| What Makes a Great Online Course
for Professional and Industry-Specific Skills?
Professional and industry-specific online
training courses are used to develop complex and unique skills
of people within many industries. These are the courses developed
to teach skills related to healthcare, finance, security,
and manufacturing, among others.
"Professional and Industry-Specific
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards" provides 35
case studies and 30 online excerpts of professional
and industry-specific courses submitted to the 2006 Brandon
Hall Excellence in Learning Awards.
This report provides a glimpse into
online training in other industries, allowing you to borrow
ideas from some of the world's leading organizations, including:
- The Walt Disney Company
- Deloitte & Touche
- Roche Diagnostics
- Pitney Bowes
- FTD
Designed for anyone involved in creating
training — subject matter experts, instructional designers,
authors, graphic designers, and training and project managers
— this reports aims to answer the following questions:
- What do
great online courses look like?
Access online video recordings of 30 courses.
- What tools
do others use to create online courses?
Find out what content development applications leading developers
use to create their high-impact courses.
- What staff,
budget, and time frame do professional developers allocate
to creating great online courses?
Plan your budget and staff accordingly by seeing how professional
custom content providers manage a course development project.
- What can
I learn from these sample courses that I can apply to my
own courses?
Implement the best practices of professional developers
to improve the training you provide.
- How do
the courses my organization creates stack up against others?
Stop creating courses in a vacuum. Assess how your
courses compare to those of leading developers.
- How do
others evaluate courseware?
Read candid assessments of these courses by Brandon Hall
Excellence in Learning Awards judges to see what they liked
or disliked.
- What companies
do industry leaders turn to to create their training?
If you're considering outsourcing a course development project,
this report provides a glimpse into the styles of the
best courseware creators.
"Professional and Industry-Specific
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards" is designed
to give you a look inside the tools used and processes followed by excellent
development teams to develop smarter and more innovative
e-learning courses. It’s a great way
to benchmark your own learning initiative against the practices
of proven winners.
Reports highlighting Excellence in Learning Awards entries:
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