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Free training materials

Note: All PDF documents are provided free of charge. A charge will be made for hardcopy items. Please see notes below

Last updated: 26 January 2004.

Training materials

Training materials are available to all bona fide trainers for their own internal use and for use with customers. A full list of the materials currently available is given below.

  Materials available: Materials are supplied as:
Decision Explorer® BROCHURES and DISPLAY MATERIALS  
· A5 size (w 210mm x h 148mm) full colour brochure Hardcopy or PDF
· A3 full colour (w 420mm x h 297mm) encapsulated Decision Explorer® logo (for exhibition use) Hardcopy only
· A4 (w 210mm x h 297mm) full colour, encapsulated maps from the "What's in a name" paper Hardcopy only
   
WORKING DEMO, USER'S GUIDE, WORKBOOKS, PAPERS  
· Working demo (limited to 30 concepts per model, but able to read "clean" models of up to 90 concepts) CD-ROM or download from our web site downloads area
· Decision Explorer® User's Guide PDF
· Introductory Workbook: workbook 1 (version 1.4) PDF
· Introductory Workbook: workbook 1 French Language edition PDF
· "Getting started with cognitive mapping" PDF
· "What's in a name?" - a comparison of three mapping techniques (Published in "Insights into qualitative data analysis. Scolari. July 2000) PDF
· "Mapping for Qualitative Data Structuring". Paper presented at Institute of Education, London, 8-9 May 2003. "Strategies in Qualitative Research: Methodological issues and practices using QSR NVivo & NUD*IST" conference. PDF
· Slides from "Mapping for Qualitative Data Structuring". Paper presented at Institute of Education, London, 8-9 May 2003.

PowerPoint® 97

Slides only

· "CAFE: Construction Alternative Futures Explorer". Manual describing a process for scenario development. A generic method developed in a construction industry context but with wider applications. Written by Jenny Brightman, Colin Eden, Kees van der Heijden and Dave Lanfgord. Version 1.2 Updated by Jenny Brightman. Nov. 2002. PDF
· Value Magazine June 2004. "Cognitive mapping: theory and practice" PDF
   
CASE STUDIES  
· Case studies 1 - Aggreko Generators PDF
· Case studies 2 - Essex County Council PDF
· Case studies 3 - Looking at "soft" issues in construction project management PDF
· Case studies 4 - Decision Explorer® as a research tool PDF
· Case studies 5 - Decision Explorer® and the Delict Game PDF
   
NEWSLETTERS  
· Newsletters - Issue 8 Winter 2002/ 2003 PDF only
· Newsletters - Issue 7 Summer 2001 Hardcopy or PDF
· Newsletters - Issue 6 Winter 2000/2001 Hardcopy or PDF
· Newsletters - Issue 5 Summer 2000 Hardcopy or PDF
· Newsletters - Issue 4 Winter 1999/2000 Hardcopy or PDF
· Newsletters - Issue 3 Summer 1999 PDF only
· Newsletters - Issue 2 Winter 1998/1999 PDF only
· Newsletters - Issue 1 Spring/Summer 1998 PDF only
   
   
PRESENTATIONS  
· PowerPoint® presentation
"Introduction to Decision Explorer®"
 
· PowerPoint® presentation
"Introduction to cognitive mapping" (version 1.1. Released Feb 2001).

PowerPoint® 97

Slides only

Slides with tutors notes

   

 

 

 

Additional materials will be added to the demo CD from time to time. The demo CD carries many of the materials mentioned above.

Notes on training materials:

1) PDF = portable document format. You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these files. The reader can be downloaded free of charge via a link in the demo downloads web page. PDF files downloaded from our web site are provided free of charge.

2) To ensure consistency all PDF files are provided in a printable but non-editable form.

3) All PDFs are set up for A4 (w 210mm x h 297mm) size paper. The Acrobat "shrink to fit" option can be used to print to Letter size paper.

4) All hardcopy materials are provided in A3, A4 or A5 format (and not Letter size or any variants of Letter size).

5) Charges will be made for the following items:

  • Demo CD-ROMs - in excess of an initial, annual allocation of 50 copies per trainer, a charge of £50 (fifty pounds sterling) per 50 (or part thereof) will be made.
  • Bound copies of the Decision Explorer® workbook, and stapled copies of the "Getting started" paper, "What's in a name?" paper, mapping bibliography and case studies (1 to 5) - in excess of an initial, annual allocation of 50 copies of each, a charge of £50 (fifty pounds sterling) per 50 copies of any publication will be made.
  • Newsletters - in excess of an initial allocation of 50 copies per newsletter per trainer, a charge of £50 (fifty pounds sterling) per 100 will be made (minimum order quantity = 100). Not all previous newsletters are available in hardcopy. All future newsletters will be in PDF form only.
  • Product brochures - please contact us if you need more than 50 brochures for any particular purpose
  • A3 logo posters - charged at £3.50 (pounds sterling) per poster plus shipping (shipped using standard airmail).
  • A4 full colour, encapsulated maps - charged at £2.00 (pounds sterling) per map poster plus shipping (shipped using standard airmail).

For training materials (workbooks, papers, etc.) you are encouraged to use the PDF files, to print them and to incorporate them into your own training packs.