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Dr. Will Thalheimer's
Transfer Workshop


Title:

Measuring and Creating Learning Transfer: How Fundamental Learning Research Reveals New Paradigms for Learning Design


Featuring:

  • A unique look at measurement based on the learning researchshowing how we often bias our learning measurement results.
  • Methods to help reduce the ravages of forgetting.
  • Situation-Based Learning Design: The ultimate approach to move from learning to on-the-job performance.
  • Half-hour of consulting from Dr. Thalheimer for each participantafter the workshop to aid transfer.
  • Copy of Dr. Thalheimer's widely acclaimed research report on measurement.
  • Held in your area to reduce travel costs and carbon footprints.
  • The maximum number of participants allowed is 15 to enhance learning and transfer.


Description:

What’s the most important thing you could learn about workplace learning?

This workshop brings together Dr. Will Thalheimer’s insights on learning measurement and learning design, creating a package designed to help you and your organization begin walking done the path to wildly more effective learning interventions. While traditionally, we focus on prescriptive project-management models like ADDIE, Dr. Thalheimer believes in a different set of leverage points to maximize learning results. This workshop will start with a focus on learning measurement. As this focus unveils the causal structure of the learning enterprise, the workshop’s journey will take us into discussions of how to minimize forgetting through retrieval, context, and spacing. The workshop will conclude with an introduction to Situation-Based Learning Design, a practical research-based methodology to produce substantial improvements in on-the-job learning.

By participating in this workshop, your team will:

  1. Learn new ways to think about learning measurement.
  2. Understand the biases and weaknesses of our current measurement practices.
  3. Become more motivated to measure your own learning outcomes.
  4. Worry about the ravages of the forgetting curve.
  5. Learn three methods to minimize forgetting (and enable long-term remembering).
  6. Develop an understanding of how to use Situation-Based Learning Design.
  7. See the value in the SEDA model.
  8. Consider the importance of management in facilitating learning.

As part of the workshop, participants will receive a copy of Dr. Thalheimer’s recent research-to-practice report (Measuring Learning Results: Creating Fair and Valid Assessments by considering findings from Fundamental Learning Research) and several job aids to support the workshop learning.

Dr. Will Thalheimer began working as a learning professional in 1985. He started Work-Learning Research in 1998. He project-managed the team that created the first commercially-viable soft-skills simulation. He’s been an instructional designer, a leadership trainer, a business leader, a consultant. For the last 10 years, Dr. Thalheimer has been doing some of the most insightful research and asking the most trenchant questions in the work-learning field.

By bridging the gap between research and practice with the kind of wisdom and intelligence offered by Dr. Will Thalheimer, this workshop is a sort of culmination, starting from research and experience, and moving into workplace action.

Contact us if you and/or your team
might be interested in attending if
the workshop was held in your area.


Cost

For the workshop, the half-hour consulting, the job aids, and the research report, the cost per participant is $795.


Get Your Team Up-to-Speed

For a limited time, Dr. Thalheimer is offering companies willing to host a workshop with two free participant enrollments (a significant cost savings). If you are in a geographic area that hasn't experienced this workshop yet this year―and you're willing to host this workshop at your company, we'd love to talk with you about hosting an upcoming workshop.

Contact us if your organization
wants to be a host.

Contact us if your organization
wants
to hold a private workshop

for your employees only.

 

   
 

 

   
 

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