After course review
1. Firstly, i am very appreciative towards the regional manager of the Learning and Development Certification Course. He had to drop personal emails to me due to the upgrading of the server and somehow, my registered email was not able to receive any mail from GSDC upon registration. So, truly appreciative towards his prompt response. 2. Some of the modules provided insights to L&D. So indeed i got to gain knowledge after this course. 3. Regarding the PDF course notes i was given, much of the content in the given notes were not mentioned in the lecture. There was a chapter with just 1 to 2 pages of content in the notes while the lecturer could talk for up to 20 minutes. There were missing chapters in the PDF notes with reference to the lectures. Ended up i spent nearly 50% of the time pausing the video to copy the powerpoint slides when having the lecturer to read through some of them in less than 2 minutes. 4. As described in one the chapters, the different learning styles, auditory has been my worst. In the module, it talked about capturing and keeping attention of the different learners via media, activities and many other examples which i agreed as it is very important to keep the learners engaged. But during the 16 hours video content, it was a test to my auditory skills. The lecturer seemed to be reading off scripts and she just went on for up to 20 minutes with reference to 1 slide. 5. Another test of my auditory skill came as the lecturer has a very heavy accent. There were many times that i had to drag the video back just to understand what she was saying (as she was not referring to the notes or giving examples). I must highlight by no means am i against any race or people and i have utmost respect for all cultures and religions. Perhaps i was the only one that couldn't really understand her accent and i have no suggestions on how to improve as she could be the principle trainer to this topic thus, her recordings. The combination of her accent and her lecturing for 16 hours with references to slides full of words made it challenging during the process of this course. I was kind of expecting more usage of visuals and media especially when the modules included topics such as 'different learning styles', 'engagements' and 'elements of online training'. In overall, i did gain knowledge in L&D. Perhaps, the learning could have been made easier for weak auditory learner like myself by including more engagements during the lectures. It definitely felt more than the 16 hours as described in the website.