Instructional Design Principles for Rapid eLearning Development
Within the last few years, a new kind of authoring tool has been introduced into the world of e-learning: the rapid development tool. These tools enable authors to create slick, professional looking e-learning much faster than was ever imaginable. However, with this rapid development, a new problem has developed. Courses are being cranked out at such a high speed that instructional design fundamentals have been left by the wayside. This session introduces instructional design techniques that can be easily implemented into rapid e-learning development. These techniques are based on some of the most popular adult learning theories and can be applied to any type of e-learning course, without disrupting development time.
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Great subject!
Perfect "ppoint poison review!"
Irene
Great session. Loved all the ideas, and how you linked them each directly to the ID method.
I wish your session hadn't been at the same time as mine. I would've loved to have attended. I sat in on a talk Merrill gave at ASU about his course evaluation tool. I attached that paper for those who are interested.
Thanks for the kind words everyone. I'm attaching my slides in case they are of use. I'll also try to attach the sample "iterative improvement" courses I showed in the session when I get a chance.
Okay...attached are all of the sample files (see my previous entry for the PPT). I spent no time trying to optimize them because they are just samples so they are actually pretty large (and they include the source files I think...around 20MB each). Anyway, hope you find them helpful.
For any of you interested in reading the First Principles of Instruction paper written by M David Merrill that I'll be using as the basis of a lot of this presentation, please visit this link: http://id2.usu.edu/Papers/5FirstPrinciples.PDF