This book will provide you with all the information you need to get started!Mind maps are clever ways to simplify complex or boring information and present it in a new way that helps with our understanding of a particular difficulty or project. The natural organized structure of a mind map makes it an incredibly effective method of presentation that is completely in sync with the way your mind works.A mind map is a graphical way to represen...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This book will provide you with all the information you need to get started!Mind maps are clever ways to simplify complex or boring information and present it in a new way that helps with our understanding of a particular difficulty or project. The natural organized structure of a mind map makes it an incredibly effective method of presentation that is completely in sync with the way your mind works.A mi...

IF THE ANIMALS IN A DARK AND MYSTERIOUS FOREST WERE IN DANGER, WOULD YOU BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO HELP?Meet Squeaver, a friendly, funny half-squirrel, half-beaver who faces exactly that question, and he decides to help!Will Squeaver bring happiness to the shadowy forest across the lake? Can he help the lonely creatures there find love and friendship? Or will he be attacked by an angry fox?Join Squeaver and his sidekick, Smokey the fish, on their adventure...

One key responsibility of product designers and UX practitioners is to conduct formal and informal research to clarify design decisions and business needs. But there’s often mystery around product research, with the feeling that you need to be a research Zen master to gather anything useful. Fact is, anyone can conduct product research. With this quick reference guide, you’ll learn a common language and set of tools to help you carry out research in an informed and productive manner.

Better Learning Solutions Through Better Learning ExperiencesWhen training and development initiatives treat learning as something that occurs as a one-time event, the learner and the business suffer. Using design thinking can help talent development professionals ensure learning sticks to drive improved performance.Design Thinking for Training and Development offers a primer on design thinking, a human-centered process and problem-solving methodol...

Stop presenting and start facilitating meaningful learning.Whether you are a subject matter expert who occasionally takes on a trainer role, a trainer who wants to build on solid presentation skills, or anywhere in between, Facilitation Basics will help you create supportive and effective learning. This complete how-to guide is designed to improve your facilitation proficiency so you can give face-to-face as well as online and virtual classroom learners your best.Part of AT...

We all strive to measure school or district success, but too often we rely simply on end-of-year test scores or report cards. These indicators provide some information, but not enough. With data-driven decision makingcontinuously having rich conversations, asking deeper questions, and examining formative assessmentsyou can get a true picture of the health of your school or district. You will discover areas of success as well as issues that need to be addressed. Chris ONeal will show you ho...

One of the biggest myths in online teaching is that it is easier and less time-consuming than teaching face-to-face. Many institutions, in fact, assign online teachers a heavier work load because "Hey, they're only teaching online." The truth is that teaching online takes more time and effort than face-to-face teaching because as a teacher you have to work harder to engage and support your students.This book contains 50 tips to help you be successful in online teaching, from choosi...

This book gives you all the guidance and exercises you need to incorporate action learning into every training you conduct.A trainer’s job is to ensure their lessons stick, which means relating lessons to their trainees’ own on-the-job experiences. Author Geri McArdle teaches trainers how to do this by using the strategies of “action learning” in their lesson design and presentation to help learners better absorb the material.Filled with examples of easy-to...

Whether you're already familiar with UDL but haven't had the time to think through implementation strategies or are brand new to UDL, Transform Your Teaching with Universal Design for Learning: Six Steps to Jumpstart Your Practice by Jennifer L. Pusateri will enrich your practice and help you reach more learners.Pusateri, who first discovered UDL as an art and humanities teacher at a school for students with learning disabilities, writes:"I saw the...

Since it was first published almost twenty years ago, Developing Technical Training has been a reliable resource for both new and seasoned training specialists. The third edition of this classic book outlines a systematic approach called the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process that shows how to teach technical content defined as facts, concepts, processes, procedures, and principles. Whether you teach “hard” or “soft” skills, or design lessons for workbooks or computers, yo...

Explore effective learning programs with the father of e-learningMichael Allen's Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company, Second Edition presents best practices for building interactive, fun, and effective online learning programs. This engaging text offers insight regarding what makes great e-learning, particularly from the perspectives of motivation and interactivity, and features history lessons th...