This segment describes the types of outcomes you can produce with VISION Developer, and the activities you’ll do to get them.
This illustration shows the activities you can do within each section of VISION Developer:
Here are more details about the activities you can do with VISION.
Analysis
•Analyze job positions: Arrange a hierarchy that represents a job, its duties and tasks. This becomes a performance analysis structure that represents the work people must be able to do in order to be proficient on the job.
•Select tasks for training and recurring training: Identify the tasks that should be trained, not trained and those that should be periodically retrained.
•Analyze task hazards: Identify tasks that are associated with hazards resulting in potential loss of life, injury or loss of property.
•Analyze tasks: Extend the performance analysis structure to include the required competencies for the tasks, including steps, skills and knowledge items.
Design
•Develop objectives hierarchies: Use the performance analysis structure to establish a hierarchy of terminal and enabling objectives. These become learning objects that comprise the knowledge base. Each is connected to the related performance requirement. You can also develop objectives without basing them on a performance analysis.
•Develop test questions: Develop test questions connected to the objectives.
•Establish a training program structure: Create an outline such as courses, topics and lessons. This outline represents a structured training curriculum, if your organization needs one.
•Sequence objectives: Assign objectives (learning objects) from the objectives hierarchy to training units (lessons) in the curriculum.
Development
•Develop content: Develop instructional components that will make up the objective’s content within the objectives.
•Generate exams: Generate exams from the test questions associated with each objective.
•Generate lesson plans, study guides, and documents for the web: Generate material from the objective content that you entered using VISION’s report features. If you have the VISION Learning Station, lessons and tests can also be delivered to students over the internet.
As you can see, the activities parallel a systematic process to develop performance-based instructional materials. Basically, the activities are sequential; the outcome of one activity is the input to the next.
