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Time Estimates for E-Learning Development

Experiencing eLearning

The two sources I use for benchmarks are Bryan Chapman’s research and Karl Kapp’s ASTD research. For example, let’s say a client asks me to convert an existing full day training program to self-paced e-learning. Chapman’s study provides this breakdown of tasks and the percentage of time for each (see slide 18).

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Here’s How to Convert Click & Read to Interactive E-Learning

Rapid eLearning

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to convert linear, click-and-read courses to something more interactive. October 17 : Bloomington, IL ( CIC-ASTD ). October 23: Milwaukee, WI ( SEWI-ASTD ). Two sessions: PowerPoint’s No Longer a Slide Show Freak and Practical Approaches to Building Successful Communities.

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The Guiding Principle for all Rapid E-Learners

Rapid eLearning

Many elearning courses start as classroom content that needs to be converted and put online. Or subject matter experts hand you a bunch of PowerPoint slides that they want to turn into elearning courses. In this scenario, we typically open up the existing PowerPoint file and make decision on a slide-by-slide basis.

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You May Already Own the Tools to Create Simple E-Learning Avatars

Rapid eLearning

Considering how fast it converts the images to speaking avatars, I’m pretty impressed with the overall quality. Convert Static Images on the Slide: You can also add the image to the slide. September 15 : Lincoln, NE (ASTD)— Become a Rapid E-Learning Pro. $80 October 25: Baton Rouge, LA (ASTD)—Webinar.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Jane Bozarth: Better than Bullet Points

Learning Visions

Frustration with eLearning: Becomes dumping ground for slides, text, content All the fun stuff kept for the classroom. 73 slides of text. It’s very easy to load content on slides – but it takes more creativity to move learner to actual understanding! ASTD Keynote: “People Lie&# Richard Hilleman Electr.

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M-Learning 101: I’ll Take My Rapid E-Learning to Go

Rapid eLearning

The way I use it with PowerPoint is to frame the window around a slide. When I want to advance the slide, I just click the page-down button. By the way, I ran the audio output cable into my audio input to capture the slide’s audio. Create your PowerPoint slides and save as images. Save the slides as.PDF.

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Are You Getting the Most Value Out of Your Rapid E-Learning Tools?

Rapid eLearning

However, if you go outside the box and edit the questions in slide view, you can make the quiz look like anything. In both examples above, we used the blank slide feature for most of the content and then added a multiple choice question to do the branching. November 4: San Diego, CA (ASTD)— Your Turn to Learn.