{"id":345,"date":"2019-03-15T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T13:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:27:13","slug":"collaborative-development-the-game-changer-in-e-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/collaborative-development-the-game-changer-in-e-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Development \u2013 The Game Changer in E-Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anyone involved in E-Learning is aware of one obvious truth\n&#8211;&nbsp; E-Learning development &nbsp;is &nbsp;an intensely\ncollaborative activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Any E-Learning development\nrequires a diverse array of skills such as Project Managers, Subject Matter\nExperts,&nbsp; Instructional Designers,\nGraphic Artists,&nbsp; Audio Engineers,&nbsp; Video Production and Programmers.&nbsp;&nbsp; For Project Managers this can be immensely\nfrustrating as a bottleneck in one area can often&nbsp; disrupt the best planned projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Project Managers have usually tried to manage this by&nbsp; dividing E-Learning Projects into\nmodules&nbsp; and developing them separately\nto facilitate parallel development and reduce cycle time.&nbsp; The modules are then integrated together to\ncreate the final E-Learning Course.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this approach does help to a degree it&nbsp; can be really hard to manage as files are transferred\nback and forth and&nbsp; with dozens of &nbsp;versions of&nbsp;\neach &nbsp;file and course &nbsp;floating within the system.&nbsp;&nbsp; This approach&nbsp; has a number of inbuilt problems&nbsp; such as Version Control, Difficulty in Implementing\nStandards, Debugging , Content Security&nbsp;\nand double testing for Course and Modules .&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast truly collaborative e-Learning\u00a0 can be a game changer.\u00a0 Its impact on productivity and cycle times can be truly dramatic.\u00a0\u00a0 But what is truly collaborative E-Learning Development. Truly collaborative E-learning development is when multiple people can work on the same project at the same time \u00a0. This allows truly parallel development to take place without the need to break up a project \u00a0into modules and develop  each module separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Benefits<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The benefits of such an approach can be quite dramatic and can help significantly reduce cycle time and development effort.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are some of the ways in which collaborative e-Learning helps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Multiple people&nbsp;\nsuch a SMES, Instructional Designers , and Graphic Artists can work on\nthe same project at the same <\/li><li>Resources such as templates, graphics, and media\nare available to all team members immediately<\/li><li>All team members have&nbsp; a better and more holistic understanding of\nthe course sine they are not limited to one part of the course<\/li><li>Standards can be created and implemented\nglobally and immediately without requiring each team to implement it separately<\/li><li>Global Changes can be made immediately .<\/li><li>Multiple versions and Version control problems\nare eliminated<\/li><li>No effort is required for integration<\/li><li>Content Security is improved significantly as\nonly authorized personnel can view edit or publish a course<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Requirements <\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>To implement truly collaborative E-Learning you will need a Cloud\nor Server based Authoring Tool.&nbsp; However\nthis alone&nbsp; is not enough.&nbsp; The Authoring Tool must provide the features\nrequired to support Collaborative Development.&nbsp;&nbsp;\nHere are some of the critical features that you need to look for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rights\nManagement<\/strong> \u2013 The Ability to define the rights of various users in terms of\nView&lt; Edit or Publish<\/li><li><strong>Page\nLevel Locking<\/strong> : This means that when one person is working on a page no one\nelse should be able to access it<\/li><li><strong>Common\nTemplate Library<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Common\nMedia Library<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaborative development can indeed be a&nbsp; game&nbsp;\nchanger for&nbsp; large scale\nE-Learning Development. It can help drastically reduce cycle time and\ndevelopment effort.&nbsp; However, you&nbsp; need to ensure that your Authoring Platform\nprovides you the features and facilities required for truly Collaborative\ne-Learning Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone involved in E-Learning is aware of one obvious truth &#8211;&nbsp; E-Learning development &nbsp;is &nbsp;an intensely collaborative activity. &nbsp;Any E-Learning development requires a diverse array of skills such as Project Managers, Subject Matter Experts,&nbsp; Instructional Designers, Graphic Artists,&nbsp; Audio Engineers,&nbsp; Video Production and Programmers.&nbsp;&nbsp; For Project Managers this can be immensely frustrating as a bottleneck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esleave.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}