Reflections on eLearning Development and Where It's All Headed There's a moment in every eLearning development project where you stare at the screen, question every decision you've ever made, and seriously consider a career in education administration. I had that moment. Probably more than once. And if the assignment prompt is any indication, that experience is less a personal failing and more an industry-wide rite of passage. So let's talk about it. The Process: What Went Well (and What Absolutely Did Not) Going into this project, I felt reasonably confident. I've worked with technology. I understand learning design principles. I've sat through enough bad eLearning modules in my career to know exactly what I didn't want to build. What I dramatically underestimated dramatically was the gap between knowing what good looks like and knowing how to make it. The parts that went well were, predictably, the parts most connected to what I already knew. Organizin...
From science teacher to instructional coach - designing learning that sticks!