Brightwave's e-learning production process
Great to have a few months between modules as it gives me the opportunity to look beyond the MAODE modules at what interests me most: learnign and development in a corporate setting, the practicalities of enhancing the skills and building on the motivations and interests of people in their daily working lives.
The above chart adds detail to a familiar productoin process.
The benefit of turning to an outside supplier for such services (and for the the supplier to call upon the specialist skills of freelancers), is the accountability, the clarity of the stages, the parameters set by budgets and schedules and the lack of politics, as well as the engagement with a diversity of cultures, experiences and background which you simply do no get when everything is carried out in-house, the biggest bugbear of most providers in the the tertiary sector who insist on doing it all themselves.
Particularly impressed with Laura Overton who I have heard speak at Learning Technologies in the past.
Brightwave, quite rightly, include a transcript with these face paced, tightly edited, packed interviews.
This doesn't preclude the benefit of taking notes. I also cut and paste the transcript then go through highlighting, re-arranging the text and doing what Jakob Neilsen would call making it 'web friendly'.
Even if I don't share this online, the act of doing this is a vital way to engage and memorise the information.
I've come to understand in the last few days (B822 End of Module Exam) that a 'mnemonic' is any devise or technique that aids memory, so reading this start the mylenations process, comment and those tracks become established. Cut and paste, doing something of your own with the content, go follow the links, add links of your own, cut and paste into a blog (here or externally), then share it into Facebook or Twitter and pick up others who know more or less and can contribute.
All of this is a very human way og aggregating and securing knowledge.
Ideally everyone would be milling around my garden right now, we'd pick up the conversation, then drift away to other things.