Action Mapping for E-learning

Planning your journey into embedding e-learning practices

With acknowledgement to the Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping

slides by Mary Moore located on Slideshare 2009

1. Identify your goals

• What educational change do you want to create with the e-learning practice?

• What e-learning tool/practice will provide the solution to your delivery issues?

Why care about the goal?

• A measurable goal helps you:– Design relevant actions– Identify essential

content– Evaluate the success of

your project– Show how your effort

supports e-learning

Example Goals:

• Demonstrate how to explore e-learning tools

• Demonstrate how to implement e-learning initiatives

• Demonstrate how to embed e-learning practices

Put the goal in the middle of your map

Write your goal here

E-learning Goal

Identify what people need to do

• List actions that people must take to reach the e-learning goal

Learn how to install

Elluminate Live

Learn how to participate in

Elluminate events

Learn how to facilitate in Elluminate

events

Example Actions

• To understand the use and potentials for Web 2.0 tools

• To encourage and support others in the use of e-learning initiatives

• To fully accept and include e-learning in core business

• Explore and use an e-learning tool for a period of time

• Implement an e-learning project with a group

• Embed an e-learning practice into your everyday work

Put the actions round your goal

Schedule virtual classroomsFor students in your course

Learn how to install

Elluminate Live

Learn how to participate in

Elluminate events

Learn how to facilitate in Elluminate

events

Design or locate practice activities

• For each action that learners must take in the e-learning experience, design or locate a practice activity:

Practice activities

Install •Check with IT•Get Elluminate

Participate •Attend a tutorial•Attend a webinar

Facilitate •Practice as moderator•Moderate a session

Example Activities:

• Activities enabling practice in e-learning:

– Example 1: create & maintain a blog for 6 months

– Example 2: mentor a group in using blogs

– Example 3: add blogging as a weekly practice

Put the activities on your map

• Link each activity to the action it supports

Put the practice activities round your goal

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Learn how to install

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Learn how to

facilitate in

Elluminate events

Install •Check with IT•Get Elluminate

Participate

•Attend a tutorial•Attend a webinar

Facilitate •Practice as moderator•Moderate a session

Identify what people need to know

• Identify the information that the learners must have to complete each practice activity

really, really

Identify what people need to know

Install •Check with IT•Get Elluminate

Participate •Attend a tutorial•Attend a webinar

Facilitate •Practice as moderator•Moderate a session

really, really

Example information:

• Information essential for the activities:– How to create a blog– How to involve a group in collaborative blogs– How to encourage blogging on a weekly basis

Put the information on your map

• Link the information to each practice activity

Put the information on your map

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Learn how to install

Elluminate Live

Learn how to

participate in

Elluminate events

Learn how to

facilitate in

Elluminate events

Install •Check with IT•Get Elluminate

Participate

•Attend a tutorial•Attend a webinar

Facilitate •Practice as moderator•Moderate a session

The Action Mapping process!

1. Identify the goal2. Identify what people need to do to reach the

goal3. Design or locate activities that help people

practice those actions4. Identify the minimum information people

need to complete each activity

Everything supports the e-learning goal!Action that

will help reach the

goal

Realistic practice

activity for that action

Only the essential

information for that activity

Measurable goal

Your Action Map2. Action that will

help reach the goal

3. Realistic practice

activity for that action

4. Essential information

for that activity

1. Measurable

goal

Benefits of using the map as a development tool

– Tightly focussed and relevant process– Re-useable materials– Realistic compelling activities– No irrelevant information– More likely to have a measurable impact

“Our exploration,

implementation and embedding

did that!”

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