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The Checklist for Strong Learning Design (SLD)

Introduction

Avoid Boring Training Ask Your Learners To Do Something

Review Your Training Use the Strong Learning Design Checklist

Assess Your Skills

Go Forth! Create Great Training

Final Exam

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Congratulations on completing the main body of the lesson! Can you demonstrate how well you recognize action-oriented training when you see it? For each of the examples of training material content provided below, identify whether the example is action-oriented or a sad information dump. When you are finished, submit your quiz to see how well you did!

1 You are signed up for a training course on Authentic Leadership. When your training materials arrive, the first page of the training booklet lists the objectives:

  • Define leadership
  • Understand the importance of authentic leadership
  • List good leaders you have known

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

2 As a fitness instructor, you are taking a course to be able to teach indoor rowing. The course has two parts, a self-study section and a hands-on practice section. The self-study section contains images of students using common rowing patterns, such as
rowing technique

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

3 As a new salesman at Seasonal Tire Company you are required to complete a series of eLearning modules before hitting the sales floor. In each module you are presented with text and voice-over narration that reads you the text. You find that you can read the text yourself more quickly than the audio narration, but the system does not allow you to proceed until the narration ends.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

4 Your introductory accounting course requires you to read 2 chapters per week and complete worksheets with accounting problems using an online learning management system. The worksheets are automatically scored, but the learning management software does not provide feedback for incorrect answers.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

5 You are taking a marketing course that focuses on the book the Experience Economy by Pine and Gilmore (2011). Your instructor is an avid Disney fan, so he uses random Disney cartoon characters on each powerpoint slide in the narrated presentations you are required to watch.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

6 You are taking a leadership training course. Your instructor uses real pictures of well-known business leaders on key slides in her powerpoint presentations that you are required to watch.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

7 You are learning how to play the marching snare drum. Your method book contains the following picture to help you learn traditional grip:
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Action-Oriented
Information Dump

8 Because you have been assigned to cover an important story in India, you need to learn Hindi. Your online beginner course includes many activities, including speaking simple words and sentences. One activity allows you to record your voice and then listen to an expert audio to compare your performance.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

9 You have just completed a 10-week online training course in conflict resolution with a group of learners from around the world. The only assessment in the course is a 20-question multiple choice exam that determines whether or not you will receive your certificate.

Action-Oriented
Information Dump

10 You are taking a self-paced music theory class that requires you to meet with your instructor over live video. Some of the objectives of this class are:

  • Sing, write, and play all major and minor scales
  • Transpose a piece of music from one key to another

Action-Oriented
Information Dump


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