yawn proof your e-learning without busting the bank

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Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank

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Agenda

• What Makes You Yawn? 10

• Rapid ID Approaches, Rapidly 5

• Ten Tracks for Yawn-proofing 40

• Questions & Wrap It Up 5

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What About You?

• What makes you yawn?

• What keeps you awake at night – what projects are you stuck on?

• Take 5 minutes, then start shoutin’

Photo credit: Big Yawn from twob’s Flickr photostream

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Rapid ID Approaches, Rapidly

Photo credit: *Time* ticking away from mike9alive’s Flickr photostream

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Designing rapidly

• Show, don’t tell – pictures not paperwork

• Get to a first version quickly – get it wrong first time

• Get in front of users as soon as you can

• Iterate until it’s right (or right enough) – think about the shelf life, it’s disposable…

• Keep a playlist of 10 tracks for design…

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Ten Tracks for Yawn-proofing

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Track 1: Hit Me with Your Best Shot

Have I got your attention?

• Stories that show what can go wrong• Find the killer fact, stat, or quote• Learning from the marketing team

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Age awareness: asking provocative questions

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Track 2: Give Me A Reason

Object to learning objectives.

• By the end of this course, you’ll yadda yadda yadda

• Sell the course, don’t describe it• Find the fears, hopes and dreams

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Traditional objectives

• As a result of attending this session you will be able to:

• Identify three case studies of Fortune 1000 companies who are successfully using eLearning

• Define ten tips for creating better eLearning and how these map to specific strategies and tools

• Evaluate the pro's and con's of different eLearning interventions as solutions to specific kinds of learning challenges

• Describe your own personal experience creating eLearning as a practitioner

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Using audio with stills to set the tone and focus the learner’s attention...

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Track 3: Let Me Tell You Something

Getting the best stories.

• Get war stories from your best people• Get true stories from your newer people

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Recording with Skype to get an authentic voice...

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Track 4: Beauty is Only Skin Deep

Tear down the wallpaper.

• Make graphics earn their place• Complement text, don’t fight it

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Make sure graphics have a purpose...instead of window dressing

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Track 5: School’s Out…

This is assessment in the real world.

• Make it tough as hell• Make it open any time• Do it, prove it, move on

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Track 6: Hurts So Good

Make more mistakes.

Tallulah Bankhead: “If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

• Find the mistakes that hurt the most• Keep ‘em real• Play it out• Useful feedback

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Track 7: A Little Less Conversation (A Little More Action!)

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“If I'd had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”

T.S. Eliot(or Mark Twain)

(or Blaise Pascal)

(someone said it…)

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Staying focused

• Cut it to the bone• Watch out for dialogue• What’s the question?

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Track 8: What More Can I Do?

Think outside the course!

• Create a learning campaign• Reaching out with online support

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Track 9: Keeping It Real

Making the most of media.

• Video and audio where it counts• Guerilla approaches to shooting and audio

– Flip video for secret shopper– Skype for expert interviews

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Flip video for secret shopper

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Track 10: Now What?

The end is the beginning.

• Call to action and don’t let go• Build in ways to sustain performance• Moodle’s good for this

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Using survey monkey to get calls to action

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Back to your challenges…

How’s that problem looking now…any ideas?

What’s the one thing you might do differently?

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Resources – you are what you share

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Stephen Walsh Cammy Bean

Contact us – really!

cammy.bean@kineo.comTwitter: @cammybeanBlog: http://learningvisions.blogspot.com

stephen.walsh@kineo.comTwitter: @stephentwalsh

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