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eLearning Development and Project Process

I had an interesting discussion with a client yesterday about project direction and process, and there was some open debate on how to develop an interaction to not only meet a tight budget, but fulfill some broad goals. Is there a best method, or does every project deserve to flex and adjust into multiple styles of interaction and teaching methods? Also discussed were the pros and cons of linear vs. nonlinear activities, and we went over the possibilities of having a little of both mixed in.

Getting to the point, I’ve written up a fairly detailed overview on Living Children’s initial project process. It covers our first four steps when brainstorming a new project, and covers each topic up to actual production (a page on production process will come another day).

The overall process includes:

  • 1. Defining The Goal(s)
  • 2. Rough Project Outline
  • 3. Refining Goals and Listing Objectives
  • 4. Creation of Flow Diagrams

Click here for the full page on project process, including samples of each step. This page will become a permanent addition under “About” in due time.

An Introduction

For the most part the last ten years of my life have been spent developing training courses and educational activities for a wide variety of users, from 6 year olds to near death oldsters who have taken it upon themselves to learn how to use a computer. So far I’ve had pretty decent success, but never really shared anything I’ve learned over the years regarding eLearning for both kids and adults.

Apart from being an eLearning, and more so a Flash developer, I’m also a small business owner. Like it or not, when you’re freelancing or in my case, a sole-proprietor LLC you really have no choice but to learn business, management and discipline. Without those extra skills it really doesn’t matter what you do or how well you do it as poor decisions (I’ve had my share) can take you down and force you to turn in a job application at the local generic Web development firm.

My name is Eric Bort, and welcome to the inaugural post on what I hope will become a space for one sided discussion, ideas, innovation and most of all poor grammar and run on sentences. I went to art school and I have a valid excuse for not knowing any better, I’ll at least use a spell checker!

In a nutshell, topics I will cover are:

  • eLearning for Kids

  • eLearning for Adults

  • New Projects & Project Development

  • Small Business Practices

Thanks for reading, and as a primer on the types of work we do feel free to check out the rest of the new site.

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The Clearly Trained eLearning Blog covers the wide variety of experiences Flash designer Eric Bort has had in the eLearning industry, as well as new project overviews and random inspirations.

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