The Future of Learning
Content Strategy
Megan Bowe
@meganbowe

bit.ly/thatdeck
A crossroad
What are we trying to do?
…prepare our organization to
support people who don’t
work there yet or people
moving across knowledge
areas.
The new world
We all should be
a little excited.

We are becoming more free to design
experiences and content supporting them
without the constraints of a specific technology.
Why I’m talking about this.

…and more. Along with the many technologies
that support them.
What’s your story?
(discuss)
What is content strategy, really?
“Planning for the creation,
delivery, and governance
of useful, usable content.”
- Kristina Halvorson
Planning
What content is needed? Why?
Creation
All of the making
Delivery
The medium is the message
Governance
What’s working?
So, Learning Content
Strategy…
Audit
Audit Tool

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Research
Plan
Curation
Create and update
Data Models,
Tagging, Taxonomies
…and folksonomies
Governance

…or lack there of.
Governance

Feedback loops
A LRS? An analytics suite?

Not sure? Open Source and free SAS platforms are a good way to start trying things
Thank you!

Megan Bowe
@meganbowe
meganbowe@gmail.com

bit.ly/thatdeck
bit.ly/thatspreadsheet

The Future of Learning Content Strategy #astdtk14

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Explain my story
  • #3 If you just keep making the stuff you have, it can always go in here
  • #4 Explain Halvorson – what she’s known for and the contextDefined by Halvorson, for web marketing as, “planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.” - See more at: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/10/the-scoop-on-content-strategy-an-interview-with-kristina-halvorson.php#sthash.F4CEV1Nx.dpuf
  • #5 Content needs to be separated from technology, it should be understandable by many systems and able to be easily reusedFocus on design, content and experiences.Technology, tools, and platforms come later. Trust me, if you really come up with something that can’t be done by something that already exists… you will be a millionaire.
  • #7 If you just keep making the stuff you have, it can always go in here
  • #9 Explain Halvorson – what she’s known for and the contextDefined by Halvorson, for web marketing as, “planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content.” - See more at: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/10/the-scoop-on-content-strategy-an-interview-with-kristina-halvorson.php#sthash.F4CEV1Nx.dpuf
  • #10 Get started, but digress into Banksy story. Talk about how people experience street art and the strategy that goes into some of these really amazing works. The drive to communicate to people where it will have the most impact on numbers of people and the subversiveness of it.
  • #12 Explain Halvorson – what she’s known for and the context
  • #13 Banksy
  • #15 What do you have?How old is it? Is it still accurate?How much value does it provide to your users?Is it even worth listing that it exists here?
  • #17 What do people actually need to know to do their jobs?Where do they work? Where do they need information?What formats or types of content do they have access to?Describe research methods…
  • #18 What content should be created?What format(s)?Where will it be stored? Don’t find a tool and try to make your content fit into it, make your content what it needs to be and put it where people need to find it. If it’s a wiki, fine. If it’s a plain old html page, fine. Make it easy to find, search and share. Don’t build it into some proprietary system that you will forever be beholden to (see: your old LMS)Consider: Google Docs, Wordpress, Confluence, DozukiWhere and how will it be delivered?
  • #19 Trimming the fat, weeding the garden. Make the audit worthwhile
  • #20 Don’t make SCORM packages unless you have a distinct reason to. Making web standard friendly content is much more effective, will work better and last longer.Each piece should have considerations taken for AlignmentDiscretenessModularityGranularity
  • #21 how do you intend to keep this organized and findable?
  • #22 Tin Can is one wayThis is where an analytics tool can help if you just want to know about clicks: Google Analytics, PiwikWhat is working? What is not? Why?... go do some research.Are people finding the things they’re searching for?What are they sharing the most?
  • #23 Tin Can is one wayThis is where an analytics tool can help if you just want to know about clicks: Google Analytics, PiwikWhat is working? What is not? Why?... go do some research.Are people finding the things they’re searching for?What are they sharing the most?
  • #24 Tin Can is one wayThis is where an analytics tool can help if you just want to know about clicks: Google Analytics, PiwikWhat is working? What is not? Why?... go do some research.Are people finding the things they’re searching for?What are they sharing the most?
  • #25 Tin Can is one wayThis is where an analytics tool can help if you just want to know about clicks: Google Analytics, PiwikWhat is working? What is not? Why?... go do some research.Are people finding the things they’re searching for?What are they sharing the most?