Share Your Skies With Us

One of the more challenging parts of e-learning consulting is the quality assurance, particularly regarding content. Does it communicate simply? Is content syntax appropriate and correct? Have we addressed spelling correctness (and for which English-speaking audiences)? I found this article helpful, and add two tips of my own; watch the acronyms and abbreviations carefully, and consider reading things backwards.

I'm a big believer in the online learning journal, used by learners to take notes, get things to be sticky, and to share questions and insight with colleagues. So I thought this article practical - because it shows what benefits instructional designers can gain from the collection of feedback and insight to refine next lessons and emphasize points that students struggle with. And as added bonus, discussion and documentation tools help learners pursue informal learning, which, if appropriately channeled, can benefit other online learners.

Chunking and decluttering are in! Online learning needs to strive for simplicity, for bite-sized kernels, and for delivering just one point/concept per "screen". Yet we're still thinking like PowerPoint junkies. We all need to repent!