Thursday, August 28, 2008

One Company's eLearning resources

This is my first Instructional Design (ID) course. What I find interesting is with the advent of "Al Gore's" Internet (ha ha), designing eLearning courses can be made easier because of it. A designer can find more resources to help them create an effective and engaging course right on the Internet!

I work at a large financial firm and am currently interning in their ID area. What's neat is the wealth of resources both internal and external they provide to IDs on their intranet. While they do have proprietary resources, the fact that an internal web page was created to help you as the designer succeed!

Below are a few of the Internet resources they provided which I thought were cool! I hope you find them helpful.

Random Name Generator:
http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

Scenario Based eLearning:
http://www.learningcircuits.org/2002/may2002/kindley.html

So this is only a couple of resources. In addition, we attend regular training sessions (WBT and Instructor Led) about designing courses. I hope you all find the information I shared useful. Talk to everyone in class!

2 comments:

Michael D. Nichols said...

Ever use that random name generator?

Tony D said...

Yes, I have used the random name generator. I think it's better than thinking up names on your own. It saves time by allowing you to focus on more important parts of the design element. Hope this helped!