The analysis phase consists of identify who will be taught the information and how best to teach them. This is also where any potential costs, level of training needed and any other preliminary details that need to be addressed.

This is the actual delivery of the course, including any prior training or briefing of learner support staff, and student assessment

This stage focuses on identifying the learning objectives for the course and how materials will be created and designed, and deciding on the selection and use of technology, such as an LMS, video or social media.

Feedback and data is collected in order to identify areas that require improvement and this feeds into the e-learning design, development and implementation of the next iteration of the course.

The creation of content, including whether to develop in-house or outsource, copyright clearance for third party materials, recording videos or audio, loading of content into a web site or LMS, etc.

“Show, don’t tell.” Absolutely , research has shown visually explaining a new skill or behavior can be an important component of e-learning design. Effective use of video in training can be an hugely successful. This is not a process but here at elearningZA we believe it’s a extremely powerful tool.