1. You Are A Producer
Each eLearning course you create will have new demands and responsibilities. As a custom content developer, the more production tools you have the more polished your learning experiences will be. Piecing together your story and assets is like creating a movie. Your talent as an editor and producer will go a long way in telling the story and tackling the unique challenges of each project. No matter what multimedia assets you use, they all share the same need for you, as a good producer, to fit the pieces together in a planned and prepared way.
2. Learn How To Extract Information: Dig, Listen, Learn
Master your client’s content. Learn their language and help them learn yours. In any creative project there may be questions the client doesn’t know how to ask or in some cases they don’t know what they want until they see it. One of your initial tasks is to help the project contributors realize their own vision and build on that. An engaging and memorable learner experience is rooted in the story, and the story is rooted in the script. A good script is rooted in the thoughtful investigation of information so learn how to ask the right questions and you will be off to a great start.
3. Prevent Open-Ended Editing
Client-provided feedback and input are the most essential parts of any project. However, because it is a custom project, the tendency is high to enter an open-ended editing process. No matter how many feedback sources you have, it is very important that you set clear review windows and close them once all feedback has been compiled. Otherwise, the creative collaborations that make our projects so great could end up setting the timeline back if it’s not properly managed. Set your schedule and create mutually helpful review guidelines that everyone sticks to.
4. Play Games
How can you stay inspired for creative and sensible design? How can you continue to create fresh and captivating graphics? Play games. This can help you stay up to date and trigger a lot of dormant ideas for user flow, clever storytelling, and gameplay learning. In actuality, playing games is simply what works for me, you will have to find your own muse. Since we, as a company, do in-house film-making as well as eLearning, we find a lot of inspiration from the big screen as well. Movies, television, and world class gaming is our competition now, not from a business standpoint, but from the standpoint of competing for the user’s attention and desire to engage.