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0049 WS: Revisiting Storyboards
Re-visiting Storyboards for E-learning
Author
Simon Fitzpatrick
Theme
Making things happen
Tags
educationalDesign,
instructionalDesign,
instructionalStrategy,
learningDesign, storyboarding
This hands-on workshop will enable delegates to employ a range of
strategies to design and develop effective e-learning materials. Our aim is to
show how effective storyboarding is an essential part of the development of
high quality e-learning.
The key to effective learning is good planning, identifying learner needs,
evaluating tools and approaches and delivering an appropriate solution –
in terms of e-learning, the well-established and successful Netskills workshops
on e-learning cover this process in some detail. In commercial and
educational e-learning many developers appear to forget the basics and lose
themselves in ‘rapid’ development or new technology ‘overload’. Rapid development
is desirable but not at the expense of quality: rapid or agile development
promotes course development within an authoring environment
and whilst many instructional designers (IDs) are comfortable designing and
developing the learning process within this type of tool, recent experience
suggests that the rapid approach can lead to blander, ‘mass produced’ e-
learning material that is not always relevant or appropriate to learner needs.
Most instructional designers agree on the significance of storyboarding as
the link between instructional strategy and course authoring – the main
benefits are:
• The involvement of users as co-developers
• The ability to visualise the learning process
• Accountability in the form of an audit trail of requirements
There are numerous ways of achieving this in practice along with a diverse
range of tools – we therefore suggest that whilst ‘rapid’ development is
attractive, the process of design through storyboarding and the iterative
consultation with the Subject Matter Expert (SME) will ultimately lead to a
better quality output.
In this workshop, therefore, delegates will be able to examine the process of
developing an instructional strategy by working through learning scenarios
in small groups and then following them through the storyboarding process
and into the authoring environment. Where possible we will explore a range
of styles and processes as well as looking at a range of storyboarding tools.
After feeding back to each other, the workshop will conclude with a short
discussion.
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