How Can Visual Aids Enhance Learning Activities?
As we saw in the video, visual aids can increase learners’ thinking capacity by using the image channel. Trainers achieve this in a variety of ways, for example by displaying …
Course: Train the Healthcare Trainer
How Do Healthcare Trainers Choose Learning Activities?
Once learning outcomes have been agreed, trainers and learning designers look for the best ways to achieve them. They select experiences that will cause the growth of the new mental …
How to Develop Your Skills as a Trainer
For those new to training, standing in front of fellow healthcare professionals can be a little daunting. If your training is well designed and interactive, you should have nothing to …
How to Assess Learners
Assessment demonstrates the level of competence achieved by a learner at a given point. It is undertaken at the end of training to be sure they are competent and safe. …
How to Identify Training Needs
For many courses such as clinical skills and IT training, learning needs have already been established and ready-made lesson plans are available. Identify Training Needs at the Start However, trainers …
How Can Trainers Use Online Assessment?
As with all forms of assessment, online tests should measure the achievement of learning outcomes. If any outcomes cannot be measured by computer, some other form of assessment should be …
What happens in our brain when we learn?
In the video, we explained how physical changes are made in the brain when lasting learning is created. It’s important to remember that although technology improves at an exponential rate …
What Is the Purpose of Healthcare Training?
The purpose of training is to cause learning to happen. Think about this statement for a moment. We often hear phrases such as ‘delivering training’, ‘ensuring compliance’ and even ‘telling …
Should learning be easy?
Is it possible for training to be too easy? Does this sound counterintuitive? Well, learners need to expend mental effort in order to build new connections in their brains. In …
Training to Complement Existing Knowledge and Skills
Everyone has a range of knowledge and skills they can access and perform unaided. There are also more knowledge and skills that they can master with the support of training. …
How can we be sure we have genuinely learned?
As individuals, we are not always the best judges of how we learn. At times we are susceptible to ‘illusions of learning’ in which we believe we have learned something, …
How Can We Avoid Overloading Learners?
In Step 2.7 we noted that an overload of information is occasionally found in online learning. A similar excess can also be experienced in presentations and lectures. It usually arises …
What activities might support learning for your subject?
In the video we saw learners actively engaging with a variety of topics by means of discussion and participation in set exercises. Learning in small groups is enriched by the …
What benefits do active learning experiences offer?
Learners need to do things both mental and physical in order to create lasting connections in their brains. Let’s compare a trainer to a fitness coach as they both encourage …
Long-Term Memory and Working Memory
It is important to appreciate the different roles played by long-term memory and working memory in how we learn. Humans cannot simply absorb new information like a computer download. We …
