Elearning Tips

Course details

Are you a learning professional looking to improve your development process and create better elearning? Elearning designer and author Tim Slade offers quick tips that can be immediately applied to your design process. Find out how to draft preliminary storyboards to explore your ideas, develop prototypes to test your functionality and visualize your look and feel, design more engaging and visually interesting courses, and add interactivity that gives learners a chance to practice and validate their skills. These tips are designed to be used by all elearning creators, regardless of the platform you create content on. Focus on the techniques that interest you, or use them in combination to save time and build a better end product for your learners.

Learning objectives
Conducting a needs analysis
Planning your elearning project
Drafting an elearning storyboard
Developing wireframes and functional prototypes
Designing your elearning course
Creating font and color schemes
Incorporating images and animation
Adding interactivity and quizzes
Testing and finalizing your course

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Elearning development tips
02 - What are the benefits of elearning

1. Determine If Learning Is the Answer

03 - How to conduct a learning needs analysis for elearning
04 - When is training the answer
05 - How to design blended learning with elearning

2. Plan Your Elearning Project

06 - How to plan your elearning project with a kickoff meeting
07 - Tips for working with subject matter experts
08 - How to draft an elearning project plan
09 - How to create an elearning development timeline

3. Draft an Elearning Storyboard

10 - Tips for drafting an elearning storyboard
11 - How to collect and organize your elearning content
12 - How to draft a written elearning storyboard
13 - How to create a visual elearning storyboard

4. Develop an Elearning Prototype

14 - Tips for developing an elearning prototype
15 - How to create a wireframe prototype for your elearning course
16 - How to create a visual prototype for your elearning course
17 - How to create a functional prototype of your elearning course

5. Design Your Elearning Course

18 - How to create a font scheme for your elearning course
19 - How to create a color scheme for your elearning course
20 - How to select images for your elearning course
21 - How to use icons in your elearning course
22 - How to use animation in your eleanring course

6. Make Your Elearning Course Interactive

23 - How to use interactivity to create engaging elearning
24 - How to use click-to-reveal interactions to organize concepts
25 - How to use scenario-based interactions to increase learner performance
26 - How to use quiz questions to evaluate learning

7. Finalize Your Elearning Course

27 - How to QA your elearning course
28 - How to conduct user acceptance testing of your elearning course
29 - How to organize your elearning project files
30 - How to conduct an elearning project retrospective