by Mike Dickinson
One tool that can make an e-Learning director or manager’s life much simpler is a set of standards that guides the designers, developers, and SMEs to create consistent product. While it is easy to find “style guides” for Web page development, it seems that there are few examples of similar documents for e-Learning creation. This article's author shows you how he built a useful guide.
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by Ray Jimenez
The decision to use rapid e-Learning development is more a matter of meeting management requirements than of meeting learning or design criteria. This decision requires support during software selection, support by management and by organization culture, and it requires creation of reusable tools in order to ease the burden placed on subject matter experts. Final article of the series.
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by Sally Northam, Donna Sauls
Educational institutions are rapidly adding distance learning to their offerings that is supported by online “e-Enterprise” applications such as Blackboard and WebCT. Consequently, faculty in these institutions must adapt quickly to learn these new tools. How well they succeed affects everything from learner satisfaction to instructor workload. Here are some hints and tips to move things along!
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by Mark Murrell
It would be a wonderful world if everything always went our way, but in e-Learning that seldom happens. There are almost always technical obstacles to work our way around. Here are two examples of projects in which developers had to deal with connectivity issues, file format restrictions, and a “no plug-ins” policy. You’ll learn the surprising ways that exist to deal with these problems and more!
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by Camille Price, Amy Stoker
Selection and implementation of a Learning Management System (LMS) can be an expensive, time consuming undertaking. In spite of this, and in spite of the number of these installations, it is very difficult to obtain effective advice on managing the process. Save your budget! In this article the authors conclude their presentation of a first-rate road map to successful LMS initiatives.
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by Camille Price, Amy Stoker
Implementing a learning management system is as much a challenge as any other enterprise-level initiative. There are models for most systems implementation activities, but there hasn't been one for LMS projects. Learn how e-Learning management at trucking company C.R. England created an effective approach for matching their LMS implementations to business process requirements.
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by Cynthia Holmes-Radner
Storyboards are a critical element in the design and development of e-Learning applications. In organizations that develop many such applications, the challenge of having an effective storyboard is compounded when developers individually create their own storyboard templates. Learn how expert designers and developers worked together to automate and standardize storyboard production!
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by Bill Brandon
In e-Learning, we place a great amount of attention on the design process, and far less attention on the production processes. While design is required to solve performance problems, it’s the production process where the rubber meets the road. Here’s a fresh look at production, with an eye toward process engineering, and with a list of resources that may help you deliver better e-Learning faster.
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by Rhonda Harmon
What would you say if someone told you there are a few simple and proven strategies that you can use to build a successful development team? How would you like to have the best developers actually looking for you? In this article, a manager with a long track record of success offers an inside look at the approaches that have worked for her, and includes candid comments from her team.
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by Sally Allen
A paper-based storyboard may not be the best way to communicate about interactivity. Storyboard and prototype creation adds a great deal of time to the development schedule and to client review. Here's how a Booz Allen Hamilton team cut courseware development time by looking at development in a new way -- combining the storyboard and the prototype.
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