What are, in your mind, two unique or interesting or different or noteworthy ways, Instructional Design/Technology has been used in business & industry that you believe could be usefully applied to your own professional work? Explain.
Technology-based Trainings -
The leaps that are being made when it comes to training is just amazing to me. The cost savings along are incredible when you look at training over the web. The different tools that are available now to companies such as using either synchronous or asynchronous communication. Both would work great sure synchronous is the better of the two but asynchronous would be just fine. Also, the web based training that is self learned is key to training.
Legal Issues and Training -
It is true the average person probably would never think of any legal issues with training. But like it stated in the text:
"Airline companies are required to train their agents in the proper handling of hazardous goods. Failure to develop and offer training and to certify employees can result in legal action by the federal government"
And the real kicker legal cases resulting from injury while participating in training.....who would of thought you would get hurt in training.
Well, neither of these two legal issues would be a problem for me here in my current work environment however the third would be.
A third legal problem result of infringement on intellectual property rights of others. I could find all sorts of information on the Internet to train my co-workers with in regards to say for example Microsoft Office but would I be using that information legally in a training.
Roles of Instructional Designers -
The write up of the different roles struck my interest. So, many companies always use a consultant to do the work for them. Did they ever stop to think that maybe someone that is already paid by them could do the same work. Companies could save so much money if they looked at their own inventory of employees first before hiring a consultant to do the work. I understand the whole concept of fresh ideas from an outsider but I would always say check out what you have first and save money! We have no extra money here so we are always trying to get stuff done with whatever means we currently have but sure if we had the money it would be so much easier just to hire it out. Here in FA we go by the team member/leader approach. There are 10 of us that meet weekly to work on new ideas and better processes for the office to get information out to students.
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Heh, the airline comment is funny to me because of an experience I had transfering in Miami. Most of the security workers did not seem very dedicated to their jobs. I am just tring to imagine their reaction to a training video.
Melissa
I said it a last week and I will say it again, no one from the outside will know the problems facing an organization better than the people working there. Kudos to you and your organization for using the internal team member/leader approach. Whatever the reason maybe, I’m sure it is more effective than hiring outside consultants.
Jeff Tyler
Cost savings, yes, as well as the technology training can be so much more efficient when geographically dispersed learners. Scheduling is a problem is the synchronous, don't you agree?
As a practice matter, the only problem in looking for current staff is getting people to do extra work. In a school I used to teach at there was a strong union mentality and if administration asked someone to do something not in their job description, it was grievance time. It wasn't a team feeling at all. They need a Step-up-to-excellence initiative!
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