“The eLearning Designers Handbook”
by Tim Slade
Perfect for beginners or those less experienced who want to learn the best business practises to project manage their eLearning courses
Simon K Williams
The Pro’s:
- Easy-to-read / consume
- Well laid-out
- Delivered in simple 5 step formula
- No fancy-pants language
- Simply outline of the project management journey for completing your eLearning project
The Con’s:
- Not advanced enough for those with significant experience
- Only focuses on project management
Video transcription:
Below is an auto-boted (that’s probably not a word, but it should be) transcription from the video. As such it’s likely to be imperfect, but if you’re a reader, rather than a watcher, listener, then this is for you…
“Hi there my name’s Simon K Williams
I help businesses grow using online digital assets
And today I’m gonna talk a little bit about e-learning
Now elearning is an area that’s been growing massively over the last few years and as I talk to you right now I’m actually kind of locked up at home we’re in the middle of the corona-virus
Right now it’s the 1st of April and no this is not an April Fool’s joke, and not surprisingly some of the online e-learning companies have just exploded financially
I mean they have just gone up billions of dollars
The industry’s gone up many millions of dollars in just the last couple of weeks and personally I think the industry is going to grow and grow
You’ve got hundreds of millions of people around the world that are learning to kind of being forced to engage with online e-learning tools
Largely for the first time and they’re learning that actually some of these tools work pretty good
And they’re not gonna stop knowing that once the world gets back into shape and once school opens again right
They’re gonna realize that actually some of these tools are really really good really powerful and can learn a huge amount online and using some of the new technology that’s now available to us
So if you want to learn a little bit more about eLearning you may well be thinking about getting your hands on a book and I’ve done just that myself with several books
And today I wanna talk a little bit about this book from Tim Slade called the e-learning designer’s handbook
I’ll just give you a quick outline
It’s really nicely laid out
I don’t know who designed it I’m actually assuming Tim did which wouldn’t make sense.
Sort of bullet points it’s really neat it’s got some nice or project plans and downloads worksheets which you can use
Now as it says on the front cover it’s called a handbook and that’s what you need to kind of remember
It does not pretend to tell you everything about the the industry and Tim makes that point himself.
It’s got a nice section at the end of this book too go on and get additional learning about other areas
It’s not going to guide you about what your project should be about that’s not what this book is for
It’s not going to help you market it
So if you’re an entrepreneur looking to launch an online project it’s not going to give you that kind of guidance about price points promotions marketing techniques anything of that nature okay
What this book is about quite simply is about project management
It doesn’t actually use that phrase anyone here that I’ve seen, but that is really what this book is about
And as such this book is perfectly positioned for anyone that is working for a client either there have got a boss or working on an internal project and you have been tasked with producing this item and you want to get a little bit more knowledge about how to do it.
Or you’ve stumbled into this area, you’ve got external clients you need to work with
Then this book is a perfect fit for you
I think it really is really really easy to use bite-sized you can kind of skim through it and get the basics of it and go back into a bit more detail if you wish
Make notes as you go through
You can see I’ve got a whole bunch of tabs here for that reason nice little points here
Now if you’re someone that has already produced lots of kind of digital assets before maybe like mobile applications web apps things of that nature and you’re used to the project management process
Then probably this book isn’t so valuable to you
You’re probably aware of the basic kind of steps and processes and this book is really just going to back up generally considered best business process to project managing those projects
I’ll just quickly outline this what’s available here and the chapters page
Tim breaks it down to nice five-step process
Step one – plan the project
Step two – draft of storyboard and Tim goes into a little bit of detail about the best way to do that which is great
Step-three – developed the call
Step-four – review the course and that’s really about getting sort of early adoption area doctors and get feedback from those users and then
Step five – delivering of the course making those into iteration improvements and then delivering the course
So that’s it…
If looking for a book on eLearning and particularly around project management then get your hands on this from Tim
You’re going to find it a great aid
Ok that’s it from me
Speak to you soon”
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Author: Simon K Williams
AKA: The App Man
