Develop effective software training classes quickly and easily.
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You'll then learn to put up a training scenario a simplified real-life situation, so to speak , to develop training software exercises, lectures, demos, to package the course student manuals, printouts. And finally you'll test-run the class —and of course deliver it for real. The book has a serious drawback when you first hold it: It really looks like the design was based on a word processor default template.
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Sometimes more than a few times , I lost track of the book's structure just because of that, which is sad considering how well-structured the content itself is. More on that in a moment. Look, let's open any New Riders publication, for instance: You know where you are when you pick up the book again after a pause, in which section and subsection.
Margins are used for side notes surprise!
Here you can't make heads or tails of the content's structure: Oh, you mean this is a subsection of that? Oh, you're right, if I go look into the table of contents it's what I find out.
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I know this must sound harsh. Someone is credited for the book's design, and I'm really sorry if I hurt any feelings. But a book review should be honest, at the least. All right, let's not judge a book by its cover — or, in our case, by its inside design. To purchase books, visit Amazon or your favorite retailer. See our FAQ or contact customer service:. If you need to write a successful software training course and are unsure of how to start, then this book gets right to the point with clear, concise directions for developing an end-user software course.
This step-by-step job aid walks you through the process of developing a successful, instructor-led software class. There are many good books on training theory. This book takes a more practical, condensed approach for when you don't have time to learn training theory. It is based on fifteen years of technical writing and training experience. In under pages, the book guides you through the process of developing an end-user software course using a method that is tested, proven, and based upon sound instructional theory. William Rice has spent over 20 years developing software training, user documentation, and knowledge management solutions with some of the biggest companies in the United States.
During that time, he has built up a unique understanding of the training industry that lead him to writing this book.