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The Overview
The Material, the Validation, and the Evaluation are all gathered in a Course.
From the perspective of the KlickData KLMS perspective, a Course is a gathering of materials to learn from, tests to validate, and surveys to get feedback and evaluate the content and the experience from.
Information that is "outside the head of a user" saved somewhere online or in the head of others, or in a book needs to be transferred to the inside the head of a user. Information needs to be transformed into knowledge.
Material or information consists of many parts. The material can be online and offline.
Course items
Course items are parts of the Course; Plural for Material, Test, and Survey as a group. Ex. "The Course items are 6 in total and are divided into 3 Materials, 2 Tests and 1 Survey".
Offline Material / Text Material/ Information / Instructions / Assignment
"Go to the Library and borrow a book" can be a part of a "Material" in a Course Plan. Its a Task and an assignment.
- Be at a specific place
- Read a book
- Search on the Internet by googling a topic
- Discuss a topic with a friend/colleague
- Record a video or screen share
- Go to a classroom at a specific time
- Attend a conference
- Meet a person
- Make an interview
- Have an assigned task that requires offline actions
- Have a group discussion
- Join a Zoom Call, Microsoft Teams, or a Skype Chat
- Make homework
- See a live event on Social media.
Material offline is most of the time something that you need to do in order to get information.
From the KlickData KLMS perspective: Its a Material that needs to be described. Text Material is the term we use since its a description rather than a digital issue.
Online Material
Online material is information that can be accessed from a browser. Normally by a link. It can be documents or files uploaded and only accessible inside the KLMS or information online on the Internet. It is digital in opposite to offline material. A word file, a PDF, a Powerpoint/ Keynote presentation, a Google Sheet link. Anything that has a direct connection with an action on a screen or a computer is online information and material in the KLMS context in order to transport knowledge from the screen to the user's head.
Playtime versus Course Time.
An online course can have so many parts and be so different that you need to differentiate and get access to what type of material is involved as a consumer. You can have a teacher on video, Powerpoint presentations, Voiceovers, Interactive training built with many options of going through the course.
The material has playtime and a course time. The playtime is "how long the video is" in technical terms. It's technical and can be easily measured. The Course time or Duration focus on the time it takes to learn and "consume" the material and it includes homework, reflections, stops, and practice. It also takes participation time, repeat time, and the time to complete the test and surveys. Course time/ Duration is an estimation. It is an individual term but yet important as a concept. Since we are different in our background heritage, the way we adopt new information and how well focused we are at different times. The whole idea of education is to transform information to Knowledge, knowledge to understanding, and understanding into wisdom. Course Duration is an estimation.
Example. You can estimate the time it normally tales to read a text of 2500 words. Let's say 20 minutes. You can set the test time to 15 minutes. And them a Survey of 3 minutes. So the three tasks within this course in the Course Plan would be set to 20+25+3 minutes= 48 minutes. The time to complete would differ from person to person. And it also includes disturbance and time to get back to focus if disturbed.
With course time estimated from the Course Creator, the user will know what will be required of him in order to take the Course and get his certification. The duration of the Course. It will also budget the company efforts of the individual educational plan for each staff member in the LXP, (Learning Experience Platform) that companies now start to use to get everybody on the move to increase the value of the staff members on an individual basis and on the company level with online training as the boosting tool.
E-course
An e-course is from Klick Data's historical perspective a video tutorial with a teacher explaining a computer software program. The e-courses from Klick Data had 2 hours of playtime. The e-courses were divided into 6 main chapters with 18 min of playtime in each chapter that had 6 subchapters with 3 min playtime. It was screen captures mixed with teachers coining in with chroma-key and explaining. Each e-course had a 3 min introduction of the whole course with a wrap of each chapter and the whole course. Between the chapters, there were 3 multiple choice questions (MCQ) accompanied by some music. See an example of an e-course and read more in the article https://klickdata.se/faq-klms/the-history-of-the-e-course-from-klick-data
Multimedia course (MUC)
A MUC, an abbreviation from a multimedia course, is a more complicated production than an e-course. And has different formats depending on the producer. It is designed with many options in order to learn. It can be a shorter course time than playtime due to the fact that in order for the user to pass the exam, he does not need to go through all material. He can skip parts and go more quickly to the validation and certification based on knowledge is already previously acquired and the design of the multimedia production is cleverly made.
Tools for this type of multimedia production can be many, like Articulate. It can also be made in many other tools. It needs a script, a design, and has a complexity involved that is best suited for people with experience. Many times a Powerpoint or Keynote software is enough to create multimedia productions. In the terminology of Klick Data, multimedia productions do not have a clear ending and a start. It is a course with lots of options for going from start to end. Playtime and course time is still factors for consumer transparency. Business standard practice is used with SCORM 1.2 - SCORM 1.4 in order for a MUC to be used in different systems and data can be transported between systems.
Test
The test is a validation of knowledge. A course can lack a test. A test can be hard or easy. In order to pass validation, a Grade system is used. You can complete a Course without a Test being passed, in the sense "Done what you were supposed to do in order to learn the subject, but fail to learn in sense did not pass the test qualifications" See more in Terminology about Test
Survey
A survey gives feedback on the course. Was it interesting? Was it valuable? Can something be improved? If the Survey is used at a broader scale, it gives the management important information from the organization in order to learn and adapt the business. The purpose of KLMS is to make companies more profitable and hence Surveys is both a vital part of KLMS and a tool itself by their own merits, Survey can be part of a Course but also a Course Plan by itself being the sole Course Item. A Company Surveyor Management Survey if you like to call it. See more in Terminology about Survey.
And read more on how to improve the flow of feedback within the organization