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The process for developing an e-Learning strategy can be comprehensive, it is far easier to digest if broken into component parts.
The areas of focus listed below are not necessarily in order, and you can complete them as the opportunity comes available. However, it is important that you indeed explore each area, and a series 0f measures from each area will allow you to stay focused as you implement the strategy.
1: Learning across the organization Analysis in this area involves documenting what you currently know about the existing situation and the anticipated direction, both internally and externally, for learning programs. 2: Content selection process This area involves a high-level analysis of the current process used to select content for courses, presentations, programs. The overall goal is to detail a process that will enable selection of appropriate content to put in an e-Learning format to meet the business and learning objectives. 3: Access, retrieval, and reuse This area explores a high-level taxonomy to categorize and classify content within context to the learning, performance, and business objectives. In this area we are exploring how to identify and tag content in meaningful ways so the end-user can gain access at the right level. This is critical for reuse and for making informed, intelligent decisions about future content, maintenance concerns, and technology needs. 4: Development methodology The analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation (ADDIE) model has clear reference points to the learning and performance system, and still applies. However, with an e-Learning strategy, success is dependent on output and how we manage that output. 5: Technology This is not the place to start! Area 5 involves a high-level plan to address Web-portal design, LMS and LCMS features, functionality, technical requirements, and to flush out business needs and potential costing models. This process will document known technical and functional requirements, and evaluate existing software applications for how well they address those requirements. 6: Maintenance planning Area 6 details how you will maintain the content, authoring, LMS, LCMS, and other systems. Over time this will represent the largest amount of time, money, and effort. Often, directors of organization. 7: E-Learning strategy plan After you have laid out the entire strategy, or set of strategies, you need to develop projects, tasks, activities, dependencies, resources, and timelines for moving forward. The e-Learning strategy plan 8: Measurement and evaluation This area explores how you will measure the successes and failures of training programs within the organization. Do not stray from this focus, and be responsible for reporting successes and failures |
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