Developing human resource
for e-Learning content creation
A detailed proposal plan
Sameer Sahasrabudhe
Background
- Increasing emphasis on eLearning by the government
- More institutions encouraged and supported to participate in eLearning content creation
- MOOCs for Indian audience, NMEICT, Saakshat, Aakash
- Every (national) institute would be having a eLearning content creation unit, catering to a specific domain
Where is the trained workforce for creating this content?
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Typical eLearning content creation process and stakeholders
- Subject matter expert
- Instructional designer
- Animation developer
- Software programmer
- Script writer/technical writer
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Subject matter experts
- Mostly available
- Also, interested in creating content, as they are one of the beneficiary
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Instructional designers
- Very few available
- Main reason is lack of formal education
- Few institutions which offer this course, cater mainly to the companies, which hire them for creating internal training
- Varied intake (graduate in any discipline), results in a divergent output
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Animation developers
- Non existing!!
- No formal course available
- Almost all of them in this field are migrants from entertainment domain
- Even there, the training comprises mainly of the software and not about the concepts of animation
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Technical writers
Solution plan
- Formal curriculum by consulting researchers
- Qualified trainers
- State-of-the-art laboratories
- Assessment and certification
