4 Simple E-Learning Project Management Tips
October 5th, 2021
I get a lot of project management questions, specifically how to keep the projects moving forward successfully. The two most essential elements are expectations and communication.
Understand the Purpose of the Course
When meeting with clients it’s important to understand and identify the learning objectives. And then from there, to craft a good learning plan.
What do they need to know? How do we know they know it? How will the learn it? OK, let's build it!
Create a Service Level Agreement
What is the final product going to look like? What are ...
My hunch is the most e-learning courses are explainer-type content, heavy on content, but light on applied learning. This is fine, especially since most of the learning happens outside the course; however, good e-learning courses should be more than content.
Start with Clear Objectives
Most courses are content-heavy because of compliance requirements. And the main objective is certified exposure to content by December 31. If you're building courses based on performance expectations, you need to start with clear objectives.
I was reviewing some older presentations I found a slide regarding the topic of getting started with e-learning. On the slide I offered three helpful tips when getting started that still hold true today.
An E-Learning Course is Different from a Classroom Session
A challenge a lot of new e-learning developers have is that they start with existing content from classroom training. This is usually in PowerPoint; and it's easy enough to import a PowerPoint slide into an e-learning application, add a quiz, and call it good.
This is fine ...
You want to build an e-learning portfolio, but not sure where to start?
At its core, the work portfolio represents your skills and expertise. For some people, the portfolio is their resume, and they build it to share what they know. And for others, the portfolio shows their projects as part of the journey that needs to be documented.
During the initial planning, decide if you want the portfolio to be static where you only do occasional maintenance and updates. Or if you want a site that's more dynamic and continually ...
One mistake many e-learning experts make is that they talk about "e-learning" as if it's a single thing and always focused on performance improvement. They talk about engagement and interactivity and measurable objectives. Those are all good things and super important for many courses. However, anything not linked to performance is then considered ineffective.
But are those things always the measure of effective e-learning?
A common challenge is your organization focuses more on getting content out and less about learning engagement, and probably not about measurable improvement. This may appear to be ...
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At one point, I was hiring an e-learning course developer. I received hundreds of qualified applications; however I couldn't screen them all, so I created a first filter based on their work portfolios. Most of the applicants tended to fall into one of two camps: they didn’t have an e-learning portfolio or the projects they worked on were proprietary so they couldn’t share them.
I know that many of you are in the same boat. And based on the tons of emails I get about finding work in this industry, ...
In a recent workshop on creating interactions, we looked at ways to take a single image and create interactive content. It's a good practice activity because many of us aren't graphic designers so it helps us see different ways to use stock imagery that doesn't require a lot of editing. And it gets us to think about interactive content in ways we may not initially consider.
The general idea is to find a single image that you can use for an interaction. A few things I look for:
In e-learning software like 
A guest post by Elizabeth Pawlicki, Training Program Manager, Articulate.
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