eLearning Design
Overview
This is a two-part blended programme consisting of online activities and a 2-day classroom workshop. This programme will help L&D professionals, with experience of designing or developing other forms of adult learning, to apply their skills to designing bite-sized eLearning modules. It includes how to add the important human element into online learning and how to create stimulating, engaging and effective content.
What's included in the course?
- Part 1: Participate in a live online webinar and complete self-paced activities (approx 3 hours of study)
- Part 2: 2-day classroom workshop, working through the devleopment process step by step
What the delegates will learn
- Apply the six stages of the development process for elearning
- Design effective and engaging elearning materials through storytelling and scenarios
- Experiment with an authoring tool
- Capability to create bite-sized elearning objects that can be accessed 'on demand' and reused as appropriate
- Evaluation of elearning tools for efficient procurement
Next steps
- Creating Visual Impact
- Designing Workplace Learning
- Digital Writing Skills
Prerequisites
Suitable for L&D professionals who wish to design eLearning self-study programmes
Objectives
- Create a detailed storyboard for an eLearning object to meet the TAP eLearning Design Profile
- Experiment with an authoring tool to produce three slides of a storyboard
- Upload a project to the course online forum for peer review
Leading to the TAP Certificate in eLearning Design
Outline
Online Creating engaging elearning
Tutor-led WebEx session (1 hour)
- Share ideas on what makes eLearning engaging
- Critique some examples
- Objectives and valid tests
Self-study: think of a topic and complete the design overview template for your project (approx. 3 hours)
Classroom workshop
Day one - Learning and Vvsual design
- Key stages of the development process
- Differences between e-information and eLearning
- Ways of structuring eLearning following the five stages of the learning process
- Designing activities to hold students' attention and enabling practise of new skills
- Selecting the media elements that are appropriate for the learning such as text, voice over, video, animation
- Consider the basics of visual design, selecting relevant graphic and fonts
- Project work
Day two - Storyboarding
- Creating a storyboard using Word or PowerPoint to include all the onscreen text, voice-over, instructions, explanations, questions and supportive feedback
- Ensuring there is a balance of informational and interactive slides
- Project work, feedback and sign-off
- Steps to success to include an overview of tools on the market to enable informed recommendations and tips on quality assurance
Course Dates
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