Need Creative Ideas for Data Practices Training

Who is your audience? What are you asking them to do?

When you can answer these two questions, it becomes much easier to design effective training for them. For example, are these people going to be required to quote the regulations as part of their jobs? Probably not. So don't focus on that.

Instead, put them in an interactive story in which they come to work one day and receive some information and have to decide what to do with it. Is it subject to the records retention rules? Why or why not? If it is, how will they archive it? Then they have a conversation with someone who requests some information. Is that information "public information" or not? Why? Based on their assessment, can/should they give out the information? etc.

In other words, your course is a series of scenarios/situations in which the learner must decide how to use, store, share, etc. various kinds of government information. When the learner makes a wrong choice, that is you opportunity to educate the learner about the rules. Put the "info dump" stuff into the feedback of decisions, not up-front. Only include information that informs decisions learners will actually have to make. Jargony definitions and rules quotations will be the first things to get rid of. Focus on helping your learners take appropriate action. Their jobs are to perform their work in accordance with the regulations, not to become experts and quoting the regulations. So focus on having them practice performing in job situations where knowledge of the rules is important. You may need to create a wide variety of situations/scenarios to cover everything, but it will be MUCH more relevant and engaging than a lengthy infodump of the rules and regulations on their own.