eLearning Development Best Practices

Whether you choose to deploy our quality course portfolios or not, it is critically important that you follow industry best practices to avoid the common pitfalls associated with eLearning development.

The list below will help keep you on the right track.

Start by clearly identifying your business objectives and the performance enhancements and training objectives you’d like to see.

Get up-front buy-in from the highest levels of executive management and IT. (You’ll need executive management to fund the initiative and IT to support it.)

Determine who will be responsible for managing the process of course content approval and who needs to be consulted. This will potentially save time and money in re-working courses.

Ensure your content is bandwidth-friendly so that it does not clog your network or prove to be too much for remote offices. Use standards based technology that works with the broadest possible range of client computers and is built with multilingual requirements in mind.

Use a mature development process that takes all aspects of the eLearning development cycle into account.

Use adaptive and interactive training techniques, which tests students before training and only delivers the content they need.

Follow adult learning theory principles, ensuring your content motivates adult learners by defining “what’s in it for them,” being direct and to the point, and focusing on an engaging and interactive learning process that encourages long term retention.

And finally, find the right solution provider with the optimal combination of quality and affordability.