The oddest e-learning course title you've seen is:
Mar 07, 2012
The polls are still open for this year's Diagram Prize. The Diagram Prize is an annual celebration of the "oddest book titles."
Previous winners include:
- The Joy of Chickens
- Highlights in the History of Concrete
- Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers
I know I've seen some odd e-learning course--I've even built a few myself--but I can't say I know of too many crazy course titles. What about you?
What are some crazy, off-beat or odd course titles have you come across? If you don't know of any, why don't you make up a few?
UPDATE: 2014 Winners Announced http://www.thebookseller.com/news/diagram-prize-reveals-oddest-titles-2014
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Well, I don't know if this was an e-learning course or not but for our corporate LMS we were importing completions from some local legacy systems and came across employees getting credit for this course: Women Mystics.
We're still trying to figure that one out in a corporate setting.
Anyone, anyone . . .
Maybe we can do Peeps dioramas instead . .
Wow, hard to imagine topping chickens, concrete, and greek postmen!
Have a Nice Slip, Trip and Fall!
Workplace Harassment Loopholes
An Outsider's Guide to Insider Training
Anyone Can Lead... Except You
Manager's Guide to File Sharing
Obfuscation for Dummies
I am going to be starting a course soon that is going to be called 'Getting Down and Dirty with Water'. Another one that I will be doing is 'A Pre-Owned Home...is it "Worth" it'
I am in the process of converting courses on our Operations and Sales Policies/Procedures to eLearning, and we are getting as creative with the names as possible. Currently, they are all called 'Operations Manual Chapter 1'
I love these three, David:
Nice way to arouse curiosity.
I wouldn't categorize this as the "oddest" name. But it stood out and I really liked it.
(Not an elearning course, but an online webinar)
These Are Our Mistakes: So Go Get Your Own!
"Substance Abuse for Supervisors"
That's a great one, James! Do goody bags come with that course?
After taking the training, everyone craves Taco Bell.
We have one called "Check Weapons for Barrel Obstruction".
I was interviewing with a company, they wanted to show me some examples of their work. One title I saw was, "Regulatory Compliance can be fun!"
I asked what that was about, they said that since they were a medical center, many of their courses were about compliance, many learners just clicked fast through them to get the course over with so they created a course just to convince learners that actually doing the course could be fun.
Since 99% of their courses were about regulatory compliance I decided not to pursue the job, it sounds like dull uninteresting work, but perhaps it could be fun.
I just got this one Well played Melanie!
How did I miss this discussion earlier? OpenSesame has some pretty unusual course titles in the industry-specific category:
I created an e-learning course called ESAT: Executive Summary Approval Tool. Not creative, but there wasn't a name for this system until I posted the e-learning course.
I developed a performance support tool offically called the ERS Eligible Vehicles App. Striving for a more memorable title, I seized upon the acronym EEVA (pronounced EVE-ah).
I so desperately want the program icon to be a certain white robot from a certain popular Pixar movie, but I fear the Disney lawyers would be upon me faster than Mo cleans up dirty tread tracks!
There's an artistic aspect to producing e-learning, which to me is one of its attractions. Often, artists get inspiration from other artists... so why not tap into that?
For example, here are a few titles (these really are real) from the world of country music:
I Went Back to My Fourth Wife for the Third Time and Gave Her a Second Chance to Make a First Class Fool Out of Me
I Just Bought A Car From The Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don't Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal
When You Wrapped My Lunch In A Road Map, I Knew You Meant Goodbye
I'm Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life
2014 winners announced: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/diagram-prize-reveals-oddest-titles-2014
<hint> This week's e-learning challenge will be based on the Diagram Prize:-)
Oh my! Already time to put on my challenge thinking cap again...
LOL I can only imagine what you'll conjure up for this one:-)
Well I'll do my oddball best, but I think Bert needs to answer this call, too. I'll give him a heads-up. (Thumbs-up?)
Crossing my fingers Bert's up for this one!
My old job created e-learning for retirement communities and we had a course entitled "Squeeze before you sneeze!"
I'm sure you can figure out what it was about ;)
That's hilarious.
Don't laugh ;) --we may all be there one day. Some of us sooner than others . . . :)
Still hilarious . . . :)
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