Writing Training Materials That Work: How to Train Anyone to Do Anything
Author: Kenneth H Silber
Going far beyond the latest instructional fads or merely theory, Writing Training Materials That Work offers an up-to-date synthesis and summary of "best practices" in instructional design. It provides specific how-to guidelines that are research-based, have been used by practitioners long enough to show they are acceptable and can be implemented in business settings, and— perhaps most importantly— produce consistently good instructional results. The book includes instructional strategies grounded in cognitive theory and covers a range of key areas, including Declarative Knowledge (facts, concepts, principles, and metal models), Procedural Knowledge (well-structured and ill-structured), Problem Solving— including a special chapter on teaching troubleshooting. The authors also provide a variety of illustrative examples, templates, and other useful job aids, which are also included in the CD-ROM that comes with the book.
What People Are Saying
"Writing Training Materials that Work is a solid and practical resource to move our field to a more professional level of practice in which instructional decisions are based on research and valid models of how people learn"
— Ruth Clark, president, Clark Training and Consulting, past president, ISPI
"Too often, we tend to trivialize the complexities and challenges of instructional design, or we do the opposite— creating books that are so academic they can't possibly meet the real needs of practitioners. Writing Training That Materials Work avoids both pitfalls and provides a much needed, high quality, research-based text that can actually be applied in the field."
— Marc J. Rosenberg, senior director, DiamondCluster International and author E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
"I can see how this book will be immediately useful to my students. In fact, I can see how it will be immediately useful to me. Thanks for putting it all together between two covers."
— Allison Rossett, professor, San Diego State University
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Author: Max Weber
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism.
Times Higher Education Supplement
Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.
Booknews
Arguing that classic works should be translated every generation, and that the essay here was last translated into English some 70 years ago, Kalberg (sociology, Boston U.) strives to make the text accessible to undergraduates and general readers and to retain the integrity of the work with a close-to-the-text translation. In addition to the essay itself, which was published in a two parts in a social science journal in 1904-05, he has included two related documents by Weber (1864-1920). Cited in . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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