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Yawn-proof Your e-Learning without Busting the Bank
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Agenda
• What Makes You Yawn? 10
• Rapid ID Approaches, Rapidly 5
• Ten Tracks for Yawn-proofing 40
• Questions & Wrap It Up 5
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What About You?
• What makes you yawn?
• What keeps you awake at night – what projects are you stuck on?
• Take 5 minutes, then start shoutin’
Photo credit: Big Yawn from twob’s Flickr photostream
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Rapid ID Approaches, Rapidly
Photo credit: *Time* ticking away from mike9alive’s Flickr photostream
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Designing rapidly
• Show, don’t tell – pictures not paperwork
• Get to a first version quickly – get it wrong first time
• Get in front of users as soon as you can
• Iterate until it’s right (or right enough) – think about the shelf life, it’s disposable…
• Keep a playlist of 10 tracks for design…
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Ten Tracks for Yawn-proofing
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Track 1: Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Have I got your attention?
• Stories that show what can go wrong• Find the killer fact, stat, or quote• Learning from the marketing team
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Age awareness: asking provocative questions
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Track 2: Give Me A Reason
Object to learning objectives.
• By the end of this course, you’ll yadda yadda yadda
• Sell the course, don’t describe it• Find the fears, hopes and dreams
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Traditional objectives
• As a result of attending this session you will be able to:
• Identify three case studies of Fortune 1000 companies who are successfully using eLearning
• Define ten tips for creating better eLearning and how these map to specific strategies and tools
• Evaluate the pro's and con's of different eLearning interventions as solutions to specific kinds of learning challenges
• Describe your own personal experience creating eLearning as a practitioner
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Using audio with stills to set the tone and focus the learner’s attention...
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Track 3: Let Me Tell You Something
Getting the best stories.
• Get war stories from your best people• Get true stories from your newer people
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Recording with Skype to get an authentic voice...
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Track 4: Beauty is Only Skin Deep
Tear down the wallpaper.
• Make graphics earn their place• Complement text, don’t fight it
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Make sure graphics have a purpose...instead of window dressing
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Track 5: School’s Out…
This is assessment in the real world.
• Make it tough as hell• Make it open any time• Do it, prove it, move on
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Track 6: Hurts So Good
Make more mistakes.
Tallulah Bankhead: “If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
• Find the mistakes that hurt the most• Keep ‘em real• Play it out• Useful feedback
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Track 7: A Little Less Conversation (A Little More Action!)
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“If I'd had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
T.S. Eliot(or Mark Twain)
(or Blaise Pascal)
(someone said it…)
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Staying focused
• Cut it to the bone• Watch out for dialogue• What’s the question?
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Track 8: What More Can I Do?
Think outside the course!
• Create a learning campaign• Reaching out with online support
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Track 9: Keeping It Real
Making the most of media.
• Video and audio where it counts• Guerilla approaches to shooting and audio
– Flip video for secret shopper– Skype for expert interviews
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Flip video for secret shopper
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Track 10: Now What?
The end is the beginning.
• Call to action and don’t let go• Build in ways to sustain performance• Moodle’s good for this
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Using survey monkey to get calls to action
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Back to your challenges…
How’s that problem looking now…any ideas?
What’s the one thing you might do differently?
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Resources – you are what you share
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Stephen Walsh Cammy Bean
Contact us – really!
[email protected]: @cammybeanBlog: http://learningvisions.blogspot.com
[email protected]: @stephentwalsh
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