Chapter 11 Flashcards

1
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From a training and development perspective, increases in automation mean that employees will need to be _____

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provided with job retraining to help them gain new skills and change careers if needed

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Which of the following is a trend that will have an impact on training programs in the future?

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Need to contribute to sustainability

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Why is the use of social media, smart phones, and other new technologies in training expected to climb in the coming years?

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  • Because they drastically decrease the training costs of training geographically dispersed employees
  • Because they permit companies to create a highly desirable learning environment
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4
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True or false: A learning bot helps employees by identifying and recommending the most important knowledge to get work done.

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true

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In the context of employee training, Internet of things (IoT) devices refers to _____

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smart devices, that is, physical objects embedded with sensors and Internet connections

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6
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Which of the following jobs is most likely to be automated?

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Gathering and processing data

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7
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A specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about an employee’s or a team’s online and face-to-face learning experiences is the _____

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Tin Can API

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8
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Identify a trend that will have an impact on training programs of the future.

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Higher emphasis on performance analysis

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What is a feature of a Learning Records Store (LRS)?

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It can communicate with other LRSs and promotes easy sharing of learning data across companies.

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The use of social media, smart phones, and other new technologies in training is expected to grow in the future because _____

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it will allow learners to access training material at anytime

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Learning bots can be used by employee training managers to _____

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analyze matches between roles and tasks and to identify training needs

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In the context of employee training, Internet of things (IoT) helps make learning _____

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a continuous ongoing individualized experience that employees can engage in when it is required

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13
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Identify a feature of effective training and development programs according to neuroscience research on the hippocampus.

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Learners must learn the content over different time periods rather than all at once.

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14
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Identify a true statement about the Tin Can API.

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It allows people to gather data based on the reality that learning takes place anywhere.

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A data store system that collects and stores all of the learning experiences in the form of statements that can be organized and presented in a meaningful way is the _____ _____ Store.

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learning records

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16
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A true statement about rapid instructional design is that _____

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dedicated design and delivery of instruction resources can be reallocated when necessary

17
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Which of the following is most likely an example of a rapid instructional design (RID) strategy?

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Gathering information and exchanging it with subject-matter experts (SMEs)

18
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According to advances in neuroscience research, which of the following is true of training and development programs?

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Learners are encouraged to connect to new ideas.

19
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Agile design that is used to develop training places emphasis on _____

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repeated small steps

20
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Identify an accurate statement about embedded learning.

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It involves collaboration and nonlearning technologies.

21
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Which of the following is a rapid instructional design (RID) strategy?

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Concentrating on accomplishment and performance

22
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Agile design that is used to develop training includes the use of _____

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small teams that are constantly discussing their progress, validating their ideas, and collaborating with the learning customer

23
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_____-_____-______ learning refers to learning that occurs on the job as needed. It is also known as embedded learning.

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just in time

24
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_____ _____ _____ is a group of techniques that allows training to be built more quickly.

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rapid instructional design

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A feature of embedded learning is that _____
it involves task-specific, real-time material and simulation
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A(n) _____ _____ is a new type of learner, who integrates social networks into the way he or she thinks, learns, and solves problems.
social cyborg
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_____ _____ refers to a computing system that provides information technology infrastructure over a network in a self-service, modifiable, and on-demand.
cloud computing
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Embedded learning focuses on _____
providing the information that employees require to accomplish key job tasks
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"Social cyborgs" expect companies to help them with their need to access the latest tools and technologies at work.
true
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What is a characteristic of cloud computing?
It permits organizations to lease software and hardware.