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Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work
Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work
One training exercise that we analyzed, and that shows promise, is perspective-taking, which is essentially the process of mentally walking in someone else’s shoes. Results from our <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-014-9384-3" target="_blank">experiment</a> involving 118 undergraduate students showed that taking the perspective of LGBT individuals or racial minorities —&nbsp;by writing a few sentences imagining the distinct challenges a marginalized minority might face — can improve pro-diversity attitudes and behavioral intentions toward these groups. These effects persisted even when outcomes were measured eight months after training. Even more exciting is the fact that perspective-taking was shown to be capable of producing crossover effects. In our experiment, taking the perspective of LBGT individuals was shown to be associated with more positive attitudes and behaviors toward racial minorities, and vice versa.
Another activity that has empirical support is goal setting. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-012-9264-7" target="_blank">Recent evidence</a> shows that this strategy — more broadly used to motivate improved aspects of someone’s job performance — can be successfully adapted by asking diversity training participants to set specific, measurable, and challenging (yet attainable) goals related to diversity in the workplace. For example, a trainee might set a goal to challenge inappropriate comments about marginalized groups when overhearing them in the future (in combination with receiving information about how best to handle such situations). Our experiment with 158 undergraduate students showed that goal setting within diversity training led to more pro-diversity behaviors three months after training and improved pro-diversity attitudes nine months after training. These long-lasting effects are notable, given that diversity training sessions in organizations are usually few and far between.
·hbr.org·
Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work
Video Game Secrets - BIANCA WOODS
Video Game Secrets - BIANCA WOODS
Slides from Bianca Woods's presentation on "The Secrets Video Games Can Teach L&D About Crafting Scenarios and Simulations That Work." I didn't attend the session, but the slides and references to the games used as inspiration are still useful.
·biancawoods.weebly.com·
Video Game Secrets - BIANCA WOODS
Workshop on Writing Scenario Questions » Work-Learning Research
Workshop on Writing Scenario Questions » Work-Learning Research
Will Thalheimer's workshop on writing scenario questions using his SEDA model. His prices for a 2-day workshop definitely reflect his research and expertise.
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Two-Day Workshop Fee:</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;">Starting at $19,500<br> (including travel within contiguous US)<br> plus workbooks at $95 per participant.</p>
·worklearning.com·
Workshop on Writing Scenario Questions » Work-Learning Research
Accessible color palette builder
Accessible color palette builder
While there are lots of tools for creating color palettes, this is the first one I have seen that so clearly notes the accessibility of different combinations. Even if you create the palette using another tool, you could check it with this free tool to note which colors have sufficient contrast when used together.
·toolness.github.io·
Accessible color palette builder
The 85% Rule for Learning - Scott H Young
The 85% Rule for Learning - Scott H Young
We don't learn very well if the tasks are so easy that we get it perfectly right every time, or so hard that we're constantly failing. While it's not the same for every task, this suggests that learning is more effective if you can succeed 80-85% of the time.
The 85% rule suggests growth will be maximized when we practice tasks we can succeed at roughly four-fifths of the time.
If you succeed in every attempt, you probably don’t have the difficulty high enough to improve. If you fail most of the time, you will likely make more progress if you start picking smaller, more manageable challenges.
·scotthyoung.com·
The 85% Rule for Learning - Scott H Young
Disability Pride Month — Qi Creative Inc.
Disability Pride Month — Qi Creative Inc.
A good starting point for understanding disability and ableism (with a summary of the medical vs. social models of disability). This has notes on language and links to people in the disability community to follow.
·qicreative.com·
Disability Pride Month — Qi Creative Inc.
LinkedIn
LinkedIn
You want learners to fail in an environment where they can receive corrective feedback and learn from their failures rather than make the failure on-the-job in the actual situation such as in front of a customer or violating a safety protocol on a piece of equipment.
·linkedin.com·
LinkedIn
Failure in Branching Scenarios
Failure in Branching Scenarios
Karl Kapp writes on the importance of failure in branching scenarios. The choices and options should reflect common failure points. Karl gives two examples of the types of mistakes that you could include: skipping a step in a process and deviation from the process (doing something incorrectly).
You want learners to fail in an environment where they can receive corrective feedback and learn from their failures rather than make the failure on-the-job in the actual situation such as in front of a customer or violating a safety protocol on a piece of equipment.
·linkedin.com·
Failure in Branching Scenarios
Rumie Initiative | Volunteer
Rumie Initiative | Volunteer
Volunteer opportunity for new learning designers and instructional designers. Commit to at least 3 hours per week and build a short module that you can use in your portfolio.
·about.rumie.org·
Rumie Initiative | Volunteer
Success Case Method | Better Evaluation
Success Case Method | Better Evaluation
Overview of Brinkerhoff's Success Case Method for evaluating training programs. In this method, you gather stories from some of the most and least successful participants.
The Success Case Method deliberately looks at the most, and least, successful participants of a program. The purpose is not to examine the average performance - rather, by identifying and examining the extreme cases, it asks: 'When the program works, how well does it work? What is working, and what is not?'.&nbsp;
·betterevaluation.org·
Success Case Method | Better Evaluation
Strategies for Humanizing Training
Strategies for Humanizing Training
Rance Green summarizes the structure for instructional story design.
<div class="lw-widget-in learnworlds-main-text learnworlds-element learnworlds-main-text-normal" data-element-id="textNormal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658785768982_396" style="">To sum up this structure, it looks like this:&nbsp;<br></div><h4 class="lw-widget-in learnworlds-heading4 learnworlds-heading4-large learnworlds-element" data-element-id="textNormal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658786051875_436" style=""><div style="text-align: center;">STORY <span style="color: rgb(255, 132, 0);">&gt; </span>REFELECT <span style="color: rgb(255, 132, 0);">&gt; </span>SOLVE <span style="color: rgb(255, 132, 0);">&gt; </span>FEEDBACK</div></h4><ul class="lw-widget-in lw-cols oneItem-per-row multiple-rows learnworlds-element js-same-content-wrapper" data-node-type="listWrapper" data-element-id="listType1" id="el_1658951004446_1498"> <li class="col no-padding flex-item with-flexible-parts non-flexible js-lw-flexible-wrapper js-same-content-child" data-node-type="listItem" id="el_1658951004451_1508"> <span class="learnworlds-main-text-normal flexible-part learnworlds-icon lw-brand-text fas fa-angle-right" data-node-type="icon" id="el_1658951004453_1509"></span> <div class="flexible-part learnworlds-main-text learnworlds-element learnworlds-main-text-normal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658951004454_1510">Tell the story first.</div> </li> <li class="col no-padding flex-item with-flexible-parts non-flexible js-lw-flexible-wrapper js-same-content-child" data-node-type="listItem" id="el_1658951004455_1511"> <span class="learnworlds-main-text-normal flexible-part learnworlds-icon lw-brand-text fas fa-angle-right" data-node-type="icon" id="el_1658951004456_1512"></span> <div class="flexible-part learnworlds-main-text learnworlds-element learnworlds-main-text-normal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658951004457_1513">Ask the learner to reflect on the story.&nbsp;</div> </li> <li class="col no-padding flex-item with-flexible-parts non-flexible js-lw-flexible-wrapper js-same-content-child" data-node-type="listItem" id="el_1658951004458_1514"> <span class="learnworlds-main-text-normal flexible-part learnworlds-icon lw-brand-text fas fa-angle-right" data-node-type="icon" id="el_1658951004458_1515"></span> <div class="flexible-part learnworlds-main-text learnworlds-element learnworlds-main-text-normal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658951004459_1516">Ask the learner to solve something based on the story.</div> </li> <li class="col no-padding flex-item with-flexible-parts non-flexible js-lw-flexible-wrapper js-same-content-child" data-node-type="listItem" id="el_1658951103925_1569"> <span class="learnworlds-main-text-normal flexible-part learnworlds-icon lw-brand-text fas fa-angle-right" data-node-type="icon" id="el_1658951103924_1567"></span> <div class="flexible-part learnworlds-main-text learnworlds-element learnworlds-main-text-normal" data-node-type="text" id="el_1658951103924_1568">Give the learner feedback on their answers.</div></li></ul>
·schoolofstorydesign.com·
Strategies for Humanizing Training
Viral Post Generator
Viral Post Generator
An AI took for writing a viral LinkedIn post--the kind with one sentence per paragraph and some vaguely inspirational advice that the LinkedIn algorithm loves. Use the slider to control the "cringe level" of the text. While this is good just for a funny break in your day, I could see using this as an Easter Egg in a scenario or a mockup in an elearning course.
·viralpostgenerator.com·
Viral Post Generator
Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text
Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text
Longer text should be left aligned, not centered, to improve readability
Left aligned text is easier to read than centered text for paragraphs. This is because when you center your text, the starting place of each line changes. This forces your users to work harder to find where each line begins to continue reading. Without a straight left edge, there is no consistent place where users can move their eyes to when they complete each line.
·uxmovement.com·
Why You Should Never Center Align Paragraph Text
Does Text Alignment Matter for Accessibility and Usability?
Does Text Alignment Matter for Accessibility and Usability?
Centering text makes it harder to read, especially for longer paragraphs. This hurts accessibility and usability.
The reason why center text alignment is horrible for user experience is that with each new line the user reads, there is a brief moment where the user has to find where the next line begins – decreasing the users reading speed.
In my opinion centered paragraphs are only acceptable up to a point, 3 lines of text to be specific. Anymore, it becomes too displeasing to read each line after.
Primary page titles should be okay centered as they tend to not have as many words and therefore lines of text. Most page titles aren’t long enough that text alignment becomes an issue with usability. However, with secondary titles (h2’s) and anything under should always be left-aligned to match its paragraph text.
Left text alignment should be used in 95% of cases to help your readers read at an optimal, undiminished reading speed.
You can use center alignment in small doses like main page headings without detracting from the user’s experience.
Only use justified text for mediums where its commonplace like material books or e-books.
The only commonplace acceptable use of right alignment is navigations on websites.
·thewebsitearchitect.com·
Does Text Alignment Matter for Accessibility and Usability?
Top games made with Twine - itch.io
Top games made with Twine - itch.io
All of the top games made with Twine on the hosting platform itch.io. This is a great place to look for some inspiration with interactive fiction.
·itch.io·
Top games made with Twine - itch.io
Standard Operating Procedures: The Foundation of a Freelancing or Consulting Business • Kai Davis
Standard Operating Procedures: The Foundation of a Freelancing or Consulting Business • Kai Davis
Free Google Doc template for creating SOPs for freelancers. For a one-person business, this documentation doesn't have to be very fancy--but it does help to document processes to improve your efficiency. You don't have to keep making the same decisions over and over about what comes next if you write down some processes, even for yourself.
·kaidavis.com·
Standard Operating Procedures: The Foundation of a Freelancing or Consulting Business • Kai Davis