| Aim of Module | To provide students with sufficient skills to identity training requirements associated with a new development, to personally prepare a training course and conduct relevant training sessions. |
| Credits | 7 |
| Student Learning hours | 70 |
| Content Revised | 2000 |
| Prescription Expiry Date | Nov 2007 |
| Topics | Highest Skill Level | Suggested Assessment Percentage | |
| 1 Training Needs Analysis & Methods | P | 30 | |
| 2 Training Programme Design & Delivery | P | 50 | |
| 3 Training Evaluation | P | 20 | |
| 100 | |||
| LEARNING OUTCOMES The Student Will | ||
| P | 1 | Explain methods available for training needs analysis, including organisational, departmental and individual approaches and complete training needs analysis. |
| P | 2 | Design, prepare and deliver at least two training sessions to meet identified needs. |
| P | 3 | Evaluate the two training sessions |
| 1 | Training Needs Analysis & Methods |
| > | Uses and elements of training needs analysis explained | |
| > | The training needs analysis may be related to the introduction of new software, significant elements of a system, or a new system | |
| 2 | Training Programme Design & Delivery |
| > | Discuss the appropriateness of workplace training environments; e.g. peer-to-peer, on-the-job, off-the-job, classroom, simulation, programmed, coaching, job rotation, management development, retraining, block courses, apprenticeships, and external courses. | |
| > | Identify appropriate methodologies for developing course design | |
| > | Design a training course to meet an identified training need | |
| > | Prepare instruction and support materials for at least two training sessions | |
| > | Conduct at least two training sessions, utilising different training environments for each session. | |
| 3 | Training Evaluation |
| > | Discuss principal methods of evaluating training sessions. | |
| > | Evaluate each training session | |
| > | Evaluation of the training sessions will reveal whether the learning objectives have been achieved. | |
| Note | ||
| > | Training sessions may be of varying length, but must be a minimum of 60 minutes in total. | |