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How to Pitch Course Design Ideas to Your Customer

Rapid eLearning

Determine if the course is an explainer or performance course ? An explainer course is one where you present information, but there is no performance requirement. This can be tricky because many courses are related to performance but the course itself may not have a performance improvement angle.

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The Downside of Most E-Learning Content

Rapid eLearning

When I first learned to build e-learning courses, the general instruction for building e-learning content was to craft some learning objectives, organize and present the content, and then assess the learners using some sort of simple quiz. Free E-Learning Resources. Want to learn more?

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Understanding Compliance Training

Rapid eLearning

I’m not sure what the number is, but my guess is that compliance/regulatory makes up a large majority of the e-learning that gets created. Most compliance training isn’t training to change performance. That doesn’t mean there’s no performance expectation. Free E-Learning Resources.

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Why L&D isn’t better

Clark Quinn

Another contributor, I suggest, is that a belief that if we can perform, we can teach. We can, therefore, take the best performer, and turn them into a trainer. When we didn’t want to travel, we went to elearning. Instead, of course, we don’t change our behavior without practice, reinforcement, etc.

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Overworked IDs

Clark Quinn

After 9/11, when we were avoiding travel, there was a push for elearning. And, with the usual push for efficiency, rapid elearning became the vogue. That is, tools that made it easy to take PDFs and PPTs and put it up online with a quiz. It looked like lectures, so it must be learning, right?

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A Successful Training Program Answers These Three Questions

Rapid eLearning

The training that isn’t useless is performance-based training that helps people do something new or better. Because there are performance expectations built into the course, the client is eager to craft a successful learning experience that is more than just information. .” Free E-Learning Resources.

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Help Your Client Build the Right Type of E-Learning Course

Rapid eLearning

If you’re building courses based on performance expectations, you need to start with clear objectives. The key focus is performance. Sometimes courses consist of mostly content, and then the performance and practice activities happen outside the course. Collect examples of diverse types of courses and learning activities.