Training Development Toolkit
Effective training is essential for developing skills and enhancing performance in the workplace. Training development involves creating structured programs that engage learners and meet specific learning objectives.
Effective Training: A Toolkit for Teaching Adults
A comprehensive guide on how to create effective learning for adults.
Build Your Own Professional Training: Quick Start Guide
A fast-paced course as a quick start guide to developing a professional training program.
Online Courses
Use Microsoft Copilot to Create Training Materials
Discover how Microsoft Copilot can enhance your training materials and resources. From content generation to image creation, experience a new era of engaging and effective learning.
Train the Trainer
In this course, learn how to effectively train in today's business environment. Ajay M. Pangarkar shares strategies and techniques for delivering high-quality workplace training that leads to better learner outcomes.
How to Design and Deliver Training Programs
Corporate training expert Jeff Toister explains how to design and deliver training programs that engage learners and help them quickly develop new skills by walking through the ADDIE model of instructional design as it applies to corporate learning.
Learning How to Increase Learner Engagement
Help set learners up for success by teaching in a more interactive and immersive way. Professor and instructional designer Karl Kapp explores teaching strategies that engage learners and make learning stick—whether you're teaching face-to-face or in an online classroom setting.
eBooks
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Evidence-Based Training Methods: A Guide for Training Professionals
Whether you are a classroom instructor, a developer of training materials, or a training manager, this book shows you how to incorporate evidence and learning psychology into our program design, development, and delivery decisions.
Training Design Basics
Updated to reflect changes in training practices, this book zeroes in on how to design successful training for the face-to-face or virtual classroom, and serves as a guide for developing self-study training programs, such as online tutorials and workbooks.
The Art and Science of Training
Showing how top facilitators always put learners first, even when faced with exceptions to the rule, this highly informative book explains why you must understand people, not only content, to ensure consistently exceptional learning experiences.
The Gamification of Learning and Instruction: Game-Based Methods and Strategies for Training and Education
By leveraging the best elements of online games to increase learning, retention, and application, this book explains how to match different game strategies to types of learning content for the right learning outcome.