Your successful online training project should include a
course building “methodology,” which is a set of organized guidelines based on
years of content development, online training management and
widely-acknowledged best practices.
The following guidelines will assist you in choosing file
formats, developing online lessons and organizing your ideas.
Planning Your Courses
This section will enable you to determine the scope of your
training, organize your material into courses, lay out a course structure for
each course and choose a testing strategy and policies.
Create Learning Content
The Learning Content Phase discusses understanding file
formats, subject matter in relation to format, keeping it simple, plus shared
and re-usable images. Also, multimedia content, software, documentation and
forms training, soft skills and streamlined video production.
Utilizing Best Practices
These steps reference the FlexTraining Management Guides,
the FlexTraining Authoring Tools, interactivity that reinforces learning, narration
adding life to learning content, smart choices for video, choosing images and
multimedia and considering a pilot approach.
Case Studies
These studies outline four scenarios: 1) software training
and screen captures, 2) soft skills and video clips, 3) safety training, simple
text and images, and 4) technical training and extremely tight deadlines.
Using FlexTraining
This section helps you put your courses together by
discussing the importance of library materials and flexibility in assembling
learning screens and courses.