How To Improve Your eLearning Creation Process
Here is how to get started by auditing the following 5 aspects and assessing where your eLearning process could be refined.
1. Be Clear On Your Audience Needs
Have you done your research? Before launching into eLearning content creation, you need to check that you understand exactly what it is that your audience is after.
Once you know your audience’s needs, you can tailor your content to meet them. This should be your first step; doing your research after you’ve started creating your eLearning project is too late and you’ll waste time.
‘Create’ is the 4th C in the 5C Framework for successful digital learning. You can find out more about researching your audience by taking a step back before creation and reading about the ‘Capture’ stage.
2. Have A Clear Learning Design Concept
During your research, you should have discovered your audience needs, but have you spent enough time thinking about the design concepts that will best meet them?
Considering the type of interactions that will help engage your learners, plus the layout and structure is essential before you start to create the eLearning itself. Rapid prototyping and gaining feedback at this stage will save you lots of time during the creation process.
3. Styling
Make sure you’ve settled on the branding, styling and the visuals of your eLearning project at the very start of the build process. This will help you ensure consistency throughout your content creation and avoid any confusion partway through the build.
You’ll be able to do a final audit of your branding and styling during the quality assurance stage.
4. Stakeholder Input
4. Stakeholder InputIt’s wise to involve the stakeholders in your eLearning project throughout the creation stage. If you don’t do this and only run your content by your stakeholders once you’ve created something that you think is a masterpiece, you risk finding yourself with a list of edits to go back and make.
To avoid doubling up on your workload, talk to your stakeholders before you begin creation to find out whether they have specific ideas about content to include. Additionally, don’t forget to check in with them throughout your eLearning project build.
5. Quality Assurance
To avoid embarrassment, uphold your reputation and, most importantly, to ensure a great learning experience, you don’t want your audience to be pointing out broken links or grammar and spelling mistakes once your eLearning project has gone live.
Introducing a simple quality assurance process will mean this doesn’t happen. Make sure all of your eLearning content is proofread and all links are checked before your project is launched. If possible, try and get more than one set of eyes to give it the once over.
What Actions Should You Take Now?
Once you’ve audited your eLearning creation process, you may well find that you are falling short in a few of these 5 areas. Don’t panic, some small adjustments to your process will help you see a big difference in how efficient and hassle-free your creation is. Ultimately, it will also deliver better learning experiences for your learners.
You can find plenty of advice and tips for improving your process in this free guide. Download your copy for suggestions on:
- How to set up your branding and style and ensure consistency throughout your content.
- Choose a small section to test your concept.
- Collect feedback and constructive input from your key stakeholders.
- Implement a fool-proof quality assurance process to maintain high standards.
Download the Create Guide: How to speed up your eLearning creation process
