The first batch of e-learning sessions has been returned by our keen authors and I am pleased to report that things are looking great! Some of the sessions are more or less ready to run. Most need a tiny bit of tweaking. Others need a little more work, mostly in terms of style and structure rather than content. One or two authors have been so keen that they have gone beyond their allocated learning objectives and overlapped with other sessions. Not a problem. I have had to be hard-hearted about using the delete button on one or two but some authors have made such a good start on other sessions that...guess what?...I have allocated them that session too!
Steve, our Instructional Designer, is a real whizz at taking the content, playing with it and turning it into a really sophisticated e-learning session. He sees where the order is not quite perfect, moves things around, makes the content build logically from start to conclusion and adds one or two interactional exercises. Hey presto! As if by magic the whole things looks ready to go. My job now is to check the content (where I feel confident to do so) or send it out to peer reviewers (where it is outside my subject area).
So thanks to everyone who has started writing for us. If you are still lurking in the margins please get in touch to see how you could get involved too. Steve and I both have educational qualifications and we are happy to lead you through the early stages and teach you how to work with the material. Most authors have found a Skype conversation in the first few weeks to be really helpful with keeping the session on track.
I look forward to the next batch arriving soon!
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