My department recently purchased “fake money” for people to practice with while training on a new function, and at a time where many places across the world are thinking about budgets it got me to thinking about the best training tools I’ve used or seen used in the past. One of my favorites was a solid dark wood puzzle box about 1’ by 1’ where the training activity was to determine what was inside the box. The box did not cost too much, but generated hours of effective training. Another tool was a set of “adult tinker toys” with multiple training functions. Tools like those added a lot to the training experience without breaking the budget.
So I thought I’d put the question out there what are your favorite training tools (training toys?) ever.