As I work on more projects, I get more capable and competent at development. I also try to practice doing rapid projects, going from a very brief set of criteria, to researching the SME data, organizing the results into a course structure, then mapping out a learning scenario, and then jumping right into an interactive prototype. To start, I have a randomizer web page I built earlier this year, which gives me ideas for concepts to develop. Everytime I refresh the page, it gives me new images in each category. Here's what I got this time: Hmmm.... how about.... "How to survive the loss of your dedicated desk in an office"? From there, I jumped into Googling articles on leaving your desk behind, becoming a remote worker, and ways to have access to file storage and team connectivity without actually being in an office. I tossed all the salient points onto a page, and filtered for the biggest issues and solutions to problems, and then arranged them into a sensible order. Then it was on to the trusty whiteboard to come up with a theme for a learning experience. it got silly pretty quick: In the end, I liked the sound of a character-based scenario, a tale of breaking up with a significant other (your desk), and all the subtle humor I could milk it for. Then it was time to pace around the room, imagining the scenario, based on a standard module structure I've learned while working at Focus Learning Solutions, which is loosely based on Gagne's Levels of Learning. Then I went back to the board to flow-map the module steps. Here's what that looked like: At this point, I was ready to sit down and start slapping something together in Storyline. I was just going for a quick prototype, but I did add a bit more to make it presentable. I also considered this to be a template module that I could use for projects that could work in a similar structure. This is what resulted. Click the image to open the interactive prototype: Altogether, up to the point before I began prototyping, I'd spent about 2.5 hours. I'm sure other people can be much faster at this, but that's what I'm practicing for, so I can eventually keep up with all those elearning Olympians.
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