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Dr. Wellesley (Rob) Foshay is vice president for instructional design and quality control for PLATO Learning, Inc. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Performance Improvement. Dr. Ken Silber is associate professor of instructional design at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. He is a performance consulting/ID/change management professional with 30 years of experience in consulting in corporate, nonprofit, and academic settings both in the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Michael B. Stelnicki is Professor and Chairman of the graduate Human performance and training program at Governors State University in University Park, Illinois. He is a thirty-five year veteran presenter in the field and has worked as a journalist, psychology instructor, instructional television producer/director and consultant to business and industry.

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Going far beyond the latest instructional fads or merely theory, Writing Training Materials That Work offers an up-to-date synthesis and summary of "best practices" in instructional design. It provides specific how-to guidelines that are research-based, have been used by practitioners long enough to show they are acceptable and can be implemented in business settings, and perhaps most importantly produce consistently good instructional results. The book includes instructional strategies grounded in cognitive theory and covers a range of key areas, including Declarative Knowledge (facts, concepts, principles, and metal models), Procedural Knowledge (well-structured and ill-structured), Problem Solving including a special chapter on teaching troubleshooting. The authors also provide a variety of illustrative examples, templates, and other useful job aids, which are also included in the CD-ROM that comes with the book.

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The explosion of e-learning has attracted huge numbers of practitioners to the field of instructional design (ID) who have little or no actual ID training and most current texts fail to cover the substantial recent developments in the field. Writing Training Materials That Work identifies, synthesizes, and summarizes the most current best practices in ID and offers new ways of teaching declarative knowledge (facts, concepts, and principles), and well- to ill- structured procedural knowledge (problem solving) that are based on proven cognitive principles. Practical, yet rooted in sound theory, the book shuns current "hot topics" that do not yet have the depth of research and experience, and bases its recommendations on those principles in the cognitive learning and instruction literature that are internally consistent, prescriptive, and have been empirically demonstrated to make a cost-effective difference in situations most likely to be of interest to training practitioners.

Although it applies the very latest research and theory, the authors' approach as easy to implement, because Rob Foshay, Kenneth Silber, and Michael Stelnicki have done all the work of synthesizing the complex and conflicting ideologies, theories, and issues in cognitive psychology into a method that is theoretically sound yet practical. This highly efficient technique also makes clear exactly what instructional elements should be included in a lesson and how those elements should be structured when teaching each knowledge type. A key feature of the book, found rarely in ID texts, is the extensive use of worked examples for each strategy. The authors have also included templates on CD-ROM that instructional designers can use to build in learning effectiveness while reducing design time. Their approach consistently gets results because it focuses on teaching deep understanding and problem-solving expertise that allows learners to generalize and transfer learning to new situations without requiring constant re-training.
For experienced instructional design practitioners who want to expand their skills based on the latest theory and practice in the ID field, as well as graduate students in advanced instructional design course, Writing Training Materials That Work will prove to be a readable, usable, and indispensable guide.