What is it?

The E-Learning Design Workshop is a three-day practical, hands-on program focused on giving you the tools you need for designing e-Learning strategies that engage your learners and meet your company’s key business needs. The Workshop is based on proven e-Learning design principles. Whether or not you have prior experience with e-Learning, this Workshop will provide you with the essential skills to create e-Learning initiatives that get results.

What will you get by attending?

1. Cutting-edge information from outstanding instructors that are e-Learning development experts
2. Foundations of e-Learning design that are not specific to any one authoring tool, but that focus on universally applicable principles for effective instruction
3. Guidance in the most important criteria to use in evaluating e-Learning
4. Over 25 job aids that detail all the steps in the design process and help you efficiently and easily design your own e-Learning initiatives
5. A Participant Guide that documents the entire course, provides you with examples and specifies the “how-to” of e-Learning design
6. A CD with e-Learning samples, tools and templates to use back on-the-job

This Workshop is “hands-on.” Each component of the three-day program combines cutting-edge information with a tailored case study. Most importantly, you will practice applying what you have learned to your own chosen project by entering your ideas directly into your own personalized Digital Handbook for use back on the job.

Note: So that you can use the tools and examples provided to you on the CD, be sure to bring your laptop to the workshop!

Who Should Attend

• Course developers, content experts and trainers who want to learn to design e-Learning programs from scratch, or build a strategy to convert existing training materials into effective and engaging e-Learning programs that are directly connected to their company’s key business needs
• Project managers who manage the development of e-Learning projects, either with their staff or with contractors
• Training managers who want a consistent methodology and better approach to designing e-Learning initiatives
• Web developers who want an effective instructional design strategy for developing e-Learning programs
• Product and Line managers who need a better way to get key information disseminated to your team members and customers quickly and efficiently

Benefits to You

Learn essential techniques for defining the ROI for your e-Learning projects

Learn how to apply proven design/development processes that maximize the efficiency of your SMEs, programmers, and writers

Be able to use a process for standardizing your e-Learning design and development processes and ensure consistency and cost savings

Gain the tools to maximize the benefits of your e-learning initiatives by promoting transfer and application of new knowledge and skill in your workplace quickly – and on target.

Here's what you can look forward to:

Steps for creating e-Learning programs from scratch

Tools for incorporating simulations, games, performance support elements, and blended strategies

Ideas for engaging Subject Matter Experts through powerful, rapid storyboarding and prototyping techniques that invite your SMEs to be part of the design process

Tips for integrating best practices to ensure high quality

Proven techniques for designing powerful e-Learning strategies that you’ll return to over and over again

Guidance from friendly, expertly-trained and learner-focused instructors who make sure you have everything you need to implement your learning back at your workplace

A workshop environment that makes learning fun, memorable, and above all, relevant to your needs and goals

A learning experience you’ll be eager to put to use, along with key knowledge you’ll want to share with your e-Learning design colleagues

Workshop Topics

Day 1

The Big Picture: Defining the Business Need and Getting Started in Creating On-Target E-Learning Initiatives

Learn how to write a business need statement for e-Learning that truly addresses your (or your company’s) current business needs or objectives.

Learn the variables that help and hinder e-Learning solutions.

Application: Use an e-Learning Viability Job Aid and worksheets in your personalized Digital Handbook to determine if your own training scenario could benefit from an e-Learning solution.

Managing E-Learning Projects

Learn common metrics for e-Learning development and how development:delivery ratios can vary.

Learn the roles involved in e-Learning development teams and the 15 key tasks for e-Learning team members.

Learn to match roles to tasks and determine what the flow of tasks in a typical e-Learning project look like.

Application: Use your Digital Handbook and laptop to generate a workflow of tasks for your own project.

E-Learning Design Foundations

Learn to assess e-Learning designs using sound e-Learning design principles and instructional design principles.

Learn how to determine level of progress tracking and learner control and the appropriate instructional strategy to use.

Application: Make recommendations for a high-level instructional strategy and for the level of tracking and learner control to be designed for your own project.

Day 2

Designing For Results: Task Based E-Learning

Take a close look at task-based training and contrast it with tutorial-based training.

Learn where and when task-based training can work best for you.

Learn to promote more meaningful learning through development of higher-level objectives based on task-based training.

Application: Make decisions in your Digital Handbook on the feasibility of task-based training for your own project.

Designing Effective Tutorials

Learn 5 useful introductions for relevant, engaging e-Learning projects.

Use the “Writing to the Question” technique for storyboarding e-Learning.

Application: Generate storyboards for the introduction and for one objective on your own e-Learning project.

The Competitive Edge: Using Games in E-Learning

Learn the principles of game-based training and differentiate it from task-based and tutorial-based training.

Determine when game-based-training is the most appropriate option in an e-Learning project.

Application: Using your Digital Handbook, make decisions about how and when to use game-based training on your own project.

Day 3

Learn different types of assessment approaches and the difference between embedded and post-testing.

Learn the basics of selected, constructed, and task-based assessment approaches.

Learn practical techniques for conducting formative evaluations – in person and virtually – using web tools.

Application: Using your Digital Handbook and laptop, make high-level decisions on embedded and post-training assessments and on formative evaluation plans for your own project.

Learn performance support options you can use to augment your e-Learning initiative.

Understand how performance support tools can be combined with e-Learning.

Learn to layer performance support components onto your e-Learning initiatives to better meet your company’s business needs.

Application: Decide on the feasibility and specifications for performance support components for your own project.

Blended Training Solutions

Learn alternative delivery modes and how to combine them with e-Learning in blended solutions.

Learn how to use podcasting, discussion boards, ILT, and structured OJT to meet your specific training needs.

Application: Using a tailored training development scenario, recommend possible blended solution components and generate a high-level flow of training activities. Then, apply these tasks to your own project.

Reservation Information

The price to attend this workshop is $999 which includes:

The three-day workshop, 9:00-4:00 each day.

A personal copy of our The E-Learning Design Workshop binder, a 222-page step-by-step guide to e-Learning development, along with the accompanying CD with design samples, tools and templates.

Continental breakfast and refreshments each day.

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Reminder: Registrants for the E-Learning Design Workshop should bring a laptop to take full advantage of the provided materials.

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