Seven hours? That's an estimate for a half hour of eLearning i received from a client. (That is what the client thinks it will take me.) Is this reasonable including storyboarding, rehersal, recording, etc? No exercises, just "lecture".

I have not done this type of rapid development before and wonder about others' experiences.

Thanks in advance,

More like 50-100 (100-200hrs design & development /hour of elearning)

I agree with Ben. However clients sometimes view eLearning as the "easy" way out. They simply don't realize the time and effor that it takes to create a quality training program. I think you need to voice your side and come up with a common ground. Good Luck!

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Originally posted by travelerjjm:
Seven hours? That's an estimate for a half hour of eLearning i received from a client. (That is what the client thinks it will take me.) Is this reasonable including storyboarding, rehersal, recording, etc? No exercises, just "lecture".

I have not done this type of rapid development before and wonder about others' experiences.

Thanks in advance,

That seems quite low, even for "rapid" development. Seven hours isn't much time to do much of anything.

I suppose it depends upon what they give you as a starting point-- if they give you a PowerPoint with all the content and just want you to jazz it up, record audio, then convert using a tool like Captivate/Articulate, you could probably do that in a couple of days (not 7 hours).

But if they want you to storyboard, it doesn't sound like they have something ready to hand you to start with. 7 hours might be a good estimate of the storyboarding... but not of a whole project.

So I have looked at one of these presentations. The speaker talks for about thirty minutes and changes PPT slides. That's it. I think by "storyboarding" they mean "designing and typing in PowerPoint slides".