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Tips for Training(module 6.2)
Objectives
•Know what user training resources are available to you for HINARI•Consider your institution’s training resources and how HINARI’s materials might be modified•Review tips for successful training
Group exercises (end of presentation)
• When should you hold the training sessions?
• Who should attend the training?
• Where is it best to have the training?
• What resources will you require to hold a successful training session?
HINARI Training Materials
• Material from the course workbook or CD• Numerous modules and tools at
at http://www.who.int/hinari/training/en/
• Material is updated regularly• Includes a HINARI Training Material
Overview Presentation
Recently developed ‘teaching tools’
• Module 7: Additional Resources – Evidence-based Resources, E-book Resources, WHO Resources, Information Literacy, etc.
• HINARI ‘Short Course’ (3-4 hour course)– also available as a distance learning course
• HINARI – The Basics (2 page document)• HINARI DOs and DON’T’s• Access Problems and Solutions Overview• Authorship Skills training material
– How to Write a Scientific Paper – Authorship Skills Web-bibliography– Copyright and Plagiarism– Tips for Effective Writing
Your Resources
• When planning for training consider the following:– What facilities do you have for training?– What equipment? Projector? How many
computers? With Internet connection?– Enough for hands-on work? If not, how can
you make training interactive?– What level of Internet and computer skills do
your users have?
Tips for Successful Training• Prepare beforehand• Check the venue• Facilitate learning• Introduce training and participants• Handle questions and discussion• Troubleshoot• Keep participants focused• Ask open questions• Summarize and evaluate• Make improvements for future training
Preparation
• Do background reading and get hands-on experience
• Read presentation notes and annotate for yourself
• Don’t have to be expert; OK to say “I don’t know” and research/ask HINARI ([email protected])
• Remember your own workshop experiences - What did and didn’t work?
Preparation continued• Do the computer exercises and identify any
problems
• Get list of attendees and information on their skill levels if possible
• Get contact details for venue and organizers if off-site
• Print out handouts and workbooks or put material on a CD
• Send material electronically in advance – such as the HINARI Sort Course
Check the Venue
• Arrive early• Know support staff and their contact information
and learn the layout if new venue• Set up and check computers and other
equipment • Practice exercises again• Get computer log ins and bookmark web
resources; possibly put exercises on Desktop• Organize materials
Facilitator’s Role
• To ‘create conditions in which learning can naturally take place’
• Encourage ‘active learning’ - student discussion and cooperative, hands-on activities
• Minimize passive listening and note taking
• Be responsive to needs and interests of group
Facilitator’s Role continued
• Don’t talk to/read from screen • Make eye contact and try for
conversational style• Encourage, listen and positively respond
to participants’ comments, questions and feedback
• Listen to discussions but don’t interrupt; remember comments and questions for group discussion
Getting Started
• Introduce yourself• Tell participants what will be covered and
what they will gain• Explain the timetable and the activities • Point out the location of facilities (food,
bathrooms, etc.)• Find out what people already know and
what they are interested in learning• Make them feel at ease
Questions and Discussions
• Use people’s names when addressing them • Tell people when you want them to ask
questions (during or at end of presentation)• Explain that questions increase learning for
whole group• Be enthusiastic and encouraging to all
responses
Keeping Focus
• Listen to groups
• Clarify questions for individuals or group
• If unrelated discussion or web browsing, ask how participant’s doing and what conclusions they’ve reached
• If questions are off-topic, save for breaks or after workshop
• Assistant facilitators can help
When Things Go Wrong
• Overtime – keep your eye on the clock
• Broken projector – call technician and give the group an activity
• Slow/no web connection – call technician, continue lectures or review activities in workbook as a group
• Difficult participants – if the questions are distracting, deal with them during a break
Changes for Next Time
• Reflect on problems and successes• Look for trends in feedback• Make notes on changes to be made to
slides, exercises, handouts• Share notes with other facilitators and
HINARI ([email protected])• Make changes immediately before you
forget or run out of time• Ask about what you did not understand
Closure and Evaluation
• Conclude activities with summary
• Provide overall picture
• Ask open-ended questions instead of “Do you understand?’
• Ask participants to reflect on their learning
• Be positive about achievements
• Hand out feedback forms
Tips for Successful Training (review)
• Prepare beforehand• Check the venue• Facilitate learning• Introduce training and participants• Handle questions and discussion• Troubleshoot• Keep participants focused• Summarize and evaluate• Make improvements for future training
Group Exercise
• When should you hold the training sessions?
• Who should attend the training?
• Where is it best to have the training?
• What resources will you require to hold a successful training session?
This is the end of Module 6.2
This module initially was developed by Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA).
(http://www.itoca.org)
The original source is the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) ‘Introduction to the Internet’ training material. (http://www.inasp.info/training/internet/download/index.html)
These materials, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are copyright INASP but can be replicated for educational use.
Updated 2011 04