Companies operating in more than one country often have to factor for the cultural and linguistic differences of individuals they deal with. They need to translate and localize marketing or communication collaterals to suit the target audience. The same is true with eLearning courses as well. A course meant for the American employees may not be appropriate for their workforce who is located in say Malaysia or Japan. There are many reasons for it. Some of them are as follows:

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We might have all heard a great deal about working memory and long term memory and their influence on instructional design. It is said that the working memory has limited capacity and can only process a defined amount of information at a given point of time. Cognitive psychologist George Miller says that the working memory can process 7 ± 2 chunks of information at a time. It is widely referred to as Miller’s law. How is this theory applicable when designing eLearning courses?

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Rapid eLearning development involves using eLearning authoring tools that require minimum programming knowledge. They enable instructional designers and learning professionals to transform content to instructionally sound learning material within a short duration. While traditional eLearning course may take months to be developed, rapid eLearning course can be developed in a few weeks.

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Long ago someone said, the only thing constant in life is change. This can’t be truer when it comes to knowledge in today’s times. Knowledge has become so dynamic today that, what was true yesterday may become irrelevant today with the addition of new information circulating in cyber sphere. People have developed a need to be connected so that they can stay informed about the trends in their domain.

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Breaking long strings of information into bite sized absorbable pieces is known as chunking. When the long strings are broken into small chunks, it helps the learner to prioritize, organize and identify the core elements. Chunking is a technique course designers use to break information and then reorder the learning modules into chunks that make sense. This plays an important role while creating an eLearning course.

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