Course details
The programme has been revised and updated in order to ensure that it includes new developments in training approaches. Participants attend a workshops over the entire course period. You must attend all workshops.
Course Aims
- ensure that trainers have the essential competencies necessary to meet the training challenges that they are faced with in today’s changing world;
- provide formal qualifications for those involved in training and development;
- encourage those in training roles to update themselves in new developments in training methodology and delivery systems.
Content
The course is delivered in four units and covers all the essential basic skills and knowledge required by today’s trainer.
Unit 1: Assessing Training and Development Needs
Introduction, Training Models, Job Analysis, Training Needs Analysis
Unit 2: Designing a Training Programme
Learning and Motivation, Training Design, Training Outcomes and Objectives, Training Methods
Unit 3: Delivering Training
Effective Training Delivery, Trainer Styles, Communication and Interpersonal Behaviour
Unit 4: Training Evaluation and Contemporary Trends
Assessing Training Effectiveness and Evaluation, Feedback, E Learning, Contemporary Trends
Admission Requirements
There are no formal academic entry requirements. However, participants must be 21 years of age or over. It is desirable, though not essential, that you currently have a training role in some capacity.
Assessment Procedures
You will submit a portfolio of your coursework to NUI Maynooth for assessment. Essentially this portfolio will display your competence in identifying, planning, implementing and evaluating training. Participants are also required to make a brief training presentation in the company of an NUI Maynooth Assessor. You must also submit a written assignment on some aspect of training and development. Detailed assessment information will be given at the first workshop.
Updated on 08 November, 2015Course Location
About Maynooth University - Kilkenny Campus
The Kilkenny Campus of NUI Maynooth has been offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses for adult students from Kilkenny and the south east for seventeen years.
The Campus offers a range of part-time Certificates and Diplomas to adult students. All such courses are offered on a part-time basis. Most of the courses will run one evening a Theyek over the academic year. Some of these courses will have occasional Theyekend attendance.
The Campus provides a friendly learning environment for students with excellent library facilities, coffee dock, on site parking and IT rooms, video conferencing facilities and plenty of support and encouragement from staff and students.
In the early years of the Campus, students who completed courses received their awards in Maynooth. Since, hoTheyver, an annual Conferring and Presentation of Awards ceremony has been held in Kilkenny castle, underlining the University's commitment to the city and to the hinterland which it serves.
Kilkenny Campus has close links with the parent campus at Maynooth, working closely with all relevant departments but especially with the Department of Adult and Community Education. Maeve O'Byrne, our Development Officer is currently the acting Head of Campus while other members of staff include a full-time Programme Manager, full-time Librarian and part-time receptionist and 2 part-time library staff .
Since its establishment, Kilkenny Campus has also been privileged to play a part in the cultural life of Kilkenny through various events and activities.
They are centrally located just off the ring road in Kilkenny with easy access from the M9 motorway. Our students come from all over the county as Theyll as from Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Tipperary, Waterford and Theyxford.
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