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Design Document & Course Standards
Design Document and Course
Standards for AERAS
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Design Document & Course Standards
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AERAS – elearning Course Standards
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................ 2
REQUIRED TOOLS ............................................................................................................................................................ 3
STANDARD COURSE DESIGN ........................................................................................................................................ 4
TITLE SLIDE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
LEARNING OBJECTIVE.......................................................................................................................................................... 5
BASE CONTENT .................................................................................................................................................................... 6
LEARNING GAMES ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
SUMMARY OF KEY CONCEPTS ............................................................................................................................................. 6
CLOSING SLIDE .................................................................................................................................................................... 6
ATTACHMENTS .................................................................................................................................................................... 6
PRE / POST TEST................................................................................................................................................................... 7
ARTICULATE PRESENTER PUBLISHING STANDARDS ......................................................................................... 8
PUBLISH TEMPLATES ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
PUBLISHING OUTPUT STANDARDS ....................................................................................................................................... 8
FINAL OUTPUT FILES ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
ARTICULATE QUIZ MAKER 2 STANDARDS .............................................................................................................. 9
TEMPLATES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
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Introduction
This document covers all the required course standards for the AERAS / LINGOs / Cerner
project to convert existing ILT courseware into an eLearning format using Articulate Presenter 5.
These course standards are designed to insure that the final course output is:
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Consistent in format
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Utilizes a consistent User Interface
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Will be maintainable by AERAS staff or other LINGOs volunteers
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Will support future translation
It is critical that all Cerner volunteers’ development efforts comply with these standards.
If you have suggestions for improvement or questions related to the content of this document
please contact:
Bill Klco – Cerner Corporation
bklco@cerner.com
bklco@yahoo.com
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Required Tools
The following Tools are required for doing development on this project.
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Microsoft Word
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Articulate Presenter 5
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Articulate Quiz Maker 2 (optional)
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PC microphone or microphone headset
Articulate has agreed to donate licenses of Presenter and Quiz Maker to LINGOs volunteers.
Please coordinate obtaining these licenses through Bill Klco. The Articulate licenses will need
to be removed from your PC after completion of the project, they are property of
LINGOs not Cerner.
You may use your Cerner laptop or home PC for this project. If you use your home PC you will
need to have access to Word and PowerPoint. If you do not have these programs on your
machine you my purchase Microsoft Office Professional for $xx.00 via the associate discount,
please see myCerner for details.
We do have a limited number of USB microphone headsets available for use for the individuals
who are going to provide voice talent. Please coordinate through Bill Klco.
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Standard Course Design
All courses for this project should utilize the following design elements.
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Title slide – including copyright notification, version number, publication date, etc
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Learning Objectives for the course
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Base content (PowerPoint Slides) – slide titles, slide animation, slide notes and audio.
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Learning Games (quizzes) – use when instructional notes pose a group or discussion
question and to review knowledge after completing a key topic.
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Summary of key concepts – Key points to remember
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Closing slide – credits, contact, etc
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Attachments - Referenced source materials, photo and source credits and key terms.
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Pre – post test – developed in Articulate Quiz Maker.
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Title Slide
The title slide should include the following elements:
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AERAS Logo
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Course Title
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AERAS Copyright information
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Course Number
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Course Publish Date
Principles of Clinical Research
Clinical Research Practice 1
Copyright: AERAS 2006
Course Number: CRP1
Publish Date: 27 August 2006
Learning Objective
The course objectives should be immediately following the course title slide. In most cases this
will require multiple slides and will be titled, What will you will learn today?, or something similar.
If there are multiple learning objective slides please include (1 of x), where x is equal to the
number of slides containing objectives, in the slide header.
You Will Learn To: (1 of 2)
Define clinical research and explain why we
perform clinical research.
Define Standard Operating Procedure.
Identify the types of clinical research trials.
Define protocol.
State the protections given to human
participants in clinical research.
Define Good Clinical Practice and Good
Laboratory Practice.
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Base Content
When developing the base course content the following standards should be applied to each slide;
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Slide Titles – all slides must have slide headers, when you publish the file Articulate
creates the table of content – index from the slide headers.
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Slide Animations – Articulate supports most slide animations. Use sparingly to highlight
key points. Develop the animation directly in PowerPoint. For maintainability do not
use any Flash Movies or Web Objects.
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Slide notes – Slide notes can be displayed to the learner when taking the course. The slide
notes in PowerPoint are converted to learner text when the course is published in
Articulate. After completing the storyboard the learner text should be added to the slide
note area in the PowerPoint file.
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Audio – Once the storyboard is completed the audio can be recorded using Articulate. All
courses should incorporate both slide notes (learner text) and audio.
Learning Games
Learning games should be used when the instructor notes pose a question for group discussion
see CRP1 slide 7 for example. The slide title is, What is Clinical Research? The instructor notes
suggest that you ask the question of the class. In an eLearning format you can use a learning game
such as a multiple choice, multiple answer question or a sequencing question to get the learner to
think about their understanding of the topic, in this case Clinical Research, prior to providing the
detailed course content.
Learning games can also be inserted after an important topic is completed as a brief knowledge
quiz.
Summary of Key Concepts
The last few slides of each model should summarize the key concepts, noted as Key Points to
Remember. When you have multiple key concept slides you should note in the slide header the
number of slides (1 of x).
Closing Slide
The final slide should include course title and any closing credits.
Attachments
Attachments should be created in Articulate for the following items as applicable.
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Photo and source credits - any photo or source credits noted in the instructor notes of the
base content should be recorded in a PDF document and attached to the final course via
Articulate. Any photo or source credits should reference the slide number on which they
appear.
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Other reference documents – several courses include additional documents (EB2 – Key
Terms) (CPR2 – Principles of ICH GCP) these documents should be converted to PDF
format and attached via Articulate.
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Slide handouts saved as PDF for the student to print off as a participant guide???
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Link to AERAS (www.aeras.org) ???
Pre / Post Test
The pre and post test questions should be created in Articulate Quiz Maker. These assessments
will then be hosted on the LINGOs LMS. They should not be imported into the base course, but
saved separately.
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Articulate Presenter Publishing Standards
The following is a list of publishing standards that all courses developed on this project must
meet.
Publish Templates
AERAS standard Articulate template
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AERAS logo
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Author information
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Publishing Output Standards
 LMS
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CD
Final Output Files
The following files need to be provided to LINGOs upon compleation of the project:
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LMS files
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CD ROM Files
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Articulate Quiz Maker 2 Standards
The following is a list of standards for all pre – post test questions developed in Articulate Quiz
Maker for this project.
Templates
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