Free Online Course offered by FutureLearn: Train the Healthcare Trainer

Future Learn Platform is offering a free online course on the theme of “Train the Healthcare Trainer”.

Course background:

This informative, five-week course is based on the latest research into how adults learn. Aimed at those new to training or existing trainers who wish to update their skills, the course will also be of benefit those who design and moderate online learning.

It offers evidence-based methods and techniques that participants can use to ensure learning genuinely takes place and is transferred to practice.

On the course, you’ll explore a diverse toolkit of proven techniques; each of which is modelled as the course progresses.

The course content includes selection and blending of methods and delivery routes to optimise the transfer of learning to practice.

As well as offering guidance on teaching techniques, assessment and the motivation of learners, you’ll gain practical advice on dealing with nerves and unexpected challenges in the classroom.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to set your training, planning and delivery firmly in the context of ‘causing learning to happen’. You’ll incorporate training techniques which ensure that learning lasts.

This course is intended for:

This course is suited to anyone employed in the healthcare sector who has training as all or part of their role.

Course duration:

5 hours per week for 5 weeks.

Course topics:

• How do adults learn?
• How does training support learning?
• What knowledge and skills do trainers need?
• How do trainers make learning ‘stick’?
• How can you develop from novice to expert trainer?

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Apply evidence-based learning principles to training design
2. Design learning plans and activities in the context of causing learning to happen
3. Demonstrate evidence-based planning and teaching skills
4. Design activities which ensure lasting learning and transfer to practice
5. Demonstrate teaching practice which indicates a progression from novice trainer towards expert

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 7 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $79 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 279.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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