Blended approaches to extended learning increase sustainability and impact. Engaging, unconventional and experiential training methods sustain the effectiveness of learning.
Participants’ needs are systematically assessed, as is their learning and its application in their organizational context. The Centre has developed tools with which to evaluate learning, its application and its effects, and to feed findings back into the design of future training.
In order to ensure that the quality standards of the Turin Learning Approach are applied Centre-wide, and that these become features by which the organization is recognized, the Centre runs an in-house refresher programme on learning design, technology and knowledge-sharing methods for its trainers.
The Centre’s learning strategy benefits from harmonizing training design, delivery and administration standards for both face-to-face and distance learning. Features include: graphic design; a learning toolkit (Compass) of good practices in the design, facilitation and technology of learning; a blog on learning and technology; peer review of new or existing curricula; systematic feedback to training managers on participants’ evaluations (end-of-activity and follow-up six months after training); and a new focus on needs assessment and other levels of evaluation.
