Just as every organisation is unique, so is every training initiative. As a result, courseware should be developed around specific challenges, needs, and outcomes. My approach is to create courseware that is the relevant to my customer's objectives and learning needs.
The first objective is to define the appropriate training strtegy for your requirements. Michael Hanley Consulting provides a range of end-to-end learning and development services high quality courseware development solutions.
Content & Courseware Development
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| Custom Content Creation | Creating custom courseware can seem daunting, even if you have identified the skill- and performance gaps in your organisation and have developed sound instructional guidelines for your training materials. Michael Hanley Consulting can help you meet the challenge of developing • Learning Object-based lessons & courses With our philosophy of "create once, reuse many times" we undertake the task of refactoring current training materials into formats appropriate to your learners' needs. We assist customers where needed in reviewing and redesigning content for delivery online, and will recommend approaches on making your content effective across a range of delivery channels. |
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| Content Conversion | Most organisations already possess a a library of current and legacy training materials, including: • PowerPoint presentations With our philosophy of "create once, reuse many times" we will assist in the process of refactoring current training materials into a Web-based format. We are specialists in redeveloping and enhancing course materials aimed at making your content effective across a range of delivery channels including: • Organisation Intranets • CD-ROM • DVD |
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| Rapid E-Learning Development | Rapid e-learning is a hot topic among many workplace learning and development practitioners. In a study of Fortune 500 companies conducted by Larstan Business Reports, 85 percent said they planned to expand the role of e-learning. More important, over 80 percent of respondents said that rapid e-learning strategies would make a significant contribution to the training initiatives in their companies.* Michael Hanley Consulting uses a range of e-learning content authoring tools to leverage the explicit and tacit domain knowledge possessed by an organzation's instructors, technical writers and subject matter experts to rapidly develop effective custom e-learning courseware to enhance the skills, knowledge, and productivity of key departments within an organisation. *Source: Learning Circuits Magazine |
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| Mobile Learning | Mobile learning (or m-learning) focuses on learning with personal media devices. We definite it as: Learning that happens across locations, or that takes advantage of learning opportunities offered by portable technologies including PDAs, portable media players, and mobile phones. M-learning adds value in environments where the learner is on the move and for digital natives (people born after 1985 who have grown up with the internet, mobile phones and games consoles, who are used to interacting with a range of digital devices). Applications for m-learning include: • Students using PDAs in the classroom Michael Hanley Consulting considers mobile learning as another channel for organisations to distribute their courseware; for example, a new product lesson update my be developed initially for delivery on DVD and refactored as a video podcast to be downloaded by users in remote locations. |
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| Demonstrations | Michael Hanley Consulting provides solutons for application and process demonstrations and simulations including: • Software application and systems process-based demonstrations |
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| Subject Matter Expert Training | We teach organisations how to develop learning materials using the best resources at their disposal: their own in-house experts. Using a Rapid E-Learning methodology we can show you how to: • Develop training templates |
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