Chapter Six

Chapter Six: Development Phase — Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the importance of research in creating a training program and the various considerations that must be deliberated.
  2. Differentiate among the parts of a training program and their importance at various stages of the development process.

Tools Mentioned in this Chapter

Other Resources

Another really powerful reference managing software is Mendeley: https://www.mendeley.com/. Mendeley has a pretty impressive YouTube page with a ton of tutorials to help you get up and running.

Search Engine

Purpose

https://archive.org/

The Internet Archive has been taking snapshots of the World Wide Web for years. This search engine helps you find material that may have been “lost” over time.

http://www.soovle.com/

This search engine is designed to help you expand your keyword searches. Type in a keyword you’re looking for, and the search engine will show you alternative keyword searches in other search engines.

http://technorati.com

Technorati is a great search engine for blogs and blog posts in specific areas.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine and can generate lots of useful information about a wide range of subjects. You can even conduct an analysis of your Facebook presence.

https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photos

Very powerful image search engine.

http://www.business.com/

Great search engine for quick information about business.

http://www.dogpile.com/

Conducts a range of searches across multiple different search engines. Considered a meta-search engine.

https://www.refseek.com/

Ref Seek searches across a number of different academic databases. Some of the content you’ll find is free, but you may need to use a college library to access a lot of the content.

http://www.doaj.org/

The Directory of Open Access Journals enables you to locate research articles that are open access—freely available on the Internet.

http://www.usa.gov/

USA.gov is a robust search engine for those looking for information related to the United States government.