Training From the Back of the Room!: 65 Ways to Step Aside and Let Them Learn

Foreword

Sharon Bowman writes about how trainers need to think about learning, plan learning experiences, and deliver the goods in a class or training. Her suggestions are clear, simple, and commonsense. She doesn’t get hung up with behaviorism, flow charts, human performance models, levels of evaluation, or complex learning objectives. Her writing is not sufficiently obscure to appeal to doctrinaire instructional designers and academic design gurus. So, if you consider yourself an expert instructional designer, with all the associated jargon, this book is not for you.

Roger Schank has a four-word explanation of what’s wrong with training: “It’s just like school.” School clings to vestiges of a bygone era: Students get the summer off to help ...