Making Sense of the Learning Landscape

Steve Lowenthal,CEO Kineo US

Great Expectations: What Everyone Should Know Before They RFP

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Great Expectations

Poll:When you received pricing for eLearning how clear is it? Clear as day

Clear as mud

A little of both

Effort

Effort

1. Content Acquisiti

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1. Content Acquisiti

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3. Content Presenta

tion

3. Content Presenta

tion

5. Testing

5. Testing

4. Technical Requirements

4. Technical Requirements

2. Design

2. Design

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Content Acquisition1 What’s the starting point?

How many people are involved?Who are they?

What’s the decision marking process?

Content Acquisition

Level 1

 • Your internal team will take the lead on acquiring content from SMEs.• Content is well defined and captured in writing, .e.g. documents, PPTs

or a workbook.• Content acquisition is focused on filling in details. • Your vendor’s ID team will review existing content and to identify any

gaps and to provide clarifying questions. • Vendor’s team supports the content acquisition process through

emails, drafting simple surveys, clarifying calls.  

Level 2

 • Vendor ID team will lead the content acquisition process.• As a starting point, content is well defined and captured in writing,

.e.g. document, PPT or workbook.• A small group of SMEs will be primary source of content.• Content is gathered through Content Workshop and follow-up calls

and discussions. 

Level 3

 • Vendor ID team will lead the content acquisition process.• Significant gaps exist between course requirements and existing

content. • Content will be gathered from a broad audience that could include

audience members, manager of audience, company executive, customers, third-party experts, etc..

• Content is gathered through Primary research that can include interviews, focus groups and shadowing.

 

Design2vs

Linear Exploratory

Linear

Exploratory

Design

Level 1

 • Course experience is primarily presentational with short

focused exercises and activities. 

Level 2

 • Course experience is still linear.• Design includes more context-centered approach e.g.

Guided Story or Case Study. 

Level 3

 • Course experience relies heavily on non-linear approach

such as Goal-Based Scenarios or gamification.• Experience Includes multiple “layers” of content e.g.

feedback, background documents, etc. 

Content Presentation3• Illustrations vs Photos • Stand alone images vs composed

images• Treatment of Graphics• Layers per screen• Use of animation• Simple animation vs complex

animation

AnimationDid these all take the same effort?

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Content Presentation

Level 1

• 80% of content screens are made up of simple interactions native to the development tool, e.g. text & graphic (includes animated text), drag & drop, questions

• 20 % of screens are more complex like a carousel, tabbed screen or hot graphic or simple animation - e.g. fade & reveal or slideshows.

• Animations have no more than 5 transitions and no more than 5 elements.• Graphics are stock or client provided images with a consistent treatment throughout. 

Level 2

• 70% of content screens are made up of simple interactions native to the development tool, e.g. text & graphic (includes animated text), drag & drop, questions

• 25 % of screens are more complex like a carousel, tabbed screen or hot graphic or simple animation – e.g. fade & reveal or slideshows.

• Simple animations have no more than 5 transitions and no more than 5 images.• 5% of screens are more complex animation – e.g. the flow of blood in the body or a process.• Graphics are primarily stock or client provided images with a consistent treatment

throughout.• ~20% of images are illustration or composed images, e.g. diverse people standing around a

room, a graph or table, something traced from a photo

Level 3

 • <50% of content screens are made up of simple interactions native to the development

tool, e.g. text & graphic (includes animated text), drag & drop, questions • 40 % of screens are more complex like a carousel, tabbed screen, hot graphic or simple

animation – e.g. fade & reveal or slideshows. • Simple animations have no more than 5 transitions and no more than 5 images.• 10% of screens are more complex animation – e.g. a complex process or mechanical

function• Graphics are a mix of stock or client provided images, illustrations and composed images.• >20% of images are illustration or composed images, e.g. diverse people standing around

a room, a graph or table or something traced from a photo. 

Technical Requirements

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Technical Requirements

Technical Requirements

Level 1

 • A commercial authoring tool or vendor framework is used

for development and client agrees there are no functional requirements beyond standard functionality of the authoring tool or framework.

 

Level 2

 • A commercial authoring tool or Vendor Framework is used

for development and some small extensions are required to meet the your needs, e.g. a completion certificate is emailed at completion, a closed caption box is added to Storyline, an existing template is modified.

 

Level 3

 • Either significant extensions are required to a commercial

tool or vendor framework or course is written directly in programming language e.g. HTML5, iOS or Flash.

 

Testing

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Testing

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Testing

Level 1

 • QA is performed for grammar, punctuation and

consistency.• Testing is limited to confirming course functionality as

specified.• Testing is conducted on one configuration in tool

producers spec. 

Level 2

 • QA is performed for grammar, punctuation and

consistency.• Testing is conducted to confirm course functionality

works as specified.• Testing is conducted on all configurations (os/browser)

in tool producers spec. 

Level 3

 • QA is performed for grammar, punctuation and

consistency.• Testing is conducted to confirm course functionality

works as specified.• Testing is conducted on configurations (os/browser) not

in tool producers spec.

Questions?

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