Designing the Right Course

Elearning development is multifaceted. You need to juggle all kinds of tasks: project management, working with clients and SMEs, measuring and communicating ROI, applying sound learning theory, building the content, and piloting your course.

Somewhere in the middle is all the brainstorming and development around how you’ll build your course. How will learners navigate and find information? How will they interact with your content? How can you build an experience that engages learners and serves up the content thoroughly and meaningfully?

This series of posts is all about that middle.  You’ll learn how to pull your content together to create the right type of elearning course.  It covers everything from course structure to creative ideas for course design.

• Are You Building the Right Type of E-Learning Course?

• 3 Ways to Define Interactive Rapid E-Learning

• Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled?

• These 3 Tips Can Change Your Compliance E-Learning Forever

• How to Create E-Learning Courses That Don’t Waste Your Learner’s Time

• Build Better E-Learning Courses By Getting Rid of Some of the Content

• The Real Purpose of the E-Learning Template

• Change Your Presentation Template to an E-Learning Template

• Here’s How You Can Save Your Training Job in this Economy

• 3 Brainstorm Ideas for Your Next E-Learning Course

• 3 Proven Techniques to Add Creativity to Your E-Learning Courses

• How to Convert Your PowerPoint Presentation into an Elearning Course

• Engage Your Learners By Mimicking the Real World

• Here Are Some Time Saving Tips for Your Next Software Demo

• 3 Creative Ways to Empower Your Learners

• Why Course Navigation is Less Important Than You Might Think

• Here’s Why Unlocking Your Course Navigation Will Create Better Learning

• Does President Obama Support Locking Your E-Learning Course Navigation?

• Is Google Making Our E-Learning Stupid?

Upcoming E-Learning Events

• July 17 & 18 (St Louis, MO): Articulate Community Roadshow. Register here. ATD St. Louis members get a 25% discount. Contact ATD St. Louis for more information.
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• November: finalizing details for UK and EU workshops in November.

Free E-Learning Resources

Want to learn more? Check out these articles and free resources in the community.	Here’s a great job board for elearning, instructional design, and training jobs	Participate in the weekly elearning challenges to sharpen your skills
Get your free PowerPoint templates and free graphics & stock images.	Lots of cool elearning examples to check out and find inspiration.	Getting Started? This elearning 101 series and the free e-books will help.