The elearning designer's handbook (E-learning. Step-by-step guide to e-learning development) (Category Education)

This book by Tim Slade caught my eye by accident, and although it talks about creating online courses, I found it somewhat close to writing a book:) I read the book in a couple of hours because of its small size and the obviousness of the ideas. In short, the book consists of a foreword, an introduction, five basic steps, and a final message to keep moving forward. 1) Preface Here the author talks about his path to the pedagogical designer of e-learning (I didn’t even know it was called that until I read the book.). Tim was initially a subject matter expert for many years, and then he was asked to do a course to teach others and ... so his career made a turn to creating courses. 2) Introduction Here the author on his fingers shows that creating a course is like building a house. He explains that you need to understand who business customers are, who are subject matter experts and why you need a plan. (||So that the house was completed and was delivered, and not left abandoned unfinished.||) 3) Step One: Creating a Project Plan. In fact, if you know about project management and managed projects, then you will learn almost nothing new. The author tells about the fact that it is necessary to decide on the scope of the project, participants, their area of responsibility. (||It's better on the RACI matrix, but he's not talking about it.||). It is important to schedule the project and mark the key points and monitor their passage and so on. 4) Step two - storyboarding the course. In this part, the author says that it is better not to do the course as a whole, but to use the method of progressive JPEG, when the content of the course is first sketched in a draft top-level version, and then shown to stakeholders. This allows at the initial stage to fail the concept of the course and get valuable feedback. This stage allows you to set the canvas of the course and fix approximately the materials that will enter it. 5) Step three is course design. At this stage, you need to go and make the materials yourself. When there is a clear canvas and structure, it should not be so difficult. The main thing is to break the fear of a blank slate and start working on the details of the course in parts. 6) Step Four - Testing and Quality Control of the Course. Here, the author talks about the basic questions of testing the product itself, then rolling out to beta testers, as well as checking the convenience of the resulting product from the point of view of user experience through interviews with beta testers. 7) Step five - start the course. The author says that sometimes courses can be published in LMS systems, and sometimes they are just html pages on the Internet. In any case, the author of the course should understand on which platform he publishes the course, how he will be able to finalize it, as well as where he will be able to view the analytics of the course by students.

In general, this is a very basic book on creating e-courses, which has a second edition in English. 2020 The version I read was published in Shakespeare's language. 2018 year. It seems that since then, this information about creating courses has become just a baseline:)

P.S. The author has his own website, TimSlade.com.

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