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Design Choices

Face to Face Self PacedOnline

Facilitated

Content ✔ ✔Activities ✔ ✔Assessment ✔ ✔

What is rapid eLearning?

Courseware

rapid creation of courseware by people who are less experienced with courseware development particularly subject matter experts

Templates

Simple Assessment

Multimedia

Short Learning Modules

But what is the biggest challenge?

Self Pace Best Practice

Give learners something to do with the content. Even if your course is info heavy, provide opportunities to apply learning to workplace context in the role they will occupy.

When presenting a problem, “content” can be provided in a variety of forms using video, audio and some text.

This gives more depth to typical “quiz” based assessment which test memory rather than understanding, problem solving and consequences of on the job of decision making.

Making sense out of the tough stuff

Story based self paced content

Character faces a challenge/journey

Show not tell

Make learners justify their choices. Challenge their assumptions and make them think deeply about the material.

Contextual feedback will help learners see where they went wrong

Character

Setting

Disruption

Solving the disruption

Resolution

Worker

Workplace

Problem/Skill

Asking/Reading/PolicyCommunication

Learnt the skill

Stories – a narrative process

Meet Sandro

He’s hopeless! Can we reform him?

Maybe not…

Call the professionals!

Self Paced Content Examples

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The Photocopier is on fire!

Council Community Video

Compliance

Social Media

Cultural Awareness

Information

Information and Activities

Activity 1 – Decision Making

•Define the context of your scenario. What are your narrative elements for:

•Narrative Elements•Character•Setting•Disruption•Solving the disruption•Resolution

Types of Content “Context”

• Textbook or “Reference” style(job aids, online support or help)Static – Just in Time

• Courseware(Content & simple assessment)

• Workplace /Interactive(case study/scenario/decision making tree)Interactive

Types of Activities

Information

Demonstration

Case Study

Scenario

Decision Making Tree

Knowledge checking

Problem based Learning

Self Paced Content examples

Compliance testing

Communication scenarios

Application of policy & procedure decision making trees

Course Content

Assessment tasks and associated guided readings/resources/multimedia

Content Creation Methods

Features of rapid eLearning tools

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Assessment

Quizzes

Decision making Trees

Short answer

Assessment

Direct demonstration/obser

vation

Indirect demonstration

Products

Workplace documents

Questions -  written and oral

Assignments

Third party reports

Self-assessment

Simulation

Portfolios

Indirect demonstration

Products

Workplace documents

Assignments

Third party reports

Self-assessment

Simulation

Portfolios

Products

Questions -  written and oral

Assignments

Third party reports

What to do with this darn content?

•Run off computer in training room•Add to your intranet•Burn to CD or USB•Upload to your LMS either via

•SCORM (zip) or, •File (and link to the first page.)

Output of rapid eLearning tools

Flash

HTML

HTML5

Word

SCORM

SCORM

The SCORM standard makes sure that all e-learning content and LMSs can work with each other:

Tin Can

http://tincanapi.com/overview/

What is your itch?

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Approaches to engaging content

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Onscreen Text

• What information is best presented as on-screen text?

• How much is too much? Remember, learners typically only scan the on-screen text.

Storyboarding

• A course outline or storyboard will help you to organize both the course content and your thoughts on interactivity.

• Onscreen Text• Audio Scripting• Interactions/Quizzes• Graphics/Images• Video• References & Weblinks• Development Notes

Storyboarding Example

Understanding Multimedia

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Integrating Audio

Quality

Compression

Control the Environment

Professional voices V Amateurs

Music & Sound Effects

Pros & Cons of “Script Reading”

WAV & MP3

Mixing Audio

In tool

Audacity

Stock Music & FX

http://www.freesound.org/http://opsound.org/ http://librivox.org/http://www.opensourcemusic.com/http://ccmixter.org/http://www.flashkit.com/loops/

Voice 123

http://voice123.com/

Integrating Video

BandwidthShortDo record demos but not your F2F classLighting & BackgroundQualityCamera (Smartphones & Tablets)Use a VoiceoverRule of Thirds

Mixing Video

In Tool

iMovie (Mac, iPhone & iPad)

Adobe Premiere Elements (PC & Mac)

Camtasia

Integrating images - sources

http://openclipart.org/ http://compfight.com

Mixing images

In tool

Picasa

Paint.Net

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Creative Commons

Attribution - This applies to every Creative Commons work. Whenever a work is copied or redistributed under a Creative Commons license, credit must always be given to the creator.

Non commercial - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.

No Derivative Works - Lets others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.

Share Alike - Allows others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

Creative Commons Licenses

http://youtu.be/1DKm96Ftfko

Creative Commons Licenses

Flickr Creative Commons – http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Open Source Music - http://www.opensourcemusic.com/ Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Yahoo Creative Commons Search Toolhttp://search.yahoo.com/cc

Designing and implementing eLearning with Creative Commons (Australian Flexible Learning Framework)http://designing.flexiblelearning.net.au/gallery/activities/creative_commons.htm

Creative Commons informationAustralia – http://creativecommons.org.au Creative Commons (Global) – http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons Links

Good Rapid eLearning is….

Moodle Lesson

Moodle Lesson

http://youtu.be/nq3das503-Q

Activity

•Develop a responsive learning activity using Moodle’s Lesson

-Simple choice-Quiz-Content Choices

Pull not Push

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/are-your-e-learning-courses-pushed-or-pulled/

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/are-your-e-learning-courses-pushed-or-pulled/

Pull not Push

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/are-your-e-learning-courses-pushed-or-pulled/

Pull not Push

Decision making trees

•Present learners with situations with choices for dealing with the problem, with each choice leading to consequences and further choices

•The process of finding the solutions to the problems is more important than the solutions themselves.

Decision making trees

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Activity

•Draft a Decision making tree•Use short sentences or single words•Create a problem for the learner to solve•2 branches to solve, 3 choices per branch•Feedback on each choice•Content to support learners at each choice (e.g. video, sound, SOPs, PDF, policy etc.)

Activity

•Create a simple interactive PowerPoint

PowerPoint, iSpring & simple interactivity

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Activity – PowerPoint

Building interaction between slidesAdding Audio & VideoTiming EffectsExport out to iSpringAdd to LMS (e.g. Moodle)

Cathy Moore

http://blog.cathy-moore.com/

Rapid E-learning Blog

http://www.articulate.com/rapid-eLearning/

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