Consulting

Here are some key areas we have addressed when setting up a learning architecture.

Getting Started

Our workshop on getting started with eLearning can be customized to meet your specific requirements. One of the most important issues when setting up a Learning Content Management System (LCMS) is the development of standards. This includes setting up templates for look and feel, guidelines for instructional effectiveness, and a method for employing metadata tagging. We also provide evaluation services designed to improve the quality of your courseware using statistically valid measures to gauge the effectiveness of your programs.

Taxonomy Development

Your Return-on-Investment in implementing an LCMS depends on the ability of developers to locate content for re-use or adaptation. Efficiency, usability, and alignment with business needs are the key criteria for evaluating taxonomy and metadata. Based on our experience across a wide variety of industries, we can assist your organisation in the development of an appropriate schema.

Workflow Management

Large eLearning projects require the coordination of various agents, including subject matter experts, instructional designers, reviewers, graphic artists, and the legal department. Good workflow design leads to gains in efficiency and quality. Our experience in implementing enterprise-wide eLearning enables us to provide sound advice in incorporating workflow management processes across the various roles. We can also address the management of external vendors and provide you with best practices learned in the context of vendor management.

Psychometrics

Many organizations have succeeded in developing high quality programs, while still employing evaluation mechanisms that lack rigour. Without valid, reliable measures of learning, you can neither assess the quality of learning that is occurring, nor can you compare learning against instructional objectives or related business goals.

Understanding how to construct tests and how to evaluate tests in terms of their quality are not competencies typically possessed by instructional designers or subject matter experts.

We perform statistical analysis on the results of performance tests to report indices of reliability and validity. By so doing, we can identify specific items that need revision. We can also assist our customers by reviewing tests under construction and making principled recommendations for improvements.
 
 
Instructional System Design