eLearning Design and Development

At least partly because of the huge success of YouTube, people get excited today about the potential of video for training and education particularly in the context of e-learning and distance learning. There is a lot of hype about it but we need to examine the real benefits before plunging in. 

Can we prepare, record, and finally produce a better audio narration? Of course we can. However, we should consider some aspects such as, budget, time, technology, and our available resources in general.

Paint cures but what’s that to do with testing? Curation as a process has been going on a long time; you probably had teachers who shared reading lists, sites of interest, things to do on your next family vacation.

At the Ultimate List of Free Music for eLearning you will find 34 websites where you can use Free Music for your Online Courses. You can download hundred thousand music files for thousands artist and use it for Free.

Assessments are critical elements of instruction; they determine accomplishment of lesson objectives. However, you can design assessments to be more than an evaluation of what has been learned. You can design them to be a part of the learning process itself.

In technical subjects, learners respond well and benefit from the inclusion of imagery and video. How Do I Make a Good Screencast?

eLearning 101 Part 5: Evaluating. Evaluation of your course is essential but often under used.

eLearning 101 Part 2: Planning eLearning, describes best practices on script writing In eLearning 101 Part 3: Developmental Roles, discusses the communication process. eLearning 101 Part 4: Development Process, provides a more detailed development process.

eLearning 101 Part 3: Development Roles includes the roles and responsibilities that are included during the development process. Some roles are mandatory during any course development process, while other roles may be optional depending on the needs of the course.

Planning your eLearning course is the most important step. The worst experience anyone can encounter in an eLearning environment is finding traditional written training materials simply moved to the computer screen. Talk about a high snooze-factor! And this is not only boring -- it's ineffective training and a waste of time for everyone involved.

eLearning 101 is the first of a five part series that covers the basics of what developers should know about building online courses.

Several eLearning professionals in the eLearning industry want to convert their f2f courses into an eLearning format. However, some of them do the same mistake again and again: they simply move their content such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, audios, and documents to a Learning Management System using an eLearning Content Authoring tool. In my opinion, they have just converted their traditional courses to an electronic format. In this article I'll present the top 5 tips to convert your face to face courses into an eLearning format.