Rapid e-learning

August 29th, 2006

What is Rapid e-Learning?

Need for e-learning content is increasing every day. We need to find out ways for better, faster and with lower cost e-learning development. The “Rapid e-learning” which introduced in year 2004, seems to be a solution. Before proceed we need to clarify what is “Rapid e-learning”. There are three unique characteristics in rapid e-learning:

1. Authoring of content should be simple using web based tools and services
2. Primary role in content development is on subject matter experts (SME) rather than instructional designers
3. Each learning organization must have a content repository for sharing
    

Common factors of Rapid e-Learning:

• All the tools/services for content creation from SMEs are web based. Produced content will be delivered to the learners as html, flash and other media formats. Common tools for web authoring are not being used.
• SMEs need training for using  authoring tools/services
• The learning contents are in smaller “chunks” usually, say, less than 30 minutes of studying time for each “chunk”. Then the course creator will “assemble” these “chunks” into a self contained courseware. These chunks can be viewed as learning objects.
• The learning content can be delivered in synchronous, asynchronous and mixed mode learning environments.
• The contents must be learner centric instead of the “instructor feeding” style.
• Each content module must have a clear theme which allows the module to be presented as a stand alone learning object thus the production time for each of these objects can be “pumped out” on a efficient time basis.

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