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PowerPoint 4 Web-Based Training:

How organizations can deploy

fast, affordable, quality online learning

By

Eric R. Parks, Ph.D.

eric.parks@askintl.com

(916) 536-1276

Need

Why did I write this workbook? My interest is two fold. Foremost, cycle time to design, develop, test and deploy online learning is too long for most organizations.  Most corporate web-based training projects take months yet organizations need to publish learning content online in weeks.  Secondly, the major cost of online learning isn’t in design and development but in managing the life cycle (maintenance).  My experience with over 200 Fortune 1000 companies is that content updating impacts approximately 25% of WBT published pages.  In addition, content growth can be as much as 60% per year.  As a consequence, the cost of e-Learning is hidden in the burden of updating and adding new content to courses. PowerPoint development for web-based training makes this major challenge easier to manage.

Why do you need this workbook?   More and more organizations are converting their classroom content to online and using hard to use, expertise intensive, expensive solutions such as HTML and Flash development.  They need to fully understand that PowerPoint is a viable, low cost, easy to deploy solution and most importantly how to do this.

Why PowerPoint WBT is important? Timing is everything.  I have been speaking on this topic for over 5 years at national conferences.  My most recent presentation (July 2006) was in Baton Rough, LA for the local ASTD chapter.  With a total chapter membership of 80, 59 training professionals attended the workshop/event during mid-July.  The chapter President stated that never in the history of the chapter had so many people attended an event in July.  Every attendee requested a book to purchase in conjunction with my extensive collection of PPT CDROM tools and templates that I had provided.  I have offered a workshops and speeches to various other ASTD chapters in the USA including Sacramento, CA; Birmingham, AL; and Reno, NV.  I am now in negotiation to offer one in Orange County, CA for April 2007.  I am scheduled at ASTD TechKnowledge, February 2007 in Las Vegas to present a pre-conference ½ day workshop followed by three 90 minute conference sessions to address the topic of how to design, development and deploy PowerPoint web-based training.  All my presentations on this topic have turn outs that set attendance records.  The following are select photos of these past events:

Baton Rough, LA 59 Attendees join Dr. Parks in PPT 4 WBT workshop raising $1,000 of dollars for the ASTD Chapter.

Reno, NV ASTD Chapter had a sold out event with Dr. Parks Presenting PPT 4 WBT

Birmingham, AL ASTD Chapter was a sold out event weeks before the event

Purpose

What is the workbook intended to do? The workbook is designed to enable organizations to rapidly design and deploy Web-Based Training (WBT) using PowerPoint with or without a Learning Management System.

How does it do this? The publication will incorporate a wide range of case studies, best practices and step-by-step examples enabling organizations to jump start their development efforts.  In addition, it includes my online design philosophies of interactive, engaging learning design which has been used in many of the largest companies in the world including HP, GE Capital, Xerox, AT&T, FedEx, Amgen, PeopleSoft, Symbol Technologies, Washington Mutual Bank, Rockwell International to mention a few.

Intended Audiences

Who will benefit from this? The primary audience will be training managers, instructional designers (classroom materials expertise), trainers and subject matter experts. They will use the workbook as a step-by-step guide to help them rapidly design and deploy quality WBT whereby reducing costs, as well as, time and effort for deployment of online learning.  The secondary audience is college professors teaching Instructional Technology, Educational Technology, Workforce Development and Multimedia curriculum.  Academics can utilize the workbook by making it a required text for online design assignments. This will enable the student to focus on the design aspect of the project instead of the challenge of learning a new development tool like Flash.

Knowledge Base

Incorporates Best practices from an award winning PowerPoint WBT project: ASK International was hired by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) to develop and deploy a 3 hour PPT course online for police, animal control officers and prosecutors targeting all 50 states, with a projected audience of over 10,000 learners. It is a major success and ASPCA has provided me with permission to document this project in case study form for the workbook. This course won the Training Magazines Award for Best Use of PowerPoint in Training for 2006.  We received the Award (ASK International and ASPCA) at the Solutions conference in Denver October 2006.  For details see http://64.23.21.142/ASPCA_ASK_PPTaward.pdf

Length/Production

Workbook - 250 double sided pages (estimated length), 8 ½ by 11 spiral bound with a CDROM containing templates

PDF version - 250 double sided pages (estimated length), 8 ½ by 11 download with templates

Outline of Contents and Chapter-by-Chapter Descriptions (subject to change without notice)

Chapter 1: The Business Case – Chapter 1 examines why organizations need to consider PPT as their primary WBT development tool. It discusses how PPT can solve major business challenges. It provides detailed examples of benefits from company case studies.  This chapter continues by examining PPT myths and attempts to encourage rethinking of PPT as not just a linear classroom tool but also a non-linear production tool for WBT. It wraps up with an organizational assessment/check list to help organizations determine if PPT WBT will work for them.

Chapter 2: The PPT Development Process - Chapter 2 examines at a high level the PowerPoint development, design and deployment process starting with storyboarding and ending with deployment.  It provides the logical framework for the remaining chapters.

Chapter 3: How to Create Your Storyboard– Chapter 3 examines how to develop web-based training storyboards using PowerPoint.  It covers how to build the storyboard using the Master Title and Content slides.  It exams the use of the Notes pages to annotate your storyboard for review.  It will introduce the importance of engaging design, tips on converting classroom training materials and integration of job aids and resources.  There will be a complementary CDROM with ready to implement sample files helping the user get started with their PPT WBT storyboard project.

Chapter 4: Multimedia and Special Effects– Chapter 4 examines how to implement multimedia and special effects for PPT WBT.  It explores this in the context of setting up an engaging and fun splash screen for the WBT program.  It examines in detail how to add entrance and exit effects, audio files and timing controls to PPT WBT. It discusses the challenge of implementing full motion video. It explores how to the work with PPT layers and how to troubleshoot layer problems.  I have two fun splash screens to provide users with an opportunity to practice these concepts on the CDROM with one challenge layer problem that the learner must fix.

Chapter 5: Create the Banner Menu – Chapter 5 examines how to design main menu, course navigation, note taking, course maps, help, resources and instructor to student messaging into the course architecture.  Each function will be examined including their importance, how to do it and how to test that they work. These concepts will be reinforced with a Banner file exercise provided on the CDROM.

Chapter 6: Learning Activities – Chapter 6 examines the importance of engaging the learner.  It provides a fun and easy way to use Knock–Knock jokes to determine if your WBT is interactive enough.  I include my design philosophy of “conversation modeling” to help non-designers more effectively design interactive WBT. The heart of this chapter is the step-by-step process for the development of learning activities using PowerPoint.  It discusses PowerPoint limitations and sample PPT learning activities are examined in detail including:  field interviews, interactive information gathering, discovery learning, on the job assessment with feedback, text input with feedback, A or B choice models (3 types), external resource hyper linking and off line activities. Each example discussed in the book will be provided to the user on the CDROM making it easy to implement these as part of a development project.

Chapter 7:  Game Design – Chapter 7 examines the process of game design.  In this chapter we walk through step-by-step how to build a game with three levels of feedback, a timer, sound effects and animated characters.  I will provide two sample games to stimulate game design ideas for the trainer developer.  These allow rapid implementation of the games for users.

Chapter 8: Assessment – Chapter 8 examines how to build online assessment using hyper linking to Word or Excel files.  It discusses PowerPoint assessment limitations and how to overcome these limitations.  It discusses integration with 3^rd party testing tools provided by LMS vendors to integrate testing associated with PowerPoint

Chapter 9:  Conversation Options – Chapter 9 examines popular deployment options including deployment as a PPT file, HTML, Flash and Impatica file formats.  We will examine the benefits and drawbacks of each. 

Chapter 10: Learning Content Management Systems – Chapter 10 examines the benefits and drawbacks to deploying PPT WBT on a LCMS. It will point out the benefits of content management, learning object libraries, content tracking, integration of tests/quizzes, book marking, note taking and user tracking.  Two implementation models will be examined ASP or enterprise deployment of LMS systems.

Chapter 11: Deployment – Chapter 11 examines how to Alpha/Beta test the course, gather feedback, prioritize changes and finalize for deployment.  It will provide a sample course evaluation form that can be embedded as a component to the PPT course for testing.  It will discuss in detail how to handle test feedback and how to rank the changes from A to F. A being the critical have to make changes.   This chapter will include a detailed check list for deployment.  I will provide the course evaluation template on the CDROM.

Appendix: This will include glossary, product vendor listing and recommended e-Learning web resources.

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