Ruth Colvin Clark Books

Building Expertise is the source of competitive advantage in the knowledge economy. But downsizing, babyboomer retirements, organizational restructuring, and technological change all drain the reservoirs of expertise in the 21st Century organization. Based heavily on the most recent research, the second edition of Building Expertise provides the trainer, training designer, and training manager with guidelines and examples to help them accelerate expertise in their organizations. Specific topics include: · How experts and novices are different · Eight instructional principles that accelerate expertise · Four instructional architectures to serve as design templates · The latest research on how to develop learning that is both motivational and instructionally sound

This third edition of the classic resource, Building Expertise draws on the most recent evidence on how to build innovative forms of expertise and translates that evidence into guidelines for instructional designers, course developers and facilitators, technical communicators, and other human performance professionals. Ruth Colvin Clark summarizes psychological theories concerning ways instructional methods support human learning processes. Filled with updated research and new illustrative examples, this new edition offers trainers evidence-based guidelines to help them accelerate genuine expertise within their organizations.