eLearning Platform and Design
How can the right Learning Management System help you to design your eLearning course?
Technology has always been a great emancipator of the creative imagination.
From film to graphic design, tools such as Photoshop have liberated creativity and even shown designers new fields of experimentation.
The e-learning industry has also benefited from great technological developments and the last 5 years have really changed the profession. It has been a revolution!
These technologies have allowed developers, educational teams and designers to work hand in hand to design new generation learning management systems (LMS) which in turn have allowed a radical transformation in the approach to online education for a better learning experience.
In this article I will make a non-exhaustive list of the features of an elearning platform (LMS). These features will allow you to work with methodology and without limitations. Because an LMS today must have the primary quality of being fully customizable and an instructional design-oriented tool.
What is an elearning Authoring Tool
eLearning Project management Tool
It is important to centralise all your actions in a single system.
A Learning Management System (LMS) is no longer just a place to publish your e-learning courses. Your e-learning platform should be much more than that and should allow you to work on the design of your e-learning courses from the very beginning.
Having an elearning project management tool integrated into your LMS will allow you to carry out the following actions
Planning
Management
Share documents
Design
Discussion
Validation
You will track the progress of all stages of your projects on the same platform.
The workflow of your projects will be considerably simpler and communication will be clearer and smoother.
Also in one click you will have access not only to all necessary documents but also to the key people in the project. Also during the testing and improvement phases the centralisation really simplifies all operations.
Our eLearning Project Management Tool The Learning Lab offers:
· A library to stock and share your project Assets
· A messaging system
· A task managers
· A chat system to comment on the progress and give feedback
· Zoom Meeting integrated
· Duplicating project for versioning
· Audience management etc
What is an Authoring Tool?
An authoring tool for creative work.
You are perhaps of this generation which knew Flash. A technology now almost forgotten.
I sometimes have the feeling that SCORM will suffer the same fate with the evolution of Authoring Tools. At first just a simple layout with basic options, now an Authoring Tool offers you the possibility to not only create the expected design in limitation but also to animate them and even more to translate your e-learning course in one click!
The Learning Lab Authoring Tool also features an integrated image library and a template collection by content type.
An Authoring Tool integrated with a learning management system (LMS) gives you the freedom of action you need and puts you back in control of your e-learning project.
The publication of an e-learning course is only the beginning of the project because the first feedback is so rich in learning and from that moment on each modification is a parameter that increases the acuity of your e-learning course. With an Authoring Tool you change any element of your design in one click! You have the full control over your e-learning project.
Here are few Features available in the Learning Lab Authoring Tool:
· Text Editing
· Layout builder
· Image Background
· Colour selector
· Animation
· Videos, podcasts, images holder
· Quizzes librairy
· Design Templates
· Branding Design: logo, fonts, colours, icons…
The importance of branding in the design of an e-learning course
Generally speaking, every action taken by your company is subject to a branding exercise:
a message on linkedin,
a newsletter,
an email,
a product or service presentation,
and so obviously training is an opportunity to demonstrate or display your company's values:
perfectionism,
intelligence,
attention to detail,
professionalism,
clarity,
innovation,
technique
and expertise!
E-learning and training should be used as an opportunity to display your company's values.
Branding is also about the intelligent use of design. Work with a team of experts:
SME (Subject Matter Expert),
Instrucational designer,
E-learning Project Manager,
E-Design
E-Learning Branding
Video editor
Voice over
Illustrator
...
Branding and, by extension, design will contribute to the clarity of your e-learning course.
A well thought-out animation, a clear and precise video, a well-designed graphic... it's your chance to demonstrate your ability to deliver a well-structured e-learning course and to optimise the Learning Experience.
So a Learning Management System (LMS) like the Learning Lab LMS lets you design and brand not only the e-learning courses via its Authoring Tool but also the eLearning platform (LMS) itself: layout, colours, fonts, images, background...
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Video Base eLearning Platform (LMS)
The simplification of technologies related to the capture and editing of video content has facilitated their integration into the eLearning course development strategy.
The kinetic power of video is unequalled and no longer needs to be proven! Video-based learning is the most suitable medium for e-learning.
Video allows complex concepts or technologies to be presented in a clear manner in an animation.
Also for a learner the e-learnng video is the easiest to follow and memorable medium. It has been proven that e-learning video leads to better results and longer retention of information.
A Video Base Learning Management System (LMS) is therefore an essential choice!
Here are some of the features available in Le Learning Lab's elearning platform.
1/ Interactive Video: Create you own scenario through a series of choices.
2/ Video Quiz: add quiz over you video! Simple and terribly efficient!
3/ Screen recording: Perfect for software training
4/ Video Test: Film your talk or presentation and get feedback
Video base learning Management system
E-Learning Platform and Design
The relationship between your Learning Management System (LMS) and the quality of your e-learning courses is totally linked!
An authoring tool and an elearning video first platform will help you to achieve this.