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So what do you get when you cross a course storyboard with PowerPoint? Answer: a dead end road.
Unfortunately, it’s not a joke; it’s what we see time and time again with corporate training organizations. Instructional designers pour their blood, sweat and tears into the production planning process, creating storyboards with tools that produce custom code which is useless for building the actual courses they are designing. It takes about a second to figure out that there has to be a better way.
WHAT IF . . .
WHAT IF the storyboard instructional designers create is actually designed for content reuse and can be used as the underlying structure of the end course?
WHAT IF the authoring instructional design templates included elements such as production notes, script, etc., so that the storyboard is simply one output format among many?
WHAT IF during the storyboarding process, instructional designers could preview course outputs with placeholders so they can see the final course output as they are designing it?
WHAT IF project managers could export these storyboard elements to Excel then sort and parse this data for project management and task distribution?
Than answer to all of the questions: the production of a contextual storyboard that never gets discarded, but instead serves as the foundation for building an entire course across all output formats – and that’s no joke!
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