My manager just asked for this same information. Thankfully I read your work through the community and was able to share your timely project. Thank you.
Jackie, as a new developer, this was very helpful. I just finished a large project that I thought took me too long. But, according to your information, I was right on the mark. So, thanks for the information!
That's great, Yvonne! You're very welcome.
The pressure of time and budget constraints will always be there, but I'm positive that having good information and more and more demonstrable experience (like your last project!) will help you go forth and estimate with confidence. :)
Thank you Jackie, and so well timed, I'm searching for a new opportunity right now, and this is a perfect tool for setting expectations with clients who are in the "beginning" stages of elearning development. You rock!
Haha Clare :-)
Looks like I worked on it over a couple of days for that ELH Challenge - so probably a few hours to come up with the idea and then build and refine it. Glad you like it!
Wonderful Jackie! Thank you so very much for putting this together and most of all for sharing it. Also, just subscribed to your blog...really excited:o)
Jackie,
This is great. I would love to have the template! I really like the clock animation. Any chance that you are sharing or can provide the instructions?
Hi Jackie, Great resource, thank you for sharing . I have a question about the number in the clock. What does it mean by 49:1, 79:1..... Thank you in advance.
Hi Jan!
If you click the "i" icon in the lower right for more information, you'll see all the info Chapman shares about this study, including a link to their page about it.
Regarding the numbers, it says: "Results are shown as ratios, showing number of hours of development to create 1 finished hour of learning (output)."
I hope that helps!
I'm glad this was shared again via the E-Learning Heroes newsletter. Sweet resource!
Jackie—are these numbers solely based on the time to develop a module in authoring software, or does it include other ISD steps like analysis, storyboarding, implementation, and evaluation?
I really like this but one small thing confused me which was the numbers. To find out what they meant I had to read through the comments to find out from Jackie's explanation because I missed the info tab. Maybe this could have been presented to the learner in a different way such as a hotspot that needed to be closed before the clock rolls in at the start.
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