Course Building Strategies

Building Your Learning Content

Your successful online training project should include a course building “methodology,” which is a set of organized guidelines based on years of content development, online training management and widely-acknowledged best practices.

The following guidelines will assist you in choosing file formats, developing online lessons and organizing your ideas.

Planning Your Courses

This section will enable you to determine the scope of your training, organize your material into courses, lay out a course structure for each course and choose a testing strategy and policies.

Create Learning Content

The Learning Content Phase discusses understanding file formats, subject matter in relation to format, keeping it simple, plus shared and re-usable images. Also, multimedia content, software, documentation and forms training, soft skills and streamlined video production.

Utilizing Best Practices

These steps reference the FlexTraining Management Guides, the FlexTraining Authoring Tools, interactivity that reinforces learning, narration adding life to learning content, smart choices for video, choosing images and multimedia and considering a pilot approach.

Case Studies

These studies outline four scenarios: 1) software training and screen captures, 2) soft skills and video clips, 3) safety training, simple text and images, and 4) technical training and extremely tight deadlines.

Using FlexTraining

This section helps you put your courses together by discussing the importance of library materials and flexibility in assembling learning screens and courses.

Training

There were five comments related to the impact of this rule on legacy systems (i.e., ITS systems already in place) and requesting some sort of ''grandfathering'' for them. The language in § 940.11(g) of the final rule clarifies the grandfathering or staging aspects of the process. The final rule does not require any changes or modifications to existing systems to conform to the National ITS Architecture. It is very likely that a regional ITS architecture developed by the local agencies and other stakeholders would call for changes to legacy systems over time to support desired integration. However, such changes would not be required by the FHWA; they would be agreed upon by the appropriate stakeholders as part of the development of the regional ITS architecture.

There were 15 comments dealing with the maintenance process and status of the National ITS Architecture. Two comments suggested the need for the FHWA to formally adopt the National ITS Architecture. Four other comments also supported the formalization of a process for maintaining or updating it with the full opportunity for public input.

Conformance with the National ITS Architecture is interpreted to mean the use of the National ITS Architecture to develop a regional ITS architecture, and the subsequent adherence of all ITS projects to that regional ITS architecture. This rule requires that the National ITS Architecture be used as a resource in developing a regional ITS architecture.

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Course Building Strategies

Building Your Learning Content

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