ELearning development is now an essential training skill. Many training departments are using more eLearning, either as a supplement to, or as a replacement for, classroom training. In some departments, eLearning is rapidly replacing live training as the preferred training delivery method. That means that you, as a training professional, need to be able to develop effective eLearning on everything from software processes to Human Resources on-boarding, to compliance training, and everything in between.

This two-day, fully interactive, live online course will give you a proven system for developing eLearning projects, from the discovery and planning stage through implementation and uploading to your LMS. Whether you are developing software video demonstrations, software simulation training, conceptual content delivery, soft skills training on human interactions such as sales, or informal micro-learning, this course will help you master the various steps in the development process.

eLearning has come a long way from the days when anyone with a YouTube account could just hit “record” and start talking and clicking through a software demonstration. Today we may be creating anything from those same point-and-click demos (now called “microlearning”), to interactive software simulations, to soft skills training with gamification, to scenario-based training with embedded video of real actors (if Andy from accounting counts as an actor), to videos with animated characters, to a talking-heads style SME interview. Heck, most of us even still have some PowerPoint bullet decks in our queue for upgrading to eLearning.

Making sure your materials will meet the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act begins with authoring and designing them for accessibility in your authoring software (see Creating Accessible Documents with Microsoft Word).  However, a PDF may need additional revisions, settings, and testing, and that is the main focus of this mini course.

Writing step-by-step instructions is not simple. The more words you write, the muddier the instructions become. In this mini course you will learn how to cut out the wordiness, break down the parts of an instruction, and create minimalist, clear instructions.