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Should non Instructional Designers edit Storyline courses?
In looking at ways to be more agile around our course design, one of the things that is being considered is having non-instructional designers (trainers, SMEs) make the simpler edits in courses. I'...
Wow, some great feedback. Now for a totally different perspective. I work with 5 other e-learning developers. We are the SME for what we are developing. It may be web classes or ILT classes. We have are all non-instructional designers. We have very little to no development background. Most of us turned wrenches most of our lives.
BUT, we develop classes and they fit our companies needs. We use WORD to review our writing. We look at each other’s work and make comments using Review. I think both Judy and Walt have some very good points and comments.
My opinion for what it is worth, you need to look at your companies stack holders needs and are they being meet. Are the people reviewing and commenting making good useful comments that are improving content. I see comments based on “I don’t like the color” personal issues that don’t improve the project. Good people are hard to find and even harder to keep these days. If you find good people that are helping keep doing what you are doing. If you are, as said trying to just move stuff along, get projects off someone’s plate, you need to rethink your process. Training is changing faster than we can keep up. As younger people are entering the job market the way the learn has changed. The mind stays the same and general ideas may still be the same, but they don’t want to sit in a class, they want to grad a quick class to do something and move on.
I’ve rambled enough. Just remember as the world will still turn tomorrow, change will happen at a faster pace. Don’t judge the book by it’s cover. And you can fix a wrong decision, but you can’t fix no decision. Give things a try, if they don’t work, stop and make a change.
Good luck
Hi Eric!
Thank you so much for the response. I think the Word document feedback has worked well - at least in my previous company it worked well. So far here I think it has worked well too. The issue is trying to shorten the time to update the content with only a couple of IDs. I think it's difficult to make eLearning agile - at least traditional eLearning like we are doing.
Another big issues is that there is a lot of things on the back end that would need sped up as well (the product development teams) in order to make eL more agile. For example, at a minimum we'd need the release notes 30 days prior to a release. My previous experience has been that product development teams trying to work agile tend to work down to the wire and not want to commit definitively to an enhancement going in the release until the last minute. So sometimes 30 days advance release notes were updated to 15 days or 10 days or even 5 days advanced release notes which made it difficult to update training by 1 day post prod to be agile.
