Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you explore the many different sources available for training and to evaluate their validity.

Overview

Topic content can be located in many different sources:

Internal (what you already know from experiences, ideas, and knowledge).

External (research, knowledge, and experience you don't personally have).

Professional Organizations - Association for Talent Development (Links to an external site.) (ATD).

Internet - found through search engines or specific training sites.

Library - books and textbooks, periodicals, full text databases, newspapers, reference resources, government documents.

Subject Matter Experts (SME) - professionals, educators.

Commercial - published training books, manuals, and websites.

Action Items

Locate 5 credible sources to obtain content and materials for your training module. Your citations are to be from a variety of sources (e.g., internal sources and external sources such as professional organizations, Internet, library, experts, or commercial).

Apply the following criteria to each of your identified sources to find at least five credible sources to obtain content and materials for your training module.

Accountability: Who "owns" the website or materials?

Accuracy: How were the sources for the information identified? What evidence or support do you have for the accuracy of the information?

Objectivity: How did you determine that information offered by this source was objective?

Date: How did you determine the recency of the information?

Usability: What was your opinion about the usability of the information? Why?

Complete the Resource Matrix Download Resource Matrix to compile your findings.

Resource Matrix

Source	Accountability	Accuracy	Objectivity	Date	Usability
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(This is for Technical training, specifically establishing passwords. The training objective includes trainees updating their sign-in password every so often).