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Greetings!Welcome to the September issue of the ASK International e-Learning newsletter. This issue contains an original article by Dr. Eric Parks, founder and CEO of ASK International. We hope that you find the articles useful and if there is a topic that you would like addressed in a future publication, please let us know.In this Issue:
Eric Parks, Ph.D., CEO/founder, ASK International 2001, Sacramento, California, ASK International Corporate Offices: The ASK team worked day and night helping a Fortune 50 company publish over 40 two-hour courses addressing product knowledge training for their channel partners (resellers). The courseware was designed for over 1.6 million users working at 70,000 companies in 36 countries. The effort required six long months and a team of over 20 full- time instructional designers, graphic artists, managers and programmers. We used a programming language (HTML and JavaScript) to author the courses. With the project now complete, I decided to take a week to decompress. I cleared my calendar, told my staff I was out of the office, put my phone on “Do Not Disturb” and set down at my computer to write, think, and create anything that appealed to me. Most importantly, I did not want to think about the last six months. Yet, I could not get the project out of my mind, there were so many issues that were bothering me. Much of the source materials for the course design were taken from datasheets and PowerPoint files, which we converted into a PowerPoint template. Online tutorials for each course were designed in PowerPoint for subject matter expert review. Once the courses were approved, graphics were finalized and emailed to the programming team with the approved PowerPoint files. The programming team built the courses all over again using HTML and JavaScript. The biggest challenges were the games we designed at the end of each module, which typically took two weeks of programming time. One of my favorite games was a horserace. I loved that game. I delighted in the way the horses appeared to be running while a time clock counted down the seconds. I felt motivated by the competition to win by selecting the right response before the time clock ran out. I looked at the code for the 10-question horserace game and found it to be over 12 single-spaced pages – there had to be an easier way to create WBT. Can PowerPoint Be Used To Create Effective WBT... Learn More From the ASK Archive:Web-Collaboration: Little Talk, Lots of Communication Eric R. Parks, Ph.D, CEO/founder, ASK International One of the hottest features of web-based learning is collaboration. Web-based training designers have an expansive range of choices in designing collaboration into their training programs. It might seem easy to implement these features into your training, but there are many challenges. E-mail: Although it is rarely viewed as collaboration, e-mail can be an easy way to facilitate communication between instructor and students. Its disadvantage is a lack of timeliness from the user's point of view. However, it requires little or no active management by the instructor or organization and is extremely easy to use and build into a course. It accommodates very large audiences. Chat: Text-based chat is where the instructor and student can simultaneously communicate using their keyboards. It requires specialized software to implement and sometimes an end-user plug-in depending on the user's browser version. I have many friends with teenage children and have found that they can type faster than I can talk. Generally, real time typewritten communication is effective with a highly skilled typist but not effective at all for hunt and peck typists like me... Learn more Dr. Parks Challenges Reno with PPT Empowerment Kurt Frolich, director of the ASTD Sierra Nevada Chapter, states “I’m thrilled to have Dr. Parks conduct a full-day workshop to teach our training professionals how to leverage a tool that most of us already know how to use to create e-Learning content.” Dr. Eric Parks, founder and CEO of ASK International, will be mentoring training professionals in the process of WBT development using PowerPoint at an all day workshop hosted by the ASTD Sierra Nevada Chapter in Reno next month.
A wide range of learning activities
will be demonstrated including a complex learning game.
“It appears that Dr. Parks has an exciting answer and is
paving the way to creating e-Learning content that is engaging
and effective, as well as quick and easy to develop and
implement using widely accessible MS PowerPoint
software,” adds Frolich. As Dr. Eric Parks states,
“The age of PowerPoint e-Learning has arrived. With new
conversion technology and a compatible LCMS like the TeraLearn
system, organizations can slash the time and costs of
e-Learning deployment by as much as 50%.”
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