has come a long way in the last twenty years, but face-to-face training doesn't always show it. In this episode, we discuss ways of bringing technology into face to face training, and give lots of practical suggestions around how you can make technology part of your training design.

1:51 What do we mean by using technology in workshop design?

2:51 Why should we embrace technology in workshop design?

4:34 Technology is not just for blended learning

5:44 Case study: using a learning management app alongside workshops

9:39 Case study: Getting rid of paper happy sheets

10:43 People these days are happier with technology

11:18 Interactive whiteboard apps instead of flipcharts

14:59 Integrated learning apps

16:44 Using tech for delegates dialling in to workshops

18:06 Resistance to using technology in workshops

19:00 Overcoming hardware issues

20:11 Getting over reliability worries

21:06 Wifi and connectivity

21:59 Voting apps and hardware

23:46 Creating your own videos

25:59 Going beyond what you know and trust

27:30 Where to start with trying out new technology for learning design

30:55 Considering facilitators and clients

31:35 Technology for branching paths/choose your own adventure activities

34:48 Using technology in pre and post course

35:37 Creating a Wiki

36:30 Is designing using technology more time-consuming?

39:02 Thinking of alternatives to traditional methods

39:49 Sheridan’s takeaways for using tech in learning

41:29 Let’s remember why we’re using technology

42:19 Sheridan’s mini-topic: formalising informal learning

45:45 Designing a space for self-directed learning

47:32 Combining today’s two topics

47:50 Who we are and getting in touch

Resource Links

Explain Everything: explaineverything.com

Spiral: spiral.ac

Slack: slack.com

Vox Votes: www.voxvote.com

Screen recording software: zapier.com/blog/best-screen-recording-software

Biteable: biteable.com

GoPro: gopro.com

Twine: twinery.org

GiraffePad: www.giraffepad.com

Prezi: prezi.com

Sway: sway.office.com

Wiki creation: www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Wiki

Contact the Hosts

Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TrainingDesignPodcast

Terry Pearce LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/terrypaulpearce

Sheridan Webb LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/trainingdesigner

The Training Designers’ Club: www.facebook.com/groups/2226817990681543 - A community for Learning Designers

360 Learning Design: 360learningdesign.com - For bespoke, creative and personalised learning design

Keystone Development: www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk - For bespoke learning and development programme design

Power Hour: www.power-hour.co.uk - For ready written bite-size training materials

Designing learning (and especially workshops) that can be picked up and run by someone else isn't always easy. In this episode, we discuss some common mistakes and what we can do as designers to create a great session that meets the client brief, includes the facilitator and delivers a great learning experience.

00:50 Why is designing for facilitators important?

03:08 Planning versus Designing

04:28 What can go wrong when we don’t think about the facilitator

05:57 Sometimes trainers don’t like using other people’s design

07:27 The recipe analogy

08:07 Giving facilitators flexibility

08:56 More reasons to design in detail

11:41 What we need to do differently -- more detail

12:03 What we need to do differently -- signposting

12:56 What we need to do differently -- explaining the reasons

13:38 What we need to do differently -- specialist skills

14:28 What we need to do differently -- give alternatives where possible

15:21 Take care with broken links when editing

16:00 Helping facilitators with their expectations of the group

16:36 Making things easier for the facilitator

17:19 Benefits for the facilitator

19:00 Are facilitators always good at design?

21:01 The 80/20 rule in following session plans

22:12 Summary tips for making the facilitator-designer relationship work

24:19 Including all the info on models and tools

25:33 Terry’s takeaways for designing for facilitators

27:02 Involve the facilitators

27:16 It’s going to take longer

28:36 Terry’s mini-topic: Using models that have been around a long time

29:56 Balancing the old and the new in practice

33:58 Who we are and getting in touch

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This episode covers what curation is, why we should embrace it in our learning design and how to go about it.

Here's what's covered in this episode:

01:39  What is curation?

02:15  Creation versus curation

03:20  Curation as signposting

04:25  We won’t be out of a job?

05:55  Curation as part of current trends in L&D

06:48  What should we curate?

07:50  Don’t leave people to Google’s mercy

09:58  How to stop curation eating your time

11:46  We are the filters

13:31  Specialists have an advantage

14:28  Curation as a change of pace

15:18  Curation isn’t just about pre and post course work

16:21  We need to put content in context

16:55  Learners make their own decisions about relevance

17:45  Tips for curating proactively

20:26  Getting content to come to you

24:05  Justifying curation (it’s not just browsing the internet)

24:29  Internal curation and getting people involved

26:53  Case study: programme design with a flipped classroom

29:18  Case study: linking people to existing resources

30:06  Fitting curation to the culture

30:45  What if somebody doesn’t do the coursework?

31:39  A programme in three parts’ instead of pre and post work

32:29  Catering for both those who’ve done the work and those who’ve not

34:08  Keeping an open mind on the what, how, when and where

34:35  Curation instead of workshops

35:55  Terry’s summary of the episode’s top tips

37:13  The mini-topic: overcomplicating things

42:09  Get in touch!

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