Designing Successful e-Learning (eBook)

Michael W. Allen pioneered multimedia learning technologies, interactive instructional paradigms, and rapid-prototyping processes, bringing each forward into leading corporate enterprises. He is the chairman and CEO of Allen Interactions Inc. that builds universally acclaimed custom e-learning, provides strategic learning consulting, and trains e-learning professionals in collaboration with ASTD. With a Ph.D. in educational psychology from The Ohio State University, he is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a popular conference speaker, and a prolific writer.

About the library series.

Acknowledgment.

Foreword.

Preface.

PART ONE: REAL-WORLD CONTEXTS.

Scenario 1. Hoboken Automotive Devices.

Scenario 2. Water Mountain Beverage Company.

Scenario 3. Top Tech Temps.

Scenario 4. Bellmore University.

PART TWO: THE ART & SCIENCE OF INSTRUCTIONALDESIGN.

Chapter 5. What Is Instructional Design?

Chapter 6. Success-Based Design.

Chapter 7. Designing Outside the Box.

PART THREE: DESIGNING SUCCESSFUL E-LEARNING.

Chapter 8. Designing Pre-Instructional Events.

Chapter 9. Designing Instruction: Foundations.

Chapter 10. Designing Instruction: Meaningful Events.

Chapter 11. Designing Instruction: Memorable Events.

Chapter 12. Designing Instruction: Motivational Events.

Chapter 13. Designing Performance Aids.

Self-Assessment.

Sucess Assessment.

A Final word.

Index.

About Allen Interactions Inc.

About the Author.

"The theoretical literature on learning and growth can bedifficult to master and even more challenging to integrate intoe-learning, but Michael has made this easy for all of us. Heexplains this thinking in clear and accessible language, amplifiesthe theories with research results, and describes popularapproaches by applying these theories to learning and growth.Taking the illustrations even further into the field of e-learningdesign, he offers useful scenarios and practical examples of howthese theories can be employed in online learning programs,providing readers with concrete ideas to leverage them in their ownwork." --Nick van Dam, global chief learning officer forDeloitte and founder and chairman, e-Learning For Kids Foundation(www.e-learningforkids.org)

"Here, through research and examples, Allen deliversvivid ways to realize the promise of e-learning."--AllisonRossett, professor of educational technology, San Diego StateUniversity

"While its target audience is instructional designers,this book should also be required reading for all training managersseeking guidelines on implementing world-class training. Allenprovides bridges the gap from theory to practice on both trainingand educational programs. His guidance is as applicable toclassroom-based as it is to e-learning basedtraining."--Patty Crowell, director, Global EducationServices, LSI Logic Corporation

"Our sales/service performance has greatly improveddue to the ideas and processes in Michael Allen's books. They notonly solidified our e-learning practices, but enhanced our blendedlearning skills as well."--Dave Hooker, vice president,Training and Program Development Institutional Sector, EcolabInc.