Six Years of Learning about Learning: Evolved Best Practices from Project Experience

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• These anecdotal learnings represent just one
  companys experiences over six years.
• The clients include companies of all sizes,
  mainly Fortune 500.
• Visum is focused on instructional design rather
  than media.

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• Virtual Education Corporation (RIP)
• 1998 Learning Technology
• Flash
• Audio
• Video
• Remote control
• Distinct areas for text and exercises
• Cost 50,000 per online hour

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• Visum at the Beginning
• 1999 Learning Technology
• Text
• Graphics
• Pre and Post-Testing
• Sustainable content
• Performance-based component-composite analysis
  design
• Cost 10,000 per online hour

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• Visum Evolves
• 2000 to 2004 Learning Technology
• Intensive Flash
• Audio
• Video
• Try Me simulations
• Cost 12,000 to 20,000

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• Visum Today
• 2005 Learning Technology
• Back to the future
• Text, graphics and limited flash
• A renewed focus on sustainability
• Rapid deployment (30 days is common)
• High media used only when necessary
• Cost 15,000 per online hour

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• Key Learnings
• Its hard to realize ROI when your I is really
  big.
• Sustainability doesnt happen by accident (but it
  better happen!).
• There are no reported differences in satisfaction
  across various media.

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• Standards
• SCORM
• Sharable Content Object Reference Model (DoD)
• AICC
• Aviation Industry CBT Commitee

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• Proprietary Authoring Tools
• Visums Spectrum
• Digital Think L5
• SumTotal Toolbook

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• Authoring Software
• Macromedia Flash
• Macromedia Authorware
• Lectora

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• 30 day turn around.
• (really)

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• Key Learnings
• Standards have not worked as promised for any of
  our clients.
• Proprietary authoring tools limit sustainability,
  especially if the client/vendor relationship goes
  bad.
• Macromedia Flash is by far the most popular
  development tool however, it is not easily
  sustainable.
• Many companies are establishing software
  standards as a means of guaranteeing LMS
  compatibility of content.
• Six weeks turn around is too long.

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• Audio Video does not equal Interactivity.
• More media does not equal a better course.
• Serious games are here! (But you cant afford
  them.)
• Practice is nearly non-existent.

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• Learning Management Systems
• Wireless connectivity
• Better, highly compressed video
• Bandwidth
• PDA
• Gaming
• Intelligent Searching
• Rapid deployment

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• instructional design