David Guralnick's course - "Workplace e-learning: Creating an Effective e-learning User Experience"
David Guralnick's e-learning design course is now offered as an 8-week online course! Details are below; the next session will begin on April 2nd, 2012.
Learn to create engaging, effective e-learning that's based on research from the fields of education, motivation, cognitive psychology and software usability, and watch videos of demonstrations
of successful e-learning sites!
Online Course - Registration is open to anyone!
This course will not require online attendance at particular times, you can do all work "asynchronously" each week as it suits your schedule.
Before the course begins, all registrants will receive access to the online site used to host the course as well as access to all readings that
will be used. A certificate of completion will be emailed, on request, to all participants who complete the course and would like a certificate.
Instructor: David Guralnick, Ph.D.
Course Dates: April 2nd-May 25th, 2012
Course Overview
This course will focus on the design of e-learning in workplace environments, from a perspective that looks to put academic research into practice.
You'll learn creative techniques to design e-learning that is educationally-sound, engaging, and effective.
Real-world cases, including numerous demonstrations of real-life courses and sites, will be used to explore uses of e-learning in the workplace
for both training and “just-in-time” performance support purposes.
Registration Information
Registration for this course is available through
Kaleidoscope Learning's Course Detail and Registration Page.
If you have administrative questions about the course, please email the Kaleidoscope Learning team
or call 212-679-2683. For content questions,
please email Dr. Guralnick directly.
Course Topics:
- Designing e-learning courses and just-in-time support to solve real-world problems
- Creating an engaging and effective e-learning user experience for a workplace audience
- Research in cognition and motivation as it relates to e-learning design
- Current trends in workplace e-learning
- Interface design for e-learning
- Usability studies and usability testing
- Designing e-learning for various audiences
- Designing effective e-learning within the constraints of the business world
Course Activities:
- Video demonstrations of real-life e-learning success stories
- Weekly readings and online discussions
- Video-based discussions with Dr. Guralnick and other e-learning experts, which will be available for live participation and archived to watch anytime.
- A learning-by-doing approach: As a course project, you'll design an e-learning or performance product for a real-life workplace situation.