Once you have excellent interactive content you then need to start taking bookings, use CourseSales.com to take enrollments and process payments, if you wish you can deliver the content using the student portal (see: Use CourseSales.com as a Learning Management System) or using a learning management system like Moodle (see: Synchronise Users and Courses from CourseSales.com to Moodle).
What tools should I use to create interactive training
There are many tools out there, which produce files in a few different formats, flash and HTML5 being the most common. These tools include Articulate Storyline, Captivate, TechSmith Camtasia Studio. Other specialist tools include screen capture eg. Fireshot plugin and ffsplit, and GIF animation from screen captures eg. Screen to GIF, and video editing eg. Microsoft movie maker, Premier Pro and iMovie.
Read more here to learn about these applications:
How much effort does e-learning content involve?
There are a number of estimates out there - these are based on experience and examples of developing e-learning packages. There are many things that play a part in the effort required for an e-learning projects; the quality of the work expected, the number of hours the learning should be, the quality of the existing graphics/course materials (if based on an existing course) and the responsiveness of the customer requiring the elearning to feedback. Chapman’s study lists the following items to be considered part of the e-learning content creation road map (with estimated, average, percentages for each) read the links below for more details on each:
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Front End Analysis: 9%
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Instructional Design: 13%
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Storyboarding: 11%
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Graphic Production: 12%
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Video Production: 6%
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Audio Production: 6%
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Authoring/Programming: 18%
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QA Testing: 6%
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Project Management: 6%
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SME/Stakeholder Reviews: 6%
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Pilot Test: 4%
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Other: 1%
Here are some articles that talk about the estimates to complete an e-learning project: