A Winning E-Learning Strategy: Content, Delivery and
Measurement
November 2011
Changing times in the
virtual frontier make online training
standards even more important, including the quality of the learning content,
the flexibility of the delivery platform and the measurement of the programs’
success. When you take aim at your open training issues and create engaging
learning content, you will establish a universal curriculum that dispenses
mission critical information, enhances bottom line performance and increases
learner accomplishments.
Content Development
Aside from the E-Learning
delivery platform, which ensures efficiency, economics and convenience, the
most important component of any online training program is the course content.
Developing rich, substantive and informative content will elevate your quality
levels from isolated, one-time authored material to reusable, engaging web-based
training programs.
Key resources and steps for creating
engaging content are:
Can ILT Enhance the Learning Experience?
Information and Learning
Technology (ILT) is the method of using technology to enhance the learning
experience, which is the basic premise of a Learning Management System (LMS),
using web-based technology to transform, deliver and educate. Incorporating the
tenets of ILT will augment your content, help your students beat the boredom
and enhance your overall E-Learning program.
For example:
Assess, Measure, Evaluate and Test
A critical component of any online
training program is measuring its’ success. You can incorporate a myriad of
post-course assessment styles to evaluate the effectiveness of your course
content and the overall achievement of your program initiatives. Consider using
open-ended assessments for more substantive student feedback, add hot spots to
simulate and add interest to the scenario, task your learners to fill in the
blank or offer multiple choice formatting.
No matter how you mix it,
the data you collect will provide the metrics you need to measure student progress, test the effectiveness of your content and
quantify your E-Learning program results.
Whether you’re introducing
an E-Learning initiative or enhancing an existing online training program, the
quality of your content, the efficiency of your delivery platform and the
accuracy of your measurements are winning components to your strategy and
success.
Training Tips
What You Need to
When you're
creating online training content, there is some key functionality you'll need
to get started and keep the momentum going. Fortunately, FlexTraining has it
all. For easy-to-build learning screens, you'll need a built-in, template-based
authoring tool. Multiple authors or trainers? No
problem. Unlimited authors can work on the same course or on multiple
courses.
If
your existing files are in Word or Excel, no conversion is required. PowerPoint
can easily be converted to Flash. A wide variety of multimedia templates and layouts allow you
to integrate streaming video, other types of multimedia and third party
content, both in the learning screens and within the test questions.
If your
student demographics require multiple languages, the multi-language mode can be
used on all screens throughout the student module.
Standardized
templates for presentations and testing make building courses, learning screens
and test questions a breeze. Interactivity is vital, and you can build learner
exercises, hot-spot questions, pre-tests and post-tests with the ease of
point-and-click set-up. Stay focused. Make sure you're on track by previewing
each page as you build it.
Save time
and mirror your formatting when you copy screens from one course to another
with the simple click of a button. The course material gets updated without
having to start from scratch. These course authoring attributes are just a
sampling of the valuable tools in FlexTraining. It's loaded with features and
functions that will jump-start your online training program and keep it on
track.