Who out there is a self-made e-learning instructor extraordinaire? While I would not call myself an e-learning wiz, I have learned an immense amount about how superb e-learning design can promote the success of an e-learning program.
When I first started creating e-learning courses, I was in a training role for a large organization and I was told that we needed to figure out a way to cut down on face-to-face training costs. I had to turn to e-learning, but I had never designed a course without a real-life instructor and I did not know e-learning software. Talk about a challenge! I learned by jumping in. Sometimes my designs worked and sometimes they did not. I learned what participants liked and what they didn’t through course evaluations and from talk around the office. The true results, however, showed on the job.