Roger Buskill wrote:
I am glad he is a proponent of Robert Mager. You can buy his six=pack of books on Amazon fairly cheap. The books are Analyzing Performance, Preparing Instructional Objectives, Measuring Instructional Results, How to Turn Learners On..Without Turning them Off, Goal Anaylsis and Making Instruction Work. If you are just getting started in training and development, I highly recommend these books. They will give you a solid foundation of how best to go from needs assessment to evaluation of the finished product.
A terrific source of Bob Mager's materials is magerconsortium.com. There was a time when one could only obtain Mager & Pipe's Criterion-Referenced Instruction course, Instructional Module Development course, etc., from the Center for Effective Performance, and only if you were certified as by them as a trainer. (I was.) It was very expensive. When CEP closed, The Mager Consortium made a deal with Bob to continue offering the materials. The materials are still pricey, but far less than they were.
I recently reviewed at least a dozen books on training design and development. At least half of the authors thanked Bob for giving them their starts in their training careers. I recognized that most of their training design and development processes were based on Bob's CRI/IMD models. Nothing wrong with that! If you're going to develop your own version, you may as well start with the best!
