Do You Test Your eLearning Products At All Stages of Development? 5 Reasons Why You Need to Relook your Development Process – By Kern Learning Solutions

1 Do You Involve Your Stakeholders During the Design Document Review? Kern Learning Solutions ID Developer Client/Stakeholders Others Visual Designer SME

1 Do You Involve Your Stakeholders During the Design Document Review? Kern Learning Solutions ID Developer Client/Stakeholders Others Kern Visual Designer Even if it takes a while to get all under one roof, it is worth the wait. The design document is more comprehensive and less likely to be modified later. SME

2 Do You Test Your Concept with your Learners? Kern Learning Solutions Others 1 2 3 ID review SME review Edit review

2 Do You Test Your Concept with your Learners? Kern Learning Solutions Others Kern 1 2 3 ID review SME review Edit review 1 2 Internal reviews Testing ID review SME review Learner Testing ? ? Concept testing with learners is like an early warning system. It helps you get on track with both learnability and usability of the course. Edit review

3 Do You Perform Usability Testing of Your eLearning Products? Kern Learning Solutions Others QA – Pass Functionality – Pass Usability – Fail? QA Quality Assurance

3 Do You Perform Usability Testing of Your eLearning Products? Kern Learning Solutions Others Kern QA – Pass Functionality – Pass Usability – Fail? Learner testing helps you spot the pitfalls and roadblocks to learning. It helps you eliminate frustration for the learner. QA Quality Assurance Usability Testing Quality Assurance Affordance Learnability Memorability Efficiency Satisfaction

Affordance

Learnability

Memorability

Efficiency

Satisfaction

4 Do You Perform Learnability Testing of Your eLearning Products? Kern Learning Solutions Others Quality Assurance

4 Do You Perform Learnability Testing of Your eLearning Products? Kern Learning Solutions Others Kern Learnability Testing Usability Testing Quality Assurance Quality Assurance Cognitive roadblocks and pitfalls Issues that hinder learning Interactivities that are low on motivation or less challenging Learnability testing is the key to an effective course. If an eLearning is not learnable, then it is not effective.

Cognitive roadblocks and pitfalls

Issues that hinder learning

Interactivities that are low on motivation or less challenging

5 Do You Evaluate Your eLearning Course? Kern Learning Solutions Others Assessment = Evaluation

5 Do You Evaluate Your eLearning Course? Kern Learning Solutions Others Kern Assessment = Evaluation Learning Effectiveness (short & long term)= Evaluation At Kern, we believe that a course is effective only when learners can apply their learning at their workplace efficiently.

QA comments Vs. Usability comments Kern Learning Solutions QA comments Middle align bullet and text Middle align radio buttons and option.

QA comments Vs. Usability comments Kern Learning Solutions Usability comments The tabs do not have the affordance of a click. Learners did not click on Gautam and Sidhant. These buttons do not have the affordance as they are flat. The replay button is not intuitive. The learner did not use this button.

Summary The design document is more comprehensive and less likely to be modified later when everyone is involved. Concept testing helps you check both learnability and usability of the course. Learner testing helps you spot the pitfalls and roadblocks to learning. Learnability testing is the key to an effective course. If an eLearning is not learnable, then it is not effective. A course is effective only when learners can apply their learning at their workplace efficiently.

The design document is more comprehensive and less likely to be modified later when everyone is involved.

Concept testing helps you check both learnability and usability of the course.

Learner testing helps you spot the pitfalls and roadblocks to learning.

Learnability testing is the key to an effective course. If an eLearning is not learnable, then it is not effective.

A course is effective only when learners can apply their learning at their workplace efficiently.

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