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Using GoTo Training to Facilitate Learning

Intent of Project

The intent of this course is to enable participants to:

Allow for different skill levels and learning styles
Accurately assess student progress
Identify the benefits of using GoTo Training to train from a distance
Set up and perform a training using GoTo Training

Needs Analysis

1. Problem: The experience level of users working with a software program varies greatly by generation. A roadblock in the instruction of such software is that of pace and the knowledge that learners enter the programs with. This course will help Trainers establish courses that result in a higher level of mastery in those using the product.

2. What is to be learned: Learners will become familiar with designing an online training program that effectively allows users to master the software in question no matter their initial skill level.

3. The Learners: Trainers who need to effectively teach end users how to succeed with their software, across a wide variety of levels of knowledge and experience.

4. Instructional Context: Activities that will be self paced and involving discussion & group activities.

5. Exploring the problem and solution: Learners will have the ability to both use and assess the techniques in question - while walking through a course combining the concepts needed, they will be able to self-assess as well as see how their own actions relate to active assessment of their progress and the course itself.

6. Goals: For learners to be able to implement GOTO within their curriculum, for them to be able to assess their program and the progress of the eventual users.

Performance Objectives

Participants will identify the benefits of using GoTo Training to train from a distance

Participants will learn how to set up and perform a training using GoTo Training

Task Analysis

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the learners will:

Understand the benefits of using GoTo Training in establishing a virtual classroom
Understand how to incorporate formative assessment into their program

Prerequisites

Essential:

Understand the importance of online training
Recognize the importance of evaluation throughout a lesson, unit, and course
Know the importance of analyzing a lesson, unit, and course
Understand the difficulties associated with online training
Be flexible when it comes to instruction
Be comfortable with using technology

Supportive:

Have an open mind about online training
Be comfortable with facilitating when not in person
Be conscious of different cultures
Be open to self reflection

References

Bates, A.W. (2005). Selecting and using technologies in distance education.

Garrison, D.R., Anderson, T., Archer, W. (2000). Critical Inquiry in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education. The Internet and Higher education 2(2-3):87-105.

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