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Technical training

Training covers a lot of ground. Technical training, specifically, is an area that some technical writers move into or work with. Like technical writing, technical training refers to specific tasks that people need to learn in order to perform their jobs.

Books for technical trainers

Here are books of interest to technical trainers. You should also have a look at our Instructional Design and e-learning/WBT pages.

1.		Developing Technical Training: A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-based Instructional Materials from Pfeiffer Price: $27.00 Customer Review: Excellent book! Has changed the way I build my e-learning courses for medical graduates. Easy to read, filled with guidelines and examples.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.	[no image]	Developing technical training: A structured approach for the development of classroom and computer-based instructional materials from Buzzards Bay Press Customer Review: This book is still a great resource! Ruth Colvin Clark's work remains one of the most widely quoted resources in instructional design circles, including the instructional design special interest group of the Society of Technical Communicators. While you wait for your copy to arrive, you can peruse... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Development Technical Training: A Structured Approach for Developing Classroom and Computer-based Instructional Materials , 2nd Edition from Pfeiffer Customer Review: Dr. Clark's book is an easy-to-read guide on how to design training according to the five types of content: procedures, factual information, concepts, processes and principles. She clearly defines each type and then explains to the reader how to design learning based on the "remember level"... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Building Effective Technical Training: How to Develop Hard Skills Within Organizations from Pfeiffer Price: $42.70 Customer Review: "Building effective technical training: How to develop hard skills within organizations" by Rothwell and Benkowski is intended for any worker who must apply devices (such as PC's, software) that "govern them and their work", engineers and workers who apply special knowledge in manufacturing... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Developing Training Courses : A Technical Writer's Guide to Instructional Design and Development from Learning Edge Price: $27.62 Customer Review: This is one of the best books of those that help you determine what should be included in your training course - to plan objectives and then break it down into the detail. It also covers how to test the effectiveness of the course. However, it does not give any information at all about what a course... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Instructional Design for Technical Training (Infoline) from ASTD Press Price: $11.39	Click here for more information

7.	[no image]	Managing Technical Training: Proven Approaches for Developing Strategy, Buidling Partnerships, and Getting Results from Pfeiffer Price: $43.72	Click here for more information

8.		Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training from Focal Press Price: $51.79	Click here for more information

9.		Total Soccer Coaching: Combining Physical, Technical and Tactical Training from Reedswain Price: $10.81	Click here for more information

10.		Rethinking Work and Learning: Adult and Vocational Education for Social Sustainability (Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects) from Springer Price: $111.51	Click here for more information

11.	[no image]	Training Complex Cognitive Skills: A Four-Component Instructional Design Model for Technical Training from Educational Technology Pubns Price: $847.72 Customer Review: This book is the result of over a decade of research by the author at the University of Twente. Merrienboer has managed to synthesize much of the current thinking and research in cognitive psychology, instructional design, and training. He has integrated the theoretical with the practical to provide... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

12.		Handbook of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Research from Springer Price: $282.00	Click here for more information

13.		Server+ Certification Training Kit (Pro Technical Refere) from Microsoft Press Price: $91.99 Customer Review: You won't find much difference in the dryness of this book as compared to other offerings from Microsoft, but if you can make it through the book, you will find that this is a one technically accurate resource. Everthing dealing with servers is covered from planning, installation, configuring,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

14.		Mental Toughness Training For Football: Maximizing Technical & Mental Mechanics from Coaches Choice Books Price: $16.77	Click here for more information

15.		Technology and Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: Empowering Individuals for the Future (Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects) from Springer Price: $77.00	Click here for more information

16.		Criterion-referenced Test Development: Technical and Legal Guidelines for Corporate Training from Pfeiffer Price: $34.19 Customer Review: Do you conduct training in the workplace? Do you measure the training's effectiveness using testing? Do you design certication exams? If so, this is the book for you! Criterion-Referenced Tests (CRTs), unlike the similarly complicated sounding Norm-Referenced Tests (NRTs), are used to measure... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

17.		Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual: Training Command Starfleet Academy from Del Rey Price: $10.80 Customer Review: The TOS era was constantly changing in the 3 seasons and never solid. This manual shows that with its horrible pictures and non sensical babble. Get the TNG and DS9 manuals.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

18.	[no image]	Education for National Development; Effects of U.S. Technical Training Programs from Praeger	Click here for more information

19.		Handbook of Research on E-Learning Applications for Career and Technical Education: Technologies for Vocational Training from IGI Global Price: $330.00	Click here for more information

20.	[no image]	Exploring sources of career and technical training: for-profit career colleges--a part of the future.: An article from: Techniques from Association for Career and Technical Education Price: $5.95	Click here for more information

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