E-LEARNING DESIGN CERTIFICATE

"E-learning Design Certificate" - brought to you Live & Online!

• Ray Jimenez, Ph.D.
  3-Minute e-Learning, Scenario-Based Learning: Using Stories to Engage e-Learners and Do-it-Yourself e-Learning: 100 Ways to Simplify Design and Development. Ray is the systems architect for www.simplifiedelearning.com and www.trainingmagnetwork.com

How do you know what E-Learning program design meets the need of your audience and organization? What type of courses are best delivered in an e-learning format? Do you need interactivity or multimedia? How do you construct a good e-learning program that engages learner and deliver the results? And how do you measure the results?

This program will answer these questions and more. Conducted entirely online, this certificate program focuses on effective and cost-effective design and development - practical and useful, not theories or software use.

This is an intensive workshop. We will meet 6 times over a period of 2 weeks. Each meeting will last 4 hours. Homework and assignments are minimal.
 

Most certificate sessions require a minimum of 30 minutes of pre-work. 

These sessions are intensive as they allow you the opportunity to select additional (optional) small projects as a "proof-of-concept."

These projects are hands-on applications of your learning ideas. These optional projects may require several hours of preparation, and are excellent ways to learn, work and kick-off specific projects. Each meeting will last 4 hours. Each session is divided into work projects, activities, discussions and presentations. Homework and assignments are minimal.
 

Approximate topic coverage in each session. The topics may change depending on the profile and needs of the group.

Day 1
Design e-learning where it counts the most - identify where, how, and when to design an e-learning program that matters to your organization and learners.
Design for different types of learners – design e-learning programs that appeal to different learning styles of different learners.

• Setting up e-Learning strategies of the organization.
• Conducting an inventory of challenges and opportunities with learners within business, technology, leadership, culture, financial and implementation teams.
• Prioritizing plan of action.
• Applying the decision process on what courses should be in e-learning format.
• Selection of mini-workshop project.
• Analyzing e-Learning behaviors and impacts on design.
• Applying the full cycle of the e-Learning production process.
• Applying e-Learning instructional design.
• Exercises and activities to apply ideas.

Day 2
Construct lessons - learn how to use a streamlined approach in the step-by-step conversion of your classroom training or new training programs into e-Learning format.
Use rich media - learn how to use different multimedia approaches, i.e. video, audio, images, animations, etc. and make your learning more effective and interesting.

• Four levels of e-Learning Design.
• Basic design elements for e-Learning lessons.
• Converting traditional content from classroom or new content into e-Learning.
• Developing hierarchy of modules and lessons.
• Developing storyboards.
• Designing basic page layout, interface design.
• Incorporating multimedia (audio, video), text, graphics.
• Applying e-Learning feedback, assessments, evaluation.
• Creating links, references, documents, resources.
• Constructing basic lessons – theory and exercise.
• Exercise and application of the above ideas – you will spend time on their mini-application projects.

Day 3
Engage and Involve learners – learn how to write programs that combines activities, exercises and discovery which help learners transform learning to on-the-job applications.

• Continuation exercises and application of ideas in constructing modules, lessons, and pages.
• Assessing and applying simple software for simple lessons and courses.
• Exercises using basic authoring software (software exercises are designed for non-techies and are simplified.)
• Adding simple interactivities using exercises, discovery, self-assessments, and basic scenarios.
• Applying interactivities into mini projects – exercises.

Day 4
Create blended learning – design e-learning that blends, supports, extends or enhances classroom programs, coaching sessions, OJT, and other learning activities.

• Continuation exercises and application of ideas in constructing modules, lessons, pages, applying interactivities.
• Designing that extends to blended solutions with classroom, on-the-job training, coaching and also mentoring, apprenticeship programs.
• Applying publishing courses to an LMS (Learning Management System.)
• Exercise in publishing simple courses to an LMS (software exercises are designed for non-techies and are simplified.)

Day 5
Controlling costs of development – learn basic but very valuable cost control practices and methods in the design and development of your e-learning programs.
Assess learning – learn to assess the effectiveness of e-learning and showing results to your organization.

• Using cost control tips: using templates and reusable tools, building libraries.
• Developing a plan on tracking results, ROI, assessment reports for leaders and managers.
• Reducing the costs of time with SMEs and other stakeholders.
• Assessing impacts of e-Learning projects on the job.
• Selecting software; learning tricks and tips to avoid high costs in purchasing tools and software.
• Continuation exercises and application of ideas in constructing modules, lessons, pages, and applying interactivities.
• Adding simple interactivities using exercises, discovery, self-assessments, and basic scenarios.
• Exercise in publishing simple courses to an LMS (software exercises are designed for non-techies and are simplified.)

Day 6
Coordinate e-Learning successfully - learn how to work with others (in-house clients, SMEs, graphic artists, writers, instructional designers, software developers, project managers, etc.) to produce your projects on time and on budget.

• Applying e-Learning project management methods and practices.
• Successfully working with graphic artists, SMEs, software developers, writers and Instructional designers.
• Avoiding the high cost development of e-Learning programs.
• Implementing Rapid e-Learning Development.
• Review and presentations of mini-projects.
• Review of all learnings and applications.
• Conclusion.

Online interaction opportunities and long term online and live references
You will have the ability to interact with facilitators and co-participants by using the Training magazine social learning and collaboration tool. Online and live references of exercises, demos, actual projects will be provided to you before, during and after the session.

This certificate program is for:

• Subject-matter-experts who are responsible for implementing e-learning.
• Instructional designers who must convert content or create e-learning
• Instructors moving from in-person classroom training to the online learning.
• Documentation and technical writers creating content for online delivery.
• Managers who must lead and manage design and development of e-learning.
  

To participate in this program, participants are required to have basic web browsing skills and have some minimal experience in participating in online events. It is recommended participants have attended an e-learning program and is involved in the design and implementation of an e-learning program.

This course is comprised of six (6) live online sessions. Plus there will be approximately 3 hours of pre-work before the first session. Each session is a combination of presentations by the instructor, previews of demos and examples, individual and group activities and applications, discussions and sharing.

All sessions start at 1:00 pm Eastern Time ( New York time). See below for the time of the sessions listed in various time zones.

Again, note that all sessions times above are listed in Eastern Time (ET, New York time). All sessions will last 4 hours (This includes 30 minutes of break time.) Here is the time of the sessions listed for various time zones:

For times in other time zones, visit this link. Live sessions will be recorded for those who wish to go back and review or who must miss a live session. Participants are expected to participate in every meeting plus perform the pre-workshop activity.

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