Driving for 3 days at 8 hours at a shot gave me lots of time to think, ponder, and worry more and more about the LMS implementation that is a few weeks away. I reach out to my peers quite often through this and am so grateful for all the help I continue to receive. I know now I really need your assistance again or even a mentor that I can ask questions of and bounce ideas off as I move forward over the next few months.
I am a department of one and I am only a subsection of our Organization Development department. My project is of course then not the priority of the department, but one of several priorities (yes, an oxy-moron for sure). I made the mistake of looking a my email the last night of my vacation and that threw lots of questions and worry my way.
Please assist/answer any of these if you can either through this blog or through my direct email. Any advice is sincerely appreciated.
1) I have many depts in my organization that are all wanting to develop self-learning packages (everyone is sick of doing training for 2600 people 10 students at a time).
- Do I let them each develop their own training and leave it at that?
- Do I let them do the developing and then assist with giving suggestions where it can be improved?
- Do I develop guidelines/procedures that they have to follow when creating their own training packages? (Does anyone have an example?)
- I’ve had recent questions about getting Articulate. I know Articulate and Captivate each have their own merits. Wondering if someone that has used both can give me some background on their preference?
- Do I let them produce their packages in PowerPoint and then have them give the material to me to convert into elearning courses?
Any suggestions…….(whew)….I’m ready for vacation again and haven’t even stepped foot back in the office yet.
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Tracy, I sympathize. I recommend training them (along the lines of my Seven Steps PDF) about good design, giving them templates, and then having them circulate to you for constructive feedback. The point is to help them be self-capable, but not expect it nor try to do it all. So, provide good models and tools, and scaffold their development.
Good luck!
Hey Tracy. I believe I am in a similar boat to you. I am helping lead the transition from all face-to-face training to starting to offer self-paced online training at my organization. I’m going to start by defining guidelines and processes for creating self-paced courses. I will also be developing some sample/pilot courses to help verify those processes and to have something that future training developers can use as an example.
After looking at several training development tools, I have decided to work with Articulate for now. It is easy to use and works very well with PowerPoint. I am hoping it’s ease of use will allow others who would be intimidated by trying to use more advanced tools like Lectora to be able to participate in the training development process. As of now, I am planning to use Captivate to create training simulations.
I will be starting out by having the current trainers and SMEs work through me to create the online training. I will have them create a storyboard in PowerPoint which will be used to create the final course in Articulate.
At least that’s the plan for now! I’m curious to see what direction you will be moving in.
Thanks Jonathan. That seems to be what I was thinking and envisioning my process to be for the first while. I was unsure how to describe it, but your ideas seem solid and a good starting point.
Clark too mentions the ideas of providing templates and letting the SME’s do the work and me do the fine tuning of it all.
Thank you both for your assistance.
Thanks alot for your ideas