workshop for ACE showcase 2009

1. Planning your journey into embedding e-learning practices
With acknowledgement to the
Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping
slides by Mary Moore
located on Slideshare 2009

2. 1. Identify your goals
• What educational • What e-learning
change do you want to tool/practice will
create with the e- provide the solution to
learning practice? your delivery issues?

3. Why care about the goal?
• A measurable goal helps
you:
– Design relevant actions
– Identify essential
content
– Evaluate the success of
your project
– Show how your effort
supports e-learning

4. Example Goals:
• Demonstrate how to explore e-learning tools
• Demonstrate how to implement e-learning
initiatives
• Demonstrate how to embed e-learning
practices

5. Put the goal in the middle of your map
Write your goal here

6. E-learning Goal

7. Identify what people need to do
• List actions that people
must take to reach the Learn how to install
e-learning goal Elluminate Live
Learn how to
participate in
Elluminate events
Learn how to
facilitate in
Elluminate events

8. Example Actions
• To understand the use • Explore and use an e-
and potentials for Web learning tool for a
2.0 tools period of time
• To encourage and • Implement an e-
support others in the learning project with a
use of e-learning group
initiatives
• To fully accept and • Embed an e-learning
include e-learning in practice into your
core business everyday work

9. Put the actions round your goal
Learn how to install
Elluminate Live
Learn how to
participate in
Elluminate events
Learn how to
facilitate in
Elluminate events

10. Design or locate practice activities
• For each action that learners must take in the
e-learning experience, design or locate a
practice activity:

11. Practice activities
• Check with IT
• Get Elluminate
Install
• Attend a tutorial
• Attend a webinar
Participate
• Practice as moderator
• Moderate a session
Facilitate

12. Example Activities:
• Activities enabling practice in e-learning:
– Example 1: create & maintain a blog for 6 months
– Example 2: mentor a group in using blogs
– Example 3: add blogging as a weekly practice

13. Put the activities on your map
• Link each activity to the action it supports

14. Put the practice activities
round your goal
• Check with IT
Learn how to
• Get Elluminate
Install install Elluminate
Live
• Attend a tutorial Learn how to
participate in
Participate • Attend a webinar Elluminate events
Learn how to
• Practice as facilitate in
moderator Elluminate events
Facilitate • Moderate a session

15. Identify what people need to know
really, really
• Identify the information that the learners
must have to complete each practice activity

16. Identify what people need to know
really, really
• Check with IT
• Get Elluminate
Install
• Attend a tutorial
Participate • Attend a webinar
• Practice as moderator
• Moderate a session
Facilitate

17. Example information:
• Information essential for the activities:
– How to create a blog
– How to involve a group in collaborative blogs
– How to encourage blogging on a weekly basis

18. Put the information on your map
• Link the information to each practice activity

19. Put the information on your map
• Check with IT
Learn how to
• Get Elluminate
Install install Elluminate
Live
• Attend a tutorial Learn how to
participate in
Participate • Attend a webinar Elluminate events
Learn how to
• Practice as facilitate in
moderator Elluminate events
Facilitate • Moderate a session

20. The Action Mapping process!

21. Everything supports the e-learning
goal! Action that
Measurable
will help
goal
reach the
goal
Only the Realistic
essential practice
information activity for
for that that action
activity

22. 2. Action
1.
that will
Your Action Map
Measurable
help reach
goal
the goal
4. Essential 3. Realistic
information practice
for that activity for
activity that action

23. Benefits of using the map as a
development tool
– Tightly focussed and relevant process
– Re-useable materials
– Realistic compelling activities
– No irrelevant information
– More likely to have a measurable impact
“Our
exploration,
implementation
and embedding
did that!”

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