Steps to help you get started with eLearning

E-learning is gaining popularity. Employee training via eLearning is used by over 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Online courses are taken by nearly half of college students. The eLearning industry is growing rapidly.

A solid course is built by setting realistic expectations for your students, establishing goals, engaging participants with multimedia content slides, providing activities for practicing mastery, checking their retention frequently with knowledge checks, and tying the content to real-life examples.

In order to create an eLearning course, you should consider the following steps:

Step 1: Learning Objectives: You need to let your students know what you expect of them. Make a slide with learning objectives that describes what the learners will be able to do at the end of the course. Students will gain a better understanding of how the content you teach can be applied to their personal or professional lives.

Step 2: Knowing Your Audience: In the eLearning audience analysis phase of design, you should consider the learners as specific individuals with specific goals. Keep in mind that demographic profiles do not always give a complete picture of your target audience. In order to understand a learner, you must look beyond their age, educational background, and occupation. An individual is the sum of their past experiences, expectations, desires, and aspirations.

Step 3: Instructional Design Plan: Your course's engagement strategy refers to the process or approaches you will use to create the course. Several approaches can be used by eLearning designers, including storytelling, discovery learning, and situational learning. An infographic guide is a great tool to learn about the primary instructional strategies: When choosing a strategy, consider:

● The type of content

● Impact

● Objectives

Step 4: Storyboarding the Content: The storyboard shows how a page will look visually, including text, pictures, and other elements. Before putting together the final design, you can see how the elements will fit together before wasting time putting them together incorrectly.

Step 5: Prototyping: In order to make sure that your module actually works, you need to build a working prototype. A prototype defines the entire course's representative look, feel, and functionality. Testing technical functionality is also done with it. To get the best fit, eLearning designers can quickly create multiple versions and discard them before spending too many resources on designing the entire course only to discover that it doesn't work.

Step 6: Create the Course: After you have approved your prototype, you can start designing the actual course. To ensure that the course, as a whole, is geared towards solving the original objectives and problems, you should keep an eye on the original objectives and problems. Designing a course according to learners' needs is also important. It is common for eLearning designers to use different models. Among them are ADDIE/SAM, Gagne's 9 Principles, and Action Mapping. Keep your content simple, involve students with fun practice activities, test them, and tie your content to real-world contexts. In order to achieve success in eLearning courses, these keys must be followed.