As this was a shortened week due to the Thanksgiving holiday, time was of the essence. My first goal was to try and get all my Language of Caring modules published and deployed onto the LMS. However, after discussing with my onsite supervisor, it didn’t make sense to go through the process of publishing and deploying all 9 modules because not all the required information is available at this time. Namely, the survey link (for employees to fill out upon completion of each module) and the point-of-contact information have yet to be defined. Instead, my supervisor suggested that I publish/deploy only the first module for the SME to review and give their feedback. Since all 9 modules follow the same format, and changes requested can easily duplicated to the remaining modules.
The publishing process was pretty straightforward which Articulate automates based on the settings one chooses. The setting of utmost importance during the process is the SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) setting. SCORM is a technical specification for packaging and deploying eLearning course. It is the SCORM wrapper that makes courses universal and able to run in any LMS that is SCORM compliant. There are currently three versions of SCORM including 1.1 (the first and most buggy), 1.2 (most widely adopted with numerous 1.1. fixes) and 2004 (aka 1.3, the newest but not yet widely adopted). The company LMS works best with SCORM 1.2.
This experience was beneficial as I got a better understanding of SCORM (a term that I heard many times in the past, but never really understood), and the publishing process in general so I will be able to do it on my own in the future. Unfortunately, due to time constraints, there wasn’t enough to deploy the course onto the LMS so that will have to wait until next week.
In addition to going through the publishing process, I also had to complete the first draft of the MRI design document I had been working on in preparation for a meeting next week with the client/SME. The remaining sections of the documents that needed to be done dealt with the defining the learning objectives (both terminal and enabling) and the matching assessments. As the course will have 5 main content areas, I decided to have an enabling objective for each particular one, with an assessment to accompany it.
I’m a bit excited about this project because not only will developing such a course concept (i.e. a guided tour) be a new learning experience for me, but the matching assessments as well. A couple of the assessments I have planned include things like sorting images (e.g. whether they pose an MRI danger or not) and branching scenarios (e.g. If patient X has such and such symptoms, what would be the best course of action to take?). I hope the client/SME will approve everything.
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