Generating powerful e-learning content – UEL gets a mention!
I had to feel slightly sorry for Martin Belton on this one as he was dogged by laptop issues. It did make me think however how reliant presenters are on their powerpoint decks. I definitely include myself in this category being someone who takes a lot of cues off of those handy little bullet point lists. The sub heading for this session was ‘the 10 commandments’ I’m pretty sure that this was not ment to be a literal thing. So the commandments are as follows:
Definite your budget
Identify your learning outcomes
Understand your target audience
Define processes for working with SMEs
Determine the pedagogy
Identify the accessibility requirements
Specify learning paths and support materials
Define usages and flexibilty demands
Buidling tracking and reporting
Clarify what the leaners really need to know
I do not think this list is in a strict steps order and yes it’s all open for debate. I do think however that it does give some good steps and a common sense approch to generating content. Certainly in terms of people new to the field. Pedagogy but it was not really discussed in great detail, still nice to see it in there. I do wonder if that really held that much imporatance to anyone from outside of the academic sphere though. The session was a bit rushed due to the technical problems but we were promised a recorded version so it that surfaces I’ll post here.
Last but by no means least the UEL inclusion and diversity module got a mention in terms of the difficulties with regard to the target audience and the accessiblity features that were built in to it. Finally it certainly reminded me of the vastly different ways businesses use these tools compared to a University.
Link to slideshow if possible.
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Uncategorized.
