1-Day Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning Course and Optional 1-Day Workshop
Public course and optional workshop: in-person and live online dates are currently scheduled
REVOLUTIONISE YOUR E-LEARNING...
One course. One optional workshop. Five popular modules from our in-house learning impact and instructional design programme.
In-Person: £595 per person, per day, plus VAT
Live Online: £545 per person, per day, plus VAT
GET DISCOUNTS ON MULTIPLE BOOKINGS...
Book two places on any course or workshop combination and get a 10% discount: use coupon code 10off at checkout
Book three or more places on any course or workshop combination and get a 15% discount: use coupon code 15off at checkout
UPCOMING IN-PERSON DATES...
- May 21st 2024 (Course)
- May 22nd 2024 (Workshop)
- Feb 27th 2025 (Course)
- Feb 28th 2025 (Workshop)
- Nov 12th 2025 (Course)
- Nov 13th 2025 (Workshop)
UPCOMING LIVE ONLINE DATES...
- Nov 12th 2024 (Course)
- Nov 13th 2024 (Workshop)
- June 5th 2025 (Course)
- June 6th 2025 (Workshop)
PRACTICAL DETAILS...
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In-Person:
Course and workshop length: 1-day
Start time: 10.30
Finish time: 17.15
Lunch, refreshments and full course/workshop materials are all included in the price.
Live Online:
Course and workshop length: 1-day
Start time: 9.30
Finish time: 16.10
Full course/workshop materials are included in the price.
IMPORTANT NOTES
You must attend the 1-day course to be eligible to attend the optional 1-day workshop.
You do not have to attend the course and workshop on consecutive dates.
You do not have to attend the course and workshop through the same delivery medium. You could, for example, attend the course live online and attend the workshop in-person
In-person courses and workshops: The courses and workshops are held at Paddington Basin: 5 Merchant Square, London, W2 1AY – just a couple of minutes walk from Paddington mainline and underground stations.
Live online courses and workshops: the courses and workshops are run in our Zoom virtual classroom.
In-person: All the materials for the courses/workshops are provided in electronic format, so please bring a wireless-enabled laptop or tablet with you to class so you can access the materials. If you are unable to bring a laptop or tablet, please let us know in advance of the course, so we can make alternative arrangements.
Live online: you will need a computer, laptop or tablet device and an internet connection to access the Zoom virtual classroom
Cancellation by us
Under normal circumstances, our public courses and workshops are guaranteed to run. Only under very exceptional circumstances (for example, a trainer being taken ill and no other trainer being available to run the course), would we cancel.
If these exceptional circumstances were to occur, we would offer you two options: a full refund of your fees, or a place on the next scheduled course/workshop.
If you need to postpone…
If you make a booking and then need to postpone and re-book on a future course/workshop, you can do this without penalty.
If you decide to cancel…
If you make a booking and then decide to completely cancel it, the following cancellation fees apply:
- Up to 21 days before the course/workshop date: no cancellation fee – you receive your fee back in full
- Up to 14 days before the course/workshop date: 50% cancellation fee – you receive 50% of your fees back
- Up to 7 days before the course/workshop date: 75% cancellation fee – you receive 25% of your fee back
- Up to 1 day before the course/workshop date: 100% cancellation fee – you do not receive any of your fee back
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WHAT YOU WILL COVER DURING THE 1-DAY COURSE...
The Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning 1-day course covers these three popular modules from our learning impact and instructional design programme:
EID01: Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning
Page-turning e-learning is easy to create. But churn it out at your peril. Your learners won’t thank you. And when performance doesn’t improve, nor will your boss.
This module turns the standard, content hierarchy-driven view of e-learning on its head. It introduces a holistic, three-pronged approach to development which always focuses you on:
- using a learner-centred, context-driven approach to your design
- creating relevant, meaningful practice activities for your learners, and
- providing timely support and feedback within those activities.
EID02 From Sketch to Storyboard to Prototype
This module goes into the process and mechanics of creating a piece of e-learning. The module:
- Uses an example project to introduce our recommended design flow for creating a piece of e-learning
- Explains two simple review frameworks to use at key points in the flow to keep your design on track
- Provides detailed worksheets to enable you to capture key information and decisions through the design flow, and
- Explores two different aspects of interface design for your e-learning.
EID03 More Than Multiple Choice
Practice activities need to be about more than just multiple choice, true-false and abstract drag and drop. For that reason, this module focuses on:
- The key underpinning principles and approaches involved in creating, relevant, and realistic practice activities and scenarios
- The different ways to provide meaningful feedback which actually consolidates learning and encourages transfer
- Using extended, worked examples to embed skills and knowledge, and
- Providing meaningful, context-driven test-questions when formal evaluation and testing is required.
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
The 1-day Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning course is ideal for anyone:
- new to instructional design.
- with existing, but limited instructional design experience.
- with lots of experience, but no previous formal training in instructional design.
HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT
The 1-day course will help you to:
- Avoid page-turning e-learning which bores your learners to death and fails to transfer skills and knowledge.
- Apply a dramatically different, success-driven approach to your e-learning.
- Improve uptake and completion of e-learning, and (most importantly) improve learner performance
WHAT YOU WILL COVER DURING THE 1-DAY WORKSHOP
The optional Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning 1-day workshop covers these two popular modules from our learning impact and instructional design programme:
EID04: A Design Blueprint for High Impact Practice Activities
This module extends and consolidates the key ideas and concepts already introduced and explored in modules EID01-03 and digs deep into the practical steps and the ‘how to’ of implementing design tools and principles previously introduced.
The module is split into three segments and covers the following:
A. Under the hood
This segment covers:
- The anatomy of a typical high impact practice activity
- How to define and/or validate the specific procedures and/or strategic skills for inclusion in your activity
- How to ensure your activity aligns with your objectives/outcomes
B. Defining and setting the scene
This segment covers how to:
- Establish an authentic and job-realistic context for your practice activity
- Identify a relevant event trigger to start the activity and motivate your learners to engage with it
- Define and apply a suitable visual style
- Use a blend of visuals and descriptive text to help bring your activity to life
C. Designing your core activity
This final segment covers how to:
- Build out an appropriate narrative/event sequence from your previously identified setting
- Define an appropriate success path (or paths) through that sequence
- Profile and create authentic and relatable characters into your activity, if appropriate
- Identify and approximate the use of any job specific tools and/or skill-based techniques
- Identify and build in any required data or other inputs
- Manage and reflect real-world timespans within the constraints of your activity to increase authenticity and realism
- Build in valid and reliable testing of both procedural and strategic skills
EID05 A Design Blueprint for Effective Feedback and Supporting Knowledge
This module completes the design blueprint started in EID04 by answering questions about when, where and how frequently the following should be provided:
- Help
- Feedback
- Reflection, and
- Supporting knowledge
Central to the approach we cover in all of the EID modules is the concept of ‘guided discovery’.
This is absolutely not about learning by random trial and error but it is about carefully calibrating a preferred success path through a practice activity, while still allowing room for your learners to make errors and to learn from their mistakes.
In this kind of ‘guided discovery’ environment the effective and appropriate use of help, feedback, reflection and supporting knowledge is critical.
This module covers the specifics of how to:
- Calibrate feedback by working within 4 key feedback parameters
- Apply a consistent, success framework for providing your instructional feedback
- Embed appropriate opportunities for learner reflection on feedback received
- Encourage learners to apply critical thinking to skills and knowledge being practised
- Use a coach or other support avatars to enable and encourage guided discovery and reflection
- Embed the right levels of supporting knowledge in the right places, within your practice activity
- Apply clear and consistent placement and visual styles, when presenting learners with help and support options
WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FOR?
The optional 1-day Creating Boredom-Busting E-Learning Workshop is ideal for anyone:
- new to instructional design.
- with existing, but limited instructional design experience.
- with lots of experience, but no previous formal training in instructional design.
HOW THE WORKSHOP WILL BENEFIT YOU
The 1-day optional workshop will help you to:
- Explore in detail the tools, techniques and principles covered in the 1-day course.
- Apply the tools, techniques and principles to an actual case-study project
- Improve and enhance your expertise and skill in developing effective, performance-improving e-learning
GET DISCOUNTS ON MULTIPLE BOOKINGS...
Book two places on any course or workshop combination and get a 10% discount: use coupon code 10off at checkout
Book three or more places on any course or workshop combination and get a 15% discount: use coupon code 15off at checkout
UPCOMING IN-PERSON DATES...
- May 21st 2024 (Course)
- May 22nd 2024 (Workshop)
- Feb 27th 2025 (Course)
- Feb 28th 2025 (Workshop)
- Nov 12th 2025 (Course)
- Nov 13th 2025 (Workshop)
UPCOMING LIVE ONLINE DATES...
- Nov 12th 2024 (Course)
- Nov 13th 2024 (Workshop)
- June 5th 2025 (Course)
- June 6th 2025 (Workshop)
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