Create & deliver training
Successful trainers spend their whole career collecting and sharing tips and techniques for improving delivery of training. We’re all focused on the best outcomes for our learners. Whether your delivery is face-to-face or live-online, find and share your great ideas here. Whether developing training for staff or patrons, you'll find tools for instructional design, online and blended learning, tutorial design and training strategies of all kinds.
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Running the River of Lifelong Learning
Publish Date: News / 5 February 2013
As libraries transform themselves to meet evolving needs, it is the people who work in libraries who must act as the actual instruments of change. Ideas about training and learning are also evolving. Increasingly, old notions and traditions are chall...
Training Library Staff Around the World
Publish Date: News / 31 January 2013
When thinking about how we can improve library staff training and opportunities for learning, it’s easy to feel that the challenges meeting our goals are overwhelming. We are facing stretched budgets and reduced staff, often large distances between l...
River of New Learning
Publish Date: Document / 19 September 2012
Collection of explorations of new learning trends conducted by CE coordinator, WebJunction Partner team leads, and at a second ALA Midwinter 2013 session co-sponsored with LearnRT and WALT.
Teen Volunteer Training
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
This handout can be used to train teen volunteers in your library. This document can be used in conjunction with the Training Tools Class Handouts series.
Technology's Impact on E-Learning
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Trainers should consider the impact of technology on e-learners.
Self-Paced Tutorial Tools
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
A list of Rapid Development tools for creating online, self-paced tutorials that can be run from a website, computer desktop, or through an LMS.
Public Libraries and Effective Inclusion & Diversity Training
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
A summary of survey and interviews to assess current trends in library inclusion and diversity training.
Presenting Like a Pro Lesson Plan
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Use this lesson to review the importance of body language and eye contact in building credibility as a presenter as well as standard practices for effective presentation delivery.
Presenting Like a Pro Handout
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
Use this handout with the Presenting Like a Pro Lesson to effectively talk through the standard pitfalls of presenting and how you can avoid them.
Online Conferences: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Publish Date: Document / 21 March 2012
A best practices handout created by Karen Burns, Cindi Hickey and Jennifer Peterson in conjunction with PLA 2010 for their presentation: Expanding your world through Web Conferencing: Connecting small libraries in big ways.
