Archive for the 'Course development' Category

Scenario-based Learning

We’ve been doing some work recently at creating e-Learning material around company policies. Typically these documents are really dry, technically worded and full of a lot of directives, “Employees are required to inform the department of any changes in X”, “Managers are obliged to ensure such-and-such a thing happens” – awful (but necessary) stuff like […]

Strategic e-Learning: Putting your customers last

I’d like to relate to you a phenomenon we’ve noticed in talking to companies about e-Learning. This post relates to our talks with specifically software companies though this experience is equally applicable to companies considering using e-Learning to train staff. Where I refer to customers in this post, these may be substituted for employees of the company and indeed some training staff […]

To Build Or Not To Build?

In this post I’m going to try to answer the following question:
I need to train someone on something, should I build an e-Learning course to do it?
We’ve had many requests from people with industry knowledge to convert this knowledge into a reusable e-Learning course. Often these experts are already conducting face-to-face seminars and are looking […]