Description
An engaging Rise course on organizing, planning, and facilitating effective meetings. Includes interactive and situational exercises, and a branching scenario.
Process
- Researched business meeting management and facilitation approaches.
- Developed fictional learner profiles.
- Designed learning objectives. By the end of the course, the learner will:
- Recognize and recall fundamental meeting planning, management, and facilitation skills.
- Critique fictional and real situations regarding benefits and drawbacks of meeting management approaches.
- Have applied and practiced acquired information about meeting and facilitation skills.
- Developed a sample meeting agenda.
- Reflected on their own meeting management and facilitation practices.
- Developed a narrative framework for the fictional scenarios used in the course.
- Storyboarded course lessons and exercises.
- Designed graphic imagery to support and develop the narrative framework.
- Created the course in Articulate Rise.
Highlights
- Activities and exercises the learner can apply directly to organizing and facilitating their own meetings.
- An easy-to-follow interface with clear directions about how to move through the course.
- A branching scenario and narrative based organizing structure that encourage learner information retention.
- Engaging (but not overwhelming) visuals that are integral to the narrative structure.
Technology
- Articulate Rise
- Inkscape (vector graphics software)
- Microsoft Word
Darcy Irvin, Instructional Design 