Thursday, March 5

Action Mapping for eLearning Course Design

Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping

Cathy Moore explains in the Slideshare presentation linked above and embedded below, how her "Action Mapping" concept works.

You can find more info on her website, cathy-moore.com.

I like the basic principle of linking everything to an measurable business goal, and focusing on what people need to do in order to achieve that goal. This turns traditional corporate training development on its head. Here action mapping technique promotes the development of activities that simulate real world scenarios.

I'm not sure I like the graphical treatment, something about it strikes me as inelegant. But the concepts are solid and should improve instructional design if your organization is still stuck in the "information dump" mode.

... plus, you gotta love ninjas.

Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping
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