February 2000
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
15h 32m
English
Content preview from Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
12.3. LOWER THE HURDLES
Far too many potential learners never get started with WBT. They never even try. They take a look at the long list of technical requirements for taking the course and walk away, muttering, "Who do they design these courses for?"
12.3.1. Identify technical barriers
No course is effective unless learners can and will take it. The surest way to prevent learners from taking a course is to require more computer resources and skills than learners possess. Take a look at the following list of requirements and see what barriers you spot.
If you want to ensure that few take your course, require a rigid and impossibly high set of requirements:
A more powerful computer than most learners will have.
Faster network connection than many will have. Remember, some may need to take courses from home or hotel room over a modem.
Many obscure, unsupported, or beta-version plug-ins that learners must download and install.
Extensive changes to basic browser settings.
And do not bother providing help meeting the requirements or testing compliance.
On the other hand, if you want as many learners as possible to take your course, reduce requirements and help learners meet them.
12.3.2. Reduce technical requirements
Even the most humane WBT designers are subject to bouts of gizmania, also known as bell-and-whistle syndrome. This disease manifests it with symptoms of excessive (some ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.