In my search to locate some resources for estimating costs and allocating resources so that I can get some help for my project at Walden University, I saw similar blogs from former Walden students. That is where I found the image listed above, so it was interesting to view the resources that the blog listed, too. The blog is titled, The Lightening Blog, and it is also a blogger blog authored by Julie M. Jones, a student at Walden in 2012.
She used a resource that I also have book marked from earlier classes, and I am sure that this website will also look familiar to my Walden classmates. It is Don Clark's site titled, Big Dog & Little Dog's Performance Juxtaposition. When you read articles on Clark's site it helps you to gain confidence to get started trying new things, like creating a budget. Jones found an excellent resource in Clark's site since there are also other links there for more study on creating time allotments for training programs. Some of the links lead to free resources, and there are others that you have to pay for.
One of the links went to The Elearning Guild, which is a pdf file showing results from 103 individuals who participated in a survey on developing both asynchronous, and synchronous e-Learning projects. The survey is a time ratio survey comparing the developmental time to create one minute of and e-Learning course, along with general questions about the organization.
Here are the links for my first 3 resources:
Clark, D. (2010). Big dog & little dog's performance juxtaposition. Estimating costs and time in instructional design. Retrieved on February 4, 2015 from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/costs.html
THE ELEARNING GUILD. (2002). The e-Learning development time ratio survey. Retrieved from http://www.elearningguild.com/pdf/1/time%20to%20develop%20Survey.pdf
Jones, J. (2012, July 25). The Lightening Blog. Estimating costs and allocating resources. Retrieved on February 4, 2015 from http://jmjidt.blogspot.com/
I like the estimated cost for tasks breakdown noted in The Big Dog Little Dog & Little Dog’s Performance Juxtaposition blog post. I will definitely use it to assist with my Walden University project and on future projects I manage professionally.
ReplyDeleteHi Rocque,
ReplyDeleteI also used Clarks Big Dog, Little Dog source. I found it to be so useful. It really brings to light the difference in time (and subsequent budget costs) it takes to develop e-learning as opposed to face to face learning. It just goes to show that e learning is a much more complex endeavor than face to face. So many times in face to face, instructors just lecture without taking into consideration activities or games-(I'm thinking more college lecture). With e learning, it seems that an ID is developing training to be more of an experience cognitively than just lecturing.
Hi to Keisha and Heidi! Thanks for your comments. I found some resources and learned about using Excel to convert tables to Gantt charts and using Pivot tables. When you use tutorials be sure to use the ones for your version of Excel. That little lesson could have saved me 2 hours of torture today.
ReplyDeleteHere are some good tutorial sites for Office 2010: http://www.smartsheet.com/blog/gantt-chart-excel It gives the tutorial but really wants you to use the Smartsheet. Right now I am not buying anything. I tried a free download of something else, and could not figure it out at all.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-create-a-pivot-table-in-excel-2010.html This saved me after too many failed attempts to create a pivot table that actually worked. Now I have one. YAY.
Rocque--
ReplyDeleteI think we all have used Big Dog & Little Dog's Performance Juxtaposition blog as a resource this week! I think it has such a great variety of information for Instructional Designers. Your other resources not only in your blog but in your comments are very helpful as well. It is difficult to find things that help us out with all the different templates available (so which do we choose?) but it is nice to have resources that explain them as well.
Hi Rocque,
ReplyDeleteI'm still laughing out loud from the Dilbert cartoon. I'm afraid it strikes a bit too close to home, as we use case studies from which to create budgets. My list of assumptions is growing fast, as is my Gantt chart. But the experience is invaluable and the conversations back and forth are enlightening. If I had been thrust into the role of PM prior to this course, I'm afraid I would have thrown up my hands in despair.