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Fundamentals

Fundamentals

Want to Learn the Fundamentals?

As a learning professional, you are serious about your development and want to be sure you have grounding in all the core concepts in the field, while staying up-to-date on the latest topics and trends.


Your foundational skills should include: 

  • learning to be a better business partner
  • learning to design a learning program from top to bottom
  • learning to develop engaging and impactful e-learning
  • learning the latest techniques for delivering powerful training.
Browse the featured fundamental programs below or search all of our programs.

 

Foundational Programs
Top Seller Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Training Certificate

This three-day workshop is a practical, how-to overview of the entire training function. It prepares new trainers with critical training skills and introduces seasoned practitioners to the latest techniques for delivering powerful training. This includes being introduced to the ASTD Competency Study, which forms the foundation of the ASTD Training Certificate.

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Top Seller Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Designing Learning Certificate

This program follows a human performance improvement approach to instructional design and includes practice in needs assessment, job/task analysis, and course design using templates exclusive to ASTD. You will learn to apply a structured step-by-step process toward designing learning programs and apply what you learn to your own work.

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ASTD Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Evaluating Learning Impact Certificate

Use this program to determine the impact of learning programs and develop and implement an evaluation strategy for your organization. Participants will receive a solid foundation in all aspects of the measurement and evaluation of learning and performance solutions, including making the shift from activity- to results-based learning and development programs, the basics of evaluation design, Kirkpatrick's Levels 1-4, a brief introduction to ROI, communicating results, and practical tips and considerations for truly making evaluation work in your organization.

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Specialized Programs
ASTD Human Performance Improvement (HPI) Certificate
ASTD’s industry-recognized three-course Human Performance Improvement Series.

Introducing Human Performance Improvement Certificate

What is HPI? Who invented it? Is it just another fad, or is it something revolutionary? What am I supposed to do about this request for training, when everyone knows it's a resource issue?

Note: This popular ASTD program was formerly called Human Performance Improvement in the Workplace Certificate Program. The title has been updated to align with the recently revised ASTD Competency Model™.

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ASTD Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Consulting Skills Certificate

Learning and performance professionals must exhibit strong consulting skills in order to achieve success as business partners to the organizations they serve. This program demonstrates the behaviors and processes for effective internal consulting and allows participants to practice fundamental consulting competencies with tools, templates, and checklists that can be put to use in the professional setting immediately. In a recent analysis of application and behavior change, 85 percent of participants studied are applying what they learned back on the job after completing the ASTD Consulting Skills Certificate Program.

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ASTD Essentials Series Online Workshops
Short instructor-led online workshops that provide timely, relevant, and convenient access to content needed to maintain a competitive advantage in today’s workplace.

Essentials of Evidence-Based Training

About 130 billion dollars are invested annually in U.S. workforce learning, but how much return is realized on that investment? Is your organization using instructional methods and designs based on valid research evidence, or on opinion and precedence?

In this program, you’ll learn the evidence behind teaching to different learning styles, managing cognitive load imposed during learning, and the latest productive engagement methods. The program includes practice exercises as well as a discussion of emerging research on recent methods such as games and simulations. 

In short, you will learn what methods are proven most effective and the reasons why in terms of how our memories work.

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Trending Topics
ASTD Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Blended Learning Certificate

Today's learning professionals are under pressure to address ever-evolving skills needed in their organizations, and they are being asked to do so with limited resources and time. This ASTD program provides the roadmap for creating high-impact solutions that address these needs by combining various learning platforms, methods, and formats to motivate learners, produce real results, and increase productivity. After this workshop, participants will be able to take immediate steps to design blended learning solutions using the tools and action plan provided.

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ASTD Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Mobile Learning

Companies are aggressively looking for ways mobile technologies can give them a competitive edge. A significant area in which to find this advantage is in mobile learning and performance improvement. Mobile learning (m-learning) is becoming an important area of focus for many organizations looking to push learning and development to a growing mobile audience that has smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. How do companies take their significant investment in e-learning and convert it for use in a mobile world? There is still a strong belief among people who are not intimately familiar with mobile learning that mobile learning is nothing more than e-learning on a mobile device. But the fact is that proper conversion of content to mobile learning requires instructional design and development skills for mobile learning.

In this detailed three-part program, join experts from Float Mobile Learning in the exploration of the Essentials of Mobile Learning. Strategy, media development, deployment strategies, and everything in between will be discussed in this series.

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ASTD Certificate Program
Practical, skill-building workshops offered face-to-face and online in which participants receive a certificate of completion and Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Multimedia for Learning Professionals Certificate

As technology has made audio, video, and online tools more affordable and easier to use, the 21st century learning professional now has endless opportunities to deliver training outside of the classroom. Today's professional must build their skills in digital production in order to remain competitive. This intensive, fast-paced certificate program is designed to catapult trainers and instructional designers ahead of the curve to provide the skills needed to make powerful multimedia content quickly and cost effectively.

The availability of these tools is not enough to ensure trainers and instructional designers can create content that aids learning. And, creating fast, effective and economical multimedia content does not stop at simply knowing how to structure it. Trainers and instructional designers using multimedia must possess a foundational understanding of how adults learn and the principles of media psychology. This will facilitate the planning of content that's not just show and tell, but creates learning that truly sticks. This new knowledge also needs to be matched with production techniques that save time and money and ensure quality. This two-day certificate program provides an introduction to creating multimedia content that looks great, aids learning, doesn't take forever to create, and doesn't waste money in the production process.

As part of the registration fee, each participant will receive a high definition handheld camcorder and a headset/microphone to take back to work.

After this workshop, participants are able to:

  • create learning content that's easy to understand by drawing on the principles of media psychology.
  • make multimedia learning points easy to remember.
  • understand of when and when not to use audio, video, text and animation for learning.
  • write scripts for audio and video that make learning content quick to understand and easy to remember.
  • apply a production process for basic audio podcasts.
  • apply a production process for basic online video.
  • write and design online content that reinforces learning.
  • source appropriate equipment and software to make multimedia effectively but inexpensively.
  • gain insider tips on the equipment sales people will want to sell them at high commissions that they don't need to buy.
  • avoid common mistakes in multimedia content conceptualization and production.
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