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What are Development Ratios and How Do They Affect eLearning Courses?

Thinkdom

This is where the concept of ‘development ratio’ becomes important. What is a Development Ratio? A development ratio is a measure that reflects the amount of time required to develop an eLearning course. The development ratio is influenced by the complexity and interactivity of the eLearning course.

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Content/Practice Ratio?

Clark Quinn

So, I’d roughly (and generously) estimate that the ratio is around 80:20 for content: practice. And, yes, this is a tradeoff: how do we find a balance that both yields the outcomes we need but doesn’t blow out the budget? The point is that I think our ratio should really be 50:50 if not 20:80 for content:practice.

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A Learning Impact Process

Upside Learning

While ideally, we’d have a ratio closer to 80/20 for practice versus content, in many cases the budget expectations are for that ratio to be reversed. Similarly, while we should budget in time for several tests and refinements, we might have to settle for one cycle of revision.

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Beating Recession: Align L&D and Retain Your Budget

Degreed

Retaining your budget is imperative. Imagine an HR team that’s so tightly aligned to its line-of-business counterparts it doesn’t submit separate budget requests. When IT implements a new system, part of the IT budget includes training programs sourced or curated in partnership with an in-house L&D expert.

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Cloudy with a chance of budget approval

CLO Magazine

When there is uncertainty, anxiety or volatility in the global economy, there is a tendency to prepare for the unknown by having a tighter ship and leaner budget. This translates into significant budget controls and, consequently, budgets will be scrutinized and challenged. This forecast can be. 9: Calculate ROI.

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Showing the ROI of key programs on a budget

CLO Magazine

Budgets have been cut or are under scrutiny. Sometimes simple averages and ratios will do. These are usually major soft skills programs that attract management attention and consume much of the L&D budget. The post Showing the ROI of key programs on a budget appeared first on Chief Learning Officer - CLO Media.

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Informal budget ratio 80/20?

Clark Quinn

I took it (and no blame to him if I misconstrue) to be an issue of should we match our budgets to that ration. Donald Clark raises an issue on his blog about confounding informal with Web 2.0, and the point I found interesting is his query about the 80/20 in/formal learning metrics.Â

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