| What Makes a Great Online Course
for Teaching Workplace Procedures and Technical Skills?
Procedures and Technical Skills training
are at the core of many training curriculums and include
systems and processes that are often unique to the organization.
To ensure that their online courses generate the best results,
industry-leaders such as Aetna, Deloitte, AT&T, Expedia,
Cathay Pacific Airways, GE, Cisco, and Ceridian turn to the
services of professional content development firms.
"Workplace Procedures and Technical
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards" provides 32 case studies
and 31 online video excerpts of procedures and technical skills
courses submitted to the 2006 Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning
Awards. Designed for anyone involved in creating training
— subject matter experts, instructional designers, authors,
graphic designers, and training and project managers —
this report aims to answer the following questions:
- What do great online courses
look like? Access online video recordings of 31
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 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.
"Workplace Procedures and Technical
Skills: Descriptions and Excerpts of Online Courses from the
2006 Brandon Hall Awards" is designed to provide a look
inside the tools used and processes followed by professional development
teams to develop smarter and more innovative e-learning
courses. It’s a great way to benchmark
your own online courses against the practices of professionals.
This report is also available through
a subscription to the Brandon
Hall Research Library.
Reports highlighting Excellence in Learning Awards entries:
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