I've been hit with two separate training courses that I need to go through at the same time (while still doing my full-time job).
The first is a DAU course on Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) training. Unfortunately, this is the epitomy of death by PowerPoint (4 days...over 500 slides). Uggh...There are still so many improvements that can be made in the training and education field. I guess I still need to wait for my buddy Mark Oehlert (the self-proclaimed learning technology evangelist) to leave his gaming fingerprint on the COR 222 course.
The second is a little more exciting. It is a PM course offered through ESI International. It is a completly online course and they have done an average job on making the course interactive. They used story to place the student in the middle of a company as a new PM working through different scenarios, but that is where the excitement stops. When you, as the PM, are told to go to your laptop, bookshelf, or noteboard, you still end up reading large chunks of content.These personal experiences reveal that there is still a lot of work we need to make. Working in the training R&D field, I realize that I have a tendancy to think that we are actually further ahead than we really are. There is still a lot of mediocre training that is being pushed to students.
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The over 500 slide PowerPoint sounds disappointing. While in college I have been introduced with several different styles of Power Point for learning and its not getting any less confusing. It seems every two years we get introduced to a new one. I’ve had a professor suggest short points with only black and white. In marketing they suggested millions of colors and pictures and content. Now in Instructional Design we have some suggest huge relevant images with minimal text. I’d pay for a half decent guide or resource for PPT e-learning, or even general PPT design.
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