Content creation can be time consuming. After all, this will be the meat in your elearning course. You need to make sure that it will be carefully delivered so the learners can maximize their learning experience.
While we all want to take our time in creating every elearning course, it is not practical nor economical. Sometimes, we need to create a lot of courses and we have so little time to do it. Compromising the quality of the course is out of the question. So what can you do in order to deliver more without delivering a low quality content for your course?
What your content creation needs is a template.
A template is something that you can use repeatedly. It is like the benchmark of several, if not all, of the courses that you will create. It is like the pattern that you can use so you can create your elearning course easily and a lot faster. This is a great tool to have when you are up to your eyebrows with courses to create.
There are three important benefits of using a template while you are creating your elearning course.
You can reuse the template.
First of all, you can reuse the template of the course. This will help make content creation a lot easier. You can identify what you want to have in your template. It can be the same layout. That way, you only have to supply the different images and content that is associated with the new course. The template can even be the same outline. For instance, you always begin with an introduction, a lesson, then an assessment. Or you can create an outline that goes through three lessons before the assessment. This template will make things flow more smoothly when you are creating the content.
Your pattern can filter out what works and what does not.
When you have a template, you can easily cement whatever you think works and what does not. If a particular outline or coding works for one course, you can place that in your template. That way, the succeeding courses that you will create will have the new qualities that works for your previous elearning courses – and it will not have those that do not work.
You can concentrate on other elements of your course.
Since your content creation is generally easier because of the template, you can focus on other things. You can concentrate on making your content more appealing. You can put more time in making sure that your assessments will work. You can allow more effort in ensuring that the retention rate in your future courses will improve. These are important parts of creating a successful elearning course.
Take note that you can set up more than one template for the future elearning courses that you will create. At least, this is necessary if you have a lot of courses to create. For instance, you can create a different template for corporate and academic courses. You can even create a different template for introductory courses and for follow up lessons.
These template may seem tedious at first but it will help you improve your content creation requirements in the future. It will help you be more productive and efficient in what you do.
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