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Testing your solutions early and often

Testing your solutions early and often

From the course: Corporate Instruction Foundations

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Testing your solutions early and often

- Here's an experience most seasoned learning professionals have had but would rather forget. About halfway through developing a course, the learning pro comes up with an innovative way to use technology, perhaps incorporating an app or a complex interaction in an elearning module, or an inventive way to use video. They feel good, so good in fact, they make that cool technology a structural element of the course. This project is going to make a splash for sure. But, they wait until three days before launch to test the course in the LMS, and when they do, the cool tech, it breaks like a thousand egg shells supporting a train track, which compromises the whole project. Technical issues are a fact of our business. You should expect and prepare for them. Here's a few ways you can do that. First, know what technology your learners are using. Particularly important are the devices and browsers being used. You can find this information by either observing your learners in real time or by…

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