Elearning Development

Tired of commuting long journeys to pursue your dream course? Are you looking for a change from the monotonous classroom lectures? Then eLearning is the best available option for you. eLearning can be defined as a comprehensive computer based education for aspiring individuals.

eLearning gets better when implied in collaboration with Advanced Learning Technology (ALT). Technologies used in eLearning are many. To list a few may be e- portfolios, PDA's, hypermedia, multimedia CD- ROMS'S, blogs, collaborative software, text chat, wikipedia, virtual classrooms, electronic voting system. Games and many more. ELearning could use these technologies individually or used clubbing a few along.

With the rising importance on computer based learning, to customize and a develop a process to eLearning pathway has become imperative. An eLearning development process is essentially designed to obtain a better understanding of the functions of eLearning. There are numerous companies or agencies that develop a systematic approach to eLearning, to help the organization meet its goals and objectives. It is important to understand the process that the agency follows to implement eLearning and whether it caters to your needs or not?

Depending on the needs you can select the process that would be the most convenient and more importantly easy to implement. As a matter of fact a development process to eLearning will tell if you re on the right track or not! To make the concept clear, let's look at an eLearning Development Process in general given any situation:

  • Analysis of needs: This usually will be the first step to any eLearning Development Process. Essentially this would comprise of understanding the needs of an end user, the organization's expectations from eLearning, organistaion's capability and adaptability to this new feature, and their technical needs. This would offer better understanding to the organization in terms of choosing the right eLearning program.

    Analysis of needs would particularly cover the below listed areas:

    • Study of target market.
    • Analyzing content
    • Formatting and presenting the content
    • Analysis of the Learning Management System.


  • eLearning Design: eLearning courses are designed to ensure that the business objectives of training are met at all times. An effective eLearning design would counter the business objectives at the first step itself. As for the design process itself eLearning developers can use many tools, like text creation tools, graphic and image tools, web based tools and so on. Customized software like macro media, dreamweaver etc enhance the effectiveness of an eLearning design.

Remember an eLearning design would be efficient only if has an effective eLearning objective. It should be the developer's primary objective to define the eLearning policy before he designs the eLearning system.