Make Changes Early to Save Time

The e-learning creation game has changed. Rather than spending months creating long, pristine courses, you likely find yourself managing a pipeline of dozens of micro-learning requests from many different stakeholders.

The good news is that authoring tools are making it easier than ever to create and iterate content. The bad news is that you still have to do the work of aligning stakeholders to keep your pipeline moving forward. You don’t have to be in the learning game long before you find yourself in a meeting that you think is the final review of a course only to be told that a key element is missing, and you have to redesign the entire thing.

So how do you keep this from happening? You have many tools at your disposal: design documents, scripts, storyboards, and prototypes. Which tools you need will be based on who you are talking to and what you are trying to decide at each stage of the development process.

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