Developing Training Courses : A Technical Writer's Guide to Instructional Design and Development

By Ivan Tomek

The eight-step strategy presented in this book takes the mystery out of writing effective training courses. Practical templates, checklists, assessments, and examples streamline your effort and eliminate writer's block. You'll discover how to make the most of limited time, money, and human resources to: —Develop training lessons that make a difference. —Customize off-the-shelf training to meet the needs of your target audience. —Repurpose existing documentation. —Globalize your training for culturally diverse learners or tailor lessons to meet specific needs of a limited audience. —Recognize dead-end paths that can undermine the success of your project. —Incorporate ready-to-use CGI, Java, and HTML scripts into lessons. Learn when to use them, where to find download sites, and how to tailor them to your training objectives and learners. This systematic approach has helped thousands of writers like you create training programs that deliver what they promise. In just hours, you can learn techniques and time-savers that others have learned only through hard-won experience and costly mistakes. Keep this book handy. You'll reach for it often for real-world advice about every phase of your project from initial planning to troubleshooting. Better than a mentor, it's a must-have for every successful training or user-education professional. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970145403
• ISBN13: 9780970145406
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Learning Edge Pub.
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good for content planning, not for content writing

This is one of the best books of those that help you determine what should be included in your training course - to plan objectives and then break it down into the detail. It also covers how to test the effectiveness of the course. However, it does not give any information at all about what a course module should contain or how to write it. My goal was to write a training course for a software program. So, for the most part...

Terrific for Planning from the Ground Up!

I just can't say enough about this book. I am developing a training program for the first time and it has added outstanding depth to my process. It is simple to use. If you go step by step everything just seems to fall in to place. It is a life saver!

Very applicable

I read this book in 5 hours. After that, I had all the tools I needed to start developing a training course for a subject matter I still knew little about. Great book for someone who has a short time to develop a training course. Great reference for anyone who needs new approaches to their training development.