From the course: Instructional Design: Storyboarding

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Understanding when to start

Understanding when to start

From the course: Instructional Design: Storyboarding

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Understanding when to start

Let me give you a brief, high-level view of the first few stages of the instructional design process, so you can see where storyboarding fits in. And please don't sweat it if your organization follows a different process, or calls the stages something else. Most training projects begin with an analysis stage, often called a needs analysis. And here you're asking the big questions like, what issues or problems are we trying to address with this training? What are the best ways, in terms of e-learning, to address those issues? And, what do we want the learner to know or be able to do after the course is done? This last question helps you come up with your learning objectives. Once the analysis stage is complete, you usually have a good handle on the topics and the learning objectives you'll be focusing on. What you need now is some quality content that relates to your objectives, which is why this next stage is often known as content development. In this stage you're culling and…

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