Implementing the Learning Platform in Instructional Design

To some, this may sound like the easy part, but it is actually the hardest part of the system. Good trainers can make a poorly designed program work well and a well designed program work great... bad trainers can make neither work.

As a recent Harvard Business School article (2009) noted on the learning profession, "Learning is more strongly influenced by individual teachers, for example, than any other factor, including class size and quality of the facilities. In various studies, the truly great teachers do things like giving good, individualized feedback while remaining sensitive and responding to interactions going on around them that might indicate needs of other students."

You might think of the Implementation or Delivery phase as just "starting the training;" however it does start with creating the Training Management Plan (TMP), or as it is sometimes called the Course Management Plan (CMP) that outlines the training plan.

Reference

Heskett, J. (2009). Why Can't We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?. Retrieved February 5, 2009 from: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6103.html

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