Presentation explaining the mylearningworx 'Worxsmith Content Services' and how to reduce the cost of content creation for your organisation.

1. www.mylearningworx.com
Martin Belton
Managing Director
martin@mylearningworx.com
@martinb66

2. mylearningworx is the UK’s 1st crowd-sourced learning platform
• An elearning marketplace of courses sourced from the top
content providers rubbing shoulders with courses created by the
crowd, for the crowd – that is any Internet user.

3. worxsmith content services
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A new way to order your elearning content development services
Choose JUST the services you need to create any type of elearning
Work with some of the UK’s leading experts
Easily add new and ‘missing’ skills to your in-house capabilities
Reduce stress by supplementing existing content skills
Bring in new ideas and designs to improve elearning
Help meet critical production deadlines
Lower costs of external content suppliers

4. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Packaging &
Delivery

5. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Packaging &
Delivery
Planning
• Support to create a project schedule with each of the tasks clearly defined
• Help to determine learning objectives and identify audience
• Discuss and advise on software and services available and recommended
• Identify services required externally or internally
• Allocate responsibilities
• Determine best value solutions

6. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Content Gathering & Analysis
• Gather materials and documentation
• Identify suppliers and confirm costs
• At this stage we analyse and help determine how content will become
interactive and engaging to create the instructional strategy e.g.
o story-based
o game-based
o scenario-based learning
o simulations
Packaging &
Delivery

7. Content Gathering
& Analysis
Planning
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Packaging &
Delivery
Instructional Design & Storyboarding
• Identify instructional designers. Criteria in determining right designer include:
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Experience in business sector
Experience in chosen style of content production
Proximity and availability
Storyboarding styles (e.g. Word, PowerPoint or specialist storyboard software)
• Make sure that the ID’s instructional goals support the strategy
• Get feedback from subject matter expert (SME) to review and provide feedback

8. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Identify content developer and chosen tools
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Tools available include Flash, Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, Authorware and others
Compile narration script, identify voice overs arrange and direct recording session
Create the graphical user interface (GUI) and look and feel and make sure
consistent with the storyboard and corporate guidelines
Get approval from stakeholders
Make sure all assets (e.g. such as images, photos, animations, characters )
are available and licensed
Author the courseware in the chosen tool
Packaging &
Delivery

9. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Packaging &
Delivery
Quality Assurance
• Test to ensure the quality of the courseware.
• Normally there will be a minimum of two tests: Alpha, and Beta
o Courseware amended according to the feedback from the Alpha test
o Course then reviewed by the stakeholders for Beta testing feedback from
stakeholders before finalising the courseware.
o Includes testing in the delivery environment
• Sign off and approval

10. Planning
Content Gathering
& Analysis
Instructional Design
& Storyboarding
Development
& Production
Quality
Assurance
Packaging &
Delivery
Packaging and Delivery
• Courseware is packaged according to requirements. These can include:
o Delivery to public using mylearningworx system
o Upload to an LMS
o Upload to a website
• Support also available for content promotion internally or to external audiences

11. worxsmith content services
• More information
• Sales@mylearningworx.com
• Tel: 07843 599226