Clark, D. (2010). Estimating Costs and Time in Instructional Design. Retrieved from: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/costs.html
This site is created by Donald Clark who is an experienced Instructor and Instructional Designer. His blog post, Estimating Costs and Time in Instructional Design started with an introduction about Budgeting and how learning activities are budgeted in a wide variety of ways based on whom you work for. Next the post is listing examples of various training cost estimates and a great way to estimate the training development hours that are required for instructional lead, web based, e-learning and interactive multimedia instructions. Finally, he closes with a case study from Verizon Communications.
Greer, M. (2009). Estimating instructional development (ID) time. Retrieved from: http://michaelgreer.biz/?p=279 .
This is a web-Published Article by Michael Greer, the author of an important resource for our Project Management Class, Project Management Minimalist. The article is one of many from the PM resources of Greer’s site. In this article he is sharing his insights about estimating the time required for instructional development projects and how to rely on past work and experience rather than using the common rules for development time.
Karl Kapp (2003) conducted a survey of learning professionals, providing estimates of how long it should take to develop an hour of training using various techniques, the article can be found on http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0809_kapp.htm.
ReplyDeleteKapp and Robyn Defelice recently updated the original article with broader ranges of development technique, and the results were that the development of training has increased since the 2003 survey, and suggests that issues with scope and change management—in both the project management and organizational sense—may be responsible. (Kapp & Defelice).
Reference:
http://www.astd.org/LC/2009/0809_kapp.htm
Hello Adel,
ReplyDeleteI liked both of your sites and I have already suggested one of them on my post, too. Both sites give important tips about how to use a solid guide in budgeting our projects. As I see from the sites and what we have learnt from this course's materials that most of the time for a healthy instructional design goes to development of story board/script and authorng the course. However, a good organization and preparation beforehand, leads us to shorten the amount of time for those parts. Planning and good estimations make a project successful. As Dr Stovitch and Dr. Troy state in their video presentations, the project manageris 'a gatekeeper' and 'everything may not be related to the project itself'. A PM should be ready for those, too.
Warmest Regards,
Sedat