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The Ultimate eLearning Course Design Checklist

The Ultimate eLearning Course Design Checklist
Looking for a comprehensive "must-have" eLearning checklist for your next eLearning Course Design project? This is a checklist that every eLearning professional should have on hand, especially since there are so many steps involved in the eLearning course design process. Ensuring that you've crossed off every item, this "to-do" list will allow you to create and implement successful, effective, informative, and practical eLearning courses for learners in both educational and professional settings. Without further ado, here is an in depth eLearning Course Design checklist that you can use to get your eLearning courses ready for launch: eLearning Course Objectives Have you analyzed the eLearning needs and identified the budget and time constraints? eLearning Course Objectives' Resources Aims and objectives can sometimes be incredibly confusing but every eLearning course needs to have them. eLearning Course Assessments Are all assessments relevant, challenging, clear, and complete? Related:  e-learningMidMarket Place

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Easily Turn a Technical Subject into an Interesting eLearning Course Easily Turn a Technical Subject into an Interesting eLearning Course Content experts, instructional designers and other eLearning professionals often have to communicate complex information which learners may find difficult to understand and apply in their jobs. Although they routinely have to do this, there is a common misconception that technical content is too boring and pedantic. However, it does not need to be so. In fact, when dull, technical content that is presented poorly, it can overwhelm, turn off, and intimidate learners, leaving them feeling frustrated. To avoid the above, eLearning professionals must find ways to produce content that is useful, practical, and comprehensive in order to keep learners engaged and receptive. This post will examine the best ways to present technical information in an engaging and instructive manner and will explore the various approaches used to simplify complex subject matter. 1. 2. 3. 5. 6.

How to Create Successful Training I was chatting with someone recently who was complaining that the organization’s elearning courses weren’t successful. After some conversation, it turns out that the courses were mostly information-based courses. The organization did a great job pulling content together, but outside of the content (and some nice looking slides) there wasn’t much to the courses. We talked a bit more about what it takes for a training course to be successful. Successful Training Defines Success There are different reasons why organizations create elearning courses. That’s why I usually sort courses into one of two buckets: information or performance. Another consideration is the before and after gap. Why is there a gap? For this post, we’ll assume that the course you’re building has clearly defined performance goals. Successful Training Needs the Right Content Successful training focuses on the right content to meet specific goals. What are the objectives and what do they need to be able to do to meet them?

A “working out loud” credo photo by John Wenger I love the “working out loud” approach. It’s highly social, which now, after years of personal work, runs through me like a stick of rock. In that (ongoing) personal journey, I have learnt not only the benefits and indescribable joys (and sometimes, the excruciating pain) of joining the rest of the human race, but also how to do it. WOL also gives us the opportunity to exercise our opposable minds with each other. So how’s this for working out loud…. I hate feedback. Feedback, as I learnt from one of my greatest teachers, is that dissonant screech you get coming through a speaker system. The thing I enjoy is the learning; the “supervisory” conversations with others who hold my learning and development in mind and who have super vision, i.e. see things I don’t see. There is, I believe, a cultural conserve around “feedback”. Taking a strengths-based approach “What a bunch of new age, PC nonsense! What does this have to do with working out loud? My WOL credo Like this:

What You're Doing Wrong with Your eLearning Content: 5 Common Mistakes What You're Doing Wrong with Your eLearning Content: 5 Common Mistakes When you first start creating an eLearning course, you aren't sure what to expect. You're jumping in blind and hoping for the best. Soon you’ll start facing different challenges every day, and in many ways these do not differ too much from the challenges any teacher faces when considering how best to hold the learner's interest in the classroom. One of the main challenges facing the teacher of any course or lesson is to hold the learner's interest throughout. Perhaps this is even more so when it comes to creating eLearning courses that are successful. Start by identifying your mistakes and do something about them. 1) Presenting Content as a Dump Without Connecting Links A mere presentation of facts is not going to be retained by the eLearning student. It’s vital learners see the significance of those facts, and in turn understand how those facts interrelate to form the structure of a concept or an idea.

eLearning Graphic Design Blog eLearning Graphic Design Tips 7 Quick Steps for Making an eLearning Infographic 1. Determine your subject To make an infographic you need to have something to say. It may be art, but it’s art that is meant to get a point across. That’s why you rarely see an “abstract” or “interpretive” infographic.... read more Good Graphics Make Excellent eLearning There are many channels through which information can reach the brain. Reduce the Weak Links in Your eLearning: Part 1 Our brains are wired to analyze patterns, make predictions, and form links between different phenomena. Push Our PowerPoint Graphics to the Max with Gauge Templates Whether it be a measurement, statistic, percentage, or anything else quantifiable, gauge templates are excellent for displaying data. Improve Your eLearning Flow with the Signaling Principle How To Create eLearning That Sticks With You In order for eLearning to have any sort of success, it needs to be a memorable experience. How to Quickly Recolor Your Vector Images

The Truly Monumental Guide to Building Online Communities - Mack Web Then you’ve come to the right place We’re here to amuse you with tools, processes and the occasional llama joke (and yes, you may just learn something about building online communities). Before we begin, we’re going to give you a sneak-peek at what to expect. There’s a lot of information coming and we don’t want to send anyone into unnecessary overload. ‘Cuz we’re nice like that. You might want to download the guide Chapter 1: The Basics of Community Building In order to get you completely and totally prepared to build your community, we first guide you through what an online community is all about, why you need one, the benefits of building community, and how we’re going to help you build one (have we mentioned we’re nice?). Chapter 2: The Essential Community Building Tools In which we discuss and define all the pieces you need to make online community building a success. After that, will be, shockingly enough… Chapter 3: The Actual “How to Build an Online Community” Process

Top 5 Performance Support Apps for Learning Designers “Instructional Design is complex and overlaps with many fields. That’s why Instructional Design Guru defines terms from Instructional Design, Cognitive Psychology, Social Media, Multimedia, Technology and Law. It defines over 470 key terms for instructional designers.” ~ Connie Malamed, on ID Guru, the performance support App for learning designers Connie Malamed was one of the first in the learning industry to design and develop an app for learning designers. Naturally, during our interview with her we were eager to probe and find out more about her inspiration and the thought process that went into the making of her app. Below are the questions we had in mind when we embarked on our journey: What is the significance of performance support apps for learning designers? Mobile apps are among the best forms of performance support available today, and just like any professional for whom ‘information’ is the key, learning designers too could greatly benefit from mobile app solutions.

7 Tips To Create Attention Grabbing eLearning Course Titles Creating powerful, attention grabbing eLearning course titles may seem like an easy feat. However, creating eLearning course titles that attract the right audience and give them a clear and concise glimpse of the benefits they can expect to receive from the eLearning course can be quite a challenge. In this article I'll offer tips on how to create winning eLearning course titles. A long ago, I read the article Four Strategies for Creating Titles That Jump Off the Page, written by Michael Hyatt, whom I find really inspirational. Creating eLearning course titles that are to the point and powerful, give learners the chance to pre-determine if your eLearning course will offer them the skills and knowledge they need to achieve their goals. Make your audience a promise. Grabbing your learners attention and encouraging them to click that enroll button by creating memorable eLearning course titles doesn't have to a time consuming chore.

Grant Thornton spreads internal collaboration with Jam By Gloria Lombardi The name Jam may suggest a heavy metal group improvising onstage, but, at Grant Thornton UK LLP, it’s where over 4,000 partners and employees are making an altogether different type of music. "We asked our colleagues to suggest the name for the platform; Jam resonated with the ideas of stickiness and people working together," explains Paul Thomas, Online Communications lead at the UK professional services firm. Officially rolled out to the entire organisation in March, today Jam, which is based on Jive, has an adoption rate of 84%. Jam...a business sandbox for working out loud Grant Thornton launched a new brand two years ago as part of its efforts to grow. "We were looking for an online environment where people could be bold, speak up and have engaging conversations with anyone in the firm, across all levels and locations. "Jam gave us the platform to do just that." Community Manager Katherine Carter pinpointed a number of initial use cases. Opening up the conversation

Instructional design: from “packaging” to “scaffolding” In my recent posts, The changing role of L&D: from “packaging” to “scaffolding” plus “social capability building” and Towards the Connected L&D Department I wrote about the need to move from a focus on “packaging” training to “scaffolding” learning, and I said I would talk more about what “scaffolding” looks like. For me, this is the key way for workplace learning professionals to move the learning industry into the future. In this post I’m going to look at “instructional scaffolding” but in subsequent posts, I will consider “scaffolding performance support & team collaboration” in the workplace as well as “scaffolding professional learning“. The concept of instuctional design is well known. But it usually also involves “spoonfeeding” learners, as they often have a fairly passive role in the learning process with limited – and frequently tightly controlled – interaction. “Our workshops are designed to give just enough structure, without constraining personal and social learning.”

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