Category: "Designing Online Courses"
Jul
09
I was in a meeting today where it was suggested that purchasing organisations could differentiate between potential elearning suppliers by using a standard "problem" as a challenge. A problem like "Create some elearning about how to open a bottle of… more »
Nov
13
Characteristics of good elearning
Learning, Designing Online Courses, Psychology 2 feedbacks » 6707 viewsYou may as well ask "What makes a good book?" when thinking about the characteristics of good elearning. It depends on what it's trying to achieve, who it's aimed at, and the context in which it will be used. Are we talking about a novel, a textbook, a… more »
May
04
Tongue-in-cheek, but also true-to-life, animated video showing the conversation between an organisation and their elearning specialist.
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Via: Nick Shackleton-Jones' challenging post on the future of online learning, w… more »
Oct
28
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Feb
23
The changing face of learning & development (70:20:10)
Not yet categorised, Learning, Designing Online Courses, ROI 2 feedbacks » 8730 viewsLearning and Development is changing. As an organisational function, it is having to become far closer to Operational delivery and to Internal Communications than to Human Resources.
As a concept, organisations are beginning to realise that Learning… more »
Oct
12
Choices in learning design
Learning, Technology, Designing Online Courses, Large scale programmes 1 feedback » 3602 viewsWhat follows is an update of a post I wrote back in 2005 about what to consider when designing learning programmes.As "Learning Designers", once we've asked the right questions at the outset of the project, we need to get down to the iterative proces… more »
Sep
24
Three steps to increase the impact of your online learning content
Technology, Designing Online Courses Send feedback » 4299 viewsWe spend days and weeks analysing audience needs & business requirements. We carefully craft our materials so they're engaging and follow best practice in materials design. Our developers create code that is standards compliant and accessible.
In… more »
Sep
22
Project Initiation Questions
Designing Online Courses, Context, Management & Implementation, Large scale programmes 1 feedback » 5935 viewsIn my experience, and those of others I talk to, a lot of training projects and programmes flounder simply because the right questions were not asked at the beginning.The list of questions below is not exhaustive, but covers the main areas that you w… more »
Jul
16
A question was asked today on the Learning & Skills Group forum about whether elearning has different accessibility and usability standards to normal web design.My answer is an emphatic "No!" - at least it shouldn't have.The problem is, we (t… more »
Jun
07
Often, when I'm asked to cost up elearning design and development, the concept of an "hour of instruction" comes up.It's a term I've never been comfortable with. You'd never ask a writer to create an hour's worth of reading. You'd give them a word li… more »
