So... my response... I'm not sure exactly how address the trade-offs. My experience is that every elearning project has some trade-offs, resources, time, money, energy, passion. The trade-offs between quality and speed is a tough question. I understand where the question comes from, our organizations are operating with real-time data and agility and flexibility is critical. So I guess if your "quality" learning program is not ready in time to educate your organization and the opportunity to improve performance passes, then it is not really a "quality" learning program. Right? On the flip side, if you decide your organization needs project management training and you create a power point stack that is accurate, but they don't comprehend any of the information and therefore don't change their behaviors in any way. You "rapid" e-learning is probably really poor quality.
So our challenge is to see were the speed requirement intersects with the quality requirement and execute.
Note: I didn't read the others response... Maybe I will now and reflect some more.
Others Ideas
| Tom Haskins | growing changing learning creating | The politics of quality | 09-Jan-2007 |
| Tony Karrer | eLearning Tech | Big Question for January - Quality vs. Speed | 09-Jan-2007 |
| Matthew Nehrling | mLearning-World | The Tao of Design | 09-Jan-2007 |
| Wendy | In The Middle of the Curve | Trading Off | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Clive Shepherd | Clive on Learning | The big question for January: quality v speed | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Howard Cronin | e-Training in the Trenches | Big Question - January 2007 | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Karyn Romeis | Karyn's Blog | The big question for January: speed v quality | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Clark Quinn | Learnlets | January's 'big' Question | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Karl Kapp | Kapp Notes | Rapid E-Learning Trade-Offs | 10-Jan-2007 |
| Donald Clark | Big Dog, Little Dog | Knowledge & Learning in the News | 11-Jan-2007 |
| David Wilson | Learning Reflections | The Big Question - Rapid or Quality | 11-Jan-2007 |
The comments on this post are being tracked and aggregated as part of Learning Circuits Blog's The Big Question for January. Thanks for participating, Lee!
ReplyDeleteLee you should add your post to the list using the form at http://learningcircuits.blogspot.com/2007/01/quality-vs-speed.html -Dave
No problem, Dave.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your analysis on Learning Management Systems based on time and quality. As you in a sense put it, a LMS may not always be the answer to a company's problems but a lot of the times they are. Check out our Online Media Center here at SyberWorks where you can see past successes in the e-Learning field using Learning Management Systems. Let's keep up the good work with e-Learning because it is an inevitable part of our future!
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