Why You Should Have User Centric Tutorials for Software Products

When you create tutorials  for a software product, it is very natural to capture the following:

Description about the product features
All tasks that one can do with each of the product features
Steps to complete each of the tasks

Most software product tutorials are product feature centric.
Here is an example  of a product feature centric tutorial for Camtasia. The very title [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Help Manuals, Instructional Design, Online Tutorials, Product Tutorial Design, Scenario Based E-learning, Task Based Approach, elearning | 5 comments

Designing an Effective Instructional Design Strategy – Learning from Gaming

Whenever I get free time, I play online games. Yesterday I had a tough time figuring out how to play the game called Hamsterflight . I read through the instructions to play the game for nearly ten minutes. Yet was not able to follow the instructions.
Probably I was too bored to read anything at that [...]

March 13th, 2007 | Category: Game Design, Gaming, Instructional Design, Instructional Strategy, Task Based Approach | 5 comments

Quick Tips to Design the Course Flow for an E-learning Course

For any e-learning project, you must have a SME , who gives you the course content in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation or in a Word document.
Most often the information you get from the SME/the client is unstructured and not comprehensive. You might get a series of documents which have information scattered across the [...]

March 7th, 2007 | Category: Classic Approach, Course Map, Course Outline, Instructional Design, Task Based Approach | One comment