{"id":1145,"date":"2015-11-05T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T15:34:49","slug":"terminology-tuesday-development-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/terminology-tuesday-development-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology Tuesday: Development Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edit: Well – that was poor scheduling on my part; Thursday is not Tuesday – whoops! My bad!<\/p>\n

It’s time to talk Development – my very favourite phase of Instructional Design! Why is it my favourite? Because I get to create things! I suppose that could be said for the Analysis and Design phases (Job Task Analysis and Design Documents…), but development is my favourite phase because I get to play in authoring tools that I love to create magical (ok…maybe that’s a strong term) e-learning for my clients.<\/p>\n

In this phase, you get to put all of the information you defined in the Analysis and Design phases into practice! Another reason this is my favourite phase is because there’s been a lot of build-up at this point – you’ve poured over the details of the e-learning project, but you haven’t physically seen anything just yet (outside of a ton of Microsoft Word documents).<\/p>\n

This might be a bad analogy, but it’s like\u00a0hearing you’re going to have a wax figure of yourself made, and finally having it unveiled…alright, it’s probably a really bad analogy – I don’t actually know how that feels, but it seems like a very hyped up lead in to an exciting result!<\/p>\n

However, development isn’t always working within your favourite authoring tools. It could (and often does) involve:<\/p>\n