America has a severe problem with the abuse of alcohol, prescription medication and illicit drugs.
The program explains that anger is a natural human emotion that can range from mild irritation to full rage. It can be caused by frustration, hurt, criticism, threats or any of a dozen triggers and every individual’s anger response to those situations is different.
Various laws protect the standard of care that many animals receive from their owners. This course will provide students general knowledge of animal laws and how they apply to animal cruelty, hoarding and other ownership issues.
Program was created to help students understand the general laws and regulations governing boating as well as how to conduct themselves in any wilderness excursions.
We all face challenges in our lives, but the ways we can approach those challenges are endless.
Being distracted while driving in inclement and other hazardous conditions leads to countless tragedies each year.
Having a basic understanding of personal finance is a critical skill for all citizens. This course will provide general knowledge for students of managing their personal finances including impact of bad check writing on the offender and society, check book balancing, budgeting and financial planning.
All learners may not go through same sequence in module; moreover, different learner takes different time to complete the module. The important thing here is; if learner completes the objectives of the module, some hours (for calulating the Man-hours) should be credited in his account by LMS.
Some people do basic calculations using the word count the storyboard docs. If you have audio, then consider about 100-120 words per minute for normal human speech. At least the same can be estimated for quizzes as well as some additional estimated time, usually another 1:30 or so per question.
But development of a 1-hour elearning course can range between 49 hours for the low end of the range of a “basic” course to 716 hours for the high end of the range of an “advanced” course.
For example, on average, one minute of a Level 2 program will require 197 minutes (or just over 3.25 hours) of development time.
Level 1: Text and graphics only, “click and read”. Level 2: Text, graphics, with simple branching, quizzing, and user participation. Level 3: Highly interactive, with branching scenarios and non-linear navigation. I know my interactivity ratio and would like to enter it manually.
In one of the recent brainstorming sessions held at a company event, a team of novices and experienced were presented with a scenario. The group was provided with a slide deck of about 25-30 slides and two PDFs.
Is there a 100% accurate answer whether we know how much time would an eLearning course development take? Most probably, there isn’t. However, all we can do is work our best estimate. The next when somebody puts forth this question “Is it possible for you to create this 15-minute eLearning within 2 weeks?”, you will have a better answer to that.
The two primary sources I use for benchmarks are Bryan Chapman’s research and Karl Kapp and Robyn Defelice’s 2017 ATD research.
For example, let’s say a client asks me to convert an existing full day training program to self-paced e-learning. This will be mostly linear with 25% interactivity but no branching scenarios. A “full day” or training in this case means 6 hours of actual content.
I always weigh different factors to tweak these benchmarks. Chapman’s numbers are for everyone on the team, not just my role, so many of these estimate should be lower.
Use these resources to create and compare your own time estimates (or to show stakeholders why you can’t create 5 hours of elearning in 3 weeks!).