This article shares the research findings in one study and describes 3 powerful workplace learning strategies which have proven to shorten time to proficiency of employees and explains a model to shorten time to proficiency leveraging these strategies.
This research study revealed 5 powerful classroom-based instructional strategies to accelerate speed to proficiency of employees in complex job skills. Segmentation of tasks, self-guided pre-work, scenario-based contextualization, emotional loading/involvement and time-spaced chunked sessions.
In this research-based article, an instructional design model and 9 most promising e-learning methods are described which can be used to design a curriculum to accelerate proficiency at the workplace.
S. Whiting, J. Jose, and O. Alonso. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, page 857--862. Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, (2014)