Mobile devices such as Smartphones, iPads, iPods, Tablet PCs have gained immense popularity and widespread acceptance among users. Quite naturally, they are being considered as useful media to impart workplace learning. It makes a lot of practical sense in this age when knowledge transfer needs to take place in the shortest possible time reaching the widest possible audience. However, the challenge lies in the fact that regular media cannot be ignored or replaced with mobile devices for deploying learning. To ensure that eLearning courseware is available to a wide range of audiences within an organization, L&D managers need to make the courses accessible in multiple formats – which means users should be able to access the courses via their Smartphones, iPads, or simply through their workstation. Providing such flexibility does ensure wider registrations for eLearning courseware. However, it does pose a challenge to instructional designers when designing courses to be delivered in multiple delivery formats.

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I’m sure you’re all familiar with the story of Alice in wonderland, in which Alice enters the forest and asks the cat which way she needs to go. The cat replies saying it depends a good deal on where Alice wants to arrive at. To that Alice responds by saying she doesn’t care much where to go. The cat, in turn, replies that it doesn’t matter then which way she takes. What do you learn from this story? We learn that you need to begin with the end in mind – you need to know what you want to achieve to be able to make the right beginning. In the context of eLearning too, it is important to set your learning objectives in advance so as to achieve the end results for which you are developing the eLearning.

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eLearning has gained a lot of importance in the last few years and organizations have recognized the need to make learning available easily for employees. There are increasing attempts to supplement classroom training with online training as they are recognized as performance enablers. The easiest option for organizations to implement eLearning is to utilize some of the off-the-shelf courses available in the market. However, these decisions have to be taken after a great deal of thought because off-the-shelf courses can’t meet every training need.

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Learning objectives (which can also be called course objectives) are brief, precise, clear statements that specify what learners expect to perform at the end of any course or learning program. A learning objective provides a framework for the course which can be developed keeping in mind these goals. Therefore, setting learning objectives is the first step towards course development. So, how can you make sure your learning objectives are effective?

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We all have seen symbols or icons used in road signs. These symbols are self-explanatory and so widely-used that most of us understand what they mean even with the most cursory glance. They could indicate an instruction or a cautioning message such as ‘Drive Slowly’, or ‘Railway track ahead’ and so on. Have you ever considered why these icons are used to convey meaning instead of using just text?

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