Structure of the programme
A programme consists of one or more video or audio role plays, which are offered to the student in one go or spread over a number of weeks. Therefore, think carefully about the structure of your programme:
- Make sure you have a realistic weekly structure (an average of 4-8 Role Plays per week).
- Make sure the content of the programme is consistent with the rest of your course.
- Determine the consequences of not completing the program (on time).
- Consider, for example, denying access to the lecture/exam, or give extra points for good participation as part of the final grade.
- Determine the number of role-plays that the students share with each other (recommended: at least one per week)
- Determine the start date of the students and see if the distribution of the role plays over the weeks is in line with the planning of the course.
Design
Before you get started, we advise you to think about the design of your own programme first.
- Determine the skills you want to train or test
Which communication skills do you want to train or test with TrainTool? What standard do these skills have to meet? Think of an existing communication model, or what has been proven to work best for your organization in practice. - Dissect each skill into microskills
Dissect each skill so that you know exactly which parts the skill consists of. For example, 'feedback' to 'naming behaviour', 'indicating follow-up', 'naming feelings', and 'indicating desired behaviour'. - Behavioural criteria
Then formulate the assessment criteria from these microskills. Make sure that this is observable behavior with as little room as possible for different interpretations. - Determine the casuistry
With the help of a few people from the target group, find out what realistic cases are to incorporate into the example videos and in the Role Plays.
Recording of introduction and assignment videos
You can choose to create the content of a program yourself. This means that you upload a number of stimulus videos to TrainTool with which students practice their communication skills.
- Quick and easy: make your own video, for example with the webcam of your laptop or your mobile phone, that you upload to TrainTool.
- Support with production: Please contact the Radboud Educational Clips team on campus. They can advise on drawing up a script and take care of the recordings. You have to provide actors yourself.
- Complete outsourcing: it is also possible to outsource content creation to TrainTool. They plan a design session for this, provide the production of video with professional actors and build the programme in TrainTool. Please note: there are additional costs involved!
Writing!
Write the text of the theory videos based on the skill and microskills plus some enlightening example videos and Role Plays based on the information you have received from the target group. You can use the attached script for this, or get started directly in TrainTool itself.
- Use the jargon that is also used in the field. If specific terms are often used, make sure that it is also in the text that way.
- You can also make adjustments to the tone of the text. Are your students used to a very formal or informal tone? Is one word enough for them, or is it a target group that wants extra explanation? Then enter that into the programme.