eLearning Content Development Service
Benefits of Bespoke eLearning Content
Unlike generic, off-the-shelf library content, bespoke eLearning content is designed specifically around your organisation’s unique objectives and your learners’ day-to-day realities. By integrating your specific business data, internal processes and real-world scenarios; the content becomes immediately recognisable and relevant to your workforce.
While bespoke learning content requires a more considered upfront investment than generic alternatives, the long-term organisational benefits and measurable returns are substantial:
- Brand Alignment: Learning content is fully customised to reflect your corporate identity, utilising your brand guidelines, terminology, and organisational culture to build trust and consistency.
- Multiple Learning Experiences: Leveraging modern development technologies provides engaging content and can include a combination of interactive simulations, video, animation and assessments to reflect the learners’ day-to-day working environment and scenarios.
- Enhanced Engagement and Retention: When learning directly reflects an employee’s job role and daily challenges, engagement increases significantly. This relevance ensures higher completion rates and long-term knowledge retention.
- Long-Term Asset Value and ROI: Bespoke eLearning content becomes an asset to the organisation. Free from recurring subscription fees, licensing constraints, or intellectual property restrictions. Your internal teams can easily update the content as your business evolves, ensuring low-cost sustainability and a clear return on investment.
Our eLearning Content Development Service
Ensuring that your bespoke eLearning content addresses the requirements of project stakeholders as well as your learners can be complex. Our team has knowledge and experience spanning most of the leading learning content development tools and specialise in scoping, planning and delivering tailored eLearning solutions aligned to your specific objectives and budget.
Our expertise extends to both management and soft-skills training as well as enterprise system adoption, frequently delivering hybrid solutions that integrate both areas.
To support your goals, we offer qualified eLearning Content Developers and Instructional Designers who can deliver your project end-to-end or integrate seamlessly with your in-house team. Our project development methodology is a hybrid of Prince2 and Agile, leveraging continually refined templates and analytics to ensure efficient, high quality delivery.
Furthermore, our extensive project experience qualifies us to confidently work on a fixed-scope, fixed-price basis. Following a detailed consultation with your key stakeholders, we deliver a detailed Scope Report and transparent pricing to eliminate budget risk and ensure a seamless partnership.
Discovery Workshop
Before we commence any eLearning content development project, we facilitate a Discovery Workshop to align our development process to your learning objectives and the findings of your Learning Needs Analysis and Learning Strategy. These sessions to ensure your team is fully prepared to implement your chosen eLearning content development tool and start with a deep dive into the features and functions to ensure the final eLearning content and deployment methods support your learners’ needs. This allows the Team to collaborate and agree the best instructional design methods to build and sign off a Prototype course, laying the groundwork to plan an effective development project.
Our Discovery Workshop covers the key areas outlined below:
Instructional Design
Applying proven learning theories and design models to create engaging, relevant and impactful training. We analyse training needs to identify required learning outcomes and define appropriate training strategies, ensuring content is tailored to learner needs, skill levels and job roles.
Accessibility
Integrating accessibility best practices ensures compliance with recognised standards such as WCAG, i.e. intuitive navigation for keyboard users, alternative text, colour contrast, closed captions and transcripts. We also consider cognitive accessibility, i.e. simplifying language where appropriate and providing consistent layouts to support ease of use for all learners.
Prototype
A prototype course is created which incorporates the findings and decisions from the collaborative discussions around instructional design and accessibility. Typically this is a small area of the outline identified for development and allows stakeholders and the project team to visualise the potential end solution and fine tune the design until the requirement is approved for development.
Content Standards
Informed by the approved Prototype, the content
development standards provide the guidelines to build your eLearning content and ensure a consistent look and feel is achieved across all modules. They establish clear paramters for branding and visual design, layouts, assets, language and accessibility in order to streamline the production phase and minimise revision cycles.
Project Scope
A comprehensive review of the development requirements, including dependencies such as recording environment, development methodology, readiness and prerequisites. The finalised scope document will inform the time, resources and budget required to achieve the project objectives. The Scope Report enables us to provide a fixed price to ensure we can meet the required budget and timelines.
Work Plan
A detailed Work Plan is created to serve as the project’s central roadmap, illustrating resource availability, allocation and their responsibilities across a defined activity timeline to meet an agreed deadline. It highlights key milestones for team alignment and provides the mechanism for real-time monitoring by tracking actual effort against predicted estimates.
Storyboarding
A wireframe of a training course down to page level detailing each learning interaction with on-screen text, media, development details and incorporating instructional design principles. This enables accurate scoping and approval of development effort.
Reporting
To implement a successful project and ensure smooth delivery and communication throughout the lifecycle, a reporting workflow is initiated. The assigned Project Manager will track progress against the original work plan and provide daily updates and a Weekly Status Report that utilises a RAG system to alert the wider team of risk and issues when necessary.
Learning Content Maintenance
The continuous maintenance of your content to ensure it accurately represents learning requirements, as well as providing an accurate representation of your system, business processes and/or legislation, is crucial. Our Content Maintenance Service ensures your Learners receive comprehensive, process-led eLearning, documentation and support materials that always reflect your current systems and processes.
Our Learning Content Development Experience
Our bespoke eLearning content development experience includes onboarding and induction, management and soft skills, compliance, Health and Safety and product and service skills.
Each of our clients is a reference and willing (subject to NDA) to discuss their experience of working with the Larmer Brown Team.
Contact our Learning Content Development Team
Whether you are looking to outsource your eLearning content development project or need to supplement your in-house development team, we can support you through successful deployment of your bespoke eLearning content.
If you would like to arrange a one-to one discussion with us about how we can support your eLearning content development project, please get in touch and we will organise a mutually convenient time for a call or meeting.
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