Project Managing E-Learning

Prototyping Versus Focus Groups

Lest there be any doubt, please remember that focus groups will be reviewing a real, working e-learning product rather than throwaway prototypes. Delivery cycles are simply too short to waste time creating models that have no use. The project initiation workshop is perhaps the only exception to this rule. At that early stage, objectives should be translated into features and general descriptions of the types of delivery methods and interfaces to be used.

Prototypes at this stage may be storyboards, drawings, and perhaps a few prefabricated interface controls used for demonstration purposes. Once the project initiation workshop is completed, any development work should operate under the assumption that the deliverable ...