Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide

This week sees the release of my new book, Digital Learning Content: A Designer's Guide. The book is for anyone with an interest in helping others to learn. You may be a teacher, trainer, lecturer or coach. You may be a subject expert with knowledge you want to share or an experienced practitioner who wants to pass on their tips. You may already be a creator of learning content, looking to update their skills. Whatever your interest, this guide will help you to design learning materials that really make a difference.

Digital learning content takes a wide variety of forms, including tutorials, scenarios, podcasts, screencasts, videos, slideshows, quizzes and reference materials. The book provides you with fundamental principles that you can apply to any content creation activity as well as practical information relating to specific content types.

Here's the table of contents:

1. Making the most of this guide
2. Coming to terms with content
3. Building on sound foundations
4. Determining roles and processes
5. Working with subject experts
6. Starting with some universal principles
7. Exploiting the power of interactivity
8. Working with the basic media elements
9. Distributing your content
10. Assembling your toolkit
11. Creating learning podcasts
12. Creating learning slideshows
13. Creating learning screencasts
14. Creating learning scenarios
15. Creating learning videos
16. Creating learning tutorials
17. Creating quizzes
18. Creating reference information
19. What does exemplary digital learning content look like?

The book is currently only available through Lulu, priced at £19.95 or local currency equivalents. Distribution through Amazon and other online book-sellers will commence in the next few weeks and e-book versions are in development.

If you're at Learning Technologies in London this Wednesday or Thursday, stop by the Onlignment stand (133)  where we'll have plenty of copies for you to leaf through.

Posted Yesterday by Clive Shepherd