Larger LMS Audience Means Lower Satisfaction

I just pulled a report as part of an LMS Evaluation and saw an interesting pattern:



The pattern shows that the larger the audience the lower the satisfaction scores. My guess is that Learning Management Systems that target enterprise solutions and larger audiences will come out lower in LMS Satisfaction surveys.

Other posts around Learning Management Systems:

• LMS Selection Presentation
  
• LMS Team Size and Time
• LMS RFP
• LMS Selection Presentation Reformulated
  
• LMS Selection Team and Stakeholders
• LMS Selection Process
• Learning Management Systems (LMS) Gotchas
  

Bad Course on Instructional Design

I just posted about eLearning Design and Development Training Course listing two examples of courses that talked about instructional design for eLearning. Whoops. I should have looked more closely.

The course from MyUdutu ( http://publish.myudutu.com/published/courses/140/Course867/v2007_5_9_15_41_...)
may talk about it, but it is a classic example of what not to do in eLearning. So while it talks about Instructional Design - it hardly is something to review.

As Chris pointed out in a comment and I talked about in Audio Narration vs. On-Screen Text
you should never have voice-over that's the same as the text on the page. That's just annoying and slows you down.

Other bad aspects included having choppy narration (people are not very forgiving around narration and other audio). Further, there was no audio control to let you know what's going on with the audio.

Later in the course, they used narration much better with a graphic. Still, this probably should not have been a course to point people to. Oh good, it looks like other suggestions are coming in.

eLearning Design and Development Training Course

Someone on LinkedIn asked:

Can anyone recommend a really good e-learning design/development training course?

This is for a colleague who is new to instructional design & development so something that covers the basics at an introductory level would be best. Thanks!

The responses pointed me to a couple of resources I hadn't seen before:

• MyUdutu
  

A simple course that describes some basic principles of online training course design, and will serve as a template for a simple course if you copy it and substitute your own content.

http://publish.myudutu.com/published/courses/140/Course867/v2007_5_9_15_41_...

• RPI

An introduction to instructional design and course development and guidance on selecting the right design and development tools.

http://www.rpi.edu/coursedevelopers/DesigningInstruction/DI_index.htm

I know that I've seen others.

What else is out there?

NAJIS Conference Scheduled

The National Association for Justice Information Systems (NAJIS) has scheduled their annual conference for September 23-26, 2008 at Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their E-mail states: "Designed by practitioners for practitioners.  This is a law and justice technology professional conference that delivers unprecedented objectivity, quality, and quantity of information exchanged through the NAJIS membership." Having been a member of NAJIS I can attest to the usefulness of this conference and to the helpfulness of the associations membership.

NIEM National Training Scheduled

The IJIS Institute has scheduled national XML and NIEM training in Ashburn, Virginia from May 5-9 and June 9-12.  For more information contact Samantha Styles.