Trainer1 - Neil Lasher advises the Open University on advisory design

Instructional architecture (ID) specialist, Neil Lasher, is administering a alternation of courses in ID techniques for the Open University (OU)’s beat agents and architecture team, which includes humans who are creating the OU’s e-learning materials.

Traditionally, OU advisers and added accountable amount experts accept created curricula and courses and again the OU’s beat designers accept produced the consistent acquirements materials. These abstracts accept been abundantly cardboard and DVD-based – with documents, pdfs and video basic cogent accommodation of the OU’s e-learning materials.

Having absitively that it needs to use acceptable convenance – as able-bodied as added artistic use – of e-learning materials, the OU approached Neil Lasher, managing administrator of absolute e-learning specialists Trainer1 and columnist of the UVID archetypal and ‘A list’ ID rules. Lasher has developed a alternation of three ‘learning events’ for some 45 of the OU’s staff, based at the OU’s address in Milton Keynes, who are complex in the activity management, editing, architecture and development of the OU’s acquirements materials.

“These acquirements contest accord with both acceptable and the new angle on ID and ID techniques,” Lasher explained. “They aim to advice these OU editors, designers and developers to actualize acquirements abstracts that added enhance the acquirements acquaintance – abnormally if that acquirements is developed via e-learning.

“The OU is one of the leaders in the acreage of ambit learning. This activity is one of the means in which they can accumulate this position in the bazaar and accommodate added affluent acquirements adventures for their acceptance – including demography e-learning to a new akin of added acquirements effectiveness.”

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