E-Learning Design Lab

The course helps you identify and select modern e-Learning methods and tools to design and deliver e-Learning courses and activities in their professional context. OBJECTIVES • Reflect on individual expectations, strengths and weaknesses as an e-Learning designer • Familiarize with e-Learning latest trends • Use audience analysis tools to compile information about the target population • Use active learning taxonomy to design training objectives • Apply action mapping to e-Learning design • Develop a practice activity for your e-Learning project • Identify levels of evaluation • Describe useful tools for online assessment • Practice asynchronous online facilitation in context • Finalize your e-Learning Project strategy CONTENT • Nice to e-Meet you: ITCILO e-Learning portfolio, e-Learning latest trends • Explore, Reflect: e-Learning landscape and good practices, use of technology for active e-Learning • Design, Imagine: introduction to agile e-Learing development, audience analysis and empathy mapping for e-learning • Create, prototype: Digital Bloom’s Taxonomy, action mapping for e-Leaning design • Assess, evaluate: levels of evaluation online, useful tools for online assessment • Facilitate, support: online facilitation models, facilitation strategies • Wrap it up: quality assurance checklists for e-Learning designers. METHODOLOGY Content is unlocked on a weekly basis and is packaged through design activities which are meant to provide you with the necessary concepts, methods and tools to approach e-Learning challenges. Weeks 1-5: Knowledge and inspiration phase. Participants explore latest e-Learning trends, concepts of online design, digital content production, online facilitation methods and evaluation/assessment through online content and webinars. Weeks 6-7: Coaching phase. Participants produce their “e-Learning project idea” and they improve it with the help of peers and with the support of a professional e-Learning coach. Weeks 8: Wrap-up. Participants reflect on what they have learnt through the course and on how to apply this in their contexts. The course is offered fully online through an asynchronous modality (70%) where participants can plan their own learning at their own pace. The course offers options for synchronous debate (30%) through webinars that provide an opportunity for engaging with peers and experts and online networking.