Articulate course notes: Instructional Design Basics with E-Learning

1. Audience and purpose

2. Include what’s necessary, leave out the extra information
3. Follow a Basic Course Structure
1. Welcome: Welcome your learners to the course.

2. Instructions: Explain how they will navigate the course, which buttons they need to
click, etc.

3. Introduction: Tell learners why they are taking the course, and what benefits they’ll
receive by completing it.

4. Objectives: Outline the specific course objectives, so learners have a good sense of
what’s ahead.

5. Content: Build your main course content here. Depending on the length, you might
chunk it into lessons, each with its own intro, content, assessment, and summary.

6. Knowledge Check/Assessment: Give learners an assessment to see whether

they’ve actually learned the material.

7. Summary: Revisit the course objectives you stated up front.

8. Contact Information /Resources: Offer additional content or resources that

reinforce the course material.

9. Exit: Give final instructions on how to exit the e-learning course.

Considerations for creating eLearning?

There are many different types of authoring apps out there today, each with their own
set of capabilities. Some apps, like Rise, have been specifically engineered to create e-learning
courses that dynamically adapt to any screen size (also known as responsive e-learning
courses). Other apps, like Articulate Storyline, are designed to create highly interactive slide-
based courses. And of course there are also PowerPoint add-ons like Articulate Studio, which
make turning PowerPoint presentations into e-learning courses a snap.

Each app has a unique feature set, making it particularly well-suited for a specific type of
project. When you’re trying to decide which authoring app to use, always start by looking at your
project requirements and objectives.

What’s the budget, learning curve to the sw, are you creating linear or non-linear learning, do
you have to record sw simulations, do the courses need to be mobile friendly, do the courses
need to integrate with an LMS, will it grow along with the organization, does it have a robust
support community?
Should I use slide based learning or web-based learning?

Use slide based learning when:

 relative positioning of objects is relevant

 scenario based e-learning
 design customization is important

Use web-based e-learning when:

 Positioning of objects does not matter

 Video based courses
 How to courses
 Quizzes
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Overview of E-learning Authoring SW

Don’t use Flash as many mobile devices are not Flash-compatible (apple)

Free E-learning tools

Freeimages: clearly indicates how you can/can’t use the images

Pixie: color picker that matches specific color information to include in your programs

www.nattyware.com

Color schemer: free tool to help create color schemes

www.colorschemer.com/online

paint.net and gimp: free image editors

format factory: allows you to create audio and video files

Models for ID

ADDIE: Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement and Evaluate – waterfall method

SAM: Successive Approximation Model

How do you know when e-Learning is the solution to your training needs?

1. Needs analysis
2. Identify the expected performance
3. Determine current performance
4. Gap analysis: what’s the cause of the performance gap?

a. Knowledge and skills – this is the only reasoning that training will address
b. Motivation
c. Incentives
d. Physical/mental capabilities
e. Proper tools and equipment
f. Direction/guidance
g. Feedback
5. Propose the training solution