Increasing productivity of e-learning development

 
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The situation is where you start. You learn by dealing with real-life work situations. Provide a short description of the situation for the learners to work on. Along the way, you will impact results.
Sitches are situations, jams, issues, errors, gaps, troubles, stoppages and many others to fix and solve. They are also opportunities to improve, grow, expand, and introduce better, faster and cheaper ways to get the desired results.
What is your Situation and Question?
Fairly recently we started making all our off-the-shelve e-learning modules and other resources more learner focused and fully accessible. Due to the high volume of work (development of 143 components within just a few months, we had to work with free-lance IDs/builders in addition to out internal staff. As the external IDs had never created fully accessible modules before, we up skilled them along our own IDs and provided them with an in-depth build guide and a fully accessible template. We also used Teams so that all of us could share their experience and we could help each other figuring out solutions. However, the majority of modules we received back from the free-lancers had major issues and internal staff spent a huge amount of time amending their work.
What's the biggest challenge?
Ensuring that going forward this does not happen again and external IDs deliver modules which meet our quality standards.
What's the objective?
We want external IDs to deliver modules to a standard which is similar to the one achieved by internal IDs so that we can work more efficiently avoid having to spend additional time on amends.

Ray Jimenez, PhD    
March 26, 2020