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After you have created and defined your
learning screens, you may copy them from one FlexTraining course to another
FlexTraining course. Select a destination course and the “Continue” button. The
screens are automatically entered into the designated course.
Authored training pages are not the same as Course Content
Sections, since one Content Section can contain many authored pages. A
collection of Learning Screens is organized into a Lesson, as described
above.
After you have authored some, or all, of the screens and
Lessons for your course, you may sequence them into your course using the Table
Method or Visual Method, which are described below. When that happens, an authored Lesson becomes
a Course Section.
A Course Section may have many learning screens in it if you
have linked several screens into a large Lesson. Or, you may decide to have a
Course Section with only a single authored screen.
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Training
Why was the term standards chosen? Who can create national standards?
The term standards is always contentious. The CLFDB deliberately chose this word, and continues to advocate for national standards on the following basis .
Standards describe what is acceptable and what isn't; therefore, standards are a standard means by which to implement public policy. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, in its 1992 document Global Standards: Building Blocks for the Future, observes the following:
Standards govern the design, operation, manufacture, and use of nearly everything that mankind produces. There are standards to protect the environment and human health... There are even standards of acceptable behaviour within a society. Standards generally go unnoticed. They are mostly quiet, unseen forces, such as specifications, regulations, and protocols, that ensure things work properly, interactively, and responsibly (p. iii).
Standards, like policies, exist whether they are clearly stated or just generally accepted; however, standards not clearly stated often allow too much room for interpretation, confusion and abuse. Fair and justifiable formal standards are often needed to ensure quality of products and accountability of systems. In the view of the labour market partners, this is the value of national standards.
The Office of Technology Assessment also notes that standards are developed or achieved by one of three methods:
by government, though a regulatory process (authority);
through the market, on a de facto basis (custom);
negotiated through a voluntary consensus process (consent).
The CLFDB process is the latter process — the Training Standards have been developed and recommended by labour market representatives on the Board and constituents across Canada. While the CLFDB has no authority to enforce standards, it has the responsibility to generate recommended national standards that describe best practice and contribute to the achievement of a labour force development system that is effective, efficient and equitable.
Following the development of the Training Standards, the CLFDB produced recommended national Standards — intended to guide the development and implementation of PLAR processes and practices in both training and employment circumstances. Working groups of the CLFDB are currently working to create LMI Standards — standards for a Labour Market Information system in Canada — and on SKP Standards. The SKP Standards are intended to be a comprehensive description of best practice in the development and use of a Skills and Knowledge Profile — a record of learning — that accounts for an individuals entire repertoire of learning, not just credentials and work experience. More information on all of these is available from either the CLFDB or FuturEd.
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