EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Action Learning, Blended Learning
27 May 2020
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EDU 240: Training and Development
Lecture 31
Disadvantages
• Lack of background material.
• Problematic for people with limited work experience.
Method: Behaviour Modeling
This method demonstrates key behaviours that trainees observe and attempt to replicate.
• Good for learning skills and behaviours, not for factual information.
• Used often for teaching interpersonal skills.
Based on four learning principles:
• Observation
• Rehearsal
• Reinforcement
• Transfer
Method: Role Play
• Trainees practice newly learned skills in a safe environment.
• Various forms of role play exist.
• Three phases: (1) development, (2) enactment and (3) debriefing.
• Debriefing should take 2-3 times longer than enactment.
Advantages
• Useful for acquiring skills in human relations and changing attitudes.
• Requires active participation.
Disadvantages
• There may be resistance to participating.
Method: Games
• Activities characterized by structured competition that allow trainees to learn
specific skills.
• Tend to focus on development of problem-solving, interpersonal skills, and
decision-making skills.
• Incorporate learning from experience, active practice and direct application to real
problems.
• Disadvantage: possibility of learning wrong things, weak relation to training
objectives, and emphasis on winning.
Method: Simulations
Use of operating models of physical/social events designed to represent reality.
• Used to recreate situations by simplifying them.
• Used when training in real world might involve danger or extreme costs.
• Equipment simulators: mechanical devices similar to those on the job (e.g. flight
simulators).
Advantages
• Realistic and sometimes cost effective.
Document Summary
Disadvantages: lack of background material, problematic for people with limited work experience. This method demonstrates key behaviours that trainees observe and attempt to replicate: good for learning skills and behaviours, not for factual information, used often for teaching interpersonal skills. Method: role play: trainees practice newly learned skills in a safe environment, various forms of role play exist, three phases: (1) development, (2) enactment and (3) debriefing, debriefing should take 2-3 times longer than enactment. Advantages: useful for acquiring skills in human relations and changing attitudes, requires active participation. Disadvantages: there may be resistance to participating. Method: games: activities characterized by structured competition that allow trainees to learn specific skills, tend to focus on development of problem-solving, interpersonal skills, and decision-making skills. Incorporate learning from experience, active practice and direct application to real problems: disadvantage: possibility of learning wrong things, weak relation to training objectives, and emphasis on winning.
