This course will ensure that training personnel have the skills to develop eLearning courses. It starts by outlining the common elements of common instructional design models and summarizing the common elements of eLearning development. Then each element is explored and practiced to gain practical skills in eLearning development. This includes creating an organizational needs assessment; writing measurable learning objectives; determining assessment types; creating a rubric for an eLearning assignments; using Universal Design for Learning, supporting LGBTQ2+ learners, accessibility standards, and media standards; establishing eLearning activities; creating a storyboard; choosing an eLearning authoring tool and LMS; and evaluating at each level of Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation, including determining return on expectation for impact evaluation.

After this course, you will be able to: describe how storyboarding leads to better training results, apply storyboarding techniques to create a strong foundation for training, design training that uses storytelling to make it memorable, compelling, and relevant to the audience, and valuate technology tools to determine what will create the best learning experiences needed for adequate training.

After you complete this course, you should be able to: understand the value of creating a training needs analysis, apply the ICE method to assess the situation and build your training needs analysis, and create a simple yet thorough training needs analysis for your organization or client.