Design Process

Online Learning has adopted an iterative learner-centered design process.

Business Needs Analysis

At this stage, we work with you to determine your return-on-investment and success metrics. That way, we can be sure that we will deliver a rich, interactive learning experience within your financial, time and technology constraints. For example, do you already have a learning management platform? Does your course need to be SCORM compliant? Are you planning to deliver the course via the Internet or via CDROM? For example, our solutions can be delivered on high-bandwidth and low-bandwidth connections or on CDROM using a range of monitor settings and platforms.

Learning Needs Analysis

At this stage, we work with you to develop learning objectives for your course. We determine who your learners are, what they need to learn and how they want to learn it using a variety of standard analysis techniques.

Design Storyboarding

At this stage, we outline the course. We do this by developing a storyboard that describes the text, graphics and interactions for each screen. We develop a high-level outline first. In each successive pass, more detail is added to the storyboard. Our tools allow us to generate a final course directly from the storyboard at any time during the development process. As a result, clients can review and modify course appearance, navigation and interactivity at any time.

Rapid Design Prototyping

At any point in the process, we can produce a functional prototype of the course for review. So instead of just reviewing storyboards, you can also review the actual course output in XHTML or even SCORM format.

Design Implementation

Here is where the real production work begins. We bring together a team of multimedia experts to bring your course to life! These skills include illustration, animation, video production, graphic design, interaction design, web design and development, multimedia programming, writing and editing, voice talent, and language translation.

Design Test and Verification

All of our courses are tested from both a technical and usability perspective.