From the course: Elearning Tips

How to conduct an elearning project retrospective

From the course: Elearning Tips

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How to conduct an elearning project retrospective

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- Once you've finished work on an E-learning project, it's all too easy to move on to the next one without thinking about how you can improve your process. And this is where an E-learning project retrospective can help. Whether you call it a retrospective, a postmortem, debriefing or a wrap-up meeting, the purpose is simple: To evaluate your performance and reflect on the successes and failures of your last project to identify ways you can improve in the future. So here are three practical tips for how you can conduct your very own E-learning project retrospective. Tip number one. Invite everyone involved in the project. You know, most E-learning projects involve multiple people contributing to the creation of the final E-learning course you developed. Whether it's a subject matter expert who provided their knowledge or the administrator of your learning management system who helped you publish your course, they contributed to the project in one way or another. Make sure to invite these folks along with anyone else who might have something to add to your retrospective. Tip number two. Discuss what did and did not go well. Remember, the purpose of the retrospective is to learn from and improve your processes. So encourage those folks who are participating to share what they thought did and did not go well. Just make sure to keep it objective, don't point fingers, and don't spend too much time on the bad stuff. Make sure to celebrate any successes you had. And finally, tip number three. Identify what you'll do differently next time. Sometimes it's not always clear what the right answer is to fix the issues you might have identified during your E-learning project retrospective, but the goal isn't to find the perfect solution. The goal is to experiment with small tweaks or changes to your process and evaluate whether or not they worked. Those are just a few tips you can use to conduct a project retrospective.

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